The Middle Jurassic palynology of the Sagres region, southern Portugal.

• Author(s): Borges, Marisa ; Fernandes, Paulo ; Pereira, Zélia ; Riding, Jim
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/5122
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Portugal; Algarve Basin; Carrapateira outlier; Biostratigraphy; Dinoflagellate cysts; Jurassic
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The Algarve Basin corresponds to the southernmost geological province of mainland Portugal. It has an E-W strike and is represented onshore from Cap São Vicente to the Guadiana River on the Portuguese-Spanish border. More than 3000 m of essentially marine sediments accumulated during Mesozoic-Cenozoic times in the Algarve Basin.