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Geological heritage in UNESCO's World Heritage List: A critical review

International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention (WHC), established in 1972, aims to protect and conserve cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value (OUV).
Carles Canet, Driselda Sánchez-Aguirre, Laeticia García-Sánchez, Elizabeth Castañeda-Bastida   +3 more
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An evaluation of transmitter effects on adult and juvenile Common Terns using leg-loop harness attachments

Journal of Field Ornithology, 2022
Marking birds with transmitters allows for the collection of data that are critical for fully understanding avian life history, but researchers must also be confident that performing such studies is as safe as possible for transmittered individuals ...
Evan J. Buck, Jeffery D. Sullivan, Claire S. Teitelbaum, David F. Brinker, Peter C. McGowan, Diann J. Prosser   +5 more
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Combined mineral and geoheritage resources related to kaolin, phosphate, and cement production in Egypt: Conceptualization, assessment, and policy implications

Sustainable Environment Research, 2018
Societal and environmental importance of geological resources has to be fully considered, as well as their relevance to national heritage conservation, tourism development, etc.
Dmitry A. Ruban, Günter Tiess, Emad S. Sallam, Alena A. Ponedelnik, Natalia N. Yashalova   +4 more
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Functional models from limited data: A parametric and multimodal approach to anatomy and 3D kinematics of feeding in basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Basking sharks, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, Brugden [Squalus maximus], Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter, 1765, vol. 3, pp. 33–49), feed by gaping their mouths and gill slits, greatly reorienting their cranial skeletons to filter food from water.
Tairan Li, Mike Schindler, Martha Paskin, Venkata A. Surapaneni, Elliott Scott, Sabine Hauert, Nicholas Payne, David E. Cade, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Frederik H. Mollen, Daniel Baum, Sean Hanna, Mason N. Dean   +12 more
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To What Extent Are the Type Localities of Minerals Part of Geological Heritage? A Global Review and the Case of Spain as an Example

Heritage
Currently, approximately 6000 mineral species have been identified, and every year, approximately 100 more are discovered. The discovery of a new mineral has a close relationship with geological heritage.
Ramón Jiménez-Martínez, Luis Carcavilla, Jerónimo López-Martínez, Juan Manuel Monasterio, Hugo Hermosilla   +4 more
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mechanism of protection of proposed Geopark West of Khorasan Razavi by brilha method [PDF]

نشریه جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی, 2018
Geotourism, encourages tourism into geosite and conservation of geodiversity and an understanding of earth sciences. One way to effectively protection and conservation geodiversity is that valuable parts such as geoheritage (geological and ...
Mohammad Ali Zanganeh Asadi, Abolghasem Amirahmadi, ali akbar shayan yeganeh   +2 more
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Integrating mandibular evidence to assess morphological variation of the Australopithecus afarensis maxilla

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Geometric morphometric analyses are used to explore variation of maxillary dental arcades of Australopithecus afarensis, expanding on the work of Hanegraef and Spoor, 2025 (Morphological variation of the Australopithecus afarensis maxilla.
Hester Hanegraef, Romain David, Fred Spoor   +2 more
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Identification of priority geosites for public use management: application to the geological heritage inventory of São Paulo state

Geologia USP. Série Científica, 2023
The characterization of the elements of geodiversity, through different inventory and quantitative evaluation methods, in the past decades, has allowed the identification of the most representative sites of the regional geological evolution of the state
Priscila Lopes de Abreu Santos, Maria da Glória Motta Garcia   +1 more
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Problems of preservation of architectural heritage of the historical center of Kiev in conditions of increasing ecological and technogenic risk

Геофизический журнал, 2011
The substantial part of the historical centre of Kiev with the architectural heritage is located in the zones of a geological risk, i.e. zones of the development of the dangerous natural and tech-nogenic processes.
V. I. Starostenko, A. E. Antonyuk, M. G. Demchishin, A. P. Dyshlyk, A.V. Kendzera, P. I. Krivosheev, S. P. Levashov, V. I. Lyalko, Yu. A. Maslov, I. V. Matveev, A. G. Mychak, V. D. Omelchenko, N. I. Orlenko, V. F. Rybin, Yu. S. Slyusarenko, N. Kh. Sokovnina, M. M. Teremenko   +16 more
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An osteohistological analysis of Triceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) cranial ornamentation

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Ceratopsids are among the most distinctive and well known extinct Cretaceous vertebrates, yet many details regarding the growth and composition of their cranial features are still not fully anatomically described or understood. In particular, striking cranial adornments such as the postorbital horns and parietal‐squamosal frill of Triceratops ...
Kyle D. Obuszewski, N. Adam Smith, Guinevere Rose Brown   +2 more
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