Abstract
Marine geoheritage comprises unique geological features of modern and ancient seas and oceans. The Russian Altai (southern Siberia) is a vast and geologically rich area, which was covered by a marginal sea of the Panthalassa Ocean in the Devonian. New geosites representing shallow- and deep-marine depositional environments and palaeoecosystems of submarine volcano slopes are proposed, namely, Melnichnye Sopki and Zavodskie Sopki. They are located near the town of Zmeinogorsk (Altai Region of the Russian Federation). These pieces of marine geoheritage are valuable on an international scale. Special geoconservation procedures are recommended to manage the proposed geosites efficiently. They can be included in a geopark, which is reasonable to create due to the concentration of geological and mining heritage in the study area.
Highlights
Geoheritage research, which includes geoconservation and geotourism studies, has become an important direction of geological investigation since the beginning of the 21st century [1,2,3,4,5]
The Melnichnye Sopki geosite is located at the northwestern edge of the town of Zmeinogorsk where the Lower Devonian deposits crop out in slopes of small hills on the right bank of the River Korbolikha (Figure 1)
By rock debris and vegetation; there is though volcanic geoheritage has been reported from places of the world significant risk for fossil overcollection or damage of many exposed ammonoid shells.[28,29,30], the relevant are Sopki often linked
Summary
Geoheritage research, which includes geoconservation and geotourism studies, has become an important direction of geological investigation since the beginning of the 21st century [1,2,3,4,5]. Geoheritage is the entity of unique geological features and the localities representing the latter are geosites. Geoheritage research is strongly tied to marine studies. A lot of factual information about unique geological features and localities has already been accumulated, but the geoheritage knowledge remains incomplete and biased, especially because some big and geologically rich territories have not been inventoried. Despite its actual position in the “core” of the Eurasian continent, its geological record excellently represents the development of marine environments and biota of a significant part of the Paleozoic
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