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From geographic points of views, PengHu
Islands have geographical characters as (1)Mesa: hill shape
with flat top surrounded by cliffs, the average altitude in
PengHu Islands as 20 to 50 meters;
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shores: small and large islands and rock reef. in PengHu
Islands of total area 127 square kilometers and coast length
with 320 kilometers, the complex shores can be divided into
sea-closed shore, rock shore without cliffs, and sand beach;
(3) South high and north low feature. Aeolian geography are
land forms made by actions of winds, such as wind erosion
and
accretion or mass movement,
and water erosive land forms include rain gully and erosive
gully. Sea may beat shores with actions of waves, sea
flows, and tides to have erosion, movement, and accretion to
shape land forms on coasts, such as erosive cliff, plate
form, ladder, column (reef), gully, hole, beach, sand bar,
and sand open. Igneous rock and sedimentary rock are two
major ones in PengHu Islands, and HuaYu has metamorphic
rocks somewhere. Igneous rocks are divided into extrusive
rocks and intrusive rocks, the former indicates magma clots
on ground after spraying out, also called as igneous rocks,
and the latter means shaping rocks in deep underground, such
as plutonic rock and hypabyssal rocks. The intrusive rocks
in PengHu Islands include veins in ChiMei Yu, veins in Hua
Yu, and veins of TienTai Mountain basalt in WangAn Island.
Apart from those intrusive rocks of small amounts, uncovered
basalts in PengHu area are extrusive rocks, such as basalt,
agglomerated settlement, agglomerate, and tuff. The
sedimentary rocks include conglomerate, sandstone, silt
stone, shale, and limestone. Under columnar basalt in PengHu
are some uncovered sedimentary rocks, such as ChiMei with
the kind of rocks everywhere. Metamorphic rocks are
scattered in Hua Yu, and some of them form due to contact
when magma spraying out, such as light color and thin rocks
aside of the whale hole in SiaoMen Yu, as metamorphic under
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