One of the most common characteristics of the 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 interpr...
This work aims at presenting a stratigraphic and morphotectonic regional framework of the quartzite relief of the Soutelo - Arrancada do Vouga - Águeda structural domain (Iberian Massif, NW Portugal). The Armorican quartzite discontinuous outcrops take the form of a narrow N-S strip, with a 1 km wide, of Lower Palaeozoic age, which is included in a major crustal-scale strike-slip zone, the so-called Porto-Coimb...
This work emphasizes the importance of recovery processes of abandoned mining heritage, as an example of the transformative process of an organization towards a second life cycle. This perspective reflects an important measure for sustainability, either for the organization and the surrounding environment. The Aveleira Mine is an old wolfram mine, belonging to the Monastery of St Martin of Tibães, near Braga, i...
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