Abstract

MATA-PERELLO, JOSEP M.; MATA-LLEONART, ROGER  and  VINTRO-SANCHEZ, CARLA. A NEW CLASSIFICATION OF GEOLOGICAL RESOURCES. Dyna rev.fac.nac.minas [online]. 2011, vol.78, n.170, pp.243-249. ISSN 0012-7353.

The traditional definition of the geological resource term excludes all those elements or processes of the physical environment that show a scientific, didactic, or cultural interest, but do not offer, in principle, an economic potential. The so called cultural geo-resources have traditionally not been included within a classification that puts them in the same hierarchical and semantic ranking than the rest of the resources, and there has been no attempt to define a classification of these resources under a more didactic and modern perspective. Hence, in order to catalogue all those geological elements that show a cultural, patrimonial, scientific, or didactic interest as a resource, this paper proposes a new classification in which geo-resources stand in the same hierarchical and semantic ranking than the rest of the resources traditionally catalogued as such.

Keywords : geological resource; classification.

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