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Abstract: The coastal plain situated between Figueira da Foz and Nazaré (western central Portugal) has a general low slope towards west, with altitudes below 200 m, and constitutes an important geomophological unit that is usually... more
Abstract:

The coastal plain situated between Figueira da Foz and Nazaré (western central Portugal) has a general low slope towards west, with altitudes below 200 m, and constitutes an important geomophological unit that is usually called “Littoral Platform”. At north, east and south, the platform is limited by the limestones relieves of the Serra da Boa Viagem – Verride arc, Sicó Massif and Estremenho Massif. These relieves are characterized by high slope values and altitude > 200 m. The fluvial incision produced narrow valleys, that in the study area comprise the distal sectors of the Mondego and Lis drainage basins. Regionally six territorial units were distinguished which, given the characteristics of the natural systems and the development of human activities, determine different areas of risk: the limestone hills, sandy hills, floodplains, coastal plain, littoral and the probable neotectonic structures. The limestone hills are particularly sensitive to geomorphological risks (landslides), the sandy hills are vulnerable not only to geomorphological risks (landslides, streams, erosion by land and water) but also to forest fires, alluvial plains are vulnerable to floods and flooding, coastal plain and its field of eolian dunes vulnerable to forest fires, the coast with high vulnerability to erosion of different types according to morphology of the coast and, finally, the probably active tectonic structures, particularly those that are related to diapiric structures, are a source of seismic risk.

Keywords: Natural risks; Risks research areas; Coastal plain; hazard; vulnerability .
Este trabalho desenvolveu-se numa área definida, genericamente, entre os paralelos da Serra da Boa Viagem e da Nazaré. Teve como objectivo o estudo dos depósitos Pliocénicos e Plistocénicos da Plataforma Litoral entre as localidades atrás... more
Este trabalho desenvolveu-se numa área definida, genericamente, entre os paralelos da Serra da Boa Viagem e da Nazaré. Teve como objectivo o estudo dos depósitos Pliocénicos e Plistocénicos da Plataforma Litoral entre as localidades atrás referidas, bem como os relevos ...
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The different types of risks are defined through the relationship between a hazard and a vulnerability. Despite its randomness, both in time and in space, the manifestations of risk seem to have their own territories and landscapes. In... more
The different types of risks are defined through the relationship between a hazard and a vulnerability. Despite its randomness, both in time and in space, the manifestations of risk seem to have their own territories and landscapes.
In the specific case study, the county of Torres Novas (Central Portugal), we can define four distinct territories by both natural hazards (limestone mountain sandstone and limestone hills and the alluvial plain of the river Almonda) and urban hazards (concentration of the population in urban areas).
After an exhaustive study of natural and anthropogenic municipal risks, limestone mountains are considered a territory with susceptibility to for rockfalls; the sandstone and limestone hills are most favorable to the development of landslides, mud flows and hydric erosion; the floodplain to the floods; and the urban area to a set of human-induced risks, such as urban fires and traffic accidents.
These same areas by the human occupation, express also different vulnerabilities which in some cases will increase the risk (sandstone and limestone hills, urban areas) and in other cases may reduce the risk (limestone mountains and floodplains).
This study aims to apply the analytic hierarchy process to the study of susceptibility to landslides in a coastal plain located betwen Figueira da Foz and Nazaré (western central Portugal). This method is an important tool to use in the... more
This study aims to apply the analytic hierarchy process to the study of susceptibility to landslides in a coastal plain located betwen Figueira da Foz and Nazaré (western central Portugal). This method is an important tool to use in the planning and management of natural risks.
Regionally were distinguished different areas of risk: the limestone hills, the sandy hills, floodplains, coastal plain the coastline and the probable neotectonic structures. The limestone hills are particularly sensitive to mass movements (mainly landslides), the sandy hills are vulnerable not only to movements and fluvial erosion, but also to forest fires. Alluvial plains are vulnerable to floods and overflooding, coastal plain and its aeolian dune field could be very vulnerable to forest fires, the coastline presents high vulnerability to erosion of different types according to morphology of the coast and, finally, the active tectonic structures, particularly those that are related with diapirs, are a source of seismic risk.
Neste trabalho apresenta-se uma caracterização dos terraços do rio Mondego, baseada em critérios geomorfológicos e sedimentológicos, em particular os que se localizam entre Maiorca e Vila Verde. Na área vestibular do rio Mondego, Ramos... more
Neste trabalho apresenta-se uma caracterização dos terraços do rio Mondego, baseada em critérios geomorfológicos e sedimentológicos, em particular os que se localizam entre Maiorca e Vila Verde.
Na área vestibular do rio Mondego, Ramos (2008); Ramos et al. (2009) distinguiram seis episódios de escavação-agradação, cujos níveis foram designados por M1 a M6 (do mais alto para o mais baixo), situados abaixo da superfície culminante do enchimento sedimentar e acima da planície aluvial actual (3m de altitude).
A maioria dos níveis inferiores correspondem a terraços sedimentares, com associações de fácies deposicionais distintas nos vários níveis.
As associações de fácies que caracterizam M1, M2 e M3 (depósitos dos níveis mais antigos) são de natureza areno-cascalhenta e lutítica associadas a processos fluviais, bem como arenosas finas de génese eólica. Contudo, as fácies são difíceis de analisar espacialmente, nomeadamente as cascalhentas, por os depósitos estarem dispersos em retalhos e porque a unidade subjacente (do Cretácico) também é conglomerática. São exemplos destes depósitos os que se observam na Serra de S. Bento (126m de altitude; 123m acima da planície aluvial); Serra de Castros (118m) e Serra de Moinhos (100m).
O registo sedimentar de M4, M5 e M6 (terraços mais recentes) é o que está melhor preservado e as associações de fácies distinguem-se claramente das dos terraços mais antigos. A sua observação pode fazer-se entre Lares e Vila Verde, a altitudes que rondam os 10-20m. Interpretam-se associações de fácies fluviais, estuarinas e de praia.
The detailed geomorphological mapping provides information that allows one to make an detailed analysis of the elements which form the relief. These elements can be natural or derived from the anthropic action. The objective of this paper... more
The detailed geomorphological mapping provides information that allows one to make an detailed analysis of the elements which form the relief. These elements can be natural or derived from the anthropic action. The objective of this paper is to present a proposal of geomorphological cartographic detail applied to the relief analysis in an area affected by mining in Portuguese territory. The proposal presented here is based in the adaptation of the orientations of the french Geomorphology school wich underlie various geomorphologic mappings developed by the Center for the Study of Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT in portuguese) of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal, and also guides the geomorphologic mappings developed in the Geomorphology Laboratory (LAGEO in portuguese) of the São Paulo State University, Rio Claro Campus, Brasil. An area of study in Portuguese territory was selected due to it’s impacts caused by external extrative calcary, sand and clay units for that. The general geomorphologic mappings of an 177 km2 area situated south of Coimbra, in the 1:25.000 scale, was made aiming to recognize the forms and processes that operate there. Based on this mapping, two affected sectors by mining were identified and mappings in the detail scale of 1:10.000 for the 1958, 1995 and 2013 years were made. The modifications
above the earth surface and bellow the earth surface by the human being in mining areas resulted in the change of dimensions of elements that can be measured. Comparison of these values allowed the identifi cation of the anthropogenic changes at the places destined to mining. As a result, an evaluation of the application of this technique potential to obtain parameters allusive the forms, materials and geomorphological processes, identified by data quantification parameters was done.
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Cette visite vise à aborder l’évolution des systèmes littoraux, dunaires, karstiques et sédimentaires du secteur Figueira da Foz-Nazaré. L’attention sera attirée sur les occurrences occasionnelles d’accrétion et l’érosion côtière sévère... more
Cette visite vise à aborder l’évolution des systèmes littoraux, dunaires, karstiques et sédimentaires du secteur Figueira da Foz-Nazaré. L’attention sera attirée sur les occurrences occasionnelles d’accrétion
et l’érosion côtière sévère (André et Cordeiro, 2010).
La plaine côtière que nous allons visiter présente de vastes dunes, largement couvertes de pinèdes (Pinus pinaster dominant), avec des morphologies diversifiées qui ne sont pas encore significativement
affectées par les actions anthropiques, offrant de bonnes conditions pour l’étude des caractéristiques morpho-sédimentaires et l’interprétation des conditions environnementales contrôlant sa genèse
(André et al., 2009).
Comme «les paysages hérités aujourd’hui, ils montrent de manière assez éloquente une évolution complexe et souvent difficile à déchiffrer» (Reis et al., 2007), il est également prévu de montrer certains aspects du paysage, notamment en ce qui concerne les caractéristiques de la géologie, de la géomorphologie et du géopatrimoine, qui reçoivent aussi l’ancienne mémoire de la naissance de l’Atlantique.
La zone que nous visitons est intégrée dans une unité morphostructurale appelée Bassin Lusitanien (Fig. 1). Le Bassin Lusitanien correspond à une unité morphostructurale allongée NNESSW
sur environ 275 km, avec une largeur de 150 km et une épaisseur des sédiments maximale d’environ 5 km. Sa définition est initiée au Trias, en association avec l’ouverture de l’Atlantique Nord,dan s le système de la croûte terrestre d’étirement et de l’affaissement contrôlé par des failles. L’ Orla mesocenozoïque occidental du Portugal se compose essentiellement de sédiments déposé dans le Bassin Lusitanien de suite remobilisés pour l’activité tectonique en compression.
Dans la transition du Trias au Jurassique, la sédimentation endoréique a été essentiellement détritique et continentale remplacée à partir du Hettangien par des matières saumâtres et marines, de marnes et évaporites. Du Trias au Jurassique il y a un changement important dans le cadre du climat correspondant au territoire portugais actuel, car Iberia, comme d’autres masses terrestres de l’hémisphère nord en raison de la fragmentation de la Pangée, migre d’un endroit dans la gamme de
climat chaud avec vigueur saison sèche par un endroit intertropical, encore chaud mais humide. Le processus de rifting a créé une topographie irrégulière et dynamique de blocs limitée par des failles
normales.
À son tour, au cours du Jurassique moyen et du Jurassique supérieur, ces blocs délimités par des failles normales ont été succédés par des lithofaciès de plate-forme carbonatée marginale et peu profondes, carbonates et lutites hemipelágiques et aussi profondes dans la succession perturbée par des épisodes régressifs de nature eustatique ou intrabasinal. Au début du Jurassique supérieur a un cloisonnement tectonique de l’écart en petits blocs avec différents rematch tectoniques impliquant la mobilisation par halokinésie des termes les plus anciens sédimentaires du bassin, couvert par la série sédimentaire épaisse.
La majeure partie du bassin a émergé au cours du Crétacé inférieur marqué par la sédimentation fluviale, deltaïque ou marins peu profonds ou même l’érosion. De l’Aptien, avec le début de la formation de la croûte océanique sur toute la marge ouest ibérique, un contexte de marge passive se produit. Les cloques et la distension associées à l’installation de croûte océanique ont provoqué des phases d’enquête régionales, toujours accompagnées d’halokinésie. La transgression enregistrée lors du passage au Crétacé supérieur a permis la fermeture totale du bassin (Freitas et al., 2010).
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GOTH, B., CUNHA, L. e RAMOS, A. M. (2016) – Le geopatrimoine de l’île de S. Nicolau (Cap-Vert). Entre inventoire et stratégie de valorisation. Dynamiques Environnementales, Bordeaux, 37, pp. 115-130.