How did the AD 1755 tsunami impact on sand barriers across the southern coast of Portugal?

Tsunamis are highly energetic events that may destructively impact the coast. Resolving the degree of coastal resilience to tsunamis is extremely difficult and sometimes impossible. In part, our understanding is constrained by the limited number of contemporaneous examples and by the high dynamism of coastal systems. In fact, longterm changes of coastal systems can mask the evidence of past tsunamis, leaving us a short or incomplete sedimentary archive. Here, we present a multidisciplinary approach involving sedimentological, geomorphological and geophysical analyses and numerical modelling of the AD 1755 tsunami flood on a coastal segment located within the southern coast of Portugal. In particular, the work focuses on deciphering the impact of the tsunami waves over a coastal sand barrier enclosing two lowlands largely inundated by the tsunami flood. Erosional features documented by geophysical data were assigned to the AD 1755 eventwith support of sedimentological and age estimation results. Furthermore, these features allowed the calibration of the simulation settings to reconstruct the local conditions and establish the run-up range of the AD 1755 tsunami when it hit this coast (6– 8 m above mean sea level). Our work highlights the usefulness of erosional imprints preserved in the sediment record to interpret the impact of the extreme events on sand barriers

Between service and loyalty: chancery and chancellors of Portugal in the 14th century

Estudo dos perfis e carreiras dos chancelares que serviram os reis portugueses ao longo do século XIV. Procura-se, com este estudo, reflectir sobre a evolução do papel dos eclesiásticos na construção da realeza e estabelecer tendências para a evolução dos perfis dos protagonistas do serviço régio.

Mémoire de Marie Caroline, reine de Naples, intitulé De la révolution de royaume de Sicile ... par un témoin oculaire ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxv) and index.

Richard Coeur de Lion : opéra-comique en trois actes /

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Advertencias a el previlegio onzeno de los de el señor rey don Juan el primero de Aragon, en favor de la fiesta y mysterio de la concepción de la beatissima Virgen Maria sin mancha de pecado original /

"Con una constitución de Cataluña, y otro Fuero de Aragon del señor Rey don Iuan el segundo, en la misma materia."

De D. João VI á Independencia; estudo sobre os fatos que mais contribuiram para ser proclamada em S. Paulo, no dia 7 de setembro de 1822, nas margens do Ypiranga, a emancipação politica da Patria.

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La infanta Carlota Joaquina y la política de España en América (1808-1812)

"Apendice documental": p. [185]-295.

Un projet de mariage royal /

"Publie pour la premiere fois dans la Revue des deux mondes," juillet-aout, 1862.

François Ier et le mouvement intellectuel en France (1515-1547) ...

Thèse--Faculté des lettres de Lausanne.

Correspondances du siècle dernier : un projet de mariage du duc d'Orléans (1836) Lettres de Léopold Ier de Belgique a Adolphe Thiers (1836-1864) Documents inédits publiés avec des avertissements et des notes /

Editor's autograph presentation copy to Arthur Chuquet.

Mémoires du comte Roger de Damas ...

[t. 1] Russie, Valmy et armee de conde Naples (1787-1806).--[t. 2] Vienne de 1806 à 1814, suivis de lettres inédites de Marie-Carolina, reine de Naples, au comte Roger de Damas (1801-1814).

D. João VI /

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The Bruce. And, Wallace /

Notes, preliminary remarks, and biographical sketch of John Barbour by John Jamieson.

The Bruce /

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A counter-blaste to tobacco /

The original was printed in 1604 in London by R. B.