Retraction: Impacts of rock properties on Danxia landform formation based on lithological experiments at Kongtongshan National Geopark, northwest China

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The corresponding author has indicated that XRD and SEM experiments were carried out by the authors at Sun Yat-sen University, but that the images and data previously published in [3] were used in place of the data that were collected by the authors. The corresponding author apologizes for misusing data from others’ research and failing to follow academic standards in publication ethics. In view of the misrepresentation of the results and data reported in [1], the PLOS ONE Editors and the authors retract this article. Figs 2, 3, 4c, 4d, 6, and 7 report material which are not offered under a CC-BY license and are therefore excluded from this article’s [1] license. At the time of retraction, the article [1]