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The coastal exposure provide an almost continuous sequence of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretacious rock formations of the Mesozoic Era and it documents approximately 185 million years of earth history.
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Home to more than 3,500 plant species including as many trees (130 natural species) the park is relatively untouched and it gives an idea of temperate fauna before the influence of humanity.
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It is considered the world's greatest on-going geological spectacles and most visually powerful landscape. It is celebrated for its plunging depths, temple-like buttes, and vast multi-hued labyrintine topography.
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The park form a striking mountain landscape with rugged mountainous peaks, ice fields and glaciers, alpine meadows, lakes, waterfalls, extensive karst cave system, and deeply incised canyons...it possess and exceptional natural beauty attracting millions of tourists every year.
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The park contains the deeply dissected Bungle Bungle Range composed of Devonian Age, quartz sandstone eroded over a period of 20 million years into a series of beehive shaped towers or cones.
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The heart of California with hanging valleys, numerous waterfalls, cirque lakes, polished domes, u-shaped valleys- the park provides an overview of all kinds of granite relief formed through glaciation and you will also find a variety of flora and fauna in the park.
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The Park offers and extraordinary scenic treasures of yellow stone incuding alarge collection of geysers, the grand canyon of the yellow stone river, numerous water falls and great herds of wildlife.
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It is the home to the two most active and accessible volcanoes in the world where ongoing geological process are easily observed. An excellent example of an Island that is built through continuous volcanic process.
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The park contains excellent examples of pristine reefs within high diversity of marine life. The remote and undisturbed area of the park is home to large marine fauna such as tiger sharks, cetaceans and turtles, big school of pelagic fishes such as barracuda and travalilies.
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The park is composed of more than 100 limestone caves. Carlsbard Caverns and Lechuguilla caves are well known for their natural beauty, exceptional geologic features and unique reef and rock formation.
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The park features a spectacular limestone karst landscape with its under ground river. The river's prominent feature is that it flows directly into he sea and the lower portion of the river is subject to tidal waves. The area is also an important habitat for biodiversity conservation. It contains a full mountain of the sea ecosystem and protects forests which are among the most significant in Asia.
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More than 400 different kinds of animals live within the rugged gorges and tablelands and you can find 91 eucalypt taxa in the mountain area.
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The park is home to many grizzly bears, caribou and wild sheep. The site contains the largest non-polar ice field in the world.
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The park is well known for its diversified ecosystem. With Glacier clad peaks with extensive alpine meadows surrounded b old grown forest, Olympic National Park is an example of an intact rain forest. It offers the best place for anadromous fish species.
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One of the top diving sites in the world due to the presence of steep walls and caves of outstanding natural beauty.
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Home to more than 30% of the world's pandas classified as highly endangered species.
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The impressive landscape within the park played an important role in European art, literature, mountaineering, and Alpine tourism. It is recognized worldwide as the most spectacular mountain region to visit.
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Located in the south Altlantic, one of the least disrupted Island and marine ecosystems in the cool temperate zone, home to one of the world's largest colonies of seabirds and to two endemic species of land birds, the gallinule and Gough rowette as well as other 12 endemic species of plants etc.
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The tropical lagoons and coral reefs of Caledonia are outstanding example of highly diversified coral reef ecosystem forming one of the three most extensive reef ecosystem of the world.
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The park has a distinctive physiographic setting, mountain prairie interface, and tri-ocean hydrographical divide and abundant with flora and fauna.
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