Geology and Geoheritage Conservation Within Langkawi Geopark, Malaysia
The Langkawi Geopark is made up of 99 tropical islands off the northwestern coast of Peninsular Malaysia covering an area of about 478 square kilometer. These rocky tropical legendary islands are rich in geodiversity, many of which have scientific value of national and regional significant. Langkawi Geopark highlights the regions most complete Palaeozoic geological history and outstanding beauty of tropical island karst landscape. The Palaeozoic rocks of Langkawi Geopark contain among others the oldest strata in the region, complete Palaeozoic succession from Cambrian to Permian, and best sedimentological and palaeontological evidences affiliating Langkawi and the surrounding region with Gondwanaland. Langkawi Geopark portrays a rich mixtures of surface water, ground water and ocean wave originated karstic landscape including some rare formation of islands and hills, ridges and pinnacles; gorges, wangs and doline lakes; caves, tunnels and their diverse cave deposit landforms; and sea- notches, sea-caves, sea-tunnels, sea-arches and sea- stacks. Langkawi Geopark geoheritage sites are mostly protected within the Malaysian holistic nature conservation concept of Geoforest Park where rock conservation is equally treated as biological conservation and other nature conservation components. Three geoforest parks of Langkawi are the Machinchang Cambrian, Kilim Karst and Dayang Bunting Marble Geoforest Parks, each of which highlighting its own unique geology and geological landscape. Other smaller conservation areas are the Recreational Forest and State Permanent Forest Reserves, which hosted several protected geoheritage sites and geological monuments outside the geoforest parks.
geoheritage site Palaeozoic geological history tropical island karst geoforest park Recreational Forest Langkawi Malaysia
Mohd Shafeea Leman Ibrahim Komoo Kamal Roslan Mohamed Che Aziz Ali Tanot Unjah Kasim Othman Mohd Hizamri Mohd Yasin
Institute for Environment and Development LESTARI, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia,43600 Bangi, Selan Forestry Department of Peninsular Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Salahudin,50660 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
国际会议
第二届国际地质公园发展研讨会(The Second Onternational Symposium on Development Within Geoparks)
北京
英文
181-190
2007-06-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）