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Python Slithers out of Mountain

It is one of the three wonders in Sanqingshan. This granite peak column is 128 meters high, with a diameter of 7 to 10 meters. Thick on the top and thin in the middle, the peak column looks like a giant python slithering out of the mountain. It was formed when the original granite body was cut by two sets of vertical fractures (joints) and underwent weathering, runoff erosion and gravitational collapse. Meanwhile, disintegration also occurred along the near flat-lying fractures (joints) to form multiple dykes looking like many streaks of colored ribbons attached to the python.

The granite body was cut by two groups of vertical fractures (joints) from and underwent weathering, runoff erosion and gravitational collapse.

The remaining part of the peak column, in the shape of a giant python, stands upright over the valley.


   

     

       

 

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