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Geosites and Climate Change—A Review and Conceptual Framework

Geosciences
Geosites are windows into the geological past, which may be recorded in rocks and their properties, the fossil content, and landform produced by processes no longer operating.
Piotr Migoń
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Existing and Proposed Urban Geosites Values Resulting from Geodiversity of Poznań City [PDF]

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2017
Poznań, a city in central-western Poland, is located in the lowland region but has no less attractive geomorphological and human history. It was here that Poland was born at the end of the tenth century. The city’s location is connected with the meridian
Zwoliński Zbigniew, Hildebrandt-Radke Iwona, Mazurek Małgorzata, Makohonienko Mirosław   +3 more
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New Early Cretaceous Geosites with Palaeogeographical Value from the Northwestern Caucasus

Heritage, 2022
Field investigations in the northwestern segment of the Greater Caucasus, a Late Cenozoic orogen, have permitted the establishment of two new geosites, namely the Ubin and Bezeps geosites.
Dmitry A. Ruban, Zoya A. Tolokonnikova
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Geoeducation, geotourism, and geoconservation of the Timaderouine Ediacaran-Ordovician geosites, western Tinghir (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)

International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks
The Ediacaran-Paleozoic rocks of the Timaderouine area are exposed in the Jbel Saghro domain, which belongs to the Eastern Anti-Atlas Mountain Belt in Southern Morocco.
Mohamed El Ouali, Said Adardor, Badre Essafraoui, Ismail Ait Lahssaine, Badre Messaoudi, François-Nicolas Krencker, Abdelhakim Kadiri, Hanane Khaffou, Radouan El Bamiki, Mostafa Benzaazoua, Lahcen Kabiri   +10 more
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Temporal outline of geological heritage sites in the Western Caucasus

International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks
Geological heritage sites (geosites) have various properties such as accessibility, geometry, and vulnerability, as well as age. It is reasonable to distinguish the geological ages related to the content of geosites (e.g., Early Ordovician or Valanginian)
Dmitry A. Ruban, Anna V. Mikhailenko, Vladimir A. Ermolaev   +2 more
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The Khadzhokh Canyon System—An Important Geosite of the Western Caucasus

Geosciences, 2020
True diversity of geological heritage sites (geosites) is yet to be fully understood. New field studies of the Khadzhokh Canyon and its vicinities in the Western Caucasus (Mountainous Adygeya tourist destination, southwestern Russia) have allowed ...
Anna V. Mikhailenko, Dmitry A. Ruban, Vladimir A. Ermolaev   +2 more
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Geoheritage and Geotourism Resources

Resources, 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
Nicoletta Santangelo, Ettore Valente
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Mauritanian geological resources: A lever for sustainable regional development via geotourism

International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2021
Mauritania contains geodiversity that helps to understand its formation and geodynamic evolution by the study and assessment of selected geosites. The aim of this paper is to identify geosites with scientific value and their potential use in promoting ...
A. Hamoud, H. El Hadi, A. Tahiri, S. Chakiri, S. Mehdioui, B. Baghdad, A. El Maidani, Z. Bejjaji, M. Aoufa   +8 more
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Dynamic accessibility of geosites: Evidence from long-term observations in the Belaya River valley (western Greater Caucasus)

International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks
Accessibility is an important property of geosites that is essential to their conservation and exploitation. Although many previous researchers took it into account, its full complexity is yet to be realized.
Anna V. Mikhailenko, Dmitry A. Ruban
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Quantitative assessment for geosites of the Ijen Geopark in Banyuwangi Regency, East Java, Indonesia

International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks
Ijen Geopark, also known as “Sunrise of Java,” is situated on the eastern tip of Java. Twelve geosites of the geopark are located in Banyuwangi Regency, while the left are situated in Bondowoso Regency. This paper aims to inventory and conduct a geosites
Sam Permanadewi, Hanang Samodra, Ronaldo Irzon, Arief Prabowo, Chusni Ansori   +4 more
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