Mountains and Rivers Contained in Stone: a Global Geological Journey
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Shen Yan, a young geologist, embarks on a scientific expedition across famous mountains around the world due to an academic controversy. From the Huangshan granite to the Himalayan collision zone, from the Alpine folds to the Andean volcanic arcs, from the East African Rift Valley to the polar subglacial rock formations, she, together with senior engineer Lu Chengshan and documentary journalist Lin Ye, used a geological hammer to probe the rocks and a compass to measure the plates, tracing the 4.6 Billion-year evolution code of the earth among the strange peaks and ravines. Along the way, there are the hardships of scientific research, the dangers of the wild, and the fierce collision of academic opinions. She used on-the-ground evidence to prove that every famous mountain is not a static landscape, but a living archive written by internal and external forces - collision and formation, subduction into fire, tension and rift valleys, sedimentation and rock formation, and weathering and shaping. When the causes of global mountain ranges are connected one by one, a complete geodynamic picture slowly unfolds. The mountains are silent but always honest. And she will eventually hear the most true testimony of the earth.
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