Artykuły (CN-geotour)

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Artykuły czasopisma Geotourism/Geoturystyka

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Ordovician spatial patterns of climate change inferred from isotope thermometers
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Ma, Xiao-Li; Fan, Yunxuan
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The earliest Cretaceous carbonate platform destroyed by volcanism from the Ukrainian/Romanian Carpathians - reconstruction based on microfacies
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Iwańczuk, Joanna; Krobicki, Michał; Feldman-Olszewska, Anna; Hnyłko, Oleh
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Geological history of the NW Indian Plate Tethyan passive margin in the Salt Range, Pakistan
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Iqbal, Shahid
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Geotourism during excursions in the northeastern part of The Gorce National Park
(2011) Tyrkiel-Barmuta, Maria
The Gorce Mountains National Park is located on the southern part of the Małopolska Province in Poland. Despite the lack of spectacular geological attractions it is a very good site to promote Earth Sciences knowledge and especially to educate in geology. The example of the on-day excursion going along the touristic trails within The Gorce Mountains National Park is being described in the presented paper. The author described great diversity of the geological and geomorphological elements, presenting educational values.
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A geotouristic valuation of the Marsyangdi Valley in the Annapurna Himal region and its potential for the development of geotourist attractions
(2015) Łach, Janusz Stanisław
The Marsyangdi Valley in the Annapurna Himal region is one of the most popular tourist-trekking attractions in Nepal. The performed evaluation of geotourist (geomorphological and hydrographic) objects and phenomena demonstrated a wide range of forms and, correspondingly, a huge potential for the development of geotourist attractions. The structure of The Marsyangdi Valley, which is a representative of a valley region of the High Himalaya, situated on metamorphic rocks, shows the co-existence of three major geomorphic processes: glacial, fluvial and slope, which determine specific landscape forms. Since the late 20th century, the landscape has been heavily affected by anthropogenic factors (grazing, land cultivation, settlement), reaching as far as 3500 meters above sea level, as well as by the dynamic growth and development of tourism. Expanding tourist infrastructure contributes to, inter alia, the degradation of the narrow valley bottom (tourist accommodation) and to increased mass movement on tourist trails. Despite its negative effects, tourism also exerts a positive influence on the preservation of the cultural heritage (sacred sites), which largely dominate the landscape and are a significant tourist attraction. The research was instrumental in defining the Marsyangdi Valley, characteristic of a geomorphological trail, as an excellent and qualified attraction in geotourist-exploratory tourism.
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The Ngorongoro Crater as the biggest geotouristic attraction of the Gregory Rift (Northern Tanzania, Africa) - geological heritage
(2011) Żaba, Jerzy; Gaidzik, Krzysztof
The Ngorongoro Crater is the largest unflooded and not destroyed collapse volcanic caldera of the shield volcano on Earth. It attracts many visitors each year not only because of the undoubted wealth of the wildlife and breathtaking views, but also due to the geotouristic attractiveness of this definite location. The Crater is in fact a specific example of geological processes, relevant to the development of planet Earth. In a relatively small area one can observe rocks of different types and ages: Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks, volcanic rocks formed in the Pliocene, Pleistocene, and even nowadays, as well as sedimentary rocks, up to those currently forming within the caldera floor. The origin and development of the Ngorongoro volcano, and lately caldera, is closely related to the activity ofrifting processes occurring along the Gregory Rift, belonging to the East African Rift System. It represents one of the three arms of the Afar triple junction associated with the located here hotspot. Due to the geotouristic attractiveness, as well as a richness of living nature and archaeological sites with discoveries of our ancestors, which illustrate an important stage in the history of mankind, the area of the Ngorongoro Crater was designated a UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage Site.
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The Starunia collections in the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2009) Kubiak, Henryk
In the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków there is a collection of remains connected with the discovery of the famous Pleistocene rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blum.), the so-called »second rhinoceros« of Starunia which has been World’s only nearly completely preserved fossil woolly rhinoceros so far. The carcass of that rhino was found in October 1929, i.e. 80 years ago in a shaft of an ozokerite mine near the village Starunia (the Eastern Carpathian Mts.) together with parts of skeletons of two other (»third« and »fourth«) woolly rhinoceroses. Those finds were the results of an Expedition of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Beside the rhinoceroses abundant remains of flora and fauna, especially insects, were encountered in this locality.
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Nieczynny kamieniołom bazaltu w Strzegomiu - szansa na nowe otwarcie
(2010) Tokarczyk-Dorociak, Katarzyna; Skolak, Krzysztof; Lorenc, Marek Wojciech
The paper presents the history, current state and possible future protection, and development of the open-cast mining heritage. An example is the abandoned basalt quarry in Strzegom known under official name »The Żółkiewka Quarry« although local community uses rather the term »basalt quarry«. The rock is an Early Miocene alkaline basalt of K-Ar isotopic age 19.84 - 0,93 Ma. Mining operations had lasted from the XlXth century until 1986. The plans are currently prepared to adapt the quarry for local community and for tourism by development of geological thematic trail and construction of educational infrastructure.
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Atrakcje geoturystyczne grupy wulkanów Kluczewskiej Sopki, północna Kamczatka, Rosja
(2010) Łodziński, Marek
The paper describes the geotouristic valours of the Klyuchevskaya group of volcanoes in the Northern Kamchatka. The relationships are presented between the Kamchatka and the recent boundaries of crustal plates, then the genesis and the structure are explained of the Koryak-Kamchatka volcanic belt. The geotectonic position of Kamchatka as a part of the »Circumpacific Ring of Fire« enables us to recognize the manifestations of the recent volcanism (shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, lava domes, calderas, ignimbrites, lahars, gas and vapour exhalations, native sulphur encrustations). Apart from volcanic activity, the exceptional tourist value of the Northern Kamchatka is the high- mountain relief shaped by glaciers, weathering and river erosion.
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Geotouristic aspects of the Geopark Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Andalusia, Spain)
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2019) Lorenc, Marek W.; Janusz, Małgorzata
The Cabo de Gata-Níjar Geopark is one of the most remarkable examples of the geological heritage in Spain, and it comprises the largest volcanic massif in Andalusia. It is built of andesites and dacites with such typical volcanic forms like lava flows, volcanic calderas, volcanic domes and columnar joints. The ancient beaches and reefs demonstrate the presence of climate change as well as of a subtropical sea. The tourism in this region is mainly focused on its beaches and some remains of the cultural heritage, like salt works or the Rodalquilar gold mine. This study pretends to analyze the reasons and consequences of this matter. Highlighting the good state of preservation of this area and the possibility of enjoyment of its beauty, more attention should be paid to the popularization of the local geological aspects, which would significantly increase the awareness and interest among the tourists.
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Formy polodowcowe atrakcją geoturystyczną Doliny Pięciu Stawów Polskich
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2008) Mrowczyk, Paulina; Madeja, Grzegorz; Doktor, Marek
Thirteen thousand years ago, at the end of the Würm glacial epoch deglaciation has started in the Five Ponds Valley of the Polish Tatras due to global warming episode. After retreat of glaciers numerous post-glacial, erosional and depositional landforms have been exposed: cirques, bowls and troughs, fossiled rock glaciers, roches mountonées and polished surfaces as well as moraines and proglacial channel. The aim of the following paper is to describe post-glacial forms in the valley as attractive geotouristic objects.
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Geodynamics of Sibumasu Block in Southern Thailand: Interpretation from Heat Flow Map
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Kongpet, Panupong; Kanjanapayont, Pitsanupong
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St. Anne's collegiate in Kraków as a geotouristic site
(2012) Florczyk, Monika; Smoleńska, Anna
The authors aim at drawing the attention oof tourist not only to the history and architecture of St. Anne's collegiate church in Kraków, one of the most beautiful Baroque structures in Poland. The particular aspect they focus on reefers to the decorative valour of the stones, which in large numbers and an attractive manner have been used inside and outside the church. As an addition to the description of the rock types and their varieties used, the places of quarrying the respective stones have been indicated for those interested in geology.
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Geotourist boards as a part of geotourism information system
(2011) Mrowczyk, Paulina; Madeja, Grzegorz; Doktor, Marek
The article addresses basic problems related to the use of various information boards, which are the principal form of providing information about a particular geosite. Several aspects were taken into account: positioning of the boards, their content and construction materials. The results of a poll concerning tourist expectations towards the content of geotourist information were also presented in this paper.
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Surface Karst Landforms of the Notranjska region (south-western Slovenia)
(2014) Gawor, Łukasz; Jonczy, Iwona
The distribution and characteristics of surface karst landforms in the Notranjska region, exemplified in the Cerknisica and Rak river catchment, is presented. The geomorphology of the examined area, with respect to on the micro-, meso- and macro-forms division, is described. The course and dynamics of morphogenetic and geological processes are analyzed. A geotourist route linking the described landforms of surface karst is proposed.
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Geological origin of the Permian bedded chert succession distributed in Central Plain of Thailand
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Kamata, Yoshihito; Phromsuwan, Waraphorn; Ueno, Katsumi; Charoentitirat, Thasinee; Sardsud, Apsorn
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Late Cretaceous palaeoenvironmental and tectonostratigraphic reconstructions on the Polish sector of Peri-Tethys
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Kwietniak, Anna; Łaba-Biel, Anna; Urbaniec, Andrzej; Filipowska-Jeziorek, Kinga
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Podziemne trasy turystyczne w Tarnowskich Górach (Górny Śląsk)
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2008) Dzięgiel, Maciej
The following paper presents the description of underground trails in the historical silver mine museum and the »Black Trout Adit« in Tarnowskie Góry. It is an essential example of geotourism in the Upper Silesia. The history of ore mining in Tarnowskie Góry area is briefly characterized and the mining equipment is presented in the galleries of historical mine and underground museum. The »Black Trout Adit« is especially interesting as the visitors travel along the historical water adit by boats.
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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.
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The development of the thermal tourism market in Poland
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2016) Dryglas, Diana; Hadzik, Andrzej
Thermal tourism in Poland has been gaining in popularity for over a decade now. This refers to both the supply and demand sides of the market. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to describe the current situation, as well as the prospects of formation and development of the thermal tourism market in Poland. To do that, a number of research methods had to be employed, including a critical analysis of literature on the subject, statistical data analysis, a case study (the example of Poland), methods of observation and inference by deduction within the scope of the research question asked. Based on the results of secondary research and an in-depth review of literature on the subject, one can conclude that Polish thermal tourism market is not growing steadily. On the one hand, there is considerable consumers' interest in using geothermal pools, while on the other the geothermal potential for medical and recreational purposes remains unexploited.