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The Immortal Points out a Road

On the top of this granite peak stands a slender clint which is about 1.5m high and 0.6m in diameter. It looks like a slim finger pointing to the sky as if it was pointing out a road for becoming immortal; it is honored as "the Immortal Points out a Road".  It was formed when the granite peak column was subject to differential weathering.

The granite peak column was cut by its vertical fractures (joints) .

After gravitational collapse along fractures (joints), the column became the prototype of a finger, namely, the clint.

The corners of the clint were rounded after weathering erosion, the remnant part formed the landscape resembling an extended finger.

 

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