According to its causes and the natural attitude, there are following 6 types of Geological heritage can be traced in China:

(1) Standard Geological Section

Examples:

Granite Cemetery of Family Bai in Anshan – The oldest rocks of China;

The Proterozoic Erathem section in small Qinling of Shaanxi Province;

Ancient and mediaeval Proterozoic Erathem section in Ji County of Tianjin;

Section of Plum Tree Village in Jinning County of Yunnan Province;

Cambrian and Ordovician Stratotype Section of Dayangcha Town in Hunjiang of Jilin Province;

The Devonian system terrestrial facies and biotic group Protection Ruins in Zhongning of Ningxia Province;

The Devonian Terrestrial Facies Section in Qujing of Yunnan Province;

The Devonian and Carboniferous Period Section of Nanbian Village in Guilin of Guangxi Province;

Non-Marine Permian to Triassic Period Section of Dalongkou in Jimusa’er of Xinjiang.

Lichi Melange Marlstone Section in Taiwan;

Small Changliang Ruins of Nihewan Basin in Yuanyang of Hebei Province.

(2)Famous Ancient Fossil Site

Example:

Zhoukoudian Peking Man Sites;

Fauna Fossil Site in Chengjiang of Yunnan Province;

Petrified Wood Forest Wonder of Kelamaili in Qitai County of Xinjiang;

Shanwang Miocene Paleontology Site in Shandong Province;

Amber with Insects Site of Meitian in Fushun of Lianning Province;

Late Cambrian Trilobite Site in Tai’an of Shandong Province;

Dinosaur Museum in Zigong of Sichuan Province - Wonder of the World;

Dinosaur Egg Fossil in Xixia of Henan Province.

(3) Geological Structural Feature

Example:

Suture Zone of Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet;

Three consolidating sites of Precambrian strata of Songshan in Henan Province;

Liaoning Dalian Baiyun Hotel Lotus-shaped knob construction;

Multi-level decollement formation of Ganzi in Songpan of Sichuan Province;

Folding laminated structure of Xishan in Beijng;

Shaanxi lantian iron stove activity fault and river intervention;

Sichuan pushover structural belt of longmen mountains and landscape;

China's major tectonic system.

(4) Typical Geological and Morphological Landscape

Wulingyuan quartz sand YanFeng Lin geological landscape;

Fanjing mountains nature reserve;

Huangshan mountain peaks;

Zhang ZanHuang albitite scenic spot;

Danxia moutain geological landscape area;

Wuyi mountain danxia landform landscape areas;

Shandong mashan pillars group and GuiHuaMu community;

Five dalian pool volcanic landscape;

Yandang mountain stream YanFeng Lin geological landscape area grain;

Taozhu famous flow lines YanFeng Lin, stone forest landscape areas;

Wei states anti-corrosion, sea island volcanic eruption in landscape;

Tianjin shell dike, oysters beach reserves;

The xisha islands shidao geological landscape;

Taklimakan desert;

The Himalayas and modern glacier;

Site at the glacier park; Tibet yangbajain geothermal field;

Tibet's intermittent fountain;

The JiangDa fjords; Huanglong jiuzhaigou alpine landscape area karst calcification;

Zhijin cave karst geological landscape;

Huanguoshu waterfall group of geological landscape;

Guilin karst geological peak forest landscape;

Yunnan segmented volcanic geothermal spectacle;

Yunnan stone forest road;

Xinjiang wind erosion landscape-wuerhe demon city;

The Yangtze gorges geological spectacle; Taroko gorge marble;

The penghu islands the landscape;

Taiwan's NiHuoShan;

Taiwan yangmingshan geothermal landscape;

Taiwan coast northeast corner of the scenic landscape.

(5) The Large Ore Deposits  

Guangxi giant tin polymetallic field;

Jiaodong exquisite Jiaojia type gold deposit;

What south lake molybdenum mud field;

Jinchuan nickel-copper sulfide deposits;

The world "antimony"-- xikuangshan; Baiyun obo-the world's largest rare-earth ore deposits;

Gannan tungsten mine;

Hunan shizhuyuan, molybdenum bismith tin superlarge deposit;

China rare metal and precious stones pearl-altai pegmatite;

The daqing oil field;

Qinghai chaerhan salt lake;

East wins Shenmu coal;

Liaoning haicheng magnesite ore deposits

(6) Ruins of Geological Disaster

Dalian sinian system-the Cambrian in the stratum earthquake ruins;

Sichuan quake lake small south China sea earthquake ruins;

Guangxi south Dan mined-out area;

Hebei tangshan earthquake;

Zigui Xintan landslides induced;

Yunnan dongchuan debris flow and prevention and control.