Telmo M. Bento Santos

 
 

Profile

Research Group: RG3 – Solid Earth dynamics
Job: Assistant Professor, FCUL
Email: tmsantos@fc.ul.pt 
Telephone Number: (351) 21-750-0000 
Extension: 26356 
Room: 6.3.56 
Academic Degree and field of specialization: 

  • 2008: PhD in Geochemistry by the University of Lisbon.

  • 2003: BSc in Geology by FCUL – Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.

    Field of Specialization: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology and Geochemistry

Keywords: migmatite, zircon, thermochronology, Iberian Massif, Variscan Orogeny

 

Scientific Informations

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4589-0222

SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36093841900

Researcher ID: https://publons.com/researcher/2720687/telmo-m-bento-dos-santos/

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Telmo_Bento_Dos_Santos

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=-KOnpw0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Website: https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/perfil/tmsantos

Scientific Interests

  • Duration and rates of orogenic processes and petrochronological evolution of ancient orogenic belts;

  • Detrital/inherited zircon age patterns, sedimentary provenances and paleogeographic reconstructions;

  • Interdependence between metamorphism, shear zones and fluid circulation;

  • Secular evolution of the lower crust and interaction with other lithospheric reservoirs.

 

Top 10 Publications: 

  • Cotrim, B., Bento dos Santos, T., Azevedo, M.R., Cachapuz, P., Carvalho, D., Benoit, M., in press. Formation and evolution of metapelitic-derived melts within anatectic complexes: geochemical constraints and inferences on the protoliths and geodynamic evolution of the Porto-Viseu Metamorphic Belt, Central Iberian Zone (central-north Portugal). Geochemistry, 2024.

  • Lains Amaral, J., Solá, A.R., Bento dos Santos, T.M., Feitoza, L., Tassinari, C., Crispim, L., Chichorro, M., Zieger-Hofmann, M., Gärtner, J., Linnemann, U., Gonçalves, J., in press. The bimodal Fii-A2-type and calc-alkaline volcanic sequence of the Aljustrel brownfield region, Iberian Pyrite Belt, SW Iberian Massif. Geochemistry, 2024.

  • Ferreira, J.A., Pereira, I., Bento dos Santos, T., Mata, J., 2022. U-Pb age constraints on the source, cooling and exhumation of a Variscan middle crust migmatite complex from the Central Iberian Zone: insights into the Variscan metamorphic evolution and Ediacaran paleogeographic implications. Journal of the Geological Society, 179, 5, 1-20.

  • Chichorro, M., Solá, A.R., Bento dos Santos, T.M., Lains Amaral, J., Crispim, L., 2022. Cadomian/Pan-African consolidation of the Iberian Massif assessed by its detrital and inherited zircon populations: is the ~610Ma age peak a persistent Cadomian magmatic inheritance or the key to unravel its Pan-African basement? Geologica Acta, 20.15, 1-29.

  • Bento dos Santos, T., Rodrigues, J.F., Castro, P., Cotrim, B., Pereira, I., Ferreira, J.A., Meireles, C., Ferreira, N., Ferreira, P., Ribeiro, A., Guimarães, F., 2021. Exhumation of an anatectic complex by channel flow and extrusion tectonics: structural and metamorphic evidence from the Porto – Viseu Metamorphic Belt, Central-Iberian Zone. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 110, 6, 2179-2201.

  • Cotrim, B., Bento dos Santos, T., Mata, J., Benoit, M., Jesus, A.P., 2021. Lower Paleozoic rifting event in Central Iberian Zone (central-north Portugal): Evidence from elemental and isotopic geochemistry of metabasic rocks. Geochemistry, 81, 3, 125768.

  • Lains Amaral, J., Solá, A.R., Bento dos Santos, T.M., Tassinari, C.C.G., Gonçalves, J., 2021. U-Pb zircon SHRIMP dating of a protracted magmatic setting and its volcanic emplacement: Insights from the felsic volcanic rocks hosting the sulphide ore of the giant Aljustrel deposit, Iberian Pyrite Belt. Ore Geology Reviews, 134, 104147.

  • Pereira, I., Storey, C.D., Strachan, R.A., Bento dos Santos, T., Darling, J.R., 2020. Detrital rutile ages can deduce the tectonic setting of sedimentary basins. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 537, 116193.

  • Ferreira, J.A., Mata, J., Bento dos Santos, T., Pereira, I., 2020. The role of melting on the geochemical evolution and isotopic variability of an anatectic complex in the Iberian Variscides. Lithos, 378-379, 105769.

  • Pereira, I., Dias, R., Bento dos Santos, T., Mata, J., 2017. Exhumation of a migmatite complex along a transpressive shear zone: inferences from the Variscan Juzbado-Penalva do Castelo Shear Zone (Central Iberian Zone). Journal of the Geological Society, 174, 6, 1004-1018.

  • Bento dos Santos, T., Tassinari, C.C.G., Fonseca, P.E., 2015. Diachronic collision, slab break-off and long-term high thermal flux in the Brasiliano – Pan-African orogeny: Implications for the geodynamic evolution of the Mantiqueira Province. Precambrian Research, 260, 1-22.

 

Projects (10 most relevant): 

  • Most important Career Projects:

    • Editor of Data In Brief (Elsevier) since March 2022.

    • Coordinator of the Laboratory of Petrology and Geochemistry (DG-FCUL) since January 2018.

    • Member of the Directive Board of the Geological Society of Portugal since July 2014.

    • Editor in Chief of Geonovas (APG) from February 2016 to December 2022.

    • Vice-President of the Forum for the Scientific Councils of the Portuguese State Laboratories in 2015.

    • Vice-President of the Scientific Council of LNEG - Portuguese Geological Survey from May 2014 to December 2015.

  • Most important Scientific Projects:

    • Member of Project “The Central Iapetus Magmatic Province (CIMP) from Anti-Atlas (Morocco): Physical Volcanology, Petrology and Geochronology and its relation with the Ediacaran glaciations, Geodynamics and Metallogeny” (Funded by FCT/CNRST bilateral cooperation) from march 2019 to march 2021.

    • Member of Project “PLANAGEO – Plano Nacional de Geologia de Angola” (Funded by National Funds of the Republic of Angola) from January 2014 to December 2016.

    • Member of Project “EGEM – Energia Geotérmica Estimulada na Madeira – Avaliação do Potencial Geotérmico da ilha da Madeira” (Funded by the Electric Company of Madeira) from December 2011 to January 2015.

    • Member of Project “1GE-E – OneGeology-Europe: 1/1.000.000 pan-European geological data specification, identification and sourcing” (Funded by the European Union) from March 2009 to November 2010.

Awards: 

  • Top 25 Hottest Articles do Precambrian Research (Elsevier) for the article “Diachronic collision, slab break-off and long-term high thermal flux in the Brasiliano – Pan-African orogeny: Implications for the geodynamic evolution of the Mantiqueira Province”. Number 7 in 2015.

  • Top 25 Hottest Articles do Journal of South American Earth Sciences (Elsevier) for the article “The link between partial melting, granitization and granulite development in central Ribeira Fold Belt, SE Brazil: New evidence from elemental and Sr-Nd isotopic geochemistry”. Number 6 in 2011.

  • Top 25 Hottest Articles do Journal of South American Earth Sciences (Elsevier) for the article “P-T-Fluid evolution and graphite deposition during retrograde metamorphism in Ribeira Fold Belt, SE Brazil: Oxygen fugacity, fluid inclusions and C-O-H isotopic evidence”. Number 14 in 2011.