IUGS Geological Heritage Sites
WHS represented on the list of IUGS Geological Heritage Sites.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Andrefana Dry Forests | Tsingy of Bemaraha | |
| Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks | Burgess Shale Cambrian Palaeontological Record | |
| Chaîne des Puys | The Holocene Puy-de-Dôme and Petit-Puy-de-Dôme volcanoes | |
| Chengjiang Fossil Site | Cambrian Chengjiang Fossil Site and Lagerstätte | |
| Dinosaur Provincial Park | Dinosaur Provincial Park | |
| Dorset and East Devon Coast | Jurassic Coast: Lyme Regis | |
| Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats | Getbol Tidal Flats | |
| Giant's Causeway | The Paleocene volcanic rocks of the Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast | |
| Grand Canyon | The Grand Canyon and The Great Unconformity at Grand Canyon | |
| Gros Morne National Park | Mohorovičić discontinuity at Gros Morne National Park | |
| Göreme NP and Cappadocia | The Miocene Cappadocian Ignimbrites sequence | |
| Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago | Ha Long Bay-Cat Ba Archipelago | |
| Heritage of Mercury | The giant mercury deposit of the Almadén syncline | |
| Hierapolis-Pamukkale | Pamukkale Travertines | |
| Iguacu | Iguazú / Iguaçu waterfalls | |
| Iguazu National Park | Iguazú / Iguaçu waterfalls | |
| Ischigualasto / Talampaya | Triassic Dinosaurs and mammalian reptiles from Ischigualasto | |
| Joggins Fossil Cliffs | “Coal Age” Joggins Fossil Cliffs | |
| Kilimanjaro National Park | The Pleistocene Kilimanjaro Volcano | |
| Kinabalu Park | Mount Kinabalu Neogene Granite | |
| Los Glaciares | Perito Moreno Glacier | |
| Lut Desert | Yardang (Kalut) in the Lut Desert | |
| Mammoth Cave | Mammoth Cave | |
| Messel Pit | Eocene paleontological record of Messel Pit Fossil site | |
| Meteora | The Oligocene-Miocene molassic and rock pinacles of Meteora | |
| Miguasha National Park | The Late Devonian fossil-fish Lagerstätte of Miguasha | |
| Mistaken Point | Ediacaran fossil site of Mistaken Point | |
| Namib Sand Sea | Namib Sand Sea | |
| Ngorongoro | Palaeoanthropological sites of Human Evolution of Laetoli – Olduvai Gorge & Ngorongoro Crater | |
| Northern Martinique | Montagne Pelée volcano | |
| Okavango Delta | The Okavango Delta | |
| Pyrénées - Mont Perdu | Monte Perdido massif tectonic structure | |
| Rio de Janeiro | The Sugar Loaf monolith of Rio de Janeiro | |
| Sagarmatha National Park | The Ordovician rocks of Mount Everest | |
| Shark Bay | Shark Bay | |
| Skocjan Caves | Škocjan Caves in the Classical Karst | |
| South China Karst | Shilin Karst & Guilin Karst | |
| Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona | Glarus Thrust | |
| Tassili n'Ajjer | The Ordovician glacial pavements of the Tassili n’Ajjer | |
| Te Wahipounamu | Fjords and towering sea cliffs of Fiordland | |
| Uluru | Uluru inselberg | |
| Vatnajökull National Park | Vatnajökull | |
| Victoria Falls | Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls | |
| Vredefort Dome | Vredefort Dome | |
| Wadi Al-Hitan | Whale Valley, Cetacea and Sirenia Eocene fossils of Wadi Al-Hitan | |
| Yellowstone | The Yellowstone volcanic and hydrothermal system | |
| Yosemite National Park | Yosemite Valley |
Suggestions?
Do you know of another WHS we could connect to IUGS Geological Heritage Sites?
A connection should:
- Not be "self evident"
- Link at least 3 different sites
- Not duplicate or merely subdivide the "Category" assignment already identified on this site.
- Add some knowledge or insight (whether significant or trivial!) about WHS for the users of this site
- Be explained, with reference to a source