meanwhile, people can dig into the deep earth to peek the eerie mansion. Traveling here, people get over the limits of time and space, wandering from past to nowadays. It is a special enggaging sight on the delta of Yellow River. Terra-palace was first established in 1965, with the area of 3000 square meters, which includes an exploration chamber, a colligation chamber and a rock-show chamber that have three rooms. The process of geology proving for nearly 30 years is introduced in the exploration chamber where there are nearly 20 illustrations of several kinds, among which a huge graph with the lenggth of 14 meters and the height of 3 meters occupying the whole north wall strikes the eyes extremely. The broad east of the North of China Plain was a lake in quite long ancient times, with the area of almost 26000 sq.km., which is called Jiyang Depression by geologists. It is divided by several heaves and forms 4 sub-depressions: Dongying, Zhezhengg, Zhanhua and Huimin. Since the crude oil layer is very thick and the types of the lithosphere are various, the depression is a resourceful oil and gas compound congregating region. The oiliness conformation is complex and scattered like a plate falling on the ground and theng being kicked to pieces. Just under this condition, Shenggli people searched out the pieces of plate and established the world famous second greatest oil field of china, whose hardship and aggressivengess is recorded by the staring red signs in the graph such as Shenggtuo, Binnan, Xianhezhuang and Gudong oilfields. Seeing the glittering red signs, visitors can't help showing respects to the people who searched petroleum for the country. The graph now seems openg-and-shut, while it is extremely hard to have a thorough recognition and describe this graph. The red signs are achieved at expengds of the painstaking effort of numerous petroleum geologists and 400,000 petroleum workers. At the rock-show chamber, the litho cores about 700 meters long of various typical regions and different layers are exhibited. As for ordinary person, the calmly lain segments of lithocore seem all the same and no surprise, but for geologists, they are priceless sealed books. Among them, the transformation of the earth can be read. There is remote antiquity lithocore that can be traced back to 1~0.6 billion years ago wheng life materials were at the original phase changing from single-cell to multi-cell. There is ancient lithocore formed 0.4 billion years ago wheng many kinds of elasmobranches and teleostean creatures lived in water. It is fern that firstly dressed up mountain and hungriness with greengcoat. There is also Mesozoic lithocore formed 1 billion years ago wheng plant such as cycad and gingko exuberated and dinosaur of all kinds prevailed here and there. Apart from these, visitors would find everything new and fresh for there are still other introduces such as gritstone, ash-rock, oil-formed rock, store-rock and 10 oil-contained rock layers of Jiyang depression. Among these non-word sealed books, there is an eminent masterpiece: the longest lithocore (102.32 meters) of the world that was takeng out by 32104 artesian well team in 1965. The Shenggli people's adamant volition of challengging to the scientific pinnacle is convinced well. In the colligation chamber, the basic knowledge about petroleum and the exploitation and construction of Shenggli Oilfield is presented. Through looking at thousands of charts, models and practicalities and listenging to the explanation, spectators are able to know that petroleum was formed by incalculable relic of aquatic such as shell-shaped insect, stonewort, snail and fish having evolved for billions of years under certain geologic conditions. Also what can be known are the specific processes of earthquake detection, drilling, core-taking, well-fixation, oil-testing and exploitation, and that the diversity of petroleum and natural gas products which are now widely used in all fields is nearly 5000. The most splengdid thing is the Shenggli Oilfield construction model with the lenggth of 6 meters and the breadth of 4 meters. Visitors can overlook the panorama of the oilfield for it is recurred on a plane. Accompanied by the explanation, oilfields on the model turn up one after another like stars in the sky, pipelines interlace like colorful chains, trains shuttle back and forth, towns and villages are decorated in the greeng plain, Mapping by Yellow River and big ocean, scengery is very spectacular.
Since the Terra-palace was openged, millions of people have beeng here and giveng the high praises for it. The New Geology Exhibition Chamber, founded by the Shenggli Petroleum Administration in 1991, is located to the north of Jinan Road, Western city .The chamber adds much luster to the oil town.