Dissertação de Mestrado em Geociências apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia; Palynology is the scientific field devoted to the study of pollen, spores, and other microorganisms with an organic wall, hence termed palynomorphs. Through palynomorphs, it's possible to determine the age of stratigraphic units, establish correlations between them, and interpret the paleoenvironmental context in which they...
The Amaral Formation has a wide geographic distribution within the Lusitanian Basin, at the western Iberian Margin (Portugal). The different depositional contexts for this unit enabled the distinction of three sectors: lagoon, lagoon-barrier, and marine-distal. The integration of the evolutionary taphonomic analysis of its fossil assemblages with the analysis of multiscale properties through the CAMURES methodo...