地质遗迹是在地球演化的漫长地质历史时期，由于各种内外动力地质作用，形成、发展并遗留下来的珍贵的、不可再生的地质自然遗产。反映了地质历史演化过程和物理、化学条件及环境的变化。这是人类认识地质现象、推测地质环境和演变条件的重要依据，是人们恢复地质历史的主要参数。
临夏地质公园地质遗迹丰富，地质遗迹类型丰富。共有刘家峡恐龙化石、和政古生物化石、晚新生代地层剖面、丹霞地貌、黄河三峡、黄河及其支流风景河段、黑方台黄土滑坡群等地质遗迹点79处，最为突出的地质遗迹亮点是地质公园丰富的古生物化石遗迹及其赋存地层。
Geoheritage is precious and non-renewable geological natural heritage formed, developed and remained due to various internal and external geological processes during the long geological history of the earth evolution. It reflects evolution process of geological history and change of physical and chemical conditions as well as environment. It provides important evidence for people to understand geological phenomena and to speculate geological environment, evolution conditions. It is the main parameter for people to recover geological history.
Linxia Geopark is rich in diverse geoheritage. There are 79 geosites including Liujiaxia vertebrate footprint , Hezheng Cenozoic mammalian fossil , the late Cenozoic stratigraphic section, Danxia Landfrom, Three gorges of the Yellow River, the Yellow River and fluvial landscape of its branches, Heifangtai loess landslide group and so on. And the highlights of these geoheritage are abundant fossils and fossil-bearing strata.
