Three geological sites in China, comprising vegetation fossils, dinosaur fossils and a karst landform, have recently been listed as Geological Heritage Sites by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).
These newly selected sites include the Permian vegetation of the Wuda Fossil Site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Dashanpu Middle Jurassic Dinosaur Fossils Site in southwest China's Sichuan Province and the Guilin Karst in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) announced on Tuesday.
So far, a total of 10 Chinese geological sites have been included in the list of the IUGS Geological Heritage Sites.
Geological heritages are a precious and non-renewable resource that faithfully records the 4.6 billion years of evolution history of the Earth and bases for geologists to conduct scientific research.
(Reported by Sun Zifa; Edited by Ma Yuxuan)
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