The 1 st International Applied Geological Congress, Department of Geology, Islamic Azad University - Mashad Branch, Iran, 26-28 April 2010 The geotourism potential investigation in Khorasan Razavi with the emphasis on Kashmar Township (Northeast of iran) Morteza Taherpour Khalil Abad *1, Ibrahim Fazelvalipour2, Habib Allah Torshizian3, Mohsen Allameh4, Mitra Taherpour Khalil Abad5 1: Islamic Azad University, Mashhad branch, Faculty of Science, Department of GeologyYoung researchers Club (
[email protected]) 2,3,4: Islamic Azad University, Mashhad branch, Faculty of Science, Department of Geology. 5: Islamic Azad University, Mashhad branch, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology. Abstract The remains of natural and human activities in some parts of the earth register as geopark. Actually, geopark is one or more geological phenomenon which is important from ecological, historical, cultural and archeological view. The aim of geotourism description in an area and creating a geopark is trying to keep the earth's inheritance and locality the economic of the area. Iran with an old history, diversity of the environment and a lot of geological phenomenon has a great potential in creating geoparks. From this point of view, we can divide it into 5 geotourism area which are North, South, East, West and Central of Iran. One of the deposed area is Kashmar which is located in Kharasan Razavi province in northeast of Iran. This area because of the nearness into the desert is hot and dry. The main rocks of the area are volcanic rocks and from stratigraphical view, there are Paleozoic (Cambrian – Ordovician – Silurian – Devonian), Mesozoic (Triassic – Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous) and Cenozoic (Middle Eocene – Upper Miocene) units.