Sedimentología y cambios del nivel del mar en el Islote Guidoiro Areoso, Ria de Arousa, NO de la Peninsula Iberica

  1. Ramón Blanco Chao
  2. Manuela Costa Casais
  3. Teresa Taboada Rodriguez
  4. Rebeca Tallón Armada
Book:
Mudanças em Sistemas Ambientais e sua Expressão Temporal: Livro de Resumos da IX Reunião do Quaternário Ibérico
  1. Ana Gomes (ed. lit.)
  2. Célia Gonçalves (ed. lit.)
  3. Lino André (ed. lit.)
  4. Nuno Bicho (ed. lit.)
  5. Tomasz Boski (ed. lit.)

Publisher: Asociación Española para el Estudio del Cuaternario ; Grupo de Trabalho Português para o Estudo do Quaternário (GTPEQ)

Year of publication: 2017

Pages: 63-64

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

We identified an evolutive sequence with a period of deposition of sediments from weathering layers around 5.6 and 4.6 ky BP. Above this layer there is a beach-dune sediment. We obtained a sediment column in a formation between -1 m and the present mean sea level. Its propoerties suggest a fast sedimentation in an intertidal system that started around 3.9-3.7 kys BP.