[Explanation] What is the mystery of the meteorite?
What is the role of crystal?
What did creatures look like 550 million years ago?
On December 10, the reporter came to the exploratory hall of the Hubei Geological Museum in Qiaokou District, Wuhan.
[Explanation] The Dengying Chaani from 550 million years ago is one of the "Treasures of the Town Hall".
According to Wang Di, the curator of Hubei Geological Museum, this is the world’s first well-preserved "Dengying Chaani" fossil and the first Ediacaran animal fossil discovered in China. It is about 240 mm in length and 29 mm in maximum width. The texture is clearly visible.
[Concurrent] Wang Di, Director of Hubei Geological Museum
Because the Ediacaran fauna is an important research object in our human research on the evolution of life. During the 3.6 billion years of life that existed on the earth, it was not until 600 million years ago that something appeared on our earth. Multicellular, larger individuals and complex structures. This is our Ediacaran fauna. Our Dengying Chaani provides us with very good research materials, allowing us humans to explore the evolution of life. Mystery.
[Explanation] The Guanghua iron meteorite is another "Treasure of the Town Hall" of the Hubei Geological Museum. At first glance, it is no different from ordinary stones, but when you look closely, its surface is metallic and full of pits and holes. scar.
[Concurrent] Wang Di, Director of Hubei Geological Museum
We all know that meteorites come from things outside the sky. At present, they can be divided into stony meteorites, stony-iron meteorites and iron meteorites. Among them, iron meteorites are relatively rare and have important scientific research significance. They provide us with important research materials. For us humans to study the formation and evolution of the solar system.
[Commentary] In the exhibition hall, a skeleton fossil of "Hubei Yunxian Dragon" that is nearly 3 meters high and nearly 6 meters long is eye-catching.
Wang Di said that the Qinglongshan Dinosaur Egg Fossil Group in Yunyang, Hubei Province is the world's most concentrated, most numerous, and most well-preserved dinosaur egg fossil group.
[Concurrent] Wang Di, Director of Hubei Geological Museum
It is currently the only complete dinosaur skeleton fossil we have found in Hubei Province. More importantly, we have also found dinosaur egg fossils around the dinosaur skeleton fossil. So this kind of dragon-egg symbiosis Phenomenon is relatively rare in the world at present. It is of very important scientific significance for us to study the source of dinosaurs and explore the mystery of the extinction of dinosaurs.
[Explanation] Hubei Province spans two first-level tectonic units of the North China Plate and the South China Plate. There are more than a thousand magmatic rock intrusions of different ages, types and scales, with different sedimentary structures, magmatic activities, metamorphism, tectonic deformation, and mineralization. It gave birth to unique Jingchu mineral resources.
[Concurrent] Wang Di, Director of Hubei Geological Museum
Our Hubei Province has discovered 150 kinds of mineral resources, distributed in 13 prefectures, cities, prefectures and administrative regions. Our titanium ore, phosphate, bromine and iodine are ranked first in the country. Our copper and iron ore, especially Our copper and iron mines in Daye, Hubei, are also well-known throughout the country. Our oil and gas mineral resources in the Jianghan Plain are also unique. Therefore, the characteristics of our mineral resources in Hubei are rich in types and obvious in distribution.
[Explanation] This unremarkable museum in a busy city houses more than 18,000 specimens from various parts of China, the United States, Argentina, Australia and other countries and regions, including more than 100 first-class collections.
[Explanation] Xie Qiong, an instructor at Hubei Geological Museum, introduced that the museum was opened in 1956 and opened to the public for free since 2008.
The hall is equipped with the Earth Evolution Hall, the Life Evolution Hall, the Resources and Environment Hall, and the Multimedia Function Hall. The exhibition area is nearly 2,000 square meters. The collection covers ore specimens from various typical deposits, typical rock specimens from different geological ages, and fossils.
Reporter Zou Hao reports from Wuhan, Hubei
Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]