Existing and proposed urban geosites values resulting from geodiversity of Poznań City
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2017
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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Poznań, a city in central-western Poland, is located in the lowland region but has no less attractive geomorphological
and human history. It was here that Poland was born at the end of the tenth century. The city’s location is
connected with the meridian course of the Warta River valley. In contrast, in the northern part of the city, there is a vast
area of the frontal moraines of the Poznań Phase of the Weichselian Glaciation. Against the backdrop of the geomorphological
development of the city, the article presents the existing geosites, classified as urban geosites. The present
geosites include three lapidaries with Scandinavian postglacial erratics, one of them also with stoneware, a fragment
of a frontal push moraine and impact craters. Besides, three locations of proposed geosites with rich geomorphological
and/or human history were identified. These are as follows: the peat bog located in the northern part of the city,
defence ramparts as exhumed anthropogenic forms, and the Warta River valley. The existing and proposed geosites
in Poznań were evaluated in three ways. In general, it should be assumed that the proposed new geosites are higher
ranked than the current ones.
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urban geosite, geodiversity, geoheritage, cultural heritage, Poland
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 36 (3), 2017, pp. 125-149
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0137-477X