Italy's Dolomites a New World Heritage Site

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has named some new localities to the list of sites, one of which is dear to geologists: the Dolomite range in northern Italy. The announcement noted the beauty of the mountains, but also the diversity of landforms, dynamic processes (i.e. landslides) and fossil record. This is a great day for the geoheritage movement.

The Dolomites are named for the rock dolomite, which in turn was named for a geologist, Déodat de Dolomieu.