Geosites in the Gole della Breggia Geopark, Ticino, Southern Switzerland

IF 3.6 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Resources Pub Date : 2023-10-12 DOI:10.3390/resources12100122

Paolo Oppizzi, Federico Pasquaré Mariotto, Rudolf Stockar, Andrea Stella, Noemi Corti, Martina Pedicini, Sergio Andò, Giovanni Vezzoli, Fabio Luca Bonali

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This work is aimed at illustrating one of the most engaging geoparks in Europe, the Gole della Breggia Geopark. By following its geotrail, the visitors can observe a great deal of features that encompass a wide variety of sedimentary, stratigraphic, tectonic and paleogeographic processes. Its contents are popularized by a comprehensive geotrail that encompasses 23 geostops, enriched with explanatory panels, which enable viewers to gain an overall picture of the complex processes that led to the present-day configuration of the outcrops encountered in the geopark. We have selected five significative outcrops, which we have regarded as fully-fledged geosites, and which encompass the whole 170-million-year interval, from Early Jurassic to Late Miocene times, during which the rocks of the geopark were deposited and deformed. We have performed an assessment of the five geosites, using the most common criteria that can be applied for geosite evaluation. The results of the assessment show that the most valuable geosites are the Lombardian Maiolica, and the Limestone with Pelagic Bivalves. All five geosites, thanks to a QR code added to each figure along the text, can be viewed as virtual geosites (VGs), integrated by 360° videos.

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Geosites在Breggia Geopark, Ticino, south Switzerland的峡谷里

这项工作的目的是说明在欧洲最引人入胜的地质公园之一，布雷吉亚地质公园。沿着它的地质轨迹，游客可以观察到大量的特征，包括各种各样的沉积、地层、构造和古地理过程。它的内容是通过包括23个地质站点的综合地质步道来推广的，这些地质步道配有丰富的解释性面板，使观众能够全面了解地质公园中露头的复杂过程，这些过程导致了当今地质公园中遇到的露头结构。我们选择了五个有意义的露头，我们认为它们是完全成熟的地质遗址，它们涵盖了从早侏罗纪到晚中新世的整个1.7亿年的时间间隔，在此期间地质公园的岩石沉积和变形。我们采用最常用的评估标准，对五个土工场地进行评估。评价结果表明，最具价值的地质遗址为伦巴第马爵利卡岩和带远洋双壳类的石灰岩。这五个地理站点，由于文字中每个图形都添加了QR码，可以被视为虚拟地理站点(vg)，并集成了360°视频。

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Resources Environmental Science-Nature and Landscape Conservation

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7.20

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11 weeks

期刊介绍： Resources (ISSN 2079-9276) is an international, scholarly open access journal on the topic of natural resources. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications and short notes, and there is no restriction on the length of the papers. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical research in as much detail as possible. Full experimental and methodical details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. There are, in addition, unique features of this journal: manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas will be particularly welcomed, electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material. Subject Areas: natural resources, water resources, mineral resources, energy resources, land resources, plant and animal resources, genetic resources, ecology resources, resource management and policy, resources conservation and recycling.