In fact, everywhere in Taroko there is living testimony to geological forces. In the Asia-Pacific region, only Taiwan and the Himalayas have been created by the "folding effect" caused by the collision between two tectonic plates. But in contrast with the Himalayas, where mountain-forming activity goes back 60 or 70 million years, the "precocious child" of Taroko Gorge is "in its infancy."
在環繞地球最大洋的環太平洋地區，只有台灣與喜馬拉雅山同是板塊邊緣互相擠壓的所謂「褶曲作用」造成，但相較於具有六、七千萬年的喜馬拉雅老造山運動區，「好動兒」太魯閣是造山運動的嬰兒期。