应县木塔在山西省应县城西北角的佛宫寺内,体态庄重,全木结构,正名释迦塔。塔的平面形状是八角六檐,外观五层,内夹暗层四级,总高67.13米。登上塔顶可北揽长城,南观雁门,西瞰大同煤海,东望北岳恒山;临风远瞭,云飘雾荡,似有欲上苍穹之感。木塔建于辽清宁二年(公元1056年),是国内外现存最古老、最高大的全木结构建筑。九百多年来,木塔在塞外干旱气侯条件下,经历了凛冽寒风、急骤暴雨、战火炮击、地震摇撼等灾难,至今仍巍然如故,雄伟挺拔,实为我国古代建筑艺术中的瑰宝奇葩,被国务院列为第一批全国重点保护文物。应县位于大同盆地中部桑干河畔,其地层岩性为黄土、细砂、砂砾、砾石夹砂质粘土;向下有粉砂土、亚粘土夹薄层橄榄玄武岩和火山岩碎屑、红色粘土、泥灰岩、凝灰岩等新生代沉积物,厚度约千米,它们直接铺盖在古老的深变质的桑干片麻岩系之上。应县距盆地边缘断裂甚远,新生代地层以下虽 Ying County wooden tower should be located in the northwest corner of Shanxi Province, the Buddhist Temple Temple, the state of dignified, all-wood structure, the name is released Tagata. The planar shape of the tower is octagonal six eaves, the appearance of five layers, four inner dark folder, a total height of 67.13 meters. Boarded the top of the tower can take the Great Wall North, south of Yanmen, Datong Datong coal sea, North East Mountain Hengshan; temporary wind far, clouds drifting, seems to feel the sky. The wooden tower was built in Liaoning Qingning two years (AD 1056), is the oldest existing, the tallest all-wood structure at home and abroad. For more than nine hundred years, under the conditions of arid and climatic conditions outside the block, the wooden tower has experienced such devastating cold winds, flash rains, war-shelling, and earthquake-disaster disasters. It remains as a towering towering majestic towering as it once stood in the ancient architectural art Wonderful flowers, the State Council as the first batch of national key protected cultural relics. Yingxian County is located along the Sanggan River in the central part of the Datong Basin. Its stratigraphic lithology is loess, fine sand, gravel, and gravelly clayey clays. Downward are silt sand, sublayered clastic thin layers of olivine basalts and volcaniclastic debris, red clay, Cenozoic sediments, such as marl, tuff and so on, are about a kilometer in thickness, and they lay directly on the ancient, deep metamorphic pan-gneiss gneiss. Should be far away from the edge of the basin basin fault, although below the Cenozoic strata