Writers : Taherpour Khalil Abad,Morteza;Fazelvalipour, Ibrahim; Torshizian,Habib Allah; Allameh,Mohsen; Taherpour Khalil Abad, Mitra
Refference : The first international applied geological congress; Department of geology Islamic azad university- Mashhad
Publishing Year : 2010

Abstract :

The remains of natural and human activities in some parts of the earth register as geopark. Actually, geopark is one or more geological phenomenon which is important from ecological, historical, cultural and archeological view. The aim of geotourism description in an area and creating a geopark is trying to keep the earths inheritance and locality the economic of the area. Iran with an old history, diversity of the environment and a lot of geological phenomenon has a great potential in creating geoparks. From this point of view, we can divide it into 5 geotourism area which are North, South, East, West and Central of Iran. One of the deposed area is Kashmar which is located in Kharasan Razavi province in northeast of Iran. This area because of the nearness into the desert is hot and dry.
The main rocks of the area are volcanic rocks and from stratigraphical view, there are Paleozoic
(Cambrian – Ordovician – Silurian – Devonian), Mesozoic (Triassic – Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous) and Cenozoic (Middle Eocene – Upper Miocene) units. There are Ophiolithic complex outcrops in the Northwest of this area. The volcanic rocks of the area are because of the activity of the Irans first volcanic which are located in this part. The area has an active tectonic because of two main strike-slip faults (Darouneh & Taknar faults). The area is rich of mines like bentonite, kaolin, malachite, ironore and etc. the other geological point in the area is hot-water spring which called Garmab and is located in Khalil Abad (a town which depends into Kashmar township).

Subject List : Geoturism potantial