The Castelo Velho area stays at very special position because it correspondsto a kind of a crossroad where the large flat surface of the Meseta begins tobe moved by the passage of a major tectonic accident (Vilariça fault) andsimultaneously, carved by the down wearing erosion of the Douro and itstributaries. The major tectonic accident, active during the Quaternary, is underlinedby the rigidity of the Vale da V...
The coastal area of S. Paio, Vila do Conde, is a stretch of great geomorphological interest, due to the conservation of several testimonies of sea level changes and climate evolution during the late Quaternary, in a scenario with a strong influence of geological structure. Therefore, we applied new technologies to study this rocky coast, namely the acquisition of aero photogrammetric data using UAV (model DV6-s...