太子河横貫辽东省中部,是辽河的一条支流,它从东向西流,經过田师付、小市、牛心台、本溪、烟台、辽陽等几个重要的工矿城鎮。在这个区域内,不仅有品質优良的煤矿和耐火土,而且还有很多制造水泥的石灰岩。这些有用的矿藏都是产在水成岩的地層里面,所以,要想了解埋藏在地下的矿層的位置和它的分布規律,进一步拟定开發規划,就必須要搞清楚这一帶的各个地層彼此间的关系和变化,否則地質工作就無从着手。八十多年以前,德国人李希霍芬在太子河流域會經作过一些簡略的地質調查工作。大約过了半个世紀,我国几位前輩地質学家也先后發表了不少的論文,来討論这个区域內的地層問題。日本帝国主义者侵入东北以后,他們为了加速地下資源的掠夺,对于这个区域內的地層也曾經作了一些研究工作。但是他們在很多方面对于 The Prince River runs through the middle of Liaodong Province and is a tributary of the Liaohe River. It flows from east to west and passes through Tianshifu, Xiaoshi, Niuxintai, Benxi, Yantai, Liaoyang and other important industrial and mining towns. In this area, there are not only good quality coal mines and refractory soils, but also many limestones that make cement. These useful mineral deposits are all produced in sedimentary rock formations. Therefore, in order to understand the location of buried mineral deposits and their distribution patterns, and to further develop the development plan, it is necessary to clarify the various strata in this area. The relationship and change, otherwise the geological work can not start. More than eighty years ago, the German Lichhoven made some brief geological surveys in the Taizi River Basin. About half a century later, several senior geologists in China have also published many papers to discuss the stratigraphic issues in the region. After the Japanese imperialists invaded the northeast, in order to speed up the plundering of underground resources, they also conducted some research work on the strata in the region. But they are in many ways