The Consequences of “Flying Sands” in the Cávado River Mouth (1700–1750)

Authors

  • Ana Isabel Lopes University of Porto, Portugal

Abstract

In the first half of the eighteenth century, the Portuguese Atlantic coast was affected by windblown sands moving from the ocean to inland areas. This resulted in the destruction of local buildings, the silting of watercourses, and the sterility of agricultural fields.

Author Biography

Ana Isabel Lopes, University of Porto, Portugal

Ana Isabel Lopes has a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in history and heritage (focusing on local and regional studies and memory construction) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. Her MA dissertation focused on landscape transformation in a small coastal village in the north of Portugal in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Published

2020-07-23

Issue

2020

Section

Summer

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Copyright (c) 2020 CC BY 4.0 Ana Isabel Lopes

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