IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/tjomxx/v17y2021i2p257-267.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Geology of the Macao Special Administrative Region (China)

Author

Listed:
  • Pedro Quelhas
  • Ricardo Borges
  • Ágata Alveirinho Dias
  • Maria Luísa Ribeiro
  • Pedro Costa
  • João Mata

Abstract

A 1:12,000 geological map of the Macao Special Administrative Region has been produced through detailed field work supported by petrographic, mineralogical, geochronological and geochemical data obtained in previous studies. This map aims to represent a reliable tool to understand the geological evolution of the region and for management of the territory. The geology of Macao is dominated by two groups of Jurassic granitic rocks belonging to an intrusive suite located along the coast of Southeast China: Macao Group I (MGI: 164.5 ± 0.6 to 162.9 ± 0.7 Ma) and Macao Group II (MGII: 156.6 ± 0.2 to 155.5 ± 0.8 Ma), including the associated microgranite, aplite and pegmatite dikes and quartz veins. Remnants of the metasedimentary wall-rock are present as Devonian xenoliths enclosed within the granites. Younger Jurassic to Cretaceous andesite to dacite dikes (150.6 ± 0.6 to

Suggested Citation

  • Pedro Quelhas & Ricardo Borges & Ágata Alveirinho Dias & Maria Luísa Ribeiro & Pedro Costa & João Mata, 2021. "Geology of the Macao Special Administrative Region (China)," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 257-267, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:17:y:2021:i:2:p:257-267
    DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2021.1906340
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17445647.2021.1906340
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/17445647.2021.1906340?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:17:y:2021:i:2:p:257-267. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/tjom20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.