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Exhibition Hall of Changchun Geological College

Updated: 2008-01-18 18:00:39

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The Exhibition Hall of Changchun Geological College, located at the Geological Palace of Changchun City in Jilin Province, is a comprehensive college-level museum of geological science of China, founded in 1952 on the basis of amalgamating the exhibition halls of the Geological Mineralogy Department of Shandong University, the Geological Mineralogy and Metallurgy Department of Northeast Engineering College, and Changchun Geological College. In 1955, the construction of the Geological Palace was completed with a space of 1,000 square meters for display. The samples collected in the Exhibition Hall of Changchun Geological College are from the main regions and mines all over China. On display in the Hall are the achievements of the scientific researches of the teachers and postgraduates of that College, and the minerals, rocks and ore samples exchanged with foreign countries, over 40,000 items in total.

Exhibits in the Exhibition Hall of Changchun Geological College are arranged and displayed according to the different branches of geology, including seven parts, namely, the dynamic geology, paleontology, regional stratigraphy, crystallography, mineralogy, petrology, mineral deposit and minerals. The exhibits on display are over 10,000 pieces, including the rare collections from the cosmic space, such as the samples of the meteorite shower rarely seen in the world fell from the outer space on March 8, 1976 in the Jilin Region of Jilin Province, the granular aerolites collected at Taonan, the iron meteorites collected from Jining of Inner Mongolia, the iron meteorites collected from Xinjiang, glass meteorites and samples of cosmic dusts. On display of the structural geology are the achievements of scientific researches made by the teachers of that College, such as the plastic deformation of the sediment gravity structure, the sliding and collapsing rocks. On display of the paleontologic exhibits are the giant trilobite fossil collected from Hunan Province, the butterfly fossil and insect fossil embedded in ember unearthed from Liaoning Province, fish fossil and crab fossil. In addition, the Hall has also collected the coral fossil once studied by Professor Yu Jianzhang, the dinosaur egg fossil discovered in China for the first time, and part of the skeleton fossil of Qingdao Dinosaur. On display of the crystallographic exhibits are the perfect crystals of various kinds of crystal series, such as galena and blende of the equal axis crystal series, the fish-eye stone and scheelite of square crystal series, the velvet malachite and azurite of the mono oblique crystal series. Over 400 varieties of ordinary and rare minerals are collected for the mineralogical display. The petrologic exhibits are arrayed according to the magmatic rock, sedimentary rock and metamorphic rock, including over 60 different varieties of granite produced in China and quite a number of samples recording the sedimentary structures of geological changes. The display of mineral deposits is arranged in accordance with the causes of formation, including the samples of the well-known mining areas in China, such as the pegmatite mine in Xinjiang, the magnetite in Anshan, the chromite in Tibet, and the diamond mine in Liaoning and Shandong. The exhibits of minerals are arrayed according to ferrous metal, nonferrous metal, rare and disperse elements, nonmetal, special nonmetal and the raw materials for handicraft articles.

The Exhibition Hall of Changchun Geological College also carries out researches in the fields of meteorite mineralogy and geological sedimentation. Scores of papers have been published includingthe Initial Study of Meteorite Shower in Jilin, China.

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