10.30486/gcr.2020.1911839.1036

Geosite of the MonthThe Reversely Zoned Castelo Branco Pluton at the New “Barrocal” City Park (Central Iberian Zone, Portugal)

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  • Isabel Margarida Horta Ribeiro Antunes1,
  • Carlos Neto De Carvalho2,3,4,
  • Mohamed Abioui5,6,
  1. ICT, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga, Portugal
  2. UNESCO Naturtejo Global Geopark – Geology Office of the Municipality of Idanha-a-Nova. Centro Cultural Raiano, Idanha-a-Nova, Portuga
  3. Instituto D. Luiz, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  4. CT, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga, Portugal
  5. Geo-environment and Geoheritage Group, Geology Department, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
  6. “Monachus” Group of Scientific Research and Ecological Education, Constanta, Romania
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Received: 2020-10-11

Accepted: 2020-12-08

Published in Issue 2020-12-12

Copyright (c) -1 Isabel Margarida Horta Ribeiro Antunes, Carlos Neto De Carvalho, Mohamed Abioui (Author)

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Antunes, I. M. H. R. ., Neto De Carvalho, C., & Abioui, M. (2020). Geosite of the MonthThe Reversely Zoned Castelo Branco Pluton at the New “Barrocal” City Park (Central Iberian Zone, Portugal). Geoconservation Research, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.30486/gcr.2020.1911839.1036
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Abstract

The "Barrocal" city Park of Castelo Branco is an urban park developed to protect the geoheritage of the tardi-Variscan granite landscapes of the only city existing in the area of the Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark. The "Barrocal" Granite is part of a Late Carboniferous unusual reversely zone intrusion with a granodiorite core and different granites in the rim. The weathering processes developed many textbook examples of granite landforms that are now accessible and available for appreciation by the local community and tourists in a 40 ha park, the newly geotourist attraction of the Geopark........

Keywords

  • "Barrocal" park,
  • Geotourism,
  • Granite geodynamics,
  • Landforms,
  • Naturtejo Geopark, ,
  • Portugal
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