Natural world · Evidence-led place record

Yanqing UNESCO Global Geopark

CN

See fossilised dinosaur footprints from multiple species and the largest collection of silicified wood in northern China.Visit the Yanqing UNESCO Global Geopark Museum and Great Wall sites built directly on ancient geological formations.

Yanqing UNESCO Global Geopark in CN
Photo: Peter Ellis · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationCN
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2015
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 139,800 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is Yanqing UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

Yanqing UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as See fossilised dinosaur footprints from multiple species and the largest collection of silicified wood in northern China.Visit the Yanqing UNESCO Global Geopark Museum and Great Wall sites built directly on ancient geological formations. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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