The Tertiary Lower Tagus Basin (LTB) occupies a large area in Portugal and constitutes symmetric basin of the oriental huge Upper Basin, centered at Madrid (Spain). LTB was an endorreic during Paleogene. Marine connection occurred Aquitanian; Lisbon – Setubal Peninsula region sedimentation ocean/continent interface, with several changes coast line. Apparently, first marine transgression came fr...

Bottom current deposits (contourites) form in association with modern-day or ancient oceanic gateways. A paucity of examples the record and lack consensus on diagnostic criteria for differentiating them from other deepwater limit our understanding how they may past global circulation, tectonic events gateway evolution. This work describes an exceptional example Eocene to middle Miocene deep-mar...

The aim of the present typological study of the Basque language based on the frequency of occurrence of consonants is to compare its sound chain to sound chains of various world languages. Then, one can construct typological distances between Basque and other world languages. The structure of the frequency of occurrence of consonants in the speech sound chain is a good clue of understanding the...