What is the lowest temperature in Turpan Flame Mountain?

The volcano can reach a minimum of MINUS 10 degrees.

Flame Mountain is the hottest place in China, with the highest temperature of 47.8℃ in summer and 82.3℃ on the sunny side of Flame Mountain.

The heat and dryness of Flame Mountain are attributed to the unique natural and geographical conditions here. Flame Mountain is one of the branches of Tianshan Mountain, which was formed during Himalayan orogeny 50-60 million years ago. For thousands of years, numerous fold belts left by the lateral movement of the earth's crust and the wind erosion and rain stripping of nature have formed the ups and downs and vertical and horizontal gullies of the Flame Mountain.

The flame mountain anticline is the spatial framework for the formation of the flame mountain. During the Yanshan movement, the uplift occurred in this area, which made the lower Cretaceous and the upper Cretaceous in false integration contact. By the end of Cretaceous, large-scale folds occurred in this area, which was marked by the unconformity among Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene, and was also the basic formation of Huoyanshan uplift, that is, the formation of Huoyanshan anticline, which built a spatial framework for the formation of Huoyanshan landscape.

Geographical environment of Flame Mountain:

1, geology

The Flame Mountain consists of three sets of red strata: Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene. The color is mainly orange-red and brown-red sandstone and mudstone, surrounded by farmland oasis, standing in the middle of the oasis in Turpan Basin.

2. Hydrology

Although the fire mountain is unbearable in high temperature, the volcanic body is a dam of a natural underground reservoir. It is precisely because the center of the Flame Mountain blocked the groundwater seeping from the Gobi gravel belt, raised the groundwater level, and formed a phreatic overflow zone on the northern edge of the mountain, with many springs exposed, which moistened several oases such as Shanshan, Lianmuqin and Subhas, thus creating life in this area.

3. Terrain

The flaming mountain is criss-crossed, winding and barren. Due to the relative horizontal accumulation of strata and the alternation of soft and hard strata, gullies are formed along the slope under the long-term erosion of rainwater. The eroded materials in the mountain form a red alluvial fan skirt in front of the foothills, and the front edge of the fan skirt forms numerous polygonal cracks in the arid environment.

The structure of Huoyanshan anticline is a true portrayal of Huoyanshan. The whole Flame Mountain is composed of an inverted anticline, and its core is weathered and denuded, forming a large one-sided mountain on the landform, which is gentle in the north and steep in the south. Under the action of wind erosion and water erosion, V-shaped gullies with a distance of 20-30 meters and a depth of 5-6 meters are formed on the hillside. Gullies are like burning flames.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Flame Mountain