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Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 98-108, April/June 2024.Abstract This note suggests that decimal latitude/longitude [dLL] locations should be used to identify features of interest, landforms, sample and investigations sites, in an ‘information landscape’ provided by the geomorphological literature. All the information associated with a labelled, or tagged, geolocation should be available for examination as ...
W. Brian Whalley
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Gullies and badlands of India: Genesis, geomorphology and land management
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 82-107, January 2024.Studies on gully formation (red dots on map), badlands genesis (blue dots), gully and badlands mapping (aquamarine dots), their geomorphology (yellow dots), effects (green dots) and gully/badlands management (white dots) in India are discussed. While gully formation has largely been anthropogenically induced in India, her badlands have formed naturally
Anindya Majhi +3 more
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Geomorphosites and Geotourism in Bucharest City Center (Romania) [PDF]
Quaestiones Geographicae, 2017 AbstractThe present paper aims at inventorying the geomophosites in Bucharest as well as introducing geotouristic itineraries that take into account the long-time developed high value cultural heritage of the area. The process included several stages: studying Bucharest’s relief and cultural-historical elements with tourist value from existing ...
Comănescu, Laura +2 more
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Geomorphosite assesment in Qeshm Geopark (Iran) [PDF]
, 2018 One of the new fields in geosciences and tourism studies is tourism geomorphology or geomorphotourism, which is based on recognition of geomorphosites or specific sites of geomorphology.
Sadough, Seyyed Hassan +7 more
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Landslides, a Key Landform in the Global Geological Heritage
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Landslides are important components of global geoheritage, but awareness of their significance and value in such terms seems scanty in the scientific community.
Costanza Morino +2 more
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Geomorphosite assessment for geotourism purposes [PDF]
Czech Journal of Tourism, 2013 Abstract The article briefly examines the relationship between geodiversity, geoheritage (represented by geosites and geomorphosites) and geotourism. It is obvious that geosites and geomorphosites represent a fundamental resource for geotourism. As geosites are defined as sites that present particular importance for the comprehension of the Earth ...
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HeritageGeomorphosite inventory remains an urgent task for many geographical domains where it can facilitate the exploration of geoheritage resources. The present study reports a new and sufficient portion of information from Mountainous Adygeya in southwestern ...
Anna V. Mikhailenko +2 more
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Rock shelters in Slovenian Istria as a potential for the development of geotourism in the region
Geologija, 2014 Geotourism is a special form of tourism which focuses on visiting geological and geomorphological sites. In the article we discuss the basic terms regarding geotourism, geodiversity and geoconservation, and then present the main features of rock ...
Leni Ozis, Jernej Trpin, Andrej Šmuc
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Evaluation of Geotourism Capabilities of Salt Dome Landforms in Sustainable Development of Tourism (Case study: South of Semnan) [PDF]
مدیریت بیابان, 2018 Salt domes are one of the most interesting geomorphologic landforms that have great potential in attracting tourists and developing the geotourism industry.
Alireza Arabameri +2 more
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Souvenirs de quelques sites géomorphologiques significatifs et curieux
Physio-Géo, 2016 The first part of this work presents geomorphosites that are also historical and mythical hotspots. That’s the case of inselbergs of Sirigya and Dalbulla in Sri-Lanka and of a Yucatan karstic lake, the Chichén-Ytzá sacred cenote.
Jean Nicod
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