This is a landscape with in situ or displaced granite blocks that look like round eggs and is called a ‘stone egg landscape’. It is a distinctive structure on the weathering crust of granite. Zeng Zhaoxuan first proposed the term ‘Stone Egg Landform’ in the mid-1950s. Under hot and humid climatic conditions, intense chemical weathering along three sets of joints in granite causes the rock to appear like circles or concentric circles. Hilltops or curves on slopes are favourable locations for stone eggs to form. The Wanshishan Scenic Area in Xiamen, Fujian Province, and the Yishan Scenic Area in Zhoucheng, Shandong Province, are typical examples of this type of granite landscape.
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(2020). Stone Egg Granite Landscape – Gulangyu Type. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_2335
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