Towards a 'sea‐level sensitive'dynamic model: impact of island ontogeny and glacio‐eustasy on global patterns of marine island biogeography

SP Avila, C Melo, B Berning, N Sá, R Quartau… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A synthetic model is presented to enlarge the evolutionary framework of the
General Dynamic Model (GDM) and the Glacial Sensitive Model (GSM) of oceanic island …

Emergence and evolution of Santa Maria Island (Azores)—The conundrum of uplifted islands revisited

RS Ramalho, G Helffrich, J Madeira, M Cosca… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The growth and decay of ocean-island volcanoes are intrinsically linked to vertical
movements. While the causes for subsidence are better understood, uplift mechanisms …

The crust-mantle transition beneath the Azores region (central-north Atlantic Ocean)

V Zanon, R Silva, C Goulart - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2023 - Springer
The Azores region straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and comprises volcanic islands and
seamounts interspersed with non-magmatic oceanic basins arranged along subparallel …

Cenozoic migration of a desert plant lineage across the North Atlantic

T Denk, JM Bouchal, HT Güner, M Coiro… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Previous paleobotanical work concluded that Paleogene elements of the sclerophyllous
subhumid vegetation of western Eurasia and western North America were endemic to these …

Environmental coastal research: a systematic review for Azores and Cabo Verde, two peripherical Macaronesian archipelagos

A Larrea, P Torres, C Seijo, MA Ventura… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
There is a strong link between humans and the coastal zone, as it provides important
services and resources. This paper aims to determine the existing environmental coastal …

Morpho-structural evolution of a volcanic island developed inside an active oceanic rift: S. Miguel Island (Terceira Rift, Azores)

ALR Sibrant, A Hildenbrand, FO Marques… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2015 - Elsevier
The evolution of volcanic islands is generally marked by fast construction phases alternating
with destruction by a variety of mass-wasting processes. More specifically, volcanic islands …

Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and preservation of a lower Pliocene shell bed (coquina) from a volcanic oceanic island (Santa Maria Island, Azores)

SP Ávila, RS Ramalho, JM Habermann… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
Massive fossil shell accumulations require particular conditions to be formed and may
provide valuable insights into the sedimentary environments favouring such concentrations …

Catastrophic flank collapses and slumping in Pico Island during the last 130 kyr (Pico-Faial ridge, Azores Triple Junction)

ACG Costa, A Hildenbrand, FO Marques… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pico Island constitutes the easternmost sub-aerial domain of a steep WNW-
ESE volcanic ridge, which has developed within the Nubia-Eurasia diffuse plate boundary …

Large-scale mass wasting on small volcanic islands revealed by the study of Flores Island (Azores)

A Hildenbrand, FO Marques, J Catalão - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Small intra-plate volcanic islands (total height above seafloor< 2500 m) have been
considered gravitationally stable. Topographic, stratigraphic, structural and new K/Ar data …

Natural background groundwater composition in the Azores archipelago (Portugal): A hydrogeochemical study and threshold value determination

JV Cruz, C Andrade - Science of the Total Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
Groundwater discharges were sampled in selected springs from São Miguel (Furnas and
Fogo trachytic central volcanoes) and Santa Maria islands (Azores, Portugal), in order to …