abstract:The Flaming Cliffs site, also known as ob nob () or sometimes Bain-Dzak,Colbert, Edwin Harris (1984) The great dinosaur hunters and their discoveries Courier Dover, New York,page 210, ISBN 978-0-486-24701-4; revised edition of Men and Dinosaurs 1st edition 1968 rich in saxaul or red cliffs), is a region of the Gobi Desert in the Ömnögovi Province of Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made. It was given this name by American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, who visited in the 1920s.
In a sweeping basin christened FlamingCliffs by Andrews for its spectacular orange sandstone formations, paleontologist George Olsen made the first recorded discovery of fossilized dinosaur eggs.