A Bacia Lusitaniana1 é uma bacia sedimentar que se desenvolveu na Margem Ocidental
Ibérica (MOI2) durante parte do Mesozóico, e a sua dinâmica enquadra-se no contexto da …

The Portuguese mainland, located in western Iberia, represents a key area for
understanding the evolution of the European Atlantic margin during the Cenozoic and the …

Tectonically active structures prone to cause devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, eg the
Lisbon 1755 earthquake, were investigated during the UNESCO/IOC Training Through …

Abstract Southwest Portugal, the Gulf of Cadiz and Morocco are under the potential threat of
natural hazards linked to seismicity and tsunami generation. We report the results of two …

Mainland Portugal, on the southwestern edge of the European continent, is located directly
north of the boundary between the Eurasian and Nubian plates. It lies in a region of slow …

The intraplate deformation of Iberia during the Cenozoic produced a series of ranges and
deformation belts with a wide variety of structural trends. The Spanish‐Portuguese Central …

Since middle Campanian times, the Iberian Peninsula experienced an increasing intraplate
deformation as a result of stress transmission from its successive active borders; first the …

The Alpine orogeny is well recorded onshore and offshore by tectonic inversion of the
Mesozoic rift basins. Large scale linear seamounts (more than 250 km long and with up to 5 …

The geometry and emplacement of the~ 96 km 2, Late Cretaceous Sintra Igneous complex
(SIC, ca. 80 Ma) into the West Iberian passive margin is presented, based on structural data …

At the beginning of the Alpine cycle, the breakup of Pangea lead to the early stages of the
North Atlantic opening. In the western Iberian sector of the European margin, the Lusitanian …