Name Plain
Name of Town Wufeng Town
Name of City Taichung County
Types of Terrain

Wufeng Town is a plain basin with half flats and half sloping fields (for around 40%). Due to the geographical structure, the rise and fall of the terrain is very great with height of edge slopes at more than 130 meters. The mountain crest line is approximately in northeast and southwest direction. Save for the sloping fields in Fenggu Village, the single-sided mountain terrain is not obvious and partial flats are scattered in the dry river valleys.

description of terrain

The rock formation in the Town is composed by thicker shale and alternations of SS and SS. Lots of small-scale terrain structure led to great changes of geographical levels. It is located in the east of Che Long Pu Fault, an overthrust fault. The line broken has been covered by the broad alluvium with the direction of rock formation in northeast to southwest, slanting to southeast at 25-45 degrees. The exposed rock formations, from old to new, are jin shui shale and zhou lan level in Pliocene with terrace piles and modern alluvium.

It is easier to discover the influences of terrain caused by the small-scale structure on partial areas. On the east and west sides of Guangfu Village and Kengco Village in the Town, three small folds were found. The two are slanting backwards with the one synclinal. The anises are in northeast and southwest direction. The synclinal axis crosses the Fengshanfeng Valley and is cut by the Ganxi fault at the north of Ganxi. The northwest wing of slanted axis is slightly north/south and slants to east at around 42 degrees. The southeast wing of the axis is in north/south direction with slightly slanting to west at 60 degrees. The backward slanting axis on the north of Ganxi fault passes the south of Fenggu Village while that on the north passes Tongfong Village. Based on the above structures, we can induce that it might be the minor structure caused by the overthrust fault of Che Long Pu.

Type of geology Alluvium
Geological description

Yellow Soil Loam or Sand Loam

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