New World Heritage Site
And, because we all think of Stevns Klint as a person...
Malcolm Hart (Chair: International Sub-Commission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy & Plymouth Unviersity) writes: The Stevns Peninsula (Sjælland south of Copenhagen) was proposed by Édouard Desor in 1847 as the classic ‘Danian’ location. Over the last 30–40 years the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary exposed in the 14km-long cliff has increased in importance as the debate over the end-Cretaceous extinctions has gathered momentum since the identification of the iridium anomaly.
In 2012 Tove Damholt (Østsjællands Museum) and Finn Surlyk (University of Copenhagen) prepared a nomination for UNESCO in an attempt to gain inscription on the World Heritage List of natural sites. At the 38th Session of the World Heritage Committee (Doha, Qatar 15 – 25 June 2014) the bid was successful and Stevns Klint is now fully recognised as of global significance. The International Sub-Commission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy congratulate Tove and Finn on their achievement.