Overburden of 60~120 m deep is developed in the Qizong segment of Jinsha River. The deep overburden can be divided into three layers upward. Pebble and gravel intercalated with minor fine sand or silty clay with the thickness of 11.1~33 m at the bottom of the riverbed; a layer of fine sand, silty clay, pebble and gravel which with the thickness of 10.04~35 m in the middle of the riverbed; coarse lenses of the drift (blocks), pebble (broken) and gravel layer with the thickness of 9.5~59 m in the upper part. Studies show that the sand lens is not formed by the accumulation of lacustrine, but is formed by accumulation of the relatively still water environment and the normal river floodplain. The engineering effects can be concluded that because of the bad geological conditions it is only suitable for rock-fill dam, the excavated volume is huge, the sand layer treatment depth is large and impermeable treatment is quite difficult.