Natural world · Evidence-led place record

Cheongsong UNESCO Global Geopark

KR

Visit the Flower Stone Ecotrail, a 1.1 km route featuring outcrops of spherulitic rhyolite—also known as Flower Stone—a rare geological formation that reveals the cooling and stagnation processes of shallow rhyolitic magma bodies.Explore the Sinseongri Dinosaur Footprints Experience Field, offering fossil excavation activities, dinosaur models, and an educational geological steppingstone inspired by the Copper Coast UNESCO Global Geopark in Ireland.Discover the striking Yongchu Gorge on Juwangsa

CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationKR
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2017
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 84,606 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is Cheongsong UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

Cheongsong UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as Visit the Flower Stone Ecotrail, a 1.1 km route featuring outcrops of spherulitic rhyolite—also known as Flower Stone—a rare geological formation that reveals the cooling and stagnation processes of shallow rhyolitic magma bodies.Explore the Sinseongri Dinosaur Footprints Experience Field, offering fossil excavation activities, dinosaur models, and an educational geological steppingstone inspired by the Copper Coast UNESCO Global Geopark in Ireland.Discover the striking Yongchu Gorge on Juwangsa. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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