Coordinators:

Pedro M. Callapez (Departamento de Ciências da Terra da Universidade de Coimbra; CITEUC – Centro de Investigação da Terra e do espaço da Universidade de Coimbra)

Pedro A. Dinis (Departamento de Ciências da Terra da Universidade de Coimbra; MARE –  Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente)

Pedro P. Cunha (Departamento de Ciências da Terra da Universidade de Coimbra; MARE –  Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente)

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Duration: 1 day

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Price: 90€ (40€ for students)

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The stratigraphic record of the post-rift series found in the Atlantic margin of Portugal is well represented in the onshore sectors of Beira Litoral, between Nazaré and Aveiro. Unlike the Portuguese Estremadura, where a tectonic inversion occurred from the end of the Upper Cenomanian upwards, and excluded any significant marine records except for the Miocene of the Baixo Tejo and Alvalade basins and a few Pliocene incursions in the area of Caldas da Rainha, in these northern sectors of the so-called "Aveiro Basin", the thickness of the Cretaceous units reaches more than 600 m and the Plio-Pleistocene sandy cover also show significant development. In the proposed excursion will be made a visit to records of the main marine events representative of this post-rift succession: (1) the Cenomanian-Turonian in facies with rudists and ammonites; (2) the Upper Coniacian and its connection with the Iberian Basin; (3) the marine and continental Campanian and the problematic of the "Garumnian"; (4) the marine Pliocene and the Plio-Pleistocene transition.