It was here that Yen Tsang-po, who has long been a leading light among Taiwanese geologists, discovered sedimentary rock dating back 200 million years, the oldest ever found in Taiwan. An analysis of what he found tells us the basic story of Taiwan's formation. For untold eons, what is now Taiwan lay upon the ocean floor collecting sediment that had been washed out to sea from the Asian mainland.
台灣老一輩地質學者顏滄波在此發現兩億年前的化石，證明了此地是台灣地質的人瑞，也證明了台灣從太古以來即於海底韜光養晦，靠著歐亞大陸滔滔河川沖積物的沈澱生肌補肉，等候破殼而出的一天。