Visit the Lousal Ciência Viva Centre, installed in a building that was associated with mining activity in the past.
EVALUATING THE NATURE OF CHAOTIC MARINE CONGLOMERATES AT GRAN CANARIA (January 2010)In the scope of the R&D Project CGL2008-01423 “Peligrosidad de los grandes deslizamientos en masa de la isla de Tenerife. Análisis geológico y modelización geomecánica de los mecanismos de inestabilidad” leaded by Mercedes Ferrer Gijón (Investigadora Titular -Instituto Geológico y Minero de España) e Luís González de Vallejo (Prof. Catedrático - Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, two researchers of CeGUL (César Andrade and Maria da Conceição Freitas) and one researcher of LATTEX-IDL (José Madeira) visited the Agaete valley (Gran Canaria), in order to survey the Agaete chaotic marine conglomeratesand investigate the nature of the emplacement mechanism.