江苏宜兴建立岩溶洞穴国家地质公园的可行性研究

江苏宜兴是我国岩溶洞穴非常集中发育的地区之一,在不到80km2的范围内共有岩溶洞穴83个,其中已开发的有善卷洞、张公洞、玉泉洞、灵谷洞、慕蠡洞、西施洞等。这些岩溶洞穴遗迹经初步研究发现,属世界级地质遗迹的有1个,国家级5个,另外还有其他国家级地质遗迹2个。它们具有重要的科研与科普价值和极高的美学价值,具备了建立国家地质公园的条件。

Feasibility research on karst cave national geopark construction in Yixing of Jiangsu

Yixing was one of the concentrated developed areas of karst caves in China, there were altogether eighty-three caves located in a land range of eighty kilometers. Some famous caves developed in the past years attracted many tourists every year, one of them belonged to world class geological relic resource, five national-level, and two other national-level geological relics. They occupied important values of scientific research, science popularization and aesthetics and were provided with the conditions of constructing national geopark.