Historically, Chinese agricultural settlement in the area was made possible by the Shiyang River, flowing from the Qilian Mountains.
The mountain range was formerly known in European languages as Richthofen Range after Ferdinand von Richthofen, who was the Red Baron's explorer-geologist uncle.
The Xidagou Formation is an Middle Permian-age geologic formation in the Qilian Mountains of Gansu, China.
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