An Iberian team will determine the appearance of one of the smaller islands of the archipelago.
Corvo Island is of volcanic origin, which is a given irrefutable statement. What is not is not yet known is when this cataclysmic event occurred. It is this question that a group of Portuguese and Spanish scientists, supported by the Luso-American Foundation for development, aims to answer. The section of the Portuguese team led by Zilda França, ,University of Geophysics of the Azores and the Spanish working group headed by expert on rocks Marceliano Lago of the University of Zaragoza are already in the field. In statements to the agency Lusa, the Portuguese researcher noted that the purpose of this mission is to "to tell the story we know, but with dates." The scientist also states that the scientific mission intends to obtain samples that would make a timeline, to get a better idea of volcanic episodes occurred "in Corvo and Flores islands situated on the western group of the Azores. Both have specificities by contrast to the other island of the archipelago, as they belong to the american central plate. In the case of the Crow, Zilda France emphasizes that "The island has a large central volcano, one might even say it's a volcano. Despite being very small, is very interesting, "stressing that there occurred eruptions underwater vulcanological episodes some are " quiet "and others are" very violent eruptions. " The volcanologist Victor Hugo Forjaz, in a statement sent to Lusa regarding the purpose of this mission, estimates that "the first island of Corvo has arisen for about 710,000 years." A volcanological activity that has evolved and culminated in a major eruption that caused the formation of the caldera collapse, the Cauldron known as Corvo. According to the researcher, "after a rest period, about 100,000 years, was renewed volcanic activity on the island, forming geometric cones which are located in the southern part, including faja lava which underlies the current settlement", which is currently home to about 400 persons.
