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104 relations: Accretion (geology), Air pollution, Alentejo, Algarve, Almagreira (Vila do Porto), Alqueva Dam, Amareleja, Antuã River, Armorican Massif, Atlantic Ocean, Aveiro Lagoon, Aveiro, Portugal, Azores, Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault, Óbidos, Portugal, Baetic System, Bay of Biscay, Boco River, Bragança, Portugal, Cabo da Roca, Cadomian Orogeny, Caia (river), Cape St. Vincent, Cenozoic, Continental Portugal, Cork (material), Dom João de Castro Bank, Douro, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earthquake, Europe, European Union, Exclusive economic zone of Portugal, Fish, Fontão River, Forests of the Iberian Peninsula, Foz do Arelho, Geology of the Alps, Glacier, Gondwana, Guadiana, Hurricane Gordon (2006), Hydroelectricity, Iberian Peninsula, Iberian Plate, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Iron, Island arc, Islet, Köppen climate classification, ..., Lagoa das Sete Cidades, Lagoa de Óbidos, Lagoa do Fogo, Lake, List of countries and territories by land borders, Madeira, Marble, Mediterranean Sea, Mesozoic, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Minho (river), Miranda do Douro, Mondego River, Mount Pico, Nature (journal), North America, Oceanic climate, Oligocene, Olivenza, Pangaea, Penhas da Saúde, Peninsula, Pico Island, Porto Santo Island, Portugal–Spain border, Reservoir, Ria Formosa, Ribeira de Cuncos, River delta, Salt, Santa Maria Island, Savage Islands, São João da Pesqueira, São Miguel Island, Semi-arid climate, Serra da Estrela, Sistema Central, Soil erosion, Southern Europe, Spain, Strait of Gibraltar, Tagus, Tectonophysics (journal), Terceira Island, The Journal of Geology, Tungsten, Uranium, Variscan orogeny, Volcano, Vouga River, Water pollution, Wildfire, Year, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season. Expand index (54 more) »
Accretion (geology)
Accretion, in geology, is a process by which material is added to a tectonic plate or a landmass.
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Air pollution
Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particulates, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere.
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Alentejo
The Alentejo is a geographical, historical and cultural region of south-central and southern Portugal.
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Algarve
The Algarve (from الغرب "the west") is the southernmost region of continental Portugal.
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Almagreira (Vila do Porto)
Almagreira is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila do Porto on the island of Santa Maria, in the Portuguese autonomous region of Azores.
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Alqueva Dam
The Alqueva Dam is an arch dam and the centrepiece of the Alqueva Multipurpose Project.
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Amareleja
Amareleja is a Portuguese civil parish of the municipality of Moura, in the district of Beja.
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Antuã River
Antuã is a Portuguese river, located in the Aveiro region.
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Armorican Massif
The Armorican Massif (Massif armoricain) is a geologic massif that covers a large area in the northwest of France, including Brittany, the western part of Normandy and the Pays de la Loire.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Aveiro Lagoon
The Aveiro lagoon (Ria de Aveiro) is a lagoon in Portugal.
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Aveiro, Portugal
Aveiro is a city and a municipality in Portugal.
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Azores
The Azores (or; Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal.
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Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault
The Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault (AGFZ), also called a fault zone and a fracture zone, is a major seismic fault in the Central Atlantic Ocean west of the Strait of Gibraltar.
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Óbidos, Portugal
Óbidos (Eburobrittium) is a town (vila) and a municipality in the Oeste Subregion in Portugal.
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Baetic System
The Baetic System (Sistema Bético) is one of the main systems of mountain ranges in Spain.
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Bay of Biscay
The Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne, Golfo de Vizcaya, Pleg-mor Gwaskogn, Bizkaiko Golkoa) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.
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Boco River
The Boco (Rio Boco) is a river in Portugal.
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Bragança, Portugal
Bragança (Bergáncia; Brigantia, Braganza) is a city and municipality in north-eastern Portugal, capital of the district of Bragança, in the Alto Trás-os-Montes subregion of Portugal.
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Cabo da Roca
Cabo da Roca (Cape Roca) is a cape which forms the westernmost extent of mainland Portugal, continental Europe and the Eurasian land mass.
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Cadomian Orogeny
The Cadomian Orogeny was a tectonic event or series of events in the late Neoproterozoic, about 650–550 Ma, which probably included the formation of mountains.
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Caia (river)
The Caia is a river in the Iberian Peninsula, a tributary to the Guadiana.
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Cape St. Vincent
Cape St.
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Cenozoic
The Cenozoic Era meaning "new life", is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and, extending from 66 million years ago to the present day.
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Continental Portugal
Continental Portugal (Portugal continental) or mainland Portugal are terms used for the bulk of the Portuguese Republic, namely that part on the Iberian Peninsula and so in Continental Europe; having approximately 95% of the total population and 96.6% of the country's land.
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Cork (material)
Cork is an impermeable buoyant material, the phellem layer of bark tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber (the cork oak), which is endemic to southwest Europe and northwest Africa.
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Dom João de Castro Bank
Dom João de Castro Bank (Banco de D. João de Castro) is a large submarine volcano located in the central north Atlantic Ocean, between the islands of São Miguel and Terceira in the archipelago of the Azores.
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Douro
The Douro (Douro; Duero; translation) is one of the major rivers of the Iberian Peninsula, flowing from its source near Duruelo de la Sierra in Soria Province across northern-central Spain and Portugal to its outlet at Porto.
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Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Earth and Planetary Science Letters is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on physical, chemical and mechanical processes of the Earth and other planets, including extrasolar ones.
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Earthquake
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Exclusive economic zone of Portugal
Portugal has 5th the largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ) within Europe, 4th largest of the EU and the 20th largest EEZ in the world, at 1,727,408 km2.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Fontão River
Fontão is a river in Portugal.
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Forests of the Iberian Peninsula
The woodlands of the Iberian Peninsula are distinct ecosystems on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
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Foz do Arelho
Foz do Arelho is one of twelve civil parishes (freguesias) in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
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Geology of the Alps
The Alps form part of a Cenozoic orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic all the way to the Himalayas.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
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Gondwana
Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Carboniferous (about 320 million years ago).
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Guadiana
The Guadiana River, or Odiana, is an international river defining a long stretch of the Portugal-Spain border, separating Extremadura and Andalucia (Spain) from Alentejo and Algarve (Portugal).
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Hurricane Gordon (2006)
Hurricane Gordon was the first tropical cyclone since 1992 to affect the Azores while retaining tropical characteristics.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.
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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula, also known as Iberia, is located in the southwest corner of Europe.
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Iberian Plate
The Iberian Plate with the microcontinent Iberia encompassed not only the Iberian Peninsula but also Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, and the Briançonnais zone of the Penninic nappes of the Alps.
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Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
The Instituto Português do Mar e da Amosfera (Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere) or IPMA is the national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organization of Portugal.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
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Island arc
An island arc is a type of archipelago, often composed of a chain of volcanoes, with arc-shaped alignment, situated parallel and close to a boundary between two converging tectonic plates.
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Islet
An islet is a very small island.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Lagoa das Sete Cidades
Lagoa das Sete Cidades ("Lagoon of the Seven Cities") is a twin lake situated in the crater of a dormant volcano on the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
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Lagoa de Óbidos
The Lagoa de Óbidos is a lagoon that extends between the municipalities of Óbidos and Caldas da Rainha, in the Oeste subregion of Portugal.
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Lagoa do Fogo
Lagoa do Fogo (Lake/Lagoon of Fire) is a crater lake within the Água de Pau Massif stratovolcano in the center of the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
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Lake
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.
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List of countries and territories by land borders
This is a list of countries and territories by land borders.
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Madeira
Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Portugal.
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Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.
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Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.
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Minho (river)
Minho (Miniu) or Miño is the longest river in Galicia, sharing the border with Portugal, with a length of.
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Miranda do Douro
Miranda do Douro or Miranda de l Douro is a town and a municipality in the district of Bragança, northeastern Portugal.
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Mondego River
The Rio Mondego (English language: Mondego River) is the longest river located exclusively in Portuguese territory.
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Mount Pico
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.
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Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
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Olivenza
Olivenza or Olivença is a town situated on a disputed section of the Portugal–Spain border.
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Pangaea
Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
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Penhas da Saúde
Penhas da Saúde (English: Cliffs of the Health) is a village in the municipality of Covilhã, Portugal.
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Peninsula
A peninsula (paeninsula from paene "almost” and insula "island") is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border, while being connected to a mainland from which it extends.
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Pico Island
Pico Island (Ilha do Pico), is an island in the Central Group of the Portuguese Azores.
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Porto Santo Island
Porto Santo Island is a Portuguese island northeast of Madeira Island in the North Atlantic Ocean; it is the northernmost and easternmost island of the archipelago of Madeira, located in the Atlantic Ocean west of Europe and Africa.
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Portugal–Spain border
The Portugal–Spain border is the international boundary between Portugal and Spain.
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Reservoir
A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.
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Ria Formosa
The Ria Formosa lagoon, located in the Algarve, in southern Portugal, is a system of barrier islands that communicates with the sea through six inlets.
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Ribeira de Cuncos
Ribeira de Cuncos is a Portuguese ravine that marks the southern point of the disputed section of the Portugal-Spain border, (Arroyo de Cuncos in Spanish).
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River delta
A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
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Salt
Salt, table salt or common salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite.
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Santa Maria Island
Santa Maria, Portuguese for Saint Mary, is an island located in the eastern group of the Azores archipelago (south of the island of São Miguel) and the southernmost island in the Azores.
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Savage Islands
The Savage Islands or Selvagens Islands (Ilhas Selvagens) are a small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic, south of Madeira, and north of the Canary Islands.
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São João da Pesqueira
São João da Pesqueira is a municipality and municipal seat in the Portuguese district of Viseu.
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São Miguel Island
São Miguel Island (named for the Archangel Michael or, literally, Portuguese for Saint Michael), is also referred to locally as "The Green Island", is the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.
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Serra da Estrela
Serra da Estrela ("Star Mountain Range") is the highest mountain range in Continental Portugal.
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Sistema Central
The Central System, Spanish and Sistema Central, is one of the main systems of mountain ranges in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Soil erosion
Soil erosion is the displacement of the upper layer of soil, one form of soil degradation.
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Southern Europe
Southern Europe is the southern region of the European continent.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Strait of Gibraltar
The Strait of Gibraltar (مضيق جبل طارق, Estrecho de Gibraltar) is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Peninsular Spain in Europe from Morocco and Ceuta (Spain) in Africa.
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Tagus
The Tagus (Tajo,; Tejo) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Tectonophysics (journal)
Tectonophysics, The International Journal of Geotectonics and the Geology and Physics of the Interior of the Earth is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.
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Terceira Island
Terceira is an island in the Azores archipelago, in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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The Journal of Geology
The Journal of Geology publishes research on geology, geophysics, geochemistry, sedimentology, geomorphology, petrology, plate tectonics, volcanology, structural geology, mineralogy, and planetary sciences.
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Tungsten
Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W (referring to wolfram) and atomic number 74.
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Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.
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Variscan orogeny
The Variscan or Hercynian orogeny is a geologic mountain-building event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia) and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Vouga River
Vouga River is a river in the Centro Region of Portugal.
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Water pollution
Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.
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Wildfire
A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.
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Year
A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.
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1998 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1998 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most disastrous Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, featuring the highest number of storm-related fatalities in over 200 years, most of which occurred during Hurricane Mitch.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Portugal
