In Qinghai Haixi Mongolian-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Dulan county in Nuomuhong, a wide beam of the embankment more than 2,000 meters long, 70 meters wide, it is formed by hundreds of millions of gill flap type of biological and gastropods and shellfish contain salinization of the sediment composition of the shells, these shells big as coins, small as thumb. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Ning/photographer

Overlooking shellfish beam, the surface is covered by salt

The tourist is collecting shellfish beside the spring

The spring and shellfish in winter sunshine

This is the accumulation of shellfish beside shellfish spring

Editor: Carolyn