This work is the outgrowth of the regional geological study in western Shandong supported by the 973 Project of China(G 1999075502);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant 40372050).
The distinctive topography in western Shandong province consists of several NW-WNW-trending mountain ranges and intervening basins. Basins, in which late-stage sediments to the south have progressively overlapped the ...