Fuxin basin is a continental graben basin of the Mesozoic. Based on the strata of the Archean and the mid-Proterozoic it was filled with two coal-bearing series of rocks during the late Mesozoic,named Shahai Group and Fuxin Group.

• 阜新盆地是中生代陆相断陷型盆地,由太古界、中元古界组成盆地基底,其上接受了晚中生代地层沉积,包括沙海组、阜新组两套含煤岩系。