Description

• Title:
  The Kaali crater field and other geosites of Saaremaa Island (Estonia): the perspectives for a geopark
• Creator:
  Raukas, Anto;
  Stankowski, Wojciech
• Description:
  The Island of Saaremaa in Estonia offers highly spectacular geological features that belong to the most interesting in the Baltic Sea area. A unique geological monument on the island is the Kaali meteorite-crater field, formed by nine meteorite impacts. There are also attractive coastal cliffs, huge erratics, alvars (limestone areas covered by a very thin soil) and well-developed glacial and marine landforms. Limestone cliffs and shingle beaches abound with Silurian fossils and offer great opportunities to fossil collectors. The island is a prospective geopark. During the past few years, the geology of the island has become an intensely studied object of Estonian and Polish geologists.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2010 Anto Raukas, Wojciech Stankowski;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
• Date:
  2010.04.26
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Research papers
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  Geologos; Vol. 16 No. 1 (2010); 59-68;
  Geologos; Tom 16 Nr 1 (2010); 59-68;
  2080-6574;
  1426-8981
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/logos/article/view/v10118-010-0004-z/30432
• Subject:
  geopark;
  geosites;
  meteorite-crater field;
  Saaremaa Island;
  Estonia
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/logos/article/view/v10118-010-0004-z
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other