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India is a storehouse of fascinating and exquisite landforms and landscapes. On account of varied geology, structure, tectonic history, climatic variability and a long coastline there is immense diversity of landforms (geodiversity). In the Indian context, notwithstanding the fact that a detailed inventory of geomorphosites/geoheritage sites important from the viewpoint of geotourism is awaited, the subcontinent’s outstanding geodiversity and extraordinary geoheritage is very well recognized all over the world. The Himalaya, the Indian Peninsula and the Deccan Traps have a special place in Earth’s geological history. These outstanding landscapes, along with other prominent terrains and landforms have special conservation value that needs to be recognized and conserved as geoheritage to meet the present and future scientific, aesthetic, cultural, and socio-economic needs of over a billion people living in the subcontinent.
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Kale, V.S. (2014). Geomorphosites and Geoheritage Sites in India. In: Kale, V. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of India. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8029-2_27
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