IUGS Geological Heritage Sites
WHS represented on the list of IUGS Geological Heritage Sites.
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Andrefana Dry Forests | Tsingy of Bemaraha | |
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks | Burgess Shale Cambrian Palaeontological Record | |
Chaîne des Puys | The Holocene Puy-de-Dôme and Petit-Puy-de-Dôme volcanoes | |
Chengjiang Fossil Site | Cambrian Chengjiang Fossil Site and Lagerstätte | |
Dinosaur Provincial Park | Dinosaur Provincial Park | |
Giant's Causeway | The Paleocene volcanic rocks of the Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast | |
Grand Canyon | The Great Unconformity at Grand Canyon | |
Grand Canyon | The Grand Canyon | |
Gros Morne National Park | Mohorovičić discontinuity at Gros Morne National Park | |
Göreme NP | The Miocene Cappadocian Ignimbrites sequence | |
Heritage of Mercury | The giant mercury deposit of the Almadén syncline | |
Hierapolis-Pamukkale | Pamukkale Travertines | |
Iguacu | Iguazú / Iguaçu waterfalls | |
Iguazu National Park | Iguazú / Iguaçu waterfalls | |
Joggins Fossil Cliffs | “Coal Age” Joggins Fossil Cliffs | |
Kilimanjaro National Park | The Pleistocene Kilimanjaro Volcano | |
Kinabalu Park | Mount Kinabalu Neogene Granite | |
Los Glaciares | Perito Moreno Glacier | |
Lut Desert | Yardang (Kalut) in the Lut Desert | |
Messel Pit | Eocene paleontological record of Messel Pit Fossil site | |
Mistaken Point | Ediacaran fossil site of Mistaken Point | |
Namib Sand Sea | Namib Sand Sea | |
Ngorongoro | Palaeoanthropological sites of Human Evolution of Laetoli – Olduvai Gorge | |
Okavango Delta | The Okavango Delta | |
Rio de Janeiro | The Sugar Loaf monolith of Rio de Janeiro | |
Sagarmatha National Park | The Ordovician rocks of Mount Everest | |
Skocjan Caves | Škocjan Caves in the Classical Karst | |
South China Karst | Shilin Karst | |
Uluru | Uluru inselberg | |
Victoria Falls | Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls | |
Yellowstone | The Yellowstone volcanic and hydrothermal system |
Suggestions?
Do you know of another WHS we could connect to IUGS Geological Heritage Sites?
A connection should:
- Not be "self evident"
- Link at least 3 different sites
- Not duplicate or merely subdivide the "Category" assignment already identified on this site.
- Add some knowledge or insight (whether significant or trivial!) about WHS for the users of this site
- Be explained, with reference to a source