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Address:
Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Geologischer Garten, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077 Göttingen

Contact:
Dr. Mike Reich
mreich@gwdg.de
Phone: +49 (0) 551 39 7998
Fax: +49 (0) 551 39 7918

Links:
Geopark der Universität Göttingen
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Description:
The idea of the Geopark Göttingen is to present and make comprehensible to a broad public the dynamics and the development of the earth’s crust, the global cycles with which we humans interact and the history of our planet and life.

Rocks are the documents which convey this history, therefore big spectacular rocks and rock formations are the preferred exhibits of the Geopark. These are supplemented by artificial and artistic models and plants from earth’s history. Today’s earth crust and life are the result of a long development. Rocks and rock formations unlock the temporal and spatial dimensions and allow the present to be understood as a result of the development of earth and life in the flow of time. The unusual rocks and rock structures to be found in the Geopark Göttingen illustrate geo-scientific processes and relationships.