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Sambangsan () is a mountain in the counties of
Pyeongchang Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...
and
Yeongwol Yeongwol County (''Yeongwol-gun'') is a county in Gangwon Province, South Korea. It is well known as the place where King Danjong, the sixth king of Joseon Dynasty, was exiled when he was forced to abdicate by his uncle, who became Sejo of Joseon ...
, Gangwon-do in
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
. It has an elevation of .Yu 2007, p.231.


Geology

The Sambangsan Formations has diverse homogeneous, purple, to greenish gray fine sandstone and siltstone. Sandstones are generally massive, greenish gray, and fine grained, showing small-scale bands and are poorly to moderately sorted (Chough 90). They are mainly composed of fine to very fine quartz, feldspar, mica, and opaque minerals, and show foliations. Quartz are mainly made out of 70 - 80% of framework grains and the upper parts of the formation are formed by fauna of the middle Middle Cambrian. The occurrence of fine sandstone layers is suggestive of deposition in relatively shallow to deep-water environments (Chough 93). Sambangsan Formation consists of a lot of light grey, green or brown, massive or thick-bedded sandstone (upper part) and red or green shale and sandy shale. Extreme tribes of Middle Cambrian age occur in light brown, thin-bedded medium to coarse-grained, micaceous sandstone beds in the upper part of the formations (Chough 22).


See also

*
List of mountains in Korea The following is a list of mountains in Korea: List of mountains in North Korea Pyeongyang * Taesongsan (대성산; ) – Chagang Province * Namsan (남산; ) – * Obongsan (오봉산; ) – North Pyongan Province * Myohyangsan (묘향ì ...


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References

* *"Chough, Sung Kwun. "Geology and Sedimentology of the Korean Peninsula." Google Books. Elsevier, 2013. Web. 07 Mar. 2016. {{coord missing, South Korea Mountains of South Korea Mountains of Gangwon Province, South Korea