The project TERRANOVA team has conducted its field season in the Serra da Estrela mountain in Central Portugal in July and September 2020. TERRANOVA stands for “Tor exhumation rates and soil erosion: relation between non-glaciated and formerly vastly glaciated areas” and is a new project lead by the University of Zurich (Gerald Raab, Markus Egli and Wasja Dollenmeier), with the participation of Polar2E through the CEG/IGOT Zephryus Polar & Mountain Research Group (Gonçalo Vieira), University of Wroclaw (Piotr Migon), Boku (Christopher Luthgens) and University of Calabria (Fabio Scarciglia). The team has been surveying and sampling tors and glacial landforms and deposits in the Estrela UNESCO Global Geopark plateaus, to unravel their chronology and better understand the landscape evolution in this granite mountain. The project counts with the collaboration of the Estrela Geopark team and is funded by the University of Zurich.
More information: https://www.geraldraab.com/projects/terra-nova/
More information: https://www.geraldraab.com/projects/terra-nova/