湖北黄冈大别山国家地质公园位于湖北省东北部黄冈市境内、大别山南麓,长江中游北岸,规划面积409.22平方千米,自西向东分为天台山园区、龟峰山园区、大别山主峰园区三个园区,包括天台山景区、对天河景区、龟峰山景区、九龙山景区、天堂寨景区、薄刀锋景区、青苔关景区、天堂湖景区、吴家山景区九个景区。华北扬子两大板块挤压碰撞引发的造山运动和花岗岩地貌是我市大别山国家地质公园的两大特色。
园区内既出露了28亿年前的古老的造山带根物质,被誉为“大别山之根”;同时还出露了高压、超高压等多种岩性的变质岩,并保留着完美的构造活动行迹,其典型性、稀有性、系统性和完整性在全国较为罕见。园区及周边地区现有3处世界级、12处国家级、19处省级地质遗迹景观,具有重大的地学科研价值和旅游价值。
2009年8月,经国土资源部批准,黄冈大别山地质公园取得了国家地质公园资格,建设期三年;2012年8月和11月,先后通过了湖北省国土资源厅、国土资源部组织的命名验收;2012年12月底,国土资源部下达批文,正式命名为国家地质公园;2013年11月,我市举行了地质公园授牌开园仪式。近年来,地质公园先后成功申报了“国土资源科普基地”、“湖北省科普教育基地”,2013年9月,在中国地质学会旅游地学与地质公园研究分会和河南省地质旅游发展促进会联合主办的全国首届“中国最美地质公园”评选活动中,成功入选前三十强,获得“中国最美地质公园”称号。
申报历程
2006年9月,黄冈市政府提出了申报大别山国家地质公园的构想;
2006年9月22日,黄冈市政府开始国家地质公园申报工作;
2006年11月24日,黄冈市市长办公会讨论决定,正式开展大别山(黄冈)国家地质公园申报工作;
2007年1月8日,向国土资源部环境司领导和市领导汇报公园的规划初步方案;
2007年3月29日,大别山(黄冈)国家地质公园批准为省级地质公园;
009年8月19日,大别山(黄冈)国家地质公园被国土资源部批准为第五批国家地质公园之一;
2012年12月,黄冈大别山地质公园被国土资源部命名为国家地质公园;
2013年8月,被命名为全国第三批“国土资源科普基地”;
2013年9月,入选全国首届“中国最美地质公园”前30名;
2013年10月,国土资源部组织的中期评估被评为优秀等次;
2013年11月,在国土资源部地质环境司的主持下,在天堂寨景区成功举办公园授牌开园仪式;
2013年11月,被湖北省科学技术协会命名为“湖北省科普教育基地”;
2015年12月,在全国第九批次世界地质公园评审推荐会上,湖北黄冈大别山国家地质公园以第一名的成绩,获得全国2017年度世界地质公园推荐资格;
Located in the northeast of Hubei Province, at the southern foot of Dabie Mountains and on the north shore of in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, with a planning area of 2625.54 square kilometers, Huanggang Dabieshan Geopark of Hubei, from west to east, has two major parks, namely Guifengshan Park and Main Peak Park of Dabieshan. The orogenic movement triggered by convergence and collision of North China plate with Yangtze plate and the granite landform are registered as the two distinctive features of Dabieshan Geopark in our City.
In the Park, there are the outcroppings of root material of ancientorogenic belt formed 2.8 billion years ago, hailed as “root of Dabie Mountains”; meanwhile, there are the outcroppings of metamorphic rocks of high pressure, ultrahigh pressure and other lithological characters; moreover, perfect tectonic movement tracks have been preserved, whose typicality, rarity, systematicness and integrity are relatively rare in the country. In the Park and its surrounding areas, now, there are 3 world-level, 12 state-level and 19 province-level geological relic landscapes, which are of great value for geological research and tourism. In August 2009, approved by the Ministry of Land and Resources, Huanggang Dabieshan Geopark was granted with the qualification of national geological park accompanied with a construction period of three years; in August and November of 2012, it successively passed the naming acceptance inspection organized by Bureau of Land and Resources of Hubei Province and the Ministry of Land and Resources respectively; at the end of December 2012, the Ministry of Land and Resources issued an official document to formally name it as a national geological park; in November 2013, our City held an entitling and opening ceremony for the geological park. In recent years, the geological park has successively managed to apply to be a “Popular Science Base of Land and Resources” and a “Popular Science Education Base of Hubei Province''; in September 2013, in the first national election of “China’s Most Beautiful Geological Parks” jointly held by Research Branch of Tourism Geology and Geological Park under Geological Society of China and Henan Geological Tourism Development Association, it ranked the top 30 and won the title of “China’s Most Beautiful Geological Park”.