Field trip to Jiangmen National Park

The researchers from the Institute of geology FRC Komi SC UB RAS took part in a field trip to Jiangmen National Park on August 24, 2024, during the 15th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China). This event was very educational for us, because apart from historical and landscape objects there was the Jiangmen Open Air Geological Museum - the cultural and natural heritage of China. The Congress participants had the opportunity to observe a famous fault zone of the Longmen Shan mountain system characterized by a very high seismicity, rocky outcrops composed of red sandstones and argillites with layers of various thicknesses, conglomerates formed from the Triassic to the Neogene inclusive, as well as the kurum formation typical of mountainous regions.