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Karren fields of Granja dos Serrões and Negrais

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  • Karren fields of Granja dos Serrões and Negrais

  • Lisboa e Vale do Tejo

  • Sintra

  • Sintra-Cascais Nature Park

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  • Access from:

    - Sintra (± 11 km) – N9 and Av. do Lapiás (Montelavar)

     

    GPS: 38.8625000,-9.3038889

  • In this place you can see the best examples, in Portugal, Cretaceous limestone karren fields, i.e. limestone zone with large furrows and spaces between the blocks, due to erosion caused by rainwater (which is acidic).

     

    See also the vegetation of limestone áreas.

     

    Cretaceous – last phase of Mesozoic Era, between 135 and 165 million years.

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