fossilization

[heavenly hole rock] [fossilization] 
[holy water miracle] [Mr.Pan]

title:heavenly hole blessed land

artist:Lee and Jien ( team members )

Fossilization and corrosion will both make rocks become smaller.

Fossilization means that the rock either breaks down or decomposes itself, and the bits and pieces could fall off due to any number of reasons.

Corrosion refers to the breaking down of the rock surface due to wind or water.  Fossilization is the beginning of corrosion; and corrosion speeds up fossilization.

This is how big rocks become small rocks: first, a "jieh lee" ( small crack )appears, and as it widens it becomes a rock crack, and when it becomes unstable it falls off, making cliffs, and as it falls off the hill it turns into independent rocks such as Rock plates, rock sticks, rock pen, and rock paper .  Some don't make it all the way down the hill, such as the snakefrog stone; others fall all the way, forming an almost vertical cliff. Sights like these are easy to spot near Chee Shan Rock: From the East you look up from 120 steps, from the west you look to the trails of sunrock, then to the  south you look up from the parking lot, and from the north you can look up from the track field of Yu Nong Elementary.

Near the North gate we see clearly many holes of various sizes caused by fossilization, forming what is referred to as the beehive wall; when larger hole are formed, they're called fossilization windows.  These interesting geological sights are also seen almost everywhere near Chee Shan Rock,