Geological Conservation Review Sites (Scotland)

The Geological Conservation Review (GCR) is the register of known nationally and internationally important Earth science (geological and geomorphological) sites in Great Britain.

The GCR underpins designation of Earth science features in Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). The majority of GCR sites, therefore, now have statutory protection through designation as notified features in SSSIs. In these cases the GCR site boundary indicates the extent of the Earth science interest within the SSSI. Some GCR sites, however, remain unnotified and are known as unnotified GCR sites.

National Park Authorities and some Local Authorities treat these as candidate SSSIs and afford them the same protection as SSSIs. Some unnotified GCR sites are also Local Geodiversity Sites (LGS), and as such they are afforded levels of protection appropriate to locally important sites (though they are, themselves, considered to be of national or international importance).

The remaining unnotified GCR sites have no statutory protection, although they are considered to be sites of national or international importance. Initially developed between 1977 and 1990, the GCR network is periodically updated and this dataset is subject to change. Boundaries of GCR sites are often not co-incident with SSSIs.

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地质保护审查（GCR）系记录大不列颠境内已知的国家和全球重要地球科学（地质和地貌学）地点的登记册。GCR构成了在特殊科学兴趣地（SSSI）中指定地球科学特征的基石。因此，GCR的大部分地点现已成为通过SSSI中通知特征指定的法定保护对象。在这些情况下，GCR地点的边界标志着SSSI内地球科学兴趣的范围。然而，一些GCR地点尚未被通知，被称为未通知的GCR地点。国家公园管理机构及部分地方当局将它们视为候选SSSI，并给予与SSSI相同的保护。一些未通知的GCR地点也是地方地质多样性地点（LGS），因此，它们受到与地方重要地点相适宜的保护水平（尽管它们本身被视为具有国家或国际重要性）。剩余的未通知GCR地点虽然没有法定保护，但它们被视为具有国家或国际重要性的地点。GCR网络最初于1977年至1990年期间开发，定期更新，此数据集可能发生变化。GCR地点的边界通常与SSSI不重叠。如需更多信息，请访问https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/protected-areas-and-species/protected-areas/local-designations/geological-conservation-review-sites。