One of the first significant descriptions of geological dynamics of the landscape has been given at the beginning of the fourteenth century by Dante Alighieri in his “The Divine Comedy.” The verse “What’s that disaster damaged Adice beyond Trento” is a clear description of a landslide that occurred centuries before. More than one century later, the verse “The awareness of time and Earth’s site are food and ornament of human minds,” in Leonardo da Vinci’s “Atlantic Codex,” anticipated the modern concept of geosite (Wimbledon 1996, 1998; Poli 1999). Between the first Leonardo’s intuition and subsequent statements of our contemporaries, many centuries have passed and the approaches of naturalists and intellectuals and then professional researchers to study the territory have thoroughly changed. Despite the Herculaneum excavations that started in 1738, only with the exhumation of Pompeii, 10 years later, there was a radical change in the scientific approach. These excavations were...
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Bruno, D.E. (2014). Geosite, Concept of. 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_6-1
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