At the ocean bottom it would still be today but for the fact that six million years ago the Philippine plate, which had long been moving northwest across the Pacific Ocean, slammed into the Eurasian plate, the largest tectonic plate on earth. The submerged rock at the edge of the Eurasian plate was thrust upward, forming Taiwan's Central Mountain Range.
六百萬年前，在太平洋上移動已久的菲律賓海板塊，終於斜撞上地球最大的陸塊，歐亞板塊東南邊界上的古老台灣，無法再深藏海底，中央山脈應運而生。