The unsteady post-rift stage of the South American passive margin based on the tectono-sedimentary evolution of the onshore Paraíba Basin, NE Brazil

Author(s):  
Clódis de Oliveira Andrades–Filho ◽  
Dilce de Fátima Rossetti ◽  
Francisco Hilario Rego Bezerra
Geomorphology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 325 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Corrêa Alves ◽  
Dilce de Fátima Rossetti ◽  
Márcio de Morisson Valeriano ◽  
Clódis de Oliveira Andrades Filho

Author(s):  
André Augusto Rodrigues Salgado ◽  
Luís Felipe Soares Cherem ◽  
Michael Vinícius De Sordi

Capturas fluviais foram pouco investigadas no Brasil e apenas recentemente essa situação se alterou e sua ocorrência e feições correlatas foram sistematicamente estudadas para as grandes bacias fluviais não Amazônicas. Esse artigo sintetiza os principais resultados obtidos nos últimos cinco anos e apresenta a diversidade de magnitude e morfológica em seis capturas fluviais ao longo de quatro divisores entre as principais bacias hidrográficas do Brasil. Os resultados indicam que o nível de base, seguido da litoestrutura e da tectônica, constituem os fatores determinantes para ocorrência desses processos. Indicam ainda que as bacias hidrográficas atlânticas estão pirateando áreas das ditas continentais – Paraná e São Francisco – e que essa pirataria acelera o recuo erosivo do escarpamento da margem passiva sul-americana. Por fim, determinaram que as capturas causam a dissecação da rede de drenagem capturada, invertem o fluxo dos canais logo a jusante e, por fim, promovem o rebaixamento geral do relevo pirateado. Large fluvial captures in Brazil: synthesis of new discoveriesRiver captures have barely been studied in Brazil, and only recently the process and correlated features have been systematically studied for non-Amazonian major river basins. This paper synthesizes the main results obtained for the last five years and presents the diversity in magnitude and morphology of six river captures along the four divider of Brazilian-major river basins. The results indicate that the base level, followed by the lithostructure and tectonics, are the determining factors for the occurrence of these processes. They also indicate that the Atlantic basins are pirating areas of the continental ones - Paraná and São Francisco - and that this piracy accelerates the erosive retreat of the South American passive margin escarpment. Finally, they determined that the captures cause the dissection of the drainage network, invert the flow of the channels shortly downstream, and finally, promote the general lowering of the pirated relief. Keywords: River capture, Brazil, Major Basin Dividers, Fluvial Channel.  


2012 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilce F. Rossetti ◽  
Ana M. Góes ◽  
Francisco H.R. Bezerra ◽  
Márcio M. Valeriano ◽  
Benjamim B. Brito-Neves ◽  
...  

Several publications have contributed to improve the stratigraphy of the Paraíba Basin in northeastern Brazil. However, the characterization and distribution of sedimentary units in onshore areas of this basin are still incomplete, despite their significance for reconstructing the tectono-sedimentary evolution of the South American passive margin. This work provides new information to differentiate among lithologically similar strata, otherwise entirely unrelated in time. This approach included morphological, sedimentological and stratigraphic descriptions based on surface and sub-surface data integrated with remote sensing, optically stimulated luminescence dating, U+Th/He dating of weathered goethite, and heavy mineral analysis. Based on this study, it was possible to show that Cretaceous units are constrained to the eastern part of the onshore Paraíba Basin. Except for a few outcrops of carbonatic rocks nearby the modern coastline, deposits of this age are not exposed to the surface in the study area. Instead, the sedimentary cover throughout the basin is constituted by mineralogically and chronologically distinctive deposits, inserted in the Barreiras Formation and mostly in the Post-Barreiras Sediments, of early/middle Miocene and Late Pleistocene-Holocene ages, respectively. The data presented in this work support tectonic deformation as a factor of great relevance to the distribution of the sedimentary units of the Paraíba Basin.


Tectonics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 4068-4085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Hueck ◽  
István Dunkl ◽  
Beatrix Heller ◽  
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei ◽  
Siegfried Siegesmund

2017 ◽  
Vol 174 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Hueck ◽  
Sebastián Oriolo ◽  
István Dunkl ◽  
Klaus Wemmer ◽  
Pedro Oyhantçabal ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Fernando O. Zuloaga ◽  
Sandra S. Aliscioni ◽  
M. Amalia Scataglini

Generic boundaries of the South American species Panicum longipedicellatum Swallen are explored and compared with allied genera of the tribe Paniceae. On the basis of morphological, anatomical, and molecular characters a new genus, Cnidochloa Zuloaga, is proposed. The phylogenetic position of the new genus within the Paniceae is evaluated.


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