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Guangdong Geological Museum

The Guangdong Geological Museum, located at Guangzhou City of Guangdong Province, is a local museum of comprehensive geological science of China. It was prepared in 1958 and officially opened to the public on October 1, 1959.

The museum has collected over 40,000 items of various kinds of samples in the fields of minerals, rocks, ancient extinct animals and plants, stratigraphy, structural geology, mineral deposit, and dynamic geology. The museum is composed of ten exhibition rooms, namely, the ordinary geology, ancient
extinct animals and plants, stratigraphy, mineral rocks, magmatic rock, mineral resources, crystal, mineral materials for arts and crafts, metal mineral deposits and nonmetal mineral deposits. On display are 5,000 exhibits, including the crystal sample from the special large deposit in Hainan
Island with thicker crystals and crystal clusters in various shapes, a complete set of stratum sample of the Nanling District in the scale of 1:200,000, the plutonic rock, the hypabyssal rock and the extrusive rock with different features formed during the different periods of magma activities in
Guangdong Province. Besides, there are a few hundred samples of the metal and nonmetal mineral deposits in complete sets, such as iron mine, multi-metal mine, lead and zinc mine. Also on display are the plate-shaped wolframite, crystallized azurite, malachite; the four well-known stones of
Guangdong, namely the inkstone of Duanzhou, the Yingshi stone (a limestone from Yingde County used for building rockeries), the Yunshi stone from Yunfu and the jade stone from Xinyi, and the stalactites in various shapes. In addition to the commonly seen calcium stalactite, there are also silicon
stalactite, ferrous stalactite, copper stalactite and basalt stalactite. The dinosaur egg fossil found in Guangzhou and the tortoise fossil found in Maoming are rare exhibits.

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