987 resultados para Fluvial geomorphology


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The Quaternary fluvial formations of the Doukkala plain are, until now, slightly studied. Our study has allowed to precise that the fluvial terraces of the oued "the Ourn Rbia oued", are clearly distinguished from the secondary oueds terraces by the dynamic deposit of the alluvial materials. Moreover, the mammal fossils recolted from some of these terraces allow to review the ages attributed by Gigout (1951).

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An Upper Miocene important sedimentary break can be accurately recognised in the Portuguese basins and is reflected by a drastic palaeogeographic change in relation to a large-scale tectonic event of probable uppermost Vallesian-Turolian (9,5 Ma; middle Tortonian) age. The characterisation of the sedimentary record of this tectonic event, as well as its relations with interpreted active faults is made for different situations: Douro (NW border), Mondego, Lower-Tagus and Sado Tertiary basins. The sedimentary record, considered upper Tortonian-Messinian ? (uppermost Vallesian-Turolian ?) is interpreted mainly as endorheic alluvial fans (internal drainage), developed along active NNE-SSW indent-linked strike-slip faults and NE-SW reverse faults. At NE Portugal, proximal fluvial systems of an endorheic hydrographic network drained eastwards to the Spanish Duero interior Basin. The main evidences of the betic compression clímax in Portugal mainland are presented; the interpreted active tectonic structures are in accordance with an intense NNW-SSE crustal shortening, but some regional differences are also documented.

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One of the most common characteristics of Portuguese littoral is the existence of a planed surface (the so-called "littoral platform"), situated at different altitudes and bordered from the inland by a straight relief, strongly contrasting with that planed surface. This one is generally covered with several outcrops of the so-called Plio-Pleistocene deposits. Till the eighties this platform has been interpreted as stable staircase of old marine levels, registering in a passive way the eustatic variations. The rigid step bordering it easterly should be a fossil cliff. However, our study has proved that many of these deposits have a continental origin. These continental deposits have fluvial or alluvial fan facies and they are lying above 40 meters. Marine deposits seem to be quite rare and they only occupy a small western area, beneath the altitude of 40 meters and developing into three different marine levels. There is a rigid step between the two kinds of deposits. We think that the clear geometric separation between these deposits together with this rigid step, indicates a tectonic origin. It seems that the sea must have touched only the western part of this surface, when neotectonic movements lowered it down. There are more evidences for neotectonic movements: a) there are faults (mainly inverse faults) affecting the higher deposits of this littoral platform; b) the same marine level seems to appear at different altitudes, developing an irregular pattern with a general trend dipping from the North to the South.

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This paper describes the palaeoweathering, cementation, clay minerals association and other closely related characteristics of central Portugal allostratigraphic Tertiary units (SLD's), that can be used for palaeoclimatic interpretation and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Lateral and vertical changes in palaeosols are of value for improving our understanding of the autocyclic and allocyclic controls on sediment acumulation in an alluvial basin, but they can also have stratigraphic importance. In some cases it is concluded that the geomorphological setting may have been more decisive than climatic conditions to the production of the palaeoweathering. During late Palaeogene (SLD7-8), surface and near-surface silicification were developed on tectonically stable land surfaces of minimal local relief under a semi-arid climate; groundwater flow was responsible for some eodiagenesis calcareous accumulations, with the neoformation of palygorskite. Conditions during the Miocene (SLD9-11) were favourable for the smectization of the metamorphic basement and arenization of granites. Intense rubefaction associated with basement conversion into clay (illite and kaolinite), is ascribed to internal drainage during late Messinian-Zanclean (SLD12). During Piacenzian (SLD13) intense kaolinization and hydromorphism are typical, reflecting a more humid and hot temperate climate and important Atlantic fluvial drainage. Later on (Gelasian-early Pleistocene ?; SLD14). more cold and dry conditicns are interpreted, at the beginning of the fluvial incision sage. Silica cementation is identified in the upper Eocence-Oligocene ? (SLD18; the major period of silicification), middle to upper Miocene (SLD10)and upper Tortonian-Messinian (SLD11); these occurrences are compatible with either arid or semi-arid conditions and the establishment of a flat landscape upon which a silcrete was developed.

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Recently had been discovery, in the area of the construction of the Carla Sacramento Athletics Stadium at Cruz de Pau (Seixal), a set of stopes and wells with characteristics of ancient Roman mining activities. The old mining works are incised in pliocene sandy formations with conglomeratic facies, where four preliminary samples were collected in a coarser level with subrounded pebbles. The heavy minerais of those samples were studied in accordance with the Heavy Mineral Concentrate Laboratory of the IGM. The previously mentioned facies has interesting gold percentages and the presence of grey (nodular) and classic monazite, xenotime, cassiterite, spinels s.l., ilmenite and rutile. The morphology of the gold grains as well as the heavy minerals shows two phases of transport; an initial fluvial phase and a secondary aeolian phase influenced their concentracion. The high percentage of toroid grains showing evidence of wind ablation, suggests that this was the main factor for reconcentration of the gold. The amount of gold particles obtained in the concentrates is considerable and in one sample, a grade of 3.2 ppm was calculated. The samples also have been analysed for Au + 34 elements by INAA and ICP-MS, the results of which show similar grades as previously obtained.

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The deep submarine valley near Setúbal that connects the continental platform to the Tagus Abyssal Plain is a submarine canyon of the type commonly knows as Gouf. In this article we try to show the tectonic influence in its formation and in the installation of its submarine hydrographic net. Some indirect evidences of erosive processes responsible for the formation of typical submarine forms of canyons are analysed based in the interpretation of the batimetric map. Finally, we try to give a brief idea of the evolution of this canyon based on the knowledge that is accepted for the area where he belongs.

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A sequência estratigráfica cenozóica da bacia do Guadiana entre Mérida e Badajoz está representada por depósitos de leque aluvial e fluviais. Neste trabalho apresenta-se urna primeira descrição de duas das unidades de preenchimento da bacia. A primeira corresponde a sedimentos de idade miocénica que se encaixaram nos depósitos de Ieque aluvial, que os antecedem, desenvolvendo um sistema fluvial com urna direcção principal E-W, caracterizado pela presença de barras e canais arenosos associados a níveis edáficos, com fraco desenvolvimento da planície de inundação. A segunda unidade, de idade pliocénica, representa a instalação de uma nova rede de drenagem que se sobrepõe e erode os sedimentos miocénicos. A direcção principal entre Mérida e Badajoz continua a ser E-W, para inflectir para o S em Badajoz. As facies pliocénlcas são essencialmente conglomeráticas e arenosas, correspondendo a canais móveis e barras formadas em consequência de processos de migração e encaixe da rede fluvial. Ambos os sistemas fluviais representam parte da evolução do preenchimento da bacia do Guadiana desde o Miocénico até ao Plio-Quaternário, sendo as principais diferenças entre ambos interpretadas como devidas a modificações tectónicas pre-quaternárias na região.

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Shelves surrounding reefless volcanic ocean islands are formed by surf erosion of their slopes during changing sea levels. Posterosional lava flows, if abundant, can cross the coastal cliffs and fill partially or completely the accommodation space left by erosion. In this study, multibeam bathymetry, high-resolution seismic reflection profiles, and sediment samples are used to characterize the morphology of the insular shelves adjacent to Pico Island. The data show offshore fresh lava flow morphologies, as well as an irregular basement beneath shelf sedimentary bodies and reduced shelf width adjacent to older volcanic edifices in Pico. These observations suggest that these shelves have been significantly filled by volcanic progradation and can thus be classified as rejuvenated. Despite the general volcanic infilling of the shelves around Pico, most of their edges are below the depth of the Last Glacial Maximum, revealing that at least parts of the island have subsided after the shelves formed by surf erosion. Prograding lava deltas reached the shelf edge in some areas triggering small slope failures, locally decreasing the shelf width and depth of their edges. These areas can represent a significant risk for the local population; hence, their identification can be useful for hazard assessment and contribute to wiser land use planning. Shelf and subaerial geomorphology, magnetic anomalies and crustal structure data of the two islands were also interpreted to reconstruct the long-term combined onshore and offshore evolution of the Faial-Pico ridge. The subaerial emergence of this ridge is apparently older than previously thought, i.e., before approximate to 850 ka.

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Mestrado em Engenharia Geotécnica e Geoambiente

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Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil – Perfil de Construção

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Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente, perfil de Gestão e Sistemas Ambientais

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Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil

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O desenvolvimento incessante em áreas urbanas ameaça a qualidade e quantidade das águas subterrâneas. O Porto é uma cidade densamente urbanizada, dominada por granitos, os quais constituem um meio fraturado anisotrópico e heterogéneo. O principal objetivo desta dissertação foi realçar a importância da cartografia hidrogeológica, bem como a relevância de realizar inventários hidrogeológicos e de potenciais focos de contaminação para compreender a vulnerabilidade dos sistemas aquíferos na cidade do Porto. Para tal, foram selecionadas as bacias hidrográficas da Asprela e de Massarelos. Assim, foram levados a cabo dois inventários, um hidrogeológico e outro das potenciais atividades de contaminação. O estudo foi apoiado pelos Sistemas de Informação Geográfica (SIG), os quais foram fundamentais para um melhor conhecimento e integração nas áreas de estudo. Previamente à implementação dos inventários foi feita uma caracterização das duas bacias, em termos geográficos, hidroclimatológicos, de ocupação do solo, geomorfológicos e hidrogeológicos. As duas bacias desenvolvem‐se, principalmente, na unidade hidrogeológica do granito de grão médio a fino, por vezes com saprólito. O inventário hidrogeológico contemplou principalmente fontanários e nascentes, tendo incluído, respetivamente, 8 e 21 pontos de água nas bacias da Asprela e de Massarelos. As águas subterrâneas são límpidas, sem turvação ou cheiro, ácidas, com mineralizações baixas a médias, temperaturas baixas e caudais muito pequenos. Quanto aos potenciais focos de contaminação, na bacia da Asprela foram reconhecidos 61, enquanto que na bacia de Massarelos foram identificados 78. A maioria destas atividades é pontual correspondendo, nomeadamente, a estabelecimentos de ensino e estações de serviço/oficinas de automóveis. Contudo, os focos lineares apresentam uma difusão significativa nas duas bacias hidrográficas. Apesar de a vulnerabilidade intrínseca à contaminação das águas subterrâneas nestas áreas ser baixa a moderada, a localização dos potenciais focos de contaminação poderá ser responsável pelo aumento da vulnerabilidade nas duas bacias estudadas. Esta metodologia demonstrou ser extremamente importante para um melhor conhecimento dos sistemas de água subterrânea do Porto e, ainda, da hidrogeologia de áreas urbanas.

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Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia geológica (Geotecnia)

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Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Geológica