Geology of Portugal

Code: GEO01448L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Geosciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

Corresponds to a synthesis of the geological features of the national territory, in a perspective of geodynamic evolution (superposition of Wilson cicles) from the upper Proterozoic to the present.

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Learning Goals

Expected Results: Overview of the geological diversity of the Country.
Understanding the geological processes on the genesis of this diversity.
Skills: Ability to read the Geological map of Portugal at different scales

Main geological units of Portugal.
Short reference to the Proterozoic record.
The evolution during the Paleozoic: The Variscan Cycle.
The Early Paleozoic: stratigraphy and magmatism
The Late 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.