Geology of the Swabian Alb
The Swabian Alb boasts world-famous fossil sites and is not merely a history book of the Jurassic Period that can be read in stone, but is also the region with the largest number of caves in Germany. It is a karst landscape which evolved over millions of years with a unique incidence of fossils, volcano craters and even a meteorite crater. Its Ice Age caves have divulged the oldest known artworks.
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What is a Geopark?
The Swabian Alb was named a national Geopark due to its important geological heritage in 2002. Two years later in 2004, the area was designated a European and Global Geopark and became a member of the European and Global Network of Geoparks. In November 2015 the Geopark was designated as a "UNESCO Global Geopark" and can now be named as "UNESCO Global Geopark Swabian Albs".
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