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21-Flowstone dam of water resort in Zhijindong Cave
Timer：2024-05-08
The stone terrace and flowstone dam at Water Resort Cave Member in Zhijindong Cave. They develop along the tilt cave bottom in the overlapping and sectional developmental way with their dam width of 60 to 310cm, dam height of 30 to 110cm and dam thickness of 10 to 35cm. They separate the water body into pools of different sizes. Their contiguous development area is 5300m2, their single development area is very big so that they are relatively rare both at home and aboard.
Comparison of flowstone dams (calcareous tufa for the outside of caves) with a single development area over than 1,000m2 in the world
| SN | Area (m2) | Name of Cave/Geosite | Region | Inside/outside of cave |
| 1 | 10000 | Huanglongdong Cave | Zhangjiajie City, Hunan province, China | Flowstone dam (Inside the cave) |
| 2 | 5300 | Zhijindong Cave | Zhijin County, Guizhou province, China | |
| 3 | >300,000 | Huanglonggou | Sonpan County, Sichuan province, China | Calcareous tufa (Outside the cave) |
| 4 | >300,000 | Baishuitai s | Shangri-La County, Yunnan province, China | |
| 5 | >5000 | Jiuzhaigou | Jiuzhaigou County, Sichuan province, China | |
| 6 | >2000 | Xiaoqikong | Libo County, Guizhou province, China | |
| 7 | >1500 | Huangguoshu | Zhenning County, Guizhou province, China |
