Huaiyu Island is located on the ocean surface at the mouth of Sanmen Bay in the south of Xiangshan. The island has handsome peaks, strange rocks, and secluded strange caves. Especially the crystalline stone forest arranged on the one-kilometer coastline is magnificent. Various slender and strip-shaped stones are densely packed together and arranged in an orderly manner with different lengths. The thick ones require two people to embrace, and the tall ones reach five or six stories high. Some are like swords reaching the sky, and some are like cranes by the sea, known as ‘Immortal Sawing Rocks’. After expert research, it is believed that the stone forest on Huaiyu Island is actually the central volcanic magma channel in the late Jurassic period. The columnar groups of quadrilateral or hexagonal shapes are dense black fine-grained basalt. The surface is yellowish-brown due to seawater erosion and weathering. It is an important primary structure of volcanic rocks. That is, after a volcanic eruption, the magma undergoes a vertical fission under the conditions of uniform cooling and slow contraction, thus forming the unique ‘stone forest on the sea’ landscape.
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Huaiyu Island
Huaiyu Island is located on the ocean surface at the mouth of Sanmen Bay in the south of Xiangshan. The […]
