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The bioeroded megasurface of Oura (Algarve, south Portugal): implications for Neogene stratigraphy and tectonic evolution of southwest Iberia: reply to Pais and Legoinha (DOI 10.1007/s10347-011-0268-y)

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Notes

  1. “Auramar” is the name of the beach resort overlooking the outcrop. “Leixão dos Alhos” is the actual name of that geographical location as stated in the topographic map of the region Carta Militar de Portugal, nº 605 (2006).

  2. We are not exactly sure of the meaning of the rippled bold lines Pais et al. (2000) use in their Fig. 7 since its caption does not contemplate this symbol.

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Acknowledgments

Ana Santos received financial support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain in the form of a Juan de la Cierva contract (Refª JCI-2008-2431). Financial support was also given by the Junta de Andalucía (Spanish government) to the Research Group RNM316 (Tectonics and Palaeontology).

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  1. Centro de Geologia e Dept. de Geologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, C6, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal

    Mário Cachão & Carlos Marques da Silva

  2. Departamento de Geodinâmica y Paleontologia, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, Campus de El Carmen, Avda. 3 de Marzo, s/n, 21071, Huelva, Spain

    Ana Santos & Eduardo Mayoral

  3. Departamento d’Estratigrafia, Paleontologia i Geociències Marines, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, C/Martí i Franques, s/n, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Rosa Domènech & Jordi Martinell

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Cachão, M., da Silva, C.M., Santos, A. et al. The bioeroded megasurface of Oura (Algarve, south Portugal): implications for Neogene stratigraphy and tectonic evolution of southwest Iberia: reply to Pais and Legoinha (DOI 10.1007/s10347-011-0268-y). Facies 58, 159–161 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-011-0269-x

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