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The types, grades and distribution features of geoheritage in China: An inventory

open access: yesInternational Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2023
Geoheritage represents typical geological phenomena formed through internal and external geological processes during the Earth's long evolution. It serves as a carrier of crucial information regarding the Earth's evolution, the origin of life, and ...
Qingwei Song   +8 more
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Informed Geoheritage Conservation: Determinant Analysis Based on Bibliometric and Sustainability Indicators Using Ordination Techniques

open access: yesLand, 2021
Ordination methods are used in ecological multivariate statistics in order to reduce the number of dimensions and arrange individual variables along environmental variables.
Boglárka Németh   +2 more
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Geoheritage Threats in South African National Parks

open access: yesTourism and Hospitality, 2023
The uniqueness and potential of South African geoheritage to contribute to sustainable development is undoubtedly unmatched. However, little is known about the geoheritage threats in South Africa because geoheritage research is geographically skewed to ...
Khodani Matshusa, Llewellyn Leonard
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Geoheritage and Geotourism Resources [PDF]

open access: yesResources, 2020
This Special Issue wants to outline the role of Geoheritage and Geotourism as potential touristic resources of a region. The term “Geoheritage” refers to a peculiar type of natural resources represented by sites of special geological significance, rarity or beauty that are representative of a region and of its geological history, events and processes ...
Santangelo N., Valente E.
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Geoheritage and Cultural Heritage—A Review of Recurrent and Interlinked Themes

open access: yesGeosciences, 2022
Relationships between geoheritage and cultural heritage are being increasingly explored and have become one of the mainstreams within studies of geoheritage and geodiversity.
Edyta Pijet-Migoń, Piotr Migoń
doaj   +1 more source

Geomorphological Classification of Monogenetic Volcanoes and Its Implication to Tectonic Stress Orientation in the Middle Atlas Volcanic Field (Morocco)

open access: yesLand, 2022
The Middle Atlas Volcanic Field (MAVF) covers an area of 1500 km2, with a total erupted volume of solid products (e.g., Dense Rock Equivalent or DRE) estimated to be more than 80 km3.
Mohammed Benamrane   +3 more
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Geoheritage and Geoparks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Geoparks are territories with a sustainable development strategy based on the conservation of geoheritage and its use in educational and geotourism activities, together with other natural and cultural resources of the territory. Geoparks gained the international distinction label ‘UNESCO Global Geoparks’ in 2015.
Brilha, J. B., Reynard, Emmanuel
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Conservation of geosites as a tool to protect geoheritage: the inventory of Ceará Central Domain, Borborema Province - NE/Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Ceará Central Domain, in the northern Borborema Province/NE Brazil, encompasses important geological records (geosites) which allow understanding a relevant period of the Earth’s evolution, mainly associated to Neoproterozoic Brazilian/Pan-African ...
ALMEIDA AR   +60 more
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Assessment of geoheritage and prospects of geotourism: An approach to geoconservation of important geological and geomorphological sites of Puruliya district, West Bengal, India

open access: yesInternational Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2021
Exploration of geoheritage sites is a new venture in tourism studies. The objective of the study is centred around the Geoheritage site conservation for geological and geomorphological interpretation and introduction of Geotourism involving the local ...
Avijit Ghosh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

New freshwater plesiosaurian materials from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Formation of the Sichuan Basin, southwestern China

open access: yesJournal of Palaeogeography, 2020
Sichuan Basin is very famous for the Mesozoic reptiles, especially the Jurassic dinosaurs. Here, we report some isolated plesiosaurian teeth and vertebrae newly excavated from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Formation in Yunyang county, Chongqing City ...
Feng Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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