Location of Pingyuan County, Dezhou, Shandong
Pingyuan County, Dezhou, Shandong Province, is located in the northwest of Shandong Province and is affiliated with Dezhou City.
Pingyuan County is located in the northwest of Shandong Province, bordering Linyi County and Yucheng City to the east and southeast, Wucheng and Xiajin to the west and southwest, Gaotang to the south, and Decheng District and Lingcheng District to the north. border. Pingyuan County is located in the northwest Shandong Plain on the lower reaches of the Yellow River. The terrain is flat and slopes slowly from southwest to northeast.
Pingyuan County belongs to the warm and semi-temperate continental monsoon climate zone, with significant continental climate characteristics. The territory has four distinct seasons, with obvious dry and wet seasons. The spring is dry and windy, the summer is hot and humid and rainy, the autumn is cool, and the winter is cold and dry with little rain or snow. During the crop growing season, there is sufficient light and abundant heat, which is conducive to the development of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry. However, disastrous weather such as drought, waterlogging, hail, hot and dry winds, continuous rain, and frost occur from time to time, which has a certain impact on agricultural production.
Pingyuan County Topography
Pingyuan County is located in the Yellow River alluvial plain in northwest Shandong. It is 39 kilometers long from north to south and 48 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of 1,047 square kilometers. Pingyuan County is located on the primary and secondary tectonic units of the earth and is part of the Liaojitai syncline in North China.
On the secondary structural unit, a line is drawn roughly from the vicinity of Liutun Village, Santang Township southward to Fangsi Village, Fangsi Town, Yucheng City. The west side is Linqing City's Aoduan District, and the east side is Aoguan District, Jiyang District, Jinan City; the triangular area extending from Liutun Village to the northeast belongs to the Chengning Uplift District. Each area is bounded by fractures.
Some of these faults have cut up to the lower Neogene strata, some have cut across the boundary between the Tertiary and Quaternary systems, and some have Cenozoic basalt along the faults. For example, Tertiary basalt exists in the northeast-trending fault passing through Wangmiao Town, Qiancao Town, and Wangfenglou Town, as well as in the southern part of Encheng Town and Wangdagua Township.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Pingyuan County