Geochronology and terrigenous sedimentation of the mud depocenters from the Southern Brazilian continental shelf

• Grant number: 19/00256-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: May 01, 2019
• End date: July 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Oceanography - Geological Oceanography
• Principal Investigator: Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques
• Grantee: Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques
• Host Institution: Instituto Oceanográfico (IO). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Márcia Caruso Bícego ; Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira
• Associated research grant(s): 19/06250-5 - Diapir exposure at the ocean floor as a new paleo-currents indicator: a case study from Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, AP.R SPRINT

Abstract

Studies on muddy depocenters on the Brazilian shelf have been developed since the 1970s on the basis of the REMAC Project (Kowsmann and Costa, 1979), but have been intensified since the beginning of this century by increasing the capacity of research centers (eg, Mahiques et al., 2009, Nagai et al., 2009, Reed et al., 2009, Gyllencreutz et al., 2010, Dominguez et al., 2013). The importance of the study of these depocenters is related not only to the fact that they are good archives of the climatic and oceanographic variations of the Southwest Atlantic, but also because they constitute zones of potential accumulation of anthropogenic material (De Mahiques et al., 2016). (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE MAHIQUES, MICHEL MICHAELOVITCH; VIOLANTE, ROBERTO; FRANCO-FRAGUAS, PAULA; BURONE, LETICIA; ROCHA, CESAR BARBEDO; ORTEGA, LEONARDO; DOS SANTOS, ROSANGELA FELICIO; KIM, BIANCA SUNG MI; LOPES FIGUEIRA, RUBENS CESAR; BICEGO, MARCIA CARUSO. Control of oceanic circulation on sediment distribution in the southwestern Atlantic margin (23 to 55 degrees S). Ocean Science, v. 17, n. 5, p. 1213-1229, SEP 15 2021. (16/22194-0, 14/08266-2, 15/17763-2, 19/00256-1)