Em 1999 foram descobertos os primeiros vulcões de lama no Golfo de Cádiz (sector marroquino). Desde então foram realizados 8 cruzeiros científicos nesta área, sempre com participação/coordenação nacional, tendo sido demonstrada a existência de numerosas estruturas geológicas associadas com o escape de fluidos ricos em hidrocarbonetos, incluindo 29 vulcões de lama, confirmados por amostragem directa. Estes vulcõ...
ABSTRACT: GeoERA Minerals projects have produced data aimed at supporting Europe’s minerals sector and to assist the European Commission to realise its goals for raw materials. Data has been compiled on mineral occurrences and mineral provinces across Europe, in particular, areas with potential to host Critical Raw Materials. Anecdotal evidence from the minerals sector provides an indication of the likelihood o...
Located on the West Iberian margin, between Cabo Carvoeiro and Cabo da Roca, the Estremadura Spur is a trapezoidal promontory elongated in an east-west direction, extending until the Tore seamount. Recently a field with more than 70 pockmarks was discovered in the NW region of the Estremadura Spur outer shelf (Lourinhã Monocline). Pockmarks are the seabed culminations of fluid migration through the sedimentary ...
Recently a field with more than 70 pockmarks was discovered in the NW region of the Estremadura Spur outer shelf (West Iberian margin), a trapezoidal promontory elongated in an east-west direction, between Cabo Carvoeiro and Cabo da Roca, extending until the Tore seamount. Pockmarks are the seabed culminations of fluid migration through the sedimentary column and their characteristic seabed morphologies corresp...
ABSTRACT: The flow of terrestrial groundwater towards the sea is an important natural component of the hydrological cycle (Church, 1996). Hydrological studies have shown that land derived fresh groundwater may discharge through the sea floor through a process known as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD, Taniguchi et al., 2002). Many studies have highlighted the ubiquitous occurrence on the near-shore environm...
ABSTRACT: The flow of terrestrial groundwater towards the sea is an important natural component of the hydrological cycle (Church, 1996). Hydrological studies have shown that land derived fresh groundwater may discharge through the sea floor through a process known as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD, Taniguchi et al., 2002). Many studies have highlighted the ubiquitous occurrence on the near-shore environm...
Em 1999 foram descobertos os primeiros vulcões de lama no Golfo de Cádiz (sector marroquino). Desde então foram realizados 8 cruzeiros científicos nesta área, sempre com participação/coordenação nacional, tendo sido demonstrada a existência de numerosas estruturas geológicas associadas com o escape de fluidos ricos em hidrocarbonetos, incluindo 29 vulcões de lama, confirmados por amostragem directa. Estes vulcõ...