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Volcanic Geoheritage of Other Harrats of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Geoheritage of Volcanic Harrats in Saudi Arabia

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Abstract

Other than the intensive volcanological and geoheritage studies on Harrat Rahat (Moufti and Németh 2013; Moufti et al. 2013b; Murcia et al. 2014, 2015), only preliminary research has been done to document the volcanic geoheritage value of harrats in western Saudi Arabia.

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Moufti, M.R., Németh, K. (2016). Volcanic Geoheritage of Other Harrats of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In: Geoheritage of Volcanic Harrats in Saudi Arabia. Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33015-0_4

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