Geology Reference
In-Depth Information
Résumé
Pour promouvoir les disciplines du g
é
opatrimoine et de g
é
oconservation, un toolkit a
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t
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d
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velopp
é
en Australie occidentale pour compiler un inventaire syst
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matique des caract
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ris-
tiques g
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omorphologiques
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chelles d
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nir si ces caract
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ristiques g
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é
s
isol
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ment ou comme suites inter-li
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s. Ceci dans le but de d
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velopper une base de donn
é
es des
sites d
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importance g
é
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é
terminer leur niveau de g
é
oconservation. Trois
zones, King Sound et le delta la rivi
è
re Fitzroy, la p
é
ninsule de Leschenault, et l
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estuaire de
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Walpole-Nornalup Inlet ont
t
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omorphologiques
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rentes caract
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valeur g
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Keywords
Geoheritage
Geoconservation
Geoheritage Tool-kit
Western Australia
King sound
Leschenault peninsula
Walpole-Nornalup inlet
Mots-clés
G
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opatrimoine
G
é
oconservation
Tool kit
Western australia
King sound
P
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ninsule
leschenault
Walpole
—
nornalup inlet
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Introduction
their signi
cance. Where the geology forms an integrated
system ranging from small- to large-scale features, an area
lends itself to being conserved as an ensemble and consid-
ered as a geopark.
This paper provides case studies of the use of the Tool-kit
in three areas, viz., King Sound and the tide-dominated delta
of the Fitzroy River, the Leschenault Peninsula and its lee-
ward estuarine lagoon, and the Walpole-Nornalup Inlet
estuary. This tool-kit aims to address the classi
To further the disciplines of geoheritage and geoconserva-
tion, we provide a description of the
“
state of the art
”
of
geoheritage and geoconservation in Western Australia using
a Geoheritage Tool-kit which provides techniques for iden-
ti
-
cance. In a given area, geoheritage features can range from
large scale to
cation of features, and assigns to them a level of signi
ne scale, from international to local in sig-
cation and
assessment challenges for land managers and geoheritage
practitioners.
In the context of the First International Conference on
African and Arabian Geoparks held in November 2011 in El
Jadida, Morocco, we suggest that the Geoheritage Tool-kit
developed in Western Australia and applied to a wide variety
ni
cance, can encompass a wide range of geological/geo-
morphological features, and can occur in isolation, or as an
inter-related suite that should be conserved as an ensemble.
This Geoheritage Tool-kit has been designed to build an
inventory of geological/geomorphological features, to rec-
ognise the scales at which they are expressed, and to assess
