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Mining Landforms: An Integrated Approach for Assessing the Geotourism and Geoeducational Potential Cover

Mining Landforms: An Integrated Approach for Assessing the Geotourism and Geoeducational Potential

Open Access
|Aug 2018

Abstract

Anthropogenic landforms (especially the mining landforms – quarries, pits, mines) have undoubtedly a great potential for the geotourism development. In addition, they are important from the geoconservation and geoeducation point of view as they allow to see the Earth-science features that would normally remain hidden (e.g., stratigraphic boundaries or soil profiles). However, the potential of these landforms in some case is not fully recognized and the sites themselves can even be endangered. The article presents guidelines for inventorying and assessment method for geotourism and geoeducational purposes of these specific landforms (respectively, the mining geosites and geomorphosites which are going to be used for geotourism and geoeducation) and gives an example from the area in which geotourism has not been fully developed yet (Červený kopec/Red Hill in Brno, Czech Republic).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cjot-2017-0007 | Journal eISSN: 1805-9767 | Journal ISSN: 1805-3580
Language: English
Page range: 131 - 154
Published on: Aug 29, 2018
Published by: Masaryk University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2018 Lucie Kubalíková, published by Masaryk University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.