1. Field Geosciences Teaching Module: Geoparks and Geosites Geopark Naturtejo Meseta Meridional Portas de Ródão Natural Monument: How does Geodiversity has influence upon Biodiversity, human settlement and activities?

2. Geopark Naturtejo Geológical Map Monumento Natural das Portas de Ródão

3. Portas de Rodão Natural Monument

4. Portas de Rodão viewpoint

5. Ródão Syncline Folded during Variscan Orogeny Resulted from compressive stress How does Ródão Syncline was formed?

6. Portas de Ródão formation Fluvial incision cut hard quartzites from Talhadas mountain at a speed of 1 cm per 1000 years average, taking advantage of the intersection of several faults Tejo river incision in the quartzite mountain of Talhadas

7. Geodiversity as the habitat for Biodiversity Juniper treeBlack-stork

8. Castle viewpoint Why did the Castle was built on the summit of the quartzite ridge?

9. The Virtues “island” How was formed?

10. Conhal do Arneiro Ancient Roman gold mine Testimony of paleoplacer mining exploitation of the river terrace deposits

11. Roman Gold Mine of Conhal do Arneiro Old fluvial deposits washed out by water injection Manual selection of sediments piled on the channel sides in long sterile crests

12. Conhal do Arneiro Finer sediments were chanellized to ponds where panning for gold would have been made. Are there any other gold mines of this type at naturtejo Global Geopark?