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Marine Erosion Landform

A Mushroom-like Rock

A Mushroom-like Rock Photo: Yang Yichou
Time: June, 2000
Site: Peace Island, Keelung, Taiwan
Height: By the sea
Brief Introduction: On the base of a monoclinal structure, under the condition of repeated selective erosion by waves, sandy shale with calcium nodule forms a lot of mushroom-like rocks scarcely seen in the world. Here, on the Peace Island, Keelung, Taiwan, shows such kind of landform, a mushroom-like rock is in its formation process.

 
     
 
2007 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS.