Regional geological heritage is of special importance for geoconservation, because it stresses the importance of peculiar geological features limited to a given territory. It should be noted that the entity of these features is more valuable than the simple sum of values of each of them: the combination of these features itself is a peculiar territorial characteristics. Evidently, the regional geological heritage includes the both in situ objects (geosites) and ex situ objects (specimens from museum collections). However, as the latter may be removed from the given area (e.g., stored in museum collections in the other region or even country), the presence of ex situ objects on the same territory where they were collected should always be considered. Moreover, the idea of regional geological heritage is closely related to the concept of geodiversity (Gray 2004, 2008; Serrano and Ruiz-Flaño 2009; Ruban 2010; Pereira et al. 2013). In the majority of cases, the width of the spectrum of...
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Gutak, J.M. (2014). Regional Geological Heritage. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_10-1
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