Geología de la isla de Branco (Cabo Verde)

• Autores: Eumenio Ancochea Soto
• Localización: Geogaceta, ISSN 0213-683X, Nº. 39, 2005, págs. 39-42
• Idioma: español
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  • The morphological, structural and volcanological aspects of Branco, an island of the Cape Verde Archipelago, are described and interpreted in this work. The isle consists of a 700 m thick pile of basalt lava flows and scarce pyroclastics crossed by several families of dikes. The structure of the island could correspond to the remaining fragment of a primitive large shield volcano. The main hypothetical emission centre could once be situated between the present islands of Santa Luzia and Branco.