Where is the Flame Mountain in Journey to the West?

The Flame Mountain is in Turpan, Xinjiang. Located in the northern margin of Turpan Basin, north of the ancient Silk Road, Mesozoic is mainly composed of Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary songkhla red sandstone, conglomerate and mudstone. The locals call it "Qizil Tage", which means "Red Mountain".

Flame Mountain is the hottest place in China. The highest temperature in summer is as high as 47.8 degrees Celsius, and the highest temperature on the surface is as high as 89 degrees Celsius. Eggs can be baked in the sand nest. Turpan is a typical continental arid desert climate. Although the annual average temperature is only 14.5℃, the number of days above 35℃ exceeds 100, and even the extreme high temperature weather above 38℃ is as many as 38 days, which is a veritable "China hot pole".

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The real cause of the formation of the volcano is crustal movement. The Turpan Basin where it is located has the highest natural environment in China: the lowest (Lake Aiding, the second lowland in the world after the Dead Sea in Jordan, with an altitude of154.43m), the hottest (the highest temperature reaches 49.6 degrees Celsius) and the driest (the average annual rainfall is only16mm).

The Flame Mountain is deep in the inland, and it is difficult for humid air to enter. Moreover, clouds and rain are scarce and very dry, and solar radiation is weakened by the atmosphere, so more heat reaches the ground. There is no water to evaporate on the ground, so the heat expenditure is low, the ground temperature rises very high, and the earth continuously transmits energy to the atmosphere.

In addition, the Flame Mountain is located in the middle of the closed and low-lying Turpan Basin. On the one hand, the heat accumulated by sunlight radiation is not easy to be lost; On the other hand, downward flow, along the mountain range, emits bursts of hot air, which intensifies the warming effect due to the foehn effect. All these make it a veritable "fire island".

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Flame Mountain