Facing the Atlantic, at Vale Figueiras beach
by Catarina Guerreiro, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Vale Figueiras beach is a beautiful and still rather unexplored area of the SW Coast of Portugal, belonging to one of the better exposed sectors of the SW Iberian Variscan Chain: Costa Vicentina. Here, coastal cliffs are largely made of schist rocks presenting a wide variety of geological structures, formed either in ductile or fragile deformation regimes.
Taken on 15
August
2017
Submitted on 15 February 2018
Categories
- European Geosciences Union (217)
- Field (2180)
- Geodynamics (290)
- Geomorphology (941)
- Ocean Sciences (226)
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (364)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (398)
Location
- Europe (2681)
- Southern Europe (1165)
- Portugal (61)
- Exact location (-8.0000 W, 37.0000 N)
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<b&w>, <iberian variscan chain>, <beach>, <sw coast of portugal>, <ocean>, <portugal>, <seascape>, <algarve>
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Credit: Catarina Guerreiro (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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