Parques de Portugal

Arrábida mountain range structural reliefs

Share Image

1. Personal Data

2. Image Upload

The files submitted on the website should be in JPEG or PNG format, with a maximum size of 5MB. By submitting this image you are authorizing its eventual publication in Natural.PT (its authorship will be mentioned).

  • Arrábida mountain range structural reliefs

  • Lisboa e Vale do Tejo

  • Setúbal

  • Arrábida Nature Park

  • No

  • Access from:

    - Setúbal (± 12 km) - N10-4 and N379-1;

    - Sesimbra (± 12 km) - N379, N378, M525 to Santana and N379-1.

     

    The site is on the N379-1 road SO BE CAREFUL.

     

    GPS: 38.494167, -8.966944

  • Set of resistance reliefs related to tectonic inversion, unique in Portugal.

     

    Tectonic - study of rocks deformation that make up the Earth's crust and the forces that produce such deformation at a global scale.

     

    Tectonic inversion - regions that have experienced a reversal from subsidence to uplift during the contractional reactivation of previously extensional faults and basins.

  • National