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Oriental Goddess Peak

    Hailed as one of the three wonders, this 86m high, granite peak column, looks like an oriental girl sitting elegantly among the peak cluster, with her long hair cascading around her shoulders. It was formed when the original granite mass was cut into peak columns by two sets of almost vertical fractures (joints) and the columns were cut into two sections by almost flat-lying fractures (joints) after undergoing spheroidal weathering and gravitational collapse. 
    1.The granite body was cut into a peak column by two sets of near-vertical cracks and fractures (joints).
    2.The peak column was cut by the flat-lying fissures (joints) into two sections and then underwent gravitational collapse.
    3.After spheroidal weathering the remains looks like a goddess sitting demurely.


         

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