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.

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Geoheritage Early Cretaceous Paleophytogeography Palynostratigraphy Algarve Basin Portugal

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

Citação

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

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