Luoyixi

Luoyixi Town (Chinese: 罗依溪镇; pinyin: Luōyīxī zhèn) is a Town in Guzhang County of China's Hunan Province. It is located on a bay of the Fengtan Reservoir (formerly, a southern tributary of the You River.

Hongshilin (红石林, "Red Stone Forest") National Geopark is located on the reservoir's bank northeast of town (28°41′45″N 109°59′39″E / 28.69583°N 109.99417°E / 28.69583; 109.99417).

The Luoyixi Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point is named after the town. The actual point is on the shore of the Fengtan Reservoir, some 4 km northwest (upstream) from Luoyixi Town, halfway to the neighboring Wangcun Town.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Shanchi Peng, Loren E. Babcock, Jingxun Zuo1, Huanling Lin1, Xuejian Zhu1, Xianfeng Yang1, Richard A. Robison, Yuping Qi1, Gabriella Bagnoli, and Yong’an Chen, "The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Guzhangian Stage (Cambrian) in the Wuling Mountains, Northwestern Hunan, China" (PDF), Episodes 32 (1), linked from http://www.stratigraphy.org/GSSP/index.html

Coordinates: 28°41′00″N 109°59′00″E / 28.68333°N 109.98333°E / 28.68333; 109.98333


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