The general location of Taizhou on the map of China.

Taizhou (tāi zhōu) is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, located in the central coastal area of Zhejiang Province, bordering the East China Sea in the east, Shaoxing and Ningbo in the north, Wenzhou in the south and Jinhua and Lishui in the west.

Taizhou coordinates are between east longitude 120 degrees 17 minutes-12/0/56 minutes, and north latitude 28 degrees 0 1 minute -29 degrees 20 minutes. Taizhou has a long history, and ancestors lived here 5000 years ago. The terrain in the territory is inclined from west to east, with Yandang Mountain as the screen in the south, and there are main peaks such as Kuocang Mountain, Rada Mountain and Tiantai Mountain, among which the height of Kuocang Mountain is1382.4m, which is the highest peak in eastern Zhejiang.

The east coast of Taizhou is 65 1 km. There are 12 island and 69 1 island offshore, mainly including Taizhou Islands and Dongji Islands. The largest island, Yuhuan Island, is connected with the mainland, with a continental shelf area of 80,000 square kilometers and a total land area of 94 1 1 square kilometers. Surrounded by mountains and seas, plains and hills alternate with each other, forming a pattern of "seven mountains, one water and two fields". The most distinctive features of Taizhou are "Buddha, Mountain, Sea, City and Cave". It has the national key scenic spots Tiantai Mountain, Dongyu Cave and the national historical and cultural city Linhai, and has been known as the "famous mountain on the sea" since ancient times. Taizhou was rated as a national advanced city in 20 13 and was included in the first batch of innovative pilot cities in Zhejiang province.

Topography and mountain shape

Taizhou is surrounded by mountains, facing the sea, and the terrain is inclined from west to east. The mountains in the northwest are continuous, with thousands of meters of peaks. Southeast hills are gentle, plains and beaches are wide, and rivers are vertical and horizontal. With Yandang Mountain as the screen in the south, there are main peaks such as Kuocang Mountain, Rada Mountain and Tiantai Mountain, among which Kuocang Mountain is as high as1382.4m, which is the highest peak in eastern Zhejiang. There are 12 island and 69 1 island offshore, mainly including Taizhou Islands and Dongji Islands. The largest island is Yuhuan Island, which is now connected with the mainland, and roughly constitutes the structural characteristics of "seven mountains, one water and two fields". The low hills in Taizhou account for 70.4% of Taizhou's land area, the plain area accounts for 26.8%, and the inland waters account for 2.8%.

geologic structure

Taizhou city is located in Wenzhou-Linhai sag of Caledonian fold system in South China and fold belt in Southeast Zhejiang. The geological structure is dominated by faults, with no folds. The exposed strata are mainly Cretaceous and Jurassic strata in the Mesozoic of the Pre-Quaternary, with sedimentary rocks as the main lithology and massive and layered rock mass structure. Intrusive rock masses are abundant, mainly formed in the late Yanshan period, mainly distributed in Fushan Township of Huangyan, northeast of Linhai, south of Tiantai Liang Shi Town and Sanmen Ponting Town, and scattered in other areas. Rock masses are mostly rock plants, small rock plants or rock branches, mainly acidic rock formation.

Quaternary marine plain mainly includes Holocene marine deposits, upper Pleistocene alluvial deposits, alluvial deposits and alluvial deposits, and middle Pleistocene alluvial deposits, alluvial deposits, alluvial deposits and eluvial deposits. Lithology includes loam, clayey silt, fine sand and gravel. Its thickness distribution is uneven and some strata are missing, which is typical in Wenping Huangyuan area, and its maximum thickness can reach150m. Quaternary strata in mountainous areas mainly include eluvial deposits, Pliocene proluvial, flood alluvium and Holocene alluvium.