PaleoParks - The protection and conservation of fossil sites worldwide [Paléo-Parcs - Sauvegarde et valorisation de sites fossilifères à travers le monde]

• Main Authors: Lipps Jere H., Granier Bruno
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Association Carnets de Geologie 2009
• Subjects: Baja California Sur; Black Mountains; conservation; Copper Canyon; corals; crinoids; Death Valley National Park; destruction; Devonian; dinosaurs; earth science conservation; Ediacaran; education; Falls of the Ohio State Park; forests; fossil group; fossil sites; fossils; France; geology; GeoPark; geopreservation; Guanling; heritage sites; Hungary; lacustrine; Late Triassic; marine reptiles; Mexico; museum; New Zealand; Pakistan; palaeontology; paleobotany; paleontological park; paleontological resources; paleontology; PaleoParks; paleo-piracy; parks; petrified wood; planning protection; Pliocene; policy; preservation; protection; Provence; Salt Range; selling fossils; stratigraphy; Baja; White Sea; Hayward; Arellano; Alejandro Álvarez; Arkhangelsk
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/b01ae1618537437b9279d5256627ce00

• Chapter 1. PaleoParks: Our paleontological heritage protected and conserved in the field worldwide, by Jere H. Lipps, p. 1-10, 20 figs. • Chapter 2. The Triassic Guanling fossil Group - A key GeoPark from Barren Mountain, Guizhou Province, China, by Xiaofeng Wang, Xiaohong Chen, Chuanshang Wang & Long Cheng, p. 11-28, 30 figs., 2 tables. • Chapter 3. The GeoPark of Haute-Provence, France - Geology and palaeontology protected for sustainable development, by Jean-Simon Pagès, p. 29-34, 11 figs. • Chapter 4. The protection and use of the geological and paleontological heritage in Baja California Sur, Mexico, by Javier Gaitán Morán & Alejandro Álvarez Arellano • Capítulo 4. El resguardo y aprovechamiento del patrimonio geológico y paleontológico en Baja California Sur, México, por Javier Gaitán Morán & Alejandro Álvarez Arellano, p. 35-48, 4 figs. • Chapter 5. Protecting fossil sites in New Zealand, by Bruce W. Hayward, p. 49-64, 10 figs., 6 tables. • Chapter 6. The Salt Range: Pakistan's unique field museum of geology and paleontology, by Shahid Jamil Sameeni, p. 65-73, 28 figs. • Chapter 7. Paleontological parks and museums and prominent fossil sites in Thailand and their importance in the conservation of fossils, by Nareerat Boonchai, Paul J. Grote & Pratueng Jintasakul, p. 75-95, 13 figs. • Chapter 8. Managing fossil resources at the Falls of the Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, USA: A fossil park in an urban setting, by Alan Goldstein, p. 97-101, 8 figs., 1 table. • Chapter 9. Paleo-piracy endangers Vendian (Ediacaran) fossils in the White Sea - Arkhangelsk region of Russia, by Mikhail A. Fedonkin, Andrey Yu. Ivantsov, Maxim V. Leonov, Jere H. Lipps, Ekaterina A. Serezhnikova, Eugeniy I. Malyutin & Yuriy V. Khan, p. 103-111, 12 figs. • Chapter 10. Copper Canyon track locality (Pliocene) conservation strategies, Death Valley National Park, USA, by Torrey Nyborg, p. 113-119, 4 figs. • Chapter 11. A possible Late Miocene fossil forest PaleoPark in Hungary, by Géza Császár, Miklós Kázmér, Boglárka ...