Geological introduction: Taiping National Forest Park is located in the North Qinling Tectonic Belt, a secondary tectonic unit of the Qinling Orogenic Belt. The main body belongs to the Paleoproterozoic Qinling Group. The original rocks are continental margin clastic rocks and a small amount of continental overflow. Tholeiite basalt and acidic volcanic rock were formed 2.2 billion years ago. It is the base part of the volcanic island arc. Due to the high heat flow value of ancient island arcs, coupled with strong tectonic movements such as plate subduction, collision, and intracontinental orogenesis, the Qinling Group experienced extensive deformation, metamorphism, migmatization, and multi-stage magma intrusion in the Paleozoic. Middle-to-high-grade regional metamorphism was dominant in the Eastern Period (440 million years ago). The carvings of fault structures and weathering and erosion since the Cenozoic have finally formed today's rich and colorful geological structural relics.

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