Designations
The IUGS Executive Committee has ratified the First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites as the first and inspiring step towards a wider program that will give recognition to those geological sites of the highest scientific importance of the World.
The First 100 are distributed in 56 countries.

IGCP 731
IUGS Geological Heritage Sites
- History of geosciences
UNITED KINGDOM
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology
BRAZIL
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology
ITALY
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology
ANTARCTICA
- Igneous and Metamorphic petrology
CHINA
- Geomorphology and active geological processes