Building the Cape Verde Islands

• Main Author: Ramalho, Ricardo A. S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Springer Theses
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Geophysics.; Oceanography.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

Hotspots are enigmatic surface features that are not easily explained in the framework of plate tectonics. Investigating their origin is the goal of this thesis, using field evidence collected in the Cape Verde Islands, a prominent hotspot archipelago in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The approach take...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• The Cape Verde Archipelago
• Constraining the Cape Verde Swell using numerical models
• How to trace island freeboard
• Tracers of uplift and subsidence in the Cape Verde Archipelago
• Dating of sea-level palaeo-markers
• Vertical movements of Ocean Island Volcanoes: insights from a stationary plate
• Conclusions
• Future Work
• Bibliography.