喀斯特风景溶洞的新发现:江油观音洞

New Discovery on Karst Scenery Cave:Jiangyou Guanyin Cave

四川江油观音洞是近年发现的一个规模较大的风景溶洞,因拥有酷似中国传统文化中的"南海观音"立像的特型石笋而赋名,以丰富的洞穴化学沉积景观和古代火药原材料——硝石生产系列遗迹为特色,属于难得的喀斯特自然遗产与火药历史文化遗产叠加的复合遗产,具有重要的保护与旅游开发价值。从洞穴系统、溶洞喀斯特风景、溶洞古代硝石生产遗址和保护与开发战略构思对其作了简要论述。

Jiangyou Guanyin Cave in Sichuan is a large scale scenery cave and have been discovered in recent years. It is famous for its special stalagmite appearance closely resembled the statue of Nanhai Guanyin in Chinese traditional culture. It is rich in Chemical deposition cave landscape and raw materials of ancient explosive that was a characteristic as the series sites of saltpeter production. It is the mixed heritage that a rare natural heritage of Karst overlaid with cultural heritage of explosive history. It has a important value of conservation and tourism development. This paper is elaborated briefly in the cave system, the cave Karst scenery, the production site of ancient cave saltpeter which was the raw materials of explosive, and the concept of the conservation and development strategy.