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2.Twenty five kilometers away from the city at the eastern foothill of the Western Hills，the Fragrant Hill Park is a renowned one of all the parks tucked away among the hills in the western suburbs of Beijing.
3.Palaeogene Biyang fault depressed lacustrine basin experiences four evolutionary phases:foothill flooding depression→sulfate coastal/shallow lake→normal lake→carbonate or sulfate coastal/shallow lake, in pace of this, the evolutionary process of sedimentary wedge is from fluvial fan→steep slope fan delta→gentle slope fan delta→fluvial fan in southern margin which belongs to steep slope zone, and is fluvial fan→delta→fluvial fan in northern margin which belongs to gentle slope zone.
4.A large earthquake of M 7.3 took place on September 21, 1999 at Chi Chi of Western Foothill, central Taiwan region. It caused severe damage and a great number of casualties that had gone beyond the destruction and casualty caused by any one of the historical earthquakes in the past 20 th century in Taiwan region. The magnitude of the earthquake is also the largest one of the shocks occurred in the inland of Taiwan Island.
