The Xixia Basin Dinosaur Egg Site is well known for the amount and variety of eggs and eggs with fossilized embryos. Nearly 200 sites of dinosaur eggs around the world are known. Most of these sites are in China and the most famous one is the Xixia Basin Dinosaur Egg Site of the Late Cretaceous age. The largest known eggs are found here. They are 46 cm long and resemble giant grains of rice. Generally scientists only find jumbles of bones, if anything, inside an egg. However, intact embryos are found at this site. The egg site is within a few hours driving distance from Henan University in Kaifeng, our hosts for this field investigation.
	Macroelongatoolithus xixiaensis is the largest known dinosaur egg. The name reflects its elongate shape and discovery in Xixia Basin.
The Songshan Geological Park is located in the northern part of the province and is famous for its complete outcrops of stratigraphic sections spanning a period of 3.5 billion years. The boundaries of angular unconformities were shaped by three Precambrian tectonic events. These were the Songyang movement (2.5 billion years ago) the Zhongyue movement (1.8 billion years ago), and the Shaolin Movement (570 million years ago). With these tectonic disturbances, stratigraphic sections of Archean, Proterozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenzoic were brought together. It is generally known as the "geo-family of five generations" and is a textbook of geological history.
Angular unconformity between Dengfeng Group (upper part), Archaen (lower part) and Songshan Group (proterozoic).
Recumbent anticline preserved n Songshan quartzite.
Recumbent anticline and shear fault.
The Yuntaishan Geological Park is located in the central part of the province (northern Xiuwu County) in the city of Ziaozuo. The tectonic disturbance, together with the subsequent uplift and down warping, produced many unique stratigraphic and structural features in the Middle Proterozoic to Early Paleozoic carbonate and clastic sedimentary series. Some of the famous ones are Archaen overturned and close spaced recumbent folds, and gorges of various widths eroded out of vertical joints.
Scenes from Redstone Gorge.
	Flooded fissure along Redstone Gorge.