animal > Nanxiong red beds
南雄红层
  "Rock the Nanxiong recorded prehistoric, dinosaurs, a few mammoth beast sword." Nanxiong red layer rich in fossils, causing widespread international attention to the scientific community.
  Guangdong has more than 100 basin, an area of 6,000 square kilometers, which accounts for nearly one-third of the Nanxiong Basin, the total thickness of between 1300-2900 meters, higher than the national average thickness of 300-800 m 3 times more. Nanxiong Basin have been blessed.
  After deposition of red beds, they had the Himalayan orogeny, with millions of dollars in long years, through sunshine, rain, rain, erosion, weathering and erosion, water erosion, and gravity and other forces of nature sculpture, it evolved into range upon range of ups and downs , gorgeous red layer of landscape.
  Nanxiong red beds can be divided into three parts according to lithology: the lower part reddish brown, purple conglomerate, muddy sandstone, containing fossils of dinosaur eggs; central reddish brown, silty mudstone interbedded with muddy sand, there are the gray-green sandstone, producing fossils of dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs; upper reddish brown sandy mudstone, mudstone, muddy sandstone, there are the pebbly sandstone, conglomerate, producing lizards, turtles, dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs of the class.
  As Nanxiong typical representative of the red layer of significance in the late Cretaceous and early Tertiary red beds, Nanxiong "Lo Buddhist Village Group", "group on the Lake", "Datang Group," "Nanxiong group "As a geological term has been formally adopted in the world. Nanxiong clear-cut boundary red layer, extending complete. Most representative of the gooseneck to the number of boundary ridge, only to be the separation line between the Late Cretaceous the South, the North for the third century formation. Described as "entirely different."
  In this vast primitive among Furusawa, contains a wide variety of fossils, dinosaur, dinosaur eggs, dinosaur footprints, teeth-order animals, poor animal teeth, crocodile, turtle, snail fossils, various dielectric type class, round, and petrified wood fossil algae. Late Cretaceous dinosaur extinction Nanxiong there than in other parts of the world's dinosaur extinction would be late. Red clay that has a large number of Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils, there are a lot of the rise of the new generation of fossil mammal fauna, is the world's one of the rare red beds. University of Minnesota professor of paleontology Sloan praised for life: "Nanxiong is the world's best place to study dinosaurs."
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