Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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Proveniência e Idade do Metamorfismo das Rochas da Faixa Brasília, na Região de Tapira (SW de Minas Gerais) [PDF]
Geologia USP. Série Científica, 2006 A Faixa Brasília na região de Tapira, no SW do estado de Minas Gerais, exibe quatro domínios litotectônicos diferentes,imbricados através de falhas de empurrão, com vergência para o Cráton do São Francisco.
Carlos Humberto da Silva +3 more
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Estudo geoquímico e petrológico dos diques máficos da Região de Candeias-Campo Belo-Santo Antônio do Amparo (MG), porção meridional do Craton São Francisco [PDF]
Geologia USP. Série Científica, 2006 No Complexo Metamórfico Campo Belo, sul de Minas Gerais, ocorrem diques máficos divididos em quatro grupos em função de aspectos petrográficos, geoquímicos e tectônicos: Anfibolitos A1, Anfibolitos A2, Gabronoritos e Gabros. A grande maioria das amostras
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Late Cryogenian and late Paleozoic ice ages on the São Francisco craton, east Brazil
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The miniature paleocontinent in the region of the São Francisco River valley, in eastern Brazil, holds the record of two different glacial epochs. The late Cryogenian Jequitaí Formation from the Bambuí Group is up to 100 m thick and covers areas mainly ...
Gabriel J. Uhlein, Alexandre Uhlein
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Caracterização geotérmica da crosta superior da Bacia Hidrográfica do Submédio São Francisco
Geosul, 2022 A região da porção norte do Cráton São Francisco e parte sul da Província Borborema, onde está localizada a Bacia Hidrográfica do Submédio São Francisco, apresenta alterações geotectônicas devido aos processos colisionais sofridos em suas formações ...
Juliana de Oliveira Batista +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Dispersion and deformation of cratonic fragments within orogens require weakening of the craton margins in a process of decratonization. The orogenic Borborema Province, in NE Brazil, is one of several Brasiliano/Pan-African late Neoproterozoic orogens ...
Carlos E. Ganade +5 more
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A Thermo‐Compositional Model of the Cratonic Lithosphere of South America
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021 New seismic data on the crust and upper mantle of South America have recently become available and describe its deep structure with unprecedented resolution.
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Multi-method characterization of rare blue quartz-bearing metavolcanic rocks of the Rio dos Remédios Group, Paramirim Aulacogen, NE Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Geology, 2023 The Rio dos Remédios Group comprises a supracrustal sequence that occupies the base of the Espinhaço Supergroup, São Francisco Craton, Brazil. Its basal formation, Novo Horizonte, crops out in the Paramirim region mainly as metavolcanic rocks that ...
Danielle Cruz da Silva +4 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 137-165., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Konstantin Litasov +3 more
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2022 Constraints on the structure of cratonic lithosphere are essential to improve our understanding of craton formation, evolution and long‐term stability.
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