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Landslides, a Key Landform in the Global Geological Heritage

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Conservation of Geomorpological Heritage in the Homolje Area (Eastern SERBIA) - Current State and Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yesGeoconservation Research, 2020
Homolje is one of the most developed geomorphological areas in Eastern Serbia. Shallow karsts prevail across this region with cover vegetation and soil, with developed surfaces, and underground karst landforms.
Đurđa Miljković   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Unique Granite Gorge in Mountainous Adygeya, Russia: Evidence of Big and Complex Geosite Disproportions

open access: yesGeosciences, 2019
Geological heritage sites (geosites) are subject to conservation and exploitation for science, education, and tourism. Some geosites are big and comprise diverse phenomena.
Anna V. Mikhailenko   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Geological Itinerary Through the Southern Apennine Thrust-Belt (Basilicata—Southern Italy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Open access via Springer Compact AgreementPeer reviewedPublisher ...
A Balduzzi   +70 more
core   +1 more source

Tectonics-Related Geosites: Towards Accurate Nomenclature [PDF]

open access: yesGeosciences, 2019
Accurate nomenclature of geological heritage sites (geosites) is necessary to facilitate their description and territorial geodiversity evaluation (both important for sustainable development and efficient land-use planning). As suggested by previous geological heritage studies, tectonics-related geosites are termed differently and, chiefly ...
Dmitry A. Ruban   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Archaeological Distribution of Geoheritage for Geotourism Development in Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand

open access: yesQuaestiones Geographicae, 2020
Nakhon Sawan Province is located in Upper Central Thailand, where the Chao Phraya River, the vital river of Thailand, begins. According to the distribution of the archaeological sites, the related geological features were divided into two groups by ...
Singtuen Vimoltip, Phajuy Burapha
doaj   +1 more source

PROMOTION OF GEOTOURISM AND GEOHERITAGE AT THE OASES OF OUED NOUN [PDF]

open access: yesGeo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2020
The objective of this study is to restore the value of Oued Noun Oases that has been less estimated for several centuries, without destroying the collective memory.
Saїd MIRARI, Abdelouahed BENMLIH
doaj   +1 more source

The Majella National Park: An Aspiring UNESCO Geopark

open access: yesGeosciences, 2018
Majella National Park is located in the central Apennines (Italy), in a vast mountainous area of about 740 km2. Owing to the complex geological history of the Majella Massif and surrounding areas, it features many different landforms.
Elena Liberatoscioli   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geoconservation as an emerging geoscience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The main purpose of geoconservation is theconservation of geosites as basic units of the geological heritage through the implementation of specific inventory,evaluation, conservation, valuation and monitoring proce-dures.
Brilha, J. B.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Static recrystallization of shocked calcite in Ries impact breccias

open access: yesMeteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Calcite is prone to chemical and microstructural modifications, especially after having been strained at high stresses and strain rates, as during hypervelocity impact events. These modifications include precipitation from pore fluid as well as replacement of strained volumes by recrystallization. In calcite aggregates of a metagranite breccia
Claudia A. Trepmann   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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