Hongkong World Geological Park in the memory at

MentionHongkong, the vast majority of people the impression is dense high-rise, bustling downtown bustling market, there are unlimited joy Disney Park, Ocean Park, Victoria Harbour and other famous scenic spots. When it comes to Hongkong and a world class national geological park, don't say that mainland tourists, is the Hongkong people do not know.

In fact, with many geological wonders of the Hongkong Geological Park in 2008, before the official opening to the outside world, a year later, he successfully upgraded to a national geological park of China, is a young world geological park.

With many geological wonders of the Hongkong Geological Park in 2008, before the official opening to the outside world.

����Six party a rare rock pillar

Hongkong National Geopark includeXigongVolcano rock, sedimentary rock, northeast New Territories two parks, a total of 8 scenic spot, the park covers an area of 49.85 hectares.

The new territories northeast Sedimentary Rock Park "Dongping," "Yan Chau Tong" "red door" "Red Delta - Wong Chuk Kok Tsui" 4 scenic spots, exposed sedimentary rock on the ground, records of the geological history of the Hongkong sea. Xigong volcano rock park there are 4 scenic spots, such as "grain ship bay" Urn "islands" "island", "Tsui Chau Bridge" developed world the extremely large acidic volcano rock rare. While the High Island Reservoir area is a popular view stone resort, Hongkong is also the most peculiar landscape place. These peculiar volcano rock tidy have to set up on the waterfront, huge columns by polygonal joints with different composition, among which the most typical hexagonal rock column.

Along the dam next to the WAN appropriate geological trail to bottom walking, the roadside cliff cliffs are polygonal pillar of thick, all upright, so hard. In the sunlight, the rock cliffs that a piece of up to tens of meters, reddish yellow, take in everything in a glance of bending details of its huge hexagonal rock pillar, column section in an S shape, a twisted arrangement, like a book to turn the book.

Reportedly, the history can be traced back to 140000000 years ago, there was a huge volcano of Xigong area at the time, occasionally violent eruption, lava with volcano ash spewing out, gradually covering the surface, forming a layer of lava volcano. The lava layer in the cooling process, the formation of cracks in the surface of hexagonal, lava material along the crack down vertical shrinkage, finally formed a hexagonal columnar morphology. Six of these S shape column, is in the process of gradually cooling solidification of lava, the gravity pressure caused by the bending, which appeared in a unique form of such. These geological wonders be called living specimen volcano rock formation process. The six column distribution range is very large, the average diameter of 1.2 meters, and some even more than 3 meters in diameter, high buildings, local six party column height is even more than 100 meters, very spectacular.

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