The factors that affect the formation of the landscape by geological and geographical factors can be summarised as: 1. material – rocks, soil, water and air are the basic components of any landscape; 2. dynamics – crustal movements, volcanic activity, earthquakes, metamorphism and other endogenic or internal forces and erosion, transportation, deposition and other exogenic or external geological forces; 3. geological structure –the background of the landscape as well as the rock strata and characteristics (e.g., horizontal, inclined or folded); 4. geography –the location, latitude, elevation, climate, temperature, humidity, rain, wind, sunshine and vegetation; and 5. time – the time of the formation of the rocks that form the landscape. Tourism earth science can be complicated because it is an integration of numerous geological and geographical factors.
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(2020). Landscapes for Geotourism. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_1352
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