Intersection pressed down on large letter town and camp in the west of Jimo in Ma Shan nature reserve, wrapped up and made up by Ma Shan, mountain, treasure An shan, mountain and 4 mountains linked of Chang Ling of group, similar to the saddle, so also called Maan Mountain ,The highest peak has an elevation of 233 meters.
Mashan abounded with and fitted the mountain cellophane rock, are mostly grayish green, taupe, the magma gushed out in the earth s surface and condensed before about 100 million years, it is carve building stones of high-quality building. The southwest of the mountain because the magma is condensed, shrink evenly, form the joint in post form all sides, about 1 meter of sectional diameter of cylinder, more than about 30 meters high, straight and tall and straight, it is close to arrange, just like a thick forest, afford a magnificent spectacle, thus come the name of stone forest in Mashan .
In terms of textual research of expert, this kind of many development of stone forest of joint in post form is in the basalt, it is prismatic to generally take the form of six arrises or five, and the development of stone forest of Mashan is in the Ann mountain rock, and take the form of the square, this is comparatively rare in geology.
In terms of its value, Mashan the intersection of stone forest and scale shut the intersection of county and stone pillar to be larger than six Nanjing, also more grand and more magnificent, can be with U.S.A. famous the devil s tower In post form joint basalt body compare favourably. Ma Shan s valuable geological traces such as the rare stone pillar group, silicified wood of world,etc.
in protection zone, had very high scientific research and ornamental value of the travel, were approved by the State Council of China as the national-level nature reserve in 1994, planning area is 7 . 74 sq. km..
Ma Shan s human cultural sight is numerous too, according to the records of Ma ShanZhi , Ma Shan in history was once religious Holy Land, the burning incense very held at the beginning of Ming and Qing Dynasties, had higher popularity in Jiaodong Peninsula. Ma Shan protection zone opening to the outside world beauty spot have 9 already now, natural landscape silicified wood, the intersection of stone pillar and groups of pole have ornamental value, there are jade emperor s halls, white cloud Buddhist nunnery in the cultural and educational beauty spot already repaired, there are Jimo doctors, a thousand Buddhism holes, fox goblin occupying, zoo and mountain door in the beauty spot that is newly built in recent years The annual lunar calendar 6 28 That if you can t know mountain, move about,with considerable scale.