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The Geomorphodiversity of Cerro Colorado (Córdoba, Argentina): A Key Factor in Geo-Cultural Heritage Assessment
The Cerro Colorado Natural and Cultural Reserve, Córdoba, Argentina, is well known for its impressive rock paintings on sandstone...
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A Comprehensive Assessment of Geomorphodiversity and Geomorphological Heritage for Damavand Volcano Management, Iran
A comprehensive understanding of geomorphodiversity and geomorphological heritage is crucial for their use, conservation, and management. Therefore,...
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Geodiversity Assessment of French Guiana: Challenges and Implications for Sustainable Land Planning
As operational concept, geodiversity implies a measurement and its application narrowed to a given spatial area, allowing the identification of...
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Geomorphological Heritage Assessment and Potential Geotourism Prospects: a Case Study from Chambal River
The Chambal River is one of the spectacular rivers in India due to its geomorphological variability. The important proposed landforms for...
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Quantitative Evaluation and Spatial Clustering of Geodiversity in Iran
Geodiversity assessment provides a reliable basis for land planning and management at national and regional levels. The present study was conducted...
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Evaluation of Geotouristic Station Suitability Using GIS-Based Multi-criteria Decision Analysis: a Case Study of the M’Goun UNESCO Geopark, High Atlas (Morocco)
This study is part of a reflection process that aims to define and evaluate the most suitable places for the establishment of geotourism stations in...
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Quantitative assessment of the geodiversity of M’Goun UNESCO Geopark, Central High Atlas (Morocco)
Geodiversity is an essential parameter in the creation and development of a region’s geotourism activities. In order to quantify abiotic elements, it...
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Aerial Geotourism: New Branch of Geotourism for Promoting Geoconservation (Examples from Iran)
Aerial geotourism is a result of the combination of earth science, tourism, and aviation together, that is the tourism use of geodiversity,...
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From Geodiversity to Geofunctionality: Quantifying Geodiversity-Based Ecosystem Services for Landscape Planning in French Guiana
Geodiversity assessment gained a prominent interest in the geoscientific community and beyond. However, it is not always sufficient for land planning...
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How Can a Complex Geosite Be Enhanced? A Landscape-Scale Approach to the Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation of Pointe Leysser (Aosta Valley, NW Italy)
Complex geosites represent important georesources as components of the geoheritage of a region. Regardless, their management in terms of promotion...
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The Museum of the Osservatorio Vesuviano: inviting the public to explore the geoheritage of the world’s first volcano observatory
The Osservatorio Vesuviano (OV) is the oldest volcano observatory in the world having been founded in 1841 by the King of the Two Sicilies Ferdinand...
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The Po Plain Loess Basin (Northern Italy): Scientific Values, Threats, and Promotion Opportunities
Geoheritage studies periodically propose assessment methodologies addressed to quantify the value of sites of interests towards geoconservation...
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Geological and Geomorphological Conditions Supporting the Diversity of Rock Landforms in the Pohořská Mountains (South Bohemia, Czech Republic)
The Pohořská Mountains, a geomorphological subunit of the Novohradské Mountains in the southern part of the Bohemian Massif, represent a unique...
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Karst Heritage as a Tourist Attraction: a Case Study in the White Desert National Park, Western Desert, Egypt
Geotourism is a form of maintainable tourism that emphasizes the geoheritage characteristics of a district. Karst landforms are one of the most...
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Promotion of the Geological Heritage of Araripe Unesco Global Geopark, Brazil: the Casa da Pedra Reference Center
The valuing of geological heritage is a crucial task in geoconservation, and particularly relevant in geoparks’ activities. In geoparks displaying a...
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Morphometric measurements of bedrock rivers at different spatial scales and applications to geomorphological heritage research
Morphometric characterisation is particularly relevant in the study of geomorphological heritage. 3D modelling techniques have been proven as very...
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Assessment of Urban Geomorphological Heritage for Urban Geotourism Development in Khorramabad City, Iran
Inventory and assessment of urban geomorphological heritage as a fundamental necessity and prerequisite for urban geotourism development are the main...
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Araripe Basin: A Major Geodiversity Hotspot in Brazil
In addition to a Fossil-Lagerstätte of international significance for the Lower Cretaceous, the Araripe basin is one of the richest and most...
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The Proposed Geosite of Volano Landslide and a Geomorphological Itinerary Within the Valdelsa Basin (Montespertoli, Tuscany, Italy)
The town of Montespertoli (Florence, Italy) is located in the Valdelsa basin, on a NW-SE-oriented ridge, which reaches the maximum altitude of...
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Spatial correlation analysis between topographic parameters for defining the geomorphometric diversity index: application in the environmental protection area of the Serra da Esperança (state of Paraná, Brazil)
The present work, by focusing on geomorphological modeling within the context of geodiversity, addresses the definition of a diversity index based on...
