Долина Дністра є одним з найважливіших регіонів України з геотуристичної точки зору. На значній частині її території створені національні парки й заповідники різного рангу та призначення. Берегами річок басейну Дністра утворилася широка мережа відслонень, які дозволяють вивчати геологічні розрізи. Найбільш вагомими з наукової точки зору є розрізи венду, нижнього кембрію, силуру та нижнього девону. Тут також відслонюють- ся крейдові та неогенові відклади. В долині Дністра визначені міжнародні парастратоти- пи границь венд-кембрій та силур-девон. Ці типові розрізи є предметом наукового дослідження. Робота виконана за підтримки ДФФД України, проект №111-2013.
The Dniester Valley is one of significant place from Geotouristic point of view. The trails along Dniester River could be realized walking by banks, with cars or buses and down the river by rubber bouts or kayaks. Big part of adjacent territory occupy by Reserves and National Parks. There are outcrops and whole successions from Vendian (Ediacarian) to Devonian. Excellent outcropping allows studying geological sections and taking samples of rocks and fossils (of course need special permission from stuff of reservation for sampling). First explorations were started from middle XIX century. Few International meetings were hold there in 1968, 1983, 1991, 2006, 2011. The Boating by Dniester River is traditional for many years. Private enterprise "Geomandry" has own market niche in the activity. Firstly Geological Excursion of International Symposium on stratigraphy of Cambrian and Boundary of Vendian - Cambrian was held on Podillian sections in 1991. The members of the Symposium visited Bemashivka quarry, where Mikhail Fedonkin found sample of "gelifish" 30 cm in diameter. The International Symposium deal with reservation of Geological Heritage was held in Kyiv and Kamianets-Podilsky in 2006. There were organized cruising by bout along Dniester reservoir from dam to Smotrich River mouth and few routs by bus. Next International Conference Geological Heritage - "Bright evidence of Earth Evolution" and four-days field excursion was held in 2011. The Bemashivka Quarry is one of unique object from paleontological and stratigraphical point of view. It situated in down of dam of Dniester Hydropower Station on left high bank. Now it deep more sixty meters. The volume of quarry was expand in deep and area depend on building Hydro accumulating power station and strengthening of river banks by granite and sandstone which were excavated there. Lomoziv beds were discovered there. The beds contain various fossils which firstly were discovered by Mikhail Fedonkin. Lower part of Upper Vendian (Modiliv-Podilsky Series) from Crystalline rocks to Bemashivka sandstone are outcropped in the quarry. We propose organize Geopark for reserving the locality of unique fossils. The work was sponsored by Government Fund for Fundamental Exploration of Ukraine, the project №111-2013.
