Geological Heritage Resources Characteristics and Geographic Significance of the Dabie Mountain (Huanggang) National Geopark in Hubei Province
The Dabie Mountain (Huanggang) National Geopark in Hubei Province is a large-scale science park that integrates tourism, recreation, adventure, scientific research and environmental protection and has the geological landscape of continental orogenic belts and the subtropical forest ecological landscape as its principal parts. The park area is an important part of the Qinling Orogenic Belt with abundant and varied geological relic resources, which are mainly divided into 4 major categories of geological section, geological structure, geological landform, and waterscape, and 11 small categories that cover a total of over 100 geological relic spots, some of which have important world typical significance. These geological relics provide the key evidence for exploring the early evolution of the Earth, studying the orogenic belts, and making the global contrastive analysis; in addition, they have an important value in field study of such aspects as stratigraphy, petrology, metamorphic geology, structural geology, geomorphology, and hydrogeology. The research result of this paper has a certain reference significance in such aspects as the systematic understanding of the condition of geological relics of the park, the construction of a geological popular science demonstration base, and the protection and development of the geological relics.