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Chart-topping rocks: UK's 'Greatest Geosites' announced Chart-topping rocks: UK's 'Greatest Geosites' announced
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The Geological Society of London has named its top 100 geological sites in the UK and Ireland, including 10 "people's favourites".The Geological Society of London has named its top 100 geological sites in the UK and Ireland, including 10 "people's favourites".
The list, compiled into an online clickable map, marks the start of Earth Science Week.
Categories for the popular vote included landscapes, outcrops and coastlines, as well as industrial and educational sites.
Stonehenge, Glencoe and Scarborough's Rotunda Museum were among the winners.
The society took public nominations for its list of top "geosites", which are described as "anything which highlights the importance of geology to our lives".
More than 400 different suggestions flooded in, mostly via social media. On Twitter, contributors used the hashtag #100geosites.
Among the final 100 selected by the Geological Society are cliffs and outcrops, peaks and ranges, quarries and mines, cathedrals, rivers, tunnels, caves, coves and islands.
"The list highlights the huge range of incredible geology the UK and Ireland have to offer," said Prof Rob Butler from the University of Aberdeen, who chairs the society's Geoconservation Committee.
"From the Outer Hebrides to Cornwall, from rocks showing how the crust formed billions of years ago to young sediments pushed around by ice sheets a few thousand years ago, we are unique in having such a diverse geological heritage over a relatively small area."
To identify 10 popular favourites, the society split the nominations into 10 categories, such as places of scientific or industrial importance, educational sites like museums and field-trip favourites, and prime examples of "folding and faulting" or "fire and ice" in the UK and Ireland's geological past.
More than 1,200 people then voted in the poll.
These were the most popular geosites in each of the 10 categories:
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