Cising Mountain

Infobox Mountain
Name = Cising Mountain
Photo = Cising Mountain.jpg
Caption =
Elevation = Convert|1120|m|ft|0|abbr=on
Location = Taipei, ROC (Taiwan)
Range =
Prominence = Convert|1120|m|ft|0|abbr=on
Coordinates = coord|25|10|17|N|121|33|06|E|type:mountain
Topographic

Type = extinct volcano
Age = Pleistocene
Last eruption = 700,000 BC
First ascent =

Qixing Mountain (zh-tpwl|t=七星山|p="Qīxīngshān"|w="Chī-Hsīng Shān"|l=Seven Star Mountain) is located on the Datun Volcano Group and the tallest mountain at the rim of the Taipei Basin. It located in the center of Yangmingshan National Park, the main peak is 1,120 m tall (above elevation).

It began erupting about 700,000 years ago. [ [http://www.ymsnp.gov.tw/HTML/ENG/01information/inf_a02_main.asp?sn=10 Geology ] ] There was a crater at the peak but it became seven small peaks due to post-eruption erosion.

The mountain has faults running across the southeast and northwest contours with volcanic landforms like hot springs and fumaroles.

Shamao Mountain is a round volcanic dome looking like a black gauze cap. As the lava was more viscous when the mountain was formed, it gradually became a tholoid, also known as a cumulo-dome volcano. Shamao Mountain is a parasitic volcano of the Cising Mountain group.

ee also

*List of mountains in Taiwan
*List of volcanoes in Taiwan

References