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

Authors

• Isabel Margarida N Antunes * ¹
• Carlos Neto De Carvalho ^{2, 3}
• Mohamed Abioui2 ^{4, 5}

1. ICT, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga, Portugal
2. Instituto Dom Luiz, Departamento de Geologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
3. Geopark Naturtejo Meseta Meridional. Centro Cultural Raiano. Avenida Joaquim Morão, 6060-101, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
4. Geology Department, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
5. “Monachus” Group of Scientific Research and Ecological Education, Constanta, Romania

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

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

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