Browsing by Subject "geoconservation"

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Exploring the potential of geotourism along the trek route of the Pokhara Ghandruk section of Gandaki Province, Nepal
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2024) Pandey, Sanjeeb; Paudyal, Kabi Raj
Geoconservation enhances tourist knowledge of a site’s geology, going beyond surface appreciation. Geotourism emphasizes geology and landscape, contributing to geodiversity conservation through various activities. While the Pokhara Ghandruk area in Gandaki Province is renowned for tourism, it remains unexplored from a geotourism perspective. The study focuses on identifying key geoconservation and geotourism sites for national economic development by systematic geological survey with map preparation highlighting distinctive geological, geomorphic, cultural, heritage and site-seeing features of each site. The region boasts several significant sites, such as Pokhara Valley known for its caves, lakes, and the Seti River gorge. Pokhara canyoning provides thrilling water geoadventures on quartzite cliffs. Naudanda offers breathtaking views of Pokhara Valley and the Annapurna range. Poon Hill and Khumai Danda serve as stunning vantage points for observing snow-capped mountains. The Mardi and Annapurna trek routes, along with Ghandruk Landruk Lwang Dhampus, offers geologically significant sites, including unique rock outcrops due to its passage through the Mahabharat Thrust and the Main Central Thrust (MCT) and exhibit potentiality for rock climbing centers, hot springs, and geocultural parks capitalizing on Gurung hospitality and rich traditions to boost tourism and preserve geoheritage. The study recommends the establishment of geotrails and a geopark within this region.
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Możliwości ochrony prawnej stanowisk geologicznych w paśmie Magurki Wilkowickiej w Beskidzie Małym
(Data obrony: 2016-09-28) Pudełko, Kaja
Wydział Geologii, Geofizyki i Ochrony Środowiska
Obszar Beskidu Małego zbudowany jest z utworów fliszowych należących do płaszczowiny śląskiej. Jego zachodnia część, nazywana pasmem Magurki Wilkowickiej, bogata jest w różnorodne stanowiska geologiczne. Można tu znaleźć liczne nieczynne kamieniołomy, oryginalne formy skałkowe oraz jaskinie pseudokrasowe. Są to obiekty niezwykle cenne, ukazujące rozwój geologiczny tego regionu. Ich aktualna ochrona prawna nie jest zwykle adekwatna do przedstawianych przez nie wartości naukowych i dydaktycznych, a także kulturowych oraz krajobrazowych. W niniejszej pracy zostały omówione znaczenie i stan zachowania oraz zagrożenia najciekawszych geostanowisk pasma Magurki Wilkowickiej. Przeanalizowano możliwości prawnego zabezpieczenia tych obiektów, a w rezultacie zaproponowano najbardziej odpowiednie dla nich ustawowe formy ochrony przyrody.
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Residual rocky forms in the landscape of the Outer Carpathians (Silesian Beskid Mts, Poland) – geotourist and sedimentological case study
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2021) Strzeboński, Piotr Andrzej
This study investigated residual landforms developed within of the flysch bedrock in the Outer Western Carpathians as sandstone-to-conglomeratic tors. The studied relic rocky forms are locally exposed on the valley slopes in the top and plateau parts of the Silesian Beskid Mts. The cognitive values of such relic landforms, especially in the context of their morphogenetic traits and shaping of their macro- and microrelief, are well known and described. In contrast to epigenetic processes, the sedimentological aspect of the origin of such siliciclastic rocky deposits is still subject to different approaches in terms of terminology and interpretation. Thus, the aim of this study is to describe the conditions of environmental settings and character of the sediment transport and deposition processes from gravity flows, and to present a depositional system model for such a variety of flysch deposits. This study also attempts to present geotourist and geoeducational attractiveness of the tors against the background of regional geodiversity, geoheritage, and geoprotection. The results yielded a synthetic morpho-litho-sedimentological and geotouristic specification of the rocky forms analysed. The residual rocky landforms are polygenic geomorphological elements developed as a consequence of multistage and different scale of morph-forming activity operating on the basis of litho-sedimentological and tectonic assumptions under the influence of denudation processes.