Cover photograph Rehai geothermal area in Tengchong, western Yunnan Provonce, China Western Yunnan in southern China is a tectonically vigorous zone influenced by the collision of the Indian subcontinet with Eurasia. Geothermal activity in Rehai area to the south of Tengchong is genetically related to Quaternary volcanoes and activ faults, and it is accompanied by hot spring-type epithermal gold deposits near Liuhungtang, a local hot spring resort. Photo was taken at Zaotang River in Rehai area in July, 1994. Refer to Sato et al.(1997), Geology news, no.513, 49-55 (Photo and caption: SATO Kohei) |