Eventos marinos y asentamientos costeros en el suroeste de Iberia

Abstract

One of the most dynamic parts of the earth system is where terrestrial processes interact with marine processes on the coast. Changes in relative sea level, coastal evolution and extreme events such as storms and tsunamis are of local and global interest. Such events hinder individual well-being and intensify/enhance environmental degradation. In a changing world, in which climate and sea-level change impact on human

Erosión hídrica superficial en campos abancalados del sistema ibérico riojano (valles del Leza-Jubera)

“…Parecida evolución se detecta en las laderas convexas, mientras que en las rectas los problemas de desmantelamiento de campos parecen reducirse al pie de las vertientes. A nuestro entender, y como ya han manifestado otros autores (García Ruiz et al, 1991;Rodriguez et al, 1991), todo ello estaría relacionado con el grado de cubrimiento vegetal. La Figura 3 explica como en las laderas cóncavas el porcentaje de cubierta vegetal se reduce a medida que descendemos en la ladera.…”

A Major Earthquake and Tsunami in the Gulf of Cadiz in the Sixth Century B.C.? A Review of the Historical, Archaeological, and Geological Evidence

“…A systematic review of accounts of earthquakes and tsunamis occurring before 1755 in the Portuguese and Spanish historiography is crucial for identifying which of them are highly probable and which of them are more than doubtful, such as those that have given rise to truisms like that of the impact of the 365 AD tsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean on the coasts of Spain and Portugal (Udías, 1983;Andrade et al, 2016;Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, 2022). For its part, archaeoseismological, geomorphological and sedimentological research conducted in the Iberian Peninsula over the past decades has yielded evidence of the occurrence of earthquakes and tsunamis that are not recorded in the most important Spanish and Portuguese seismic catalogues (Rodríguez-Vidal et al, 2015;Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar and Machuca Prieto, 2022). Accordingly, this work scrutinises the information currently available on the occurrence of one of these events, namely, the earthquake and tsunami that might have struck the shores of the Gulf of Cadiz sometime in the sixth century BC.…”

Modelling the mid-late Holocene evolution of the Huelva Estuary and its human colonization, South-Western Spain

“…This has favoured the continuous development of coastal geoarchaeology in many countries. However, geomorphological, sedimentological and palaeoenvironmental approaches in these types of geoarchaeological studies frequently lack the integration of archaeological and historical data (Rodríguez-Vidal et al, 2015). This work aims to provide a multidisciplinary platform to define the relationship between the coastal environmental evolution and human settlement patterns in the Huelva Estuary since the mid to late Holocene, as an example of strategic research approach for other Atlantic Iberian estuaries along the Gulf of Cádiz.…”