中国风光PK美国风光

maomi

ZT: 中国风光PK美国风光

我去过中国22个省，美国34个国家公园。我来PK一下好了：

人文景观，美国远远不如中国。波士顿和SF是我觉得人文气息比较浓郁的城市。

自然景观：美国和中国基本一个档次。如果有人说美国自然风光不如中国，可能是走的
地方不够多不够深入。

荒原峡谷地貌：个人感觉两者相当。美国最突出的地方在南犹他和北亚利桑那。比如
The Wave，Antelope Canyon，Zion，Bryce，Petrified Forest，Capitol Reef，
Arches，Canyonlands，Grand Canyon，Monument Valley，Valley of the Gods，
Escalante，Natural Bridge，Rainbow Bridge，Lake Powell。还有
加州的死谷国家公园，OR的化石床国家保留地，NM的白沙还算奇特。中国最奇特的在新疆和西藏。雅鲁藏布峡谷深度和大峡谷差不多，但是不如大峡谷景观漂亮，因为它被丛林覆盖，景色比较单一。大峡谷则是各个地层的充分暴露，颜色五彩缤纷。另外，新疆著名的五彩滩，规模不如美国化石林国家公园。火焰山的红石规模也不如美国的ZION。

火山地质，美国胜中国，比如夏威夷火山国家公园，加州的拉森火山国家公园，OR的火
山口湖国家公园，圣海伦斯火山保留地。

地热风貌：美国胜。黄石国家公园。

冰川地貌：相当。美国的阿拉斯加，冰川国家公园，北喀斯喀特国家公园，雷尼尔山国
家公园，大提顿国家公园。

花岗岩地貌：美国远不如中国。约塞米提国家公园。中国的黄山，三清山。

海岛风貌：美国胜。我觉得夏威夷比海南岛漂亮的多，因为多样化。夏威仪岛上还有
4400米的活火山，荒原，热带雨林共存。

海岸风光：美国胜。西海岸，俄勒冈境内的101号公路，加州1号公路沿线的风景很漂亮
。中国的海岸除了福建省高山不多。悬崖绝壁有限。

丘陵丹霞地貌：中国胜。武夷山，龙虎山，丹霞山。

雪山风光高山草原湖水：中国胜。西藏，川西。但美国Alaska还是有不错的。也有很多
5000-6600米的高山。

沙漠风光，中国胜。美国几乎没有真正意义的大沙漠，都是长草的荒野。

洞窟：中国胜。四大洞窟我都去了：瑶林，贵州织金洞，福建玉华洞，北京石花洞，个
个美不胜收。因为中国有世界规模最大的喀斯特地貌。美国最大的两个洞窟系统是卡尔
斯巴德国家公园和猛玛象国家公园，我都去过。规模大，但是不精美。

美国喀斯特地貌不多。中国很多。桂林山水和湖南武陵源。

瀑布：两者相当。黄果树瀑布远没有尼亚加拉壮丽和流量。但是美国没有贵州马岭河那
么大的瀑布群。

最后，最重要的一点，因为安全和基础设施缘故，想看到同等水平的风景，在美国比在
中国容易很多。

lite1067

thanks。分析的不错。

“最重要的一点，因为安全和基础设施缘故，想看到同等水平的风景，在美国比在
中国容易很多。”

这点也是我体会最深的。另外，美国风景点宰人的比较少。中国是不宰人的比较少

look

ppteam

you'd better not go to public WC in china.
that's just a true test

maomi

lite1067 发表于 2011-7-19 00:10
thanks。分析的不错。

“最重要的一点，因为安全和基础设施缘故，想看到同等水平的风景，在美国比在

I cannot agree you more on this. I felt the price spike even at the airport, the price for a cup of tea at Pudong airport is even way higher than the tea from Starbucks at Toronto airport :) it is just aggravating.

maomi

ppteam 发表于 2011-7-19 12:51
you'd better not go to public WC in china.
that's just a true test

Trust me, I've been there ;) and don't want to go back any more!

tracy

ranchgirl

thanks

silicon_beaver

Best post this weekend! love it.

China cannot beat USA in $$$. But can easily win USA in 人文比较. Everyone has its strength. Love both.

silicon_beaver

lite1067 发表于 2011-7-18 20:10
thanks。分析的不错。

“最重要的一点，因为安全和基础设施缘故，想看到同等水平的风景，在美国比在

"美国风景点宰人的比较少。中国是不宰人的比较少

同感.

wyjhyd

CoolMax

美国有个洞穴非常美。是石英晶体的洞穴。可惜不对外开放。

没有哪个洞比得上。好像在
『Amazing Caves』这个片子里有介绍。

maomi

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where is it? have you been there?

CoolMax

maomi 发表于 2012-1-30 15:12
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where is it? have you been there?

No, it is not open to public.

you can see it in the end of this film

CoolMax

我可能记错了。
Cave of Crystal在墨西哥，不在美国。

CoolMax

Not in 『Amazing Caves』
May be in 『Planet Earth』，I need check tonight when I come back home.

maomi

thanks :) You must be on west coast then!
It is in Mexico, saw some photos from national geography website!

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.co ... al-giants/shea-text

Crystal Palace
Cavers in Mexico confront extreme conditions and find extraordinary beauty.
By Neil Shea
National Geographic Staff
Photograph by Carsten Peter, Speleoresearch & Films
In a nearly empty cantina in a dark desert town, the short, drunk man makes his pitch. Beside him on the billiards table sits a chunk of rock the size of home plate. Dozens of purple and white crystals push up from it like shards of glass. "Yours for $300," he says. "No? One hundred. A steal!" The three or four other patrons glance past their beers, thinking it over: Should they offer their crystals too? Rock dust on the green felt, cowboy ballads on the jukebox. Above the bar, a sign reads, "Happy Hour: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m."

This remote part of northern Mexico, an hour or so south of Chihuahua, is famous for crystals, and paychecks at the local lead and silver mine, where almost everyone works, are meager enough to inspire a black market. "Thirty dollars." He leans in. "Ten." It's hard to take him seriously. Earlier in the day, in a cave deep below the bar, I crawled among the world's largest crystals, a forest of them, broad and thick, some more than 30 feet long and half a million years old. So clear, so luminous, they seemed extraterrestrial. They make the chunk on the pool table seem dull as a paperweight.

Nothing compares with the giants found in Cueva de los Cristales, or Cave of Crystals. The limestone cavern and its glittering beams were discovered in 2000 by a pair of brothers drilling nearly a thousand feet below ground in the Naica mine, one of Mexico's most productive, yielding tons of lead and silver each year. The brothers were astonished by their find, but it was not without precedent. The geologic processes that create lead and silver also provide raw materials for crystals, and at Naica, miners had hammered into chambers of impressive, though much smaller, crystals before. But as news spread of the massive crystals' discovery, the question confronting scientists became: How did they grow so big?

It takes 20 minutes to get to the cave entrance by van through a winding mine shaft. A screen drops from the van's ceiling and Michael Jackson videos play, a feature designed to entertain visitors as they descend into darkness and heat. In many caves and mines the temperature remains constant and cool, but the Naica mine gets hotter with depth because it lies above an intrusion of magma about a mile below the surface. Within the cave itself, the temperature leaps to 112 degrees Fahrenheit with 90 to 100 percent humidity—hot enough that each visit carries the risk of heatstroke. By the time we reach the entrance, everyone glistens with sweat.

maomi

Preparing to enter the cave is like gearing up for a space walk. I pull on a vest with more than a dozen palm-size ice packs sewn into pockets across the chest and back. Then another vest to insulate the ice against the heat. Then, over everything, a bright orange caving suit. A helmet, a headlamp, a respirator mask blowing ice-cooled air. Gloves, boots. Even for cavers cocooned in all this protective gear, the heat is exhausting and dangerous; most trips inside last no more than 20 minutes. Giovanni Badino, a physicist from the Italian exploration group La Venta, leads us in.

Fallen obelisks, pillars of light, the crystals are enormous, some several feet thick. On the floor and walls are clumps of smaller crystals, sharp as blades and flawlessly transparent. Badino proceeds slowly, careful not to damage the crystals, which are made of selenite, a form of the common mineral gypsum. Selenite is translucent and soft, easily scratched by boot heels, even fingernails. Despite the ice suits, the heat and humidity are oppressive. I remove the mask for a moment and suck in wet, hot air. My lungs want to refuse it. There is a damp, heavy scent of earth and an absolute stillness. Miserable conditions for humans, a perfect nursery for crystals.

In their architecture crystals embody law and order, stacks of molecules assembled according to rigid rules. But crystals also reflect their environment. Spanish crystallographer Juan Manuel García-Ruiz was one of the first to study the Naica crystals beginning in 2001. More familiar with microscopic crystals, García was dizzied by the proportions of the Naica giants. By examining bubbles of liquid trapped inside the crystals, García and his colleagues pieced together the story of the crystals' growth. For hundreds of thousands of years, groundwater saturated with calcium sulfate filtered through the many caves at Naica, warmed by heat from the magma below. As the magma cooled, water temperature inside the cave eventually stabilized at about 136°F. At this temperature minerals in the water began converting to selenite, molecules of which were laid down like tiny bricks to form crystals. In other caves under the mountain, the temperature fluctuated or the environment was somehow disturbed, resulting in different and smaller crystals. But inside the Cave of Crystals, conditions remained unchanged for millennia. Above ground, volcanoes exploded and ice sheets pulverized the continents. Human generations came and went. Below, enwombed in silence and near complete stasis, the crystals steadily grew. Only around 1985, when miners using massive pumps lowered the water table and unknowingly drained the cave, did the process of accretion stop.

In the presence of such beauty and strangeness, people cast around for familiar metaphors. Staring at the crystals, García decided the cavern reminded him of a cathedral; he called it the Sistine Chapel of crystals. In both cathedrals and crystals there's a sense of permanence and tranquillity that transcends the buzz of surface life. In both there is the suggestion of worlds beyond us.

maomi

there are some photos from the link above, the scence is simply rare and amazing. taking a tour can be dangerous too! Thanks for sharing, Coolmax lao da!

henggma