RT Journal Article
T1 What Darwin did not see : Pleistocene fossil assemblages on a highenergy coast at Ponta das Bicudas, Santiago, Cape Verde Islands
A1 Baarli, B. Gudveig
A1 Santos, Ana Alexandra Guerreiro dos
A1 Mayoral Alfaro, Eduardo
A1 Ledesma Vázquez, Jorge
A1 Johnson, Markes E
A1 Silva, Carlos M. da
A1 Cachão, Mário
AB Two distinct Pleistocene assemblages from SE SantiagoIsland are comparable to modern analogues elsewhere inthe Cape Verde Islands. A low-diversity Siderastrea radiansassemblage lived atop basalt knobs surrounded by sand on aslope below a cliff. A Millepora alcicornis–Megabalanusazoricus assemblage occupied the cliff. The latter was atypical rocky-shore assemblage from a high-energy settingbelowthe tidal zone.Bioerosion structures in basalt producedby Circolites kotoncensis and Gastrochaenolites isp. alsooccur there. Despite extensive studies on local limestonedeposits in 1832 and 1836, lack of exposure preventedDarwin from seeing these fossils.
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 0016-7568
SN 1469-5081 (electrónico)
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7949
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7949
LA eng
NO Baarli, B. G., Santos, A., Mayoral Alfaro, E., Ledesma Vázquez, J., Johnson, M.E., Silva, C.M. da, Cachão, M.: "What Darwin did not see : Pleistocene fossil assemblages on a highenergy coast at Ponta das Bicudas, Santiago, Cape Verde Islands". Geological Magazine, 150, págs. 183-189 (2012). ISSN 0016-7568
NO Funding for fieldwork on Santiago Island in June 2011 was provided under grant CGL2010-15372-BTE from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to project leader Eduardo Mayoral (University of Huelva). Financial support to A. Santos came from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (Juan de la Cierva subprogram, Ref: JCI-2008-2431). Additional support by the Junta de Andalucia (Spanish government) to the Research Group RNM276 is also acknowledged. Partial funding to J. Ledesma-Vazquez on this project came from the Programma Integral de Fortalecimiento Institucional 2010. We thank Christopher K. Pham, Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, Portugal, for help with identification of the fossil barnacles and Ricardo Ramalho, Institut fur Geophysik, Westphalishe-Wilhelms Universitat, Germany, for discussions about bioerosion by sea urchins on basalt surfaces.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026