The Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation of Animals within the Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark, Spain [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 Across the Ediacaran to Cambrian transition, some 541 Ma, the Earth's biosphere changed from one dominated by microbial organisms to one where multicellular organisms, including animals, rose to importance. Within a few tens of millions of years into the
Iván Cortijo +3 more
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Meeting Island Dwarfs and Giants of the Cretaceous – The Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark, Romania [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 We review here key geological heritage elements of the Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark (Southern Carpathians, western Romania) represented by latest Cretaceous continental vertebrate fossils and the sedimentary rocks enclosing them.
Zoltán Csiki-Sava +1 more
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The Nusplingen Plattenkalk – A Shark Lagoon in the Late Jurassic of the Swabian Alb Geopark [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 The Nusplingen Plattenkalk is a Solnhofen-type fossil Konservat-Lagerstaette in the southwestern part of the Swabian Alb, which is scientifically exploited by the Stuttgart Natural History Museum.
Guenter Schweigert, Siegfried Roth
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The Late Permian Kupferschiefer Fossils and the Geological Educational Trail in the UNESCO Global Geopark TERRA.vita (NW Germany) [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 The iconic Kupferschiefer is a stratigraphic marker horizon of the Upper Permian in Northern and Central Europe, which is recognized internationally as a unique stratum because of its outstanding preservation of fish, reptile, and plant fossils.
Tobias Fischer +2 more
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Journal of Islamic World and Politics, 2023 The Maros area has been initiated to be developed into a national geopark in 2015, then to maintain, protect, preserve and be recognized globally. The Maros area is proposed to become a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2021.
Dwi Putro, Tulus Warsito
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Hidden Fossils of The Hondsrug Complex Connect Time and Space [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 The Hondsrug UNESCO Global Geopark in the northeast of the Netherlands comprises the Hondsrug-complex, a prominent range of low till ridges created by forces of moving land ice and melt water.
Margaretha Roelfs, Harry Huisman
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Volcanic Monument of Western Anatolia: Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2023 The Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark includes evidence of geological history spanning 600 million years, from Palaeozoic metamorphic rocks to late prehistoric volcanic eruptions.
Ahmet Aytaç, Tuncer DERMİR
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Sustainability Management of Unesco Global Geoparks [PDF]
Sustainable Geoscience and Geotourism, 2018 UNESCO global geoparkUNESCO global geoparks dynamic initiative draws attention of both experts and public by its innovatively holistic approach to conservation, presentation and interpretation of the Earth heritage interrelating the geodiversity of the region with its biodiversity and cultural diversity. The objective of this contribution is to analyse
Martina Pásková, Josef Zelenka
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The Messinian (Late Miocene) coral reefs in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar UNESCO Global Geopark [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 Neogene sedimentary rocks cover extensive areas of the Cabo de Gata-Níjar UNESCO Global Geopark (Almería, SE Spain) although most of the outcropping rocks are Miocene volcanics. The post-volcanic sedimentary rocks include three successive Messinian coral
Juan Braga +3 more
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Patrimoine géologique et géomorphologique : base pour le géotourisme et la création d'un géoparc UNESCO dans le Dahar (Sud-est tunisien) [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2022 The presence of geoheritage of international value is the basis of any candidature as a UNESCO Global Geopark. Within the framework of the elaboration of a roadmap for the creation of a UNESCO Global Geopark in South-East Tunisia, a geological and ...
E. Reynard +5 more
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