东兰国家地质公园位于广西西部，右江盆地的西北部，其演化史经历了加里东运动、华力西运动、印支运动、燕山运动、喜马拉雅运动和新构造运动。

Donglan National Geopark is located in the west of Guangxi province, northwest of Youjiang basin. As for its evolution history, it has undergone Caledonian movement, Variscan orogeny, Indosinian movement, Yanshan movement, Himalayan orogeny and Neotectonic movement.  

加里东运动后期、华力西运动及印支运动中前期的时间为2.22～4.05亿年前，本区一直处于海相沉积。印支后期运动使三叠系和上古生界地层强烈褶皱隆起成陆并遭受剥蚀。

In the late period of Caledonian movement, early and middle period of Variscan orogeny and Indosinian movement, which are 222 to 405 million years ago, this region kept the process of marine deposition. The Triassic and upper Paleozoic strata are strongly folded and uplifted because of the late Indosinian movement, then forming the land and suffered denudation.

燕山运动初期，区域内大体保持或继承前期的特点，地壳继续下沉，沉积了很厚的类复理石建造。到了中期及2.08亿年前左右，结束了区域内海相沉积的历史，上升成为侵蚀区，缺失侏罗一第三纪地层。喜马拉雅运动、新构造运动至今，地层以上升运动为主，使得区内岩溶形态总的特征主要表现为垂直形态。

沉陷期形成的地层以灰岩、白云岩、硅质岩、碎屑岩、砂砾岩为主，普遍经受侵蚀作用，故而地貌上与峰丛相伴而生的洼地景观占主导，溶洞发育的成层特性明显，最终形成了典型的岩溶地貌。

In the early period of Yanshan movement, the early characteristics in the region were generally maintained or inherited. The crust kept subsiding and thick sub-flysch formation was deposited. By the middle period, about 208 million years ago, the history of Marine facies deposition in the region was ended, and this region rose to become the eroded area, thus the Jurassic - Tertiary strata is missing. Since the Himalayan orogeny and Neotectonic movement, the strata has been dominated by uplifting movement, so that the general characteristics of karst morphology in the region are mainly vertical form. The stratum formed during the subsidence period are mainly composed by limestone, dolomite, silicalite, clasolite and glutenite. Under the effect of erosion, the main landscape is valley landscape accompanied by peak cluster, the stratification characteristics of karst caves are obvious, a typical karst landform is eventually formed.