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The Courel Mountains UNESCO Global Geopark: An Amazing Geological History Extended Along 600 Million Years

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The Courel Mountains UNESCO Global Geopark (2019) stands out in SW of Europe because of its geoheritage, its biodiversity and its cultural heritage, all of it considered of international interest. These aspects shape the local development economic and cultural improvement and development. The geoheritage is the result of three geological cycles since the Proterozoic, involving the Cadomian-Avalonian-Pan-African orogeny, the opening of the Rheic Ocean and the Variscan orogeny, and finally the Permian-Mesozoic continental expansion and the Alpine orogeny. The geological history of Courel Mountains is one of singular rocks, huge recumbent folds, valuable metallic mineralization, and invertebrate fossils preserved within metamorphic rocks. This long history is recorded in an exceptional Variscan basement that we can ravel thanks to the exhumation during the Alpine uplifting, when the present-day Courel Mountains were built.

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  1. Courel Mountains UGGp, Rúa do Courel 21, 27320, Quiroga, Spain

    Irene Pérez-Cáceres, Daniel Ballesteros, Pablo Caldevilla, Jose Bienvenido Diez, Xose Carlos Barros, Ramón Vila, José Ramón Martínez Catalán, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco, Manuel García-Ávila, Mercedes Fuertes-Fuente, Susana Timón Sánchez, Miguel Llorente & Martín Alemparte

  2. Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Salamanca, Facultad de Ciencias, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Irene Pérez-Cáceres & José Ramón Martínez Catalán

  3. Departamento de Geodinámica, Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Fuentenueva s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Daniel Ballesteros

  4. Escuela Superior y Técnica de Ingenieros de Minas, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071, León, Spain

    Pablo Caldevilla & Manuel García-Ávila

  5. Departamento de Geociencias Marinas y Ordenación del Territorio, and Asociación Paleontolóxica Galega, Universidade de Vigo, Campus Universitario Lagoas Marcosende, 36310, Vigo, Spain

    Jose Bienvenido Diez

  6. Museo Xeolóxico de Quiroga, Rúa do Courel 21, 27320, Quiroga, Spain

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  7. Área de Geología-ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/Tulipán s/n, 28933, Móstoles, Spain

    Fidel Martín-González

  8. Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM) and Área de Paleontología GEODESPAL, c/José Antonio Nováis 12, 2ª, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco

  9. Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo, c/ Jesús Arias de Velasco s/n, 33003, Oviedo, Spain

    Mercedes Fuertes-Fuente

  10. Unidad de Salamanca, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (CSIC), Plaza de La Constitución 1, 3°, 37001, Salamanca, Spain

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  11. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (CSIC), c/Ríos Rosas 23, 28003, Madrid, Spain

    Miguel Llorente

  12. Grupo de Desarrollo Rural Ribeira Sacra-Courel, Rúa Doctor López Lallana 6, 1°D, 27340, Bóveda, Spain

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Pérez-Cáceres, I. et al. (2023). The Courel Mountains UNESCO Global Geopark: An Amazing Geological History Extended Along 600 Million Years. In: Núñez-Delgado, A., Álvarez-Rodríguez, E., Fernández-Calviño, D. (eds) The Environment in Galicia: A Book of Images. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33114-5_6

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