Pedro Dinis

Pedro Dinis's picture
Email: 
pdinis@dct.uc.pt
URI: 
MARE - UCoimbra
Role: 
Researcher
Qualifications: 
PhD
Research domain: 
River Basins
Research lines: 
Hydraulics, Hydrology and Sedimentary Environments
Technological Tools for Exploration and Monitoring
ORCID ID: 
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7558-7369
Scopus Author ID: 
http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=20435747000
Researcher ID: 
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-9867-2016
Personal page: 
http://www.uc.pt/fctuc/dct/pessoas/fichaspessoais/pedrodinis

Activity summary

Associate Professor at the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Coimbra.. His research is focused on clastic sedimentology, including sediments and sedimentary rocks of different ages and from different world regions. During the last years, he has been mainly interested in the processes that control sediment texture and composition, with particular emphasis on provenance, weathering, and recycling effects.

Highlights

Weathering indices as climate proxies. A step forward based on Congo and SW African river muds Sedimentary processes controlling ultralong cells of littoral transport: Placer formation and termination of the Orange sand highway in southern Angola The transition from Pangea amalgamation to fragmentation: Constraints from detrital zircon geochronology on West Iberia paleogeography and sediment sources Sediment generation on a volcanic island with arid tropical climate: A perspective based on geochemical maps of topsoils and stream sediments from Santiago Island, Cape Verde Arc-continent collision as recorded in modern stream sand from Oecusse (Timor Island) Integrating sieving and laser data to obtain bulk grain-Size distributions Diretor do Departamento de Ciências da Terra da Universidade de Coimbra (2021-2013) Presidente da Associação Portuguesa para o Estudo do Quaternário e editor da revista Estudos do Quaternário/Quaternary Studies (2012-2016)