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Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugali
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Ilhéu de CimaIslet
Porto SantoMunicipality
Porto Santo IslandIsland
MadeiraAutonomous Region
PortugalCountry

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Geological map

Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal
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Fossilized rhodolith

Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal
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The lighthouse

Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal
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A view of the islet

Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal
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Geological map

Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal
07087720017272347876186.jpg
Fossilized rhodolith

Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal
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The lighthouse

Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal
01545850017272347894773.jpg
A view of the islet

Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal
05264280017272347878604.jpg
Geological map

Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal
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Fossilized rhodolith

Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal
Type:
Islet
Mindat Locality ID:
289714
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:289714:4
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other Languages:
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French:
îlot de Cima, Porto Santo, Madère, Portugal
German:
Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Autonome Region Madeira, Portugal
Spanish:
Islote de Cima, Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal
Aragonese:
Isleta de Cima, Porto Santo, Madeira
Cebuano:
Ilhéu de Cima , Porto Santo, Ilha de Porto Santo, Madeira
Dutch:
Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal
Finnish:
Ilhéu de Cima, Madeira, Portugali
Portuguese:
Ilhéu de Cima, Porto Santo, Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal


The Ilhéu de Cima is a Portuguese islet at less than 300 meters apart from the Southeast of the island of Porto Santo, Madeira. The highest point is 111 meters above the sea level.

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Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilh%C3%A9u_de_Cima_(Porto_Santo)
Wikidata ID:Q1144599
GeoNames ID:2269212


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References

RIBEIRO, M. L. Carta Geológica Simplificada das Ilhas da Madeira e do Porto Santo, na escala 1:80.000 in RIBEIRO, M. L. & RAMALHO, M. (2009). Uma visita geológica ao Arquipélago da Madeira, Principais locais Geo-turísticos. Edição da Direção Regional do Comércio, Indústria e Energia e do Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I. P, pp. 55, 82. ISBN: 978-989-96202-0-9.
SANTOS, A., MAYORAL, E., DA SILVA, C. M., CACHÃO, M., JOHNSON, M. E., BAARLI, B.G. (2011). Miocene intertidal zonation on a volcanically active shoreline: Porto Santo in the Madeira Archipelago, Portugal. Lethaia 44, pp. 26-32.
SANTOS, A., MAYORAL, E., BAARLI, B. G., DA SILVA, C. M., CACHÃO, M., JOHNSON, M. E. (2012a). Symbiotic association of a pyrgomatid barnacle with a coral from a volcanic middle Miocene shoreline (Porto Santo, Madeira Archipelago, Portugal). Palaeontology Vol. 55, Part 1, pp. 173-182.
SANTOS, A., MAYORAL, E., JOHNSON, M. E., BAARLI, B. G., CACHÃO, M., DA SILVA, C. M., LEDESMA-VÁSQUEZ, J. (2012b). Extreme habitat adaptation by boring bivalves on volcanically active paleoshores from North Atlantic Macaronesia. Facies 58, pp. 325-338.
SANTOS, A., MAYORAL, E., JOHNSON, M. E., BAARLI, B. G., DA SILVA, C. M., CACHÃO, M, LEDESMA-VÁZQUEZ, J. (2012). Basalt mounds and adjacent depressions attract contrasting biofacies on a volcanically active Middle Miocene coastline (Porto Santo, Madeira Archipelago, Portugal). Facies 58, pp. 573-585.
Ferreira, M. R. (2014). Património Geológico da Ilha do Porto Santo e Ilhéus Adjacentes (Madeira): Inventariação, Avaliação e Valorização como Contributo para a Geoconservação. Dissertação de Mestrado em Vulcanologia e Riscos Geológicos. Departamento de Geociências da Universidade dos Açores.
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