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The geographical position, tectonic and geological-hydrogeological structure of the basin of the Malyy Liman and Abrau lakes, their landscape features as natural monuments of regional importance located on the territory of the Abrau peninsula of the Krasnodar Territory are described. Using the example of the aquatic landscapes of the Malyy Liman an...
Territorial inventories of geosites remain on the international agenda, and they can help in acquiring information for solving pure geological research tasks. New field investigations in the northern part of Mountainous Adygeya (geoheritage-rich territory in the western Greater Caucasus) permitted us to extend our knowledge of its geosites. Five ge...
The Don River Delta acts as a protective environmental barrier to the washout of pollutants from adjacent drainage areas. The priority pollutant is mercury, which comes as an industrial, agricultural and domestic wastewater`s part. The mercury concentrations levels in soils were determined by expeditionary and laboratory studies: the indicators ran...
Mercury is one of the priority pollutants entering the Rostov region`s water bodies from numerous natural and anthropogenic sources. Analysis of heavy metal extraction in the world indicates a reduction in its use in production. Based on expedition and laboratory studies, the mercury concentrations levels in soils and bottom sediments were determin...
Physico-geographical constituents of geological heritage attract significant research interest. However, despite the increasingattention of Russian and foreign science, many of them are yet to be adequately studied. The present research aims to analyze thelandscape peculiarities of geosites (the principal in-situ form of geological heritage) of Mou...
The article provides a brief description of the geological and tectonic structure and technogenic transformations in the drainage basin of two lakes of the Krasnodar Krai (Malyy Liman and Abrau). They belong to a single natural-technogenic system. On the example of these mountain lakes, the grain-size distribution, elemental (mercury) and isotopic...
An expedition was carried out to take soil samples of Eastern Donbass and other districts of the Rostov region. The main goal was to study the distribution of potentially toxic elements (PTE) in soils. The total content of mineral components in solid-phase samples was determined by using the X-ray fluorescence method. It was found that, according t...
Geological information present on web-pages determines the efficacy of the online marketing of geosites. In this paper, a new approach aimed at an easy and quick assessment of geosite-focused web-pages is proposed. It is based on scoring by several criteria reflecting the quality and the quantity of geological information. Attention is paid to the...
Pollution of the oceans and seas, as well as their coastal zones, with plastics has become serious challenge, which is also related to the Anthropocene marine geology and geochemistry. Notably, plastics can bear heavy metals. The related knowledge is scattered through scientific publications, and, thus, it needs generalization. The present study sy...
Geoheritage studies have different perspectives, among which treatment of geological features in relation to particular areas and settlements seems to be promising for better local planning and tourism organization. The small town of Guzeripl in the Western Caucasus (southwestern Russia) experiences tourism-triggered development. Five localities, w...
Socio-technological transformations are conjugated with ecological problematic. Particularly, an increase in lithium use (also for the purposes of ecologization) facilitates strengthening its importance as metal polluting environment. This work aims at conceptualization of the relevant problematic. Methodologically, it is based on systematization o...
The exploitation of geoheritage resources depends on their accessibility. The latter is usually established for geosites, whereas reaching the areas where geosites concentrate also deserves attention. Here, a novel, multi-criteria, score-based approach for assessing the large-scale accessibility of geoheritage-rich areas is proposed. The study take...
Geoparks can provide socio-economical benefits to local communities, but their relative importance to developed and developing countries is yet to be fully realized. The present study aims at analyzing the correspondence of the UNSECO Global Geopark network to countries with different level of human development. The information about the geographic...
Use of solar cells contributes to ecologization of the energy sector of economy, but also requires taking into account various influences on environment. Particularly, many of them utilize cadmium (as cadmium telluride), which triggers concerns of possible pollution by this toxic heavy metal. This article summarizes and systematizes a significant a...
Relief inversion is the result of an unusual interplay between landform evolution and peculiarities of geological settings. Recent fieldwork in Mountainous Adygeya in the western part of the Greater Caucasus mountains has enabled the identification of several inverted landforms. The Gud and Gudok mountains constitute a “classical” inverted landform...
Geoheritage is an important geological resource, which can provide with various socio-economical benefits. Although much attention has been paid to its potential use, the actual patterns of this resource exploitation are yet to be fully understood. Mountainous Adygeya, a geologically-rich area of the Western Caucasus, is used for testing semi-quant...
The diversity of urban heritage is determined by some national peculiarities of the development of cities and towns. In Russia, river beaches are common recreational elements of urban environments. Representative examples of such beaches from two cities, namely Rostov-on-Don and Cherepovets, are examined. This study utilizes both a qualitative appr...
Dozens of geoparks have been created in the world since the beginning of the 21st century. Their environmental impact is yet to be fully understood. A bibliographical survey was undertaken to systematically review the journal articles devoted to environmental pollution in geoparks. The considered literature focuses on 10 geoparks (many of them are...
Geoheritage is not necessarily linked genetically to “purely” geological processes. Investigations in two urban areas of Russia allowed us to find essentially artificial objects demonstrating certain geological uniqueness. The huge balls sculptured from rapakivi granite and installed in Saint Petersburg represent cultural, historical, and stone her...
Distant observation of unique geological and geomorphological features facilitates comprehension and tourism of these important resources. Bridges offer an opportunity for such observation, and the idea of bridge-based geoheritage viewpoints is proposed. In the geologically-rich area of the Western Caucasus (southwestern Russia), eleven bridges wer...
Urban geoheritage is an important research theme, and new lines of evidence are necessary for its development. The small town of Kamennomostskiy located in southwestern Russia is crossed by lengthy outcrops of Tithonian variegated sedimentary rocks along the Belaya River and its right tributary. These rocks include red (iron rich) siltstones, dolom...
Accessibility is an important property of geoheritage sites (geosites), which is commonly considered in their assessment. A new method, which refers partly to previous developments, is proposed to assess this property semiquantitatively. Inner (on-site) and outer accessibility are distinguished, and each is measured depending on the opportunities t...
Colour is a common physical property in exposures of unique geological objects, but is only marginally addressed in geoheritage literature. We here present our point of view on how this feature can be treated in geoheritage studies, with the general aim at setting up a broad discussion. Three functions of colour in geoheritage are outlined, namely...
On the example of the estuary of the Mius River - the mouth of the Mius River, the Mius estuary, the Taganrog Bay of the Azov Sea, a complex of chemical and instrumental methods was applied, including those developed by the authors. This made it possible to study the physicochemical parameters, the content of total hydrogen sulphide, the form of oc...
The aquatic elementary landscapes of the Don and Northern Dvina Rivers mouth zones as arenas of mass transfer of heavy metals (HM) are studied. The results of long-term comprehensive studies of the authors, which included sampling of water and the upper layer of bottom sediments in order to determine the content of mercury, copper, methane, hydroge...
Human intervention in the geological environment is commonly thought to pose a threat to geoheritage. However, new information from the Western Caucasus where unique geological features are concentrated in Mountainous Adygeya, implies that man-made features in fact add value to geoheritage. Such features include a lengthy artificial niche in the Gu...
Implication of scientific approach increases efficiency of regional governance. A method of agroeconomic evaluation of soil pollution by heavy metals is proposed and tested by example of the Rostov region – an important agrarian region of the Russian South. Conceptually, this method is linked to the ideas of risk and ecosystem services, and its res...
Cadmium is a highly-toxic metal, and, its environmental occurrence and human exposure consequently deserve close attention. The insight into the relationships between cadmium and tourism relations has deepened during the past three decades and the research into this relationship is reviewed. For this purpose, 83 relevant publications (mainly articl...
True diversity of geological heritage sites (geosites) is yet to be fully understood. New field studies of the Khadzhokh Canyon and its vicinities in the Western Caucasus (Mountainous Adygeya tourist destination, southwestern Russia) have allowed characterizing its geoheritage. Multiple unique features are assigned to geomorphological, stratigraphi...
Geological heritage sites (geosites) are subject to conservation and exploitation for science, education, and tourism. Some geosites are big and comprise diverse phenomena. Concentration of the latter in some parts of these geosites makes them disproportionate. A typical example is the Granite Gorge in SW Russia that is of recognizable tourism impo...
Accurate nomenclature of geological heritage sites (geosites) is necessary to facilitate their description and territorial geodiversity evaluation (both important for sustainable development and efficient land-use planning). As suggested by previous geological heritage studies, tectonics-related geosites are termed differently and, chiefly, provisi...
Viewpoint geological and geomorphological heritage sites (geosites and geomorphosites) offer panoramic views over unique geological features and landscapes dominated by significant features. The environmental context is of crucial importance for these sites. Three components of a viewpoint geosite environment are proposed: standpoint environment, t...
Geological heritage (geo-heritage) is a resource for geoscience, geo-education, and geo-tourism. Geo-tourist attractions differ in their physical visibility, interpretation (clarity), and aesthetic attractiveness. These three characteristics determine perception of visitors and, thus, the importance of attractions. An integrative parameter, namely...
The importance of phytoplankton is high in transformation of substances in aquatic ecosystems and in formation of suspension’s material structure. Its main functions are consumption of the dissolved biogenic components and chemical elements and their conversion to a firm phase. The article is devoted to the bioaccumulation of microelements by phyto...
River deltas boast ecosystem richness, but their efficient conservation and management require consideration of the full spectrum of natural phenomena, including those which are geological. Few specialists have explored the issue of deltaic geological heritage (geoheritage), and the relevant knowledge remains scarce and non-systematised. This paper...
The distribution and behavior of certain of trace elements in sea water is greatly affected by both physical, chemical and hydrometeorological conditions that are showed in the scientific works of prof. Yu.A. Fedorov with coauthors (1999-2015). Due to the shallow waters last factor is one of the dominant, during the different wind situation changes...
The current growth in geotourism requires an urgent development of classifications of geological features on the basis of criteria that are relevant to tourist perceptions. It appears that structure-related patterns are especially attractive for geotourists. Consideration of the main criteria by which tourists judge beauty and observations made in...
The distribution and behavior of certain of trace elements in sea water is greatly affected by both physical, chemical and hydrometeorological conditions that are showed in the scientific works of prof. Yu.A. Fedorov with coauthors (1999-2015). Due to the shallow waters last factor is one of the dominant, during the different wind situation changes...
Large-scale and long-term studies of the total mercury distribution in the sediments of the area and the profile of the Don River – the Sea of Azov is made. The samples of bottom sediment were sampled from the shipboard by means of a coring tube. The determining of total mercury concentration was produced by cold vapor atomic absorption spectroscop...