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Geological Heritage Sites are important as they provide clues to our past and help us to find out how the earth has evolved. It is vital that they are recorded and protected.
Geological heritage includes our natural history and scenic sites such as caves, mountains and coastal areas. They are vital for learning purposes. The sites are real life examples which show the processes of how our landscape was created and so help us understand the principles of geology.
The data is a useful resource to all levels of education from school children and on to third level colleges and research. Future research which may help to resolve current problems, is possible only if these sites exist for future study. Local authorities use the data to promote these sites as places to visit. Also, the data is of use to the tourism sector. The sites attract tourists which in turn supports local businesses and brings in money to local communities. |
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Geological Heritage Sites are important as they provide clues to our past and help us to find out how the earth has evolved. It is vital that they are recorded and protected.
Geological heritage includes our natural history and scenic sites such as caves, mountains and coastal areas. They are vital for learning purposes. The sites are real life examples which show the processes of how our landscape was created and so help us understand the principles of geology.
The data is a useful resource to all levels of education from school children and on to third level colleges and research. Future research which may help to resolve current problems, is possible only if these sites exist for future study. Local authorities use the data to promote these sites as places to visit. Also, the data is of use to the tourism sector. The sites attract tourists which in turn supports local businesses and brings in money to local communities. |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Geological heritage or </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>‘</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>geoheritage</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>’</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> is the term used to describe sites or places with features of geology that have important scientific, educational, cultural, or visual value. There are many types of sites. They are made from past and present geological processes (wearing away and building up of rocks and soils). They are a window into the past and present changes to the earth.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN>Ireland's</SPAN><SPAN> Geoheritage sites </SPAN><SPAN>were </SPAN><SPAN>divided into 16 themes (groups). The best sites </SPAN><SPAN>were</SPAN><SPAN> chosen from each group by theme experts. </SPAN><SPAN>Sites were selected by means of desktop studies and did not normally include site visits. These unaudited sites form the basis for selecting ‘county geological sites’ (CGS). Each CGS is checked to make sure it is the best example. CGS's can be viewed in the Geoheritage Audited Sites.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN>It is a vector dataset. Vector data portray the world using points, lines, and polygons (areas). The Geoheritage unaudited sites are shown as circular polygons. . </SPAN><SPAN>Each </SPAN><SPAN>polygon</SPAN><SPAN> holds information on the following fields: site name, County, townland, Irish geoheritage theme, geological description, heritage status, references, features and coordinates in Irish </SPAN><SPAN>National G</SPAN><SPAN>rid and Irish Trans</SPAN><SPAN>verse</SPAN><SPAN> Mercator. </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Data that is produced directly by the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) is free for use under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><A href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</SPAN></SPAN></A></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><A href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode</SPAN></SPAN></A></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Under the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Please use this specific attribution statement: "</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;"><SPAN>Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>".</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN>In cases where it is not practical to use the statement users may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution statement.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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