NANJING, 03 Sept 2024 (TDI): International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)has listed at least three geological sites in China as geological heritage sites.
These sites fall in the categories of vegetation fossils, dinosaur fossils and a karst landform.
Officials reportedly confirmed that the primian vegetation of the Wuda Fossil Site in north China’s Inner Mongolian 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 were recently included in the list of heritage sites.
Earlier, seven other sites in China were part of the IUGS Geological Heritage Sites.
Geological heritages paly important role in geologists’ research and surveys and considered as non-renewable resource. Experts maintain that such sites records the 4.6 billion years of evolution history of the Earth.
The IUGS Geological Heritage Sites are important locations with the highest scientific international relevance, used as a global reference, it significantly contributes the development of science with the help of history as well.
The Wuda Permian vegetation fossil site is an ancient forest about 298 million years back, it was buried by ash-fall and now appears as a tuff bed between two coal seams in the Wuda coalfield, according to media reports quoting expert.
The site wit a lot of evidences of ancient tropical rainforest community and study of various organisms is a precious treasures for scientific studies, experts say. , The Wuda fossil site is exceptional for best demonstrating what plants formed coal and what a coal-forming forest looked like, he added.
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More than two dozens of experts from Britain, the US, Germany and other countries were studying the site since its discovery in 1998 and identified as buried by ash in 2003. A number of research papers were published in this connections.
Similar studies on the three sites were going on for a couple of years in China. And community of scientist were already giving importance to the areas.
The sites and ancient forests have a reflection in Chinese culture and have influenced modern paintings in the country as well.
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