Ricardo Pereira

GeoBioTec (FCT NOVA)
Over 25y of experience working in different fields of Earth Sciences, Ricardo Pereira holds a PhD from Cardiff University (UK), MSc in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy and a degree in Geology from the University of Lisbon (Portugal).
Main areas of research and O&G industry projects, include the geodynamic evolution of passive margins, tectono-stratigraphy of rift basins and associated salt tectonic controls, and tectono-magmatic interplay, in multiple regions worldwide, such as the West Iberian Margin (Portugal), Santos Basin (Brazil), Oman, and the Kwanza Basin (Angola).
Developing projects: GeoEnergy | Compressed Air Energy Storage | Salt Tectonics

Áreas Científicas

Rift basins, Geodynamics, Stratigraphy, Salt tectonics, Geoenergy

Coordinator of the Sedimentary Basins and Palaeontology Group of GeoBioTec NOVA-FCT

Publicações

Maréchal, A., Rotatori, F.M., Merella, M., Puértolas-Pascual, E., Sequero, C., Pereira, R., Nsungani, P. and Mateus, O. (2025). A new Maastrichtian hyposaurine dyrosaurid (Crocodylomorpha) from Namibe province, Angola. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 204. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf092.

Pereira, R., Araújo, B., Duarte, J.C. and Mata, J. (2025). Tracking a common mantle source: From southwest Iberia to the Madeira-Canarias Islands. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G52930.1.

Costa, A.M., Freitas, M.d.C., Teixeira, A., Costa, P.J.M., Santos, R.N., Cachão, M., Fatela, F., Pereira, R., Tereso, J.P., Lopes, V.P., Bao, R. and El-Boudjay, A. (2024). Environmental changes and historical occupation at Oued Laksar (Ksar Seghir), Morocco. Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.10.010

Pereira, R. and Gamboa, D. (2023). In situ carbon storage potential in a buried volcano. Geology, 51, 803-807. https://doi.org/10.1130/G50965.1

Pereira, R., Mata, J., Ramalho, R.S., Rosas, F.M., Silva, B., Represas, P. & Escada, C. (2022) Nature, Timing and Magnitude of Buried Late Cretaceous Magmatism on the Central West Iberian Margin. Basin Research, 34, 771-796. http://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12640

Escada, C., Represas, P., Santos, F., Pereira, R., Mata, J. & Rosas, F.M. (2022) New Evidence of Late Cretaceous Magmatism on the Offshore Central West Iberian Margin (Estremadura Spur) from Potential Field Data. Tectonophysics, 832. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229354

Pereira, R., Rosas, F., Mata, J., Represas, P., Escada, C. & Silva, B. (2021) Interplay of Tectonics and Magmatism During Post‐Rift Inversion on the Central West Iberian Margin (Estremadura Spur). Basin Research, 33, 1497-1519. http://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12524