The structural style found in the basin includes imbricated thrust zone, trapdoor structure, drag fold, listric fault, rollover anticline, horst-graben structure and the like.

The south Qinling has formed an imbricated thrust fault at low angle from the north to the south.

The key structure in this area is a duplex that comprises of a shallow fault-bend fold of the Late Triassic and a deep blind stacking anticline imbricated by three thrust sheets of Cenozoic age.