LNEG, Portugal
Participant of COCARDE Network

Research Field

Logo_LNEGThe Unidade de Geologia Marinha, Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG) focusses on:


  • Paleoceanography/Paleoclimatology and Environment
  • Continental Shelf Cartography and Geology
  • Natural Hazards
  • Natural Resources
  • Coastal Geology

 

Related Projects

  • TOPOMED
  • Geo-Seas
  • Freeze

 

Facilities

Sea Instrumentation: Multicorer, Box-corer, water sampling rosotte 12L bottles, vibrocorer, dredge, boomer, sparker, chirp sonar.
Laboratory: Elemental analyzer, Particle Counter, Sedigraph, cromatographer

 

People

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Dr.
Fatima Abrantes
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Dr.
Pedro Freitas
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PhD
Lelia Matos
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Related Publications

2009

Freitas, P.S., Clarke, L.J., Kennedy, H., Richardson, C.A. (2009) Ion microprobe assessment of the heterogeneity of Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca and Mn/Ca ratios in Pecten maximus and Mytilus edulis (bivalvia) shell calcite precipitated at constant temperature. Biogeosciences 6(7), 1209-1227.


Earlier

Freitas, P.S., Clarke, L.J., Kennedy, H.A., Richardson, C.A. (2008) Inter- and intra-specimen variability masks reliable temperature control on shell Mg/Ca ratios in laboratory- and field-cultured Mytilus edulis and Pecten maximus (bivalvia): Biogeosciences 5, 1245-1258.


Freitas, P.S., Clarke, L.J., Kennedy, H.A., Richardson, C.A., Abrantes, F. (2006) Environmental and biological controls on elemental (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca and Mn/Ca) ratios in shells of the king scallop Pecten maximus. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 5119-5133.


Freitas, P., Clarke, L.J., Kennedy, H., Richardson, C., Abrantes, F. (2005) Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca and stable-isotope (δ18O and δ13C) ratio profiles from the fan mussel Pinna nobilis: Seasonal records and temperature relationships. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 6, Q04D14, doi: 10.1029 /2004GC000872.


Mulder, T., Voisset, M., Lecroart, L., Le Drezen, E., Gonthier, E., Hanquiez, V., Faugeres, J-C., Habgood, E., Hernandez-Molina, F., Estrada, F., Llave-Barranco, E., Poirier, D., Gorini, C., Fuchey, Y., Voelker, A., Freitas P., Lobo Sanchez, F., Fernandez, L., Kenyon, N., Morel, J. (2003) The Gulf of Cadiz: an unstable giant contouritic levee. Geo-Marine Letters 23, 7-18.