The Arrifes geosite: a fascinating glimpse into an Early Cretaceous ecosystem within the Algarvensis aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal) [Resumo]

ABSTRACT: Over a century after Paul Choffat's initial description of the Arrifes section, a pioneering figure in Portuguese geology who highlighted the vertical arrangement of the strata and the occurrence of a limestone bed containing a copious quantity of orbitolinid tests, this upper Barremian–lower Aptian stratigraphic succession, which is fully exposed along a coastal cliff section located 2.5 km west-southwest of Albufeira (Algarve, southern Portugal), has become one of the most outstanding geosites within the Algarvensis aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark.

Keywords

Geoheritage Early Cretaceous Paleophytogeography Palynostratigraphy Algarve Basin Portugal

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/4460

Citation

Pereira, H., Lopes, F., Pérez-Cano, J., Santos, V., Malafaia, E., Mendes, M., Pereira, Z., Sweetman, S., Fernandes, P. & Callapez, P. (2024) The Arrifes geosite: a fascinating glimpse into an Early Cretaceous ecosystem within the Algarvensis aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal). In: 17th European Geoparks Conference 2024, Abstract Book, Reykjanes, Iceland, 2-6 October, 2024, p. 237-238