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Fig. 10
Granite landform in
Taimushan geopark
Fig. 11
Maar lake in
Huguangyan geopark
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cance and of geoparks in China are related to the geologic
background and morphological characteristics. To date, there
have been few different geoheritage classi
The type and distribution of the sites of geoheritage signi
Global GeoparksNetwork (
2010
)givesaclassi
cation scheme,
with emphasis on the geological relics involved with related
geoscience disciplines such as: solid earth sciences, economic
geology and mining relics, engineering geology, geomorphol-
ogy, glacial geology, hydrogeology, mineralogy, palaeontolo-
gy, petrography, sedimentology, soil science, stratigraphy,
cation schemes
developed (Chen et al.
1991
; Ministry of Geology and Minerals
1995
;Lietal.
2002
; Zhao and Zhao
2009
). The Guidelines of
