Holoclima - Holocene climate record from limestone tuffs and associated lacustrine sediments

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Project title | Holoclima - Holocene climate record from limestone tuffs and associated lacustrine sediments
Project Code | PTDC/CTE-GIX/71298/2006
Main objective |

Region of intervention |

Beneficiary entity |
  • Universidade de Évora(líder)
  • INETI - Instituto Nacional de Engenharia,Tecnologia,Inovaçao(parceiro)
  • Universidade de Aveiro(parceiro)

Approval date | 06-08-2007
Start date | 06-08-2007
Date of the conclusion | 06-08-2010

Total eligible cost |
European Union financial support |
National/regional public financial support |
Apoio financeiro atribuído à Universidade de Évora | 0 €

Summary

The understanding of the present-day climate change is strongly connected to the knowledge and understanding of ancient climates. The climatic records collected in the submerged portion of our planet constitute a framework of the Holocene climatic change, fundamental for the interpretation of the climatic records collected on sub-aerial records. In regions without permanent ice sheets the characterisation of ancient climates is done based on stable isotopic data and the pollen and vegetation macro-remains. The most interesting authigenic deposits for this purpose are limestone tuffs and speleothemes.

At Tavira Holocene limestone tuffs were identified and the stable isotopic compositon and the pollen and macro-remains contents will be used as paleoclimatic proxies.


Goals, activities and expected/achieved results

O objectivo principal deste projecto consiste em determinar o registo das variações climáticas ocorridas durante a vigência deste sistema fluvio-lacustre através do estudo pormenorizado dos tufos calcários e dos sedimentos lacustres, de idade holocénica, que afloram na região de Tavira.

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