GSI are proud to have worked with the communities over the last several years to achieve this milestone.
The UNESCO recognition is based on the unique geology of international importance in the region and, as in other areas it will generate increased awareness of geosciences, the promotion and the protection of our geological heritage.
The geology of international importance within the geopark tells the unfolding story of the Earth’s creation over a period of 700 million years.
The opening and closing of an ocean, periods of great volcanoes and earthquakes, mountain building and erosion, the final shaping of the landscape by glaciers as they came and went, as well as the story of climate and life as it changed over those 700 million years, this is our geoheritage.
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