Geology of Portugal

Code: GEO12585L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Geology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This training corresponds to a synthesis of the geological features of the national territory, in a perspective of geodynamic evolution (superposition of Wilson cycles) from the upper Proterozoic to the present.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

To have a global view of the geological diversity of the national territory and to understand the geological processes that were in the genesis of this diversity.
To acquire reading ability of the Geological Chart of Portugal, at various scales.

Short reference to the Proterozoic record.
The evolution during the Paleozoic: The Variscan Cycle.
The lower Paleozoic: stratigraphy and magmatism
The upper Paleozoic: stratigraphy, magmatism, metamorphism and structure.
Synthesis of the evolution of the Portugal Mainland during the Variscan Cycle and the transition to the Alpine
Cycle.
The evolution of Meso-Cenozoic.
The West and Algarve basins, its relations with the Atlantic and Tethys oceans.
Stratigraphy
Sedimentary environments and paleogeography.
Magmatism.
Short reference to the geology of Azores and Madeira islands.
The Portuguese continental shelf.
The geological evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene, Neotectonic activity and seismicity in Portugal.
Analysis of selected sheets of the Geological Map of Portugal at different scales.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical, laboratory, and fieldwork work classes.
Tutorial monitoring of students through Moodle platform (e-learning).
Continuous evaluation with 2 theoretical-practical tests (50% each) or final exam, with a theoretical-practical exam (100%).