Sedimentation and pedogenesis in Cretaceous continental sequences of the Bauru, Sanfranciscana, Parecis and Neuquén basins.

• Grant number: 15/17632-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: June 01, 2016 - May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Geology
• Principal Investigator: Alessandro Batezelli
• Grantee: Alessandro Batezelli
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IG). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Francisco Sergio Bernardes Ladeira

Abstract

The Bauru, Sanfranciscana and Parecis basins in Brazil, and Neuquén Basin in Argentina, shelter Cretaceous continental sequences, whose evolution were conditioned to tectonic and climatic events following rupture of Gondwana. This project aims to identify the sedimentary relationship between these basins, as well as environmental and pedogenic conditions and to establish the continental paleogeographic and climate of the Upper Cretaceous of South America. From the results obtained in FAPESP project 2010/19787-2 "Stratigraphic Correlation and Paleogeography the Upper Cretaceous Bauru, Sanfranciscana and Parecis basins", this project aims to advance the issue, including specific studies in Bauru Sanfranciscana and Parecis basins, in Brazil, adding information about the Cretaceous sequence of the Neuquén Basin in Argentina. The correlation will be based on facies analysis, architectural elements and characterization of paleosols. Facies analyses will be based on lithological characteristics and allow interpreting the paleodepositional processes. The characterization of paleosols will be analyzed by macro and micromorphological features, geochemistry of major elements and trace fossils. The integration of these methods allow develop some considerations on paleoclimate, paleogeomorphic and paleobiological conditions. With this study we intent to elaborate the analogous models for hydrocarbon reservoirs. The relationship between depositional and pedogenetic cycles, as well as the pattern of stratigraphic stacking in each basin will be analyzed according to the stratigraphic base level concepts or ratio of accommodation space and sediment supply (A / S), allowing set sedimentary cycles in different orders of magnitude. Finally, we intend to develop a paleogeographic model for the continental Upper Cretaceous of South America. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(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)

DA SILVA, MARCIO LUIZ; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; BERNARDES LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO. Micromorphology of Paleosols of the Marília Formation and their Significance in the Paleoenvironmental Evolution of the Bauru Basin, Upper Cretaceous, Southeastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, v. 41, 2017. (15/17632-5)

DELGADO, L.; BATEZELLI, A.; LADEIRA, F. S. B.; LUNA, J.. Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic interpretation of the Late Cretaceous Marllia Formation (Brazil) based on paleosol geochemistry. CATENA, v. 180, p. 365-382, SEP 2019. (15/17632-5)

DO NASCIMENTO, DIEGO LUCIANO; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; BERNARDES LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO. First record of lobed trace fossils in Brazil's Upper Cretaceous paleosols: Rhizoliths or evidence of insects and their social behavior?. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 79, p. 364-376, NOV 2017. (15/17632-5)

CASTRO, MARIELA C.; GOIN, FRANCISCO J.; ORTIZ-JAUREGUIZAR, EDGARDO; CAROLINA VIEYTES, E.; TSUKUI, KAORI; RAMEZANI, JAHANDAR; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; MARSOLA, JULIO C. A.; LANGER, MAX C.. A Late Cretaceous mammal from Brazil and the first radioisotopic age for the Bauru Group. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, v. 5, n. 5, MAY 2018. (14/03825-3, 13/23114-1, 16/02473-1, 14/23815-2, 15/17632-5)

DA SILVA, MARCIO LUIZ; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; BERNARDES LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO. Genesis and evolution of paleosols of the Marilia Formation, Maastrichtian of the Bauru Basin, Brazil. CATENA, v. 182, NOV 2019. (15/17632-5)

NASCIMENTO, DIEGO LUCIANO; NETTO, RENATA GUIMARAES; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO BERNARDES; SEDORKO, DANIEL. Taenidium barretti ichnofabric and rainfall seasonality: Insights into dryland suites of Scoyenia ichnofacies. JOURNAL OF PALAEOGEOGRAPHY-ENGLISH, v. 12, n. 1, p. 22-pg., 2023-03-02. (15/17632-5)

DA SILVA, MARCIO LUIZ; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; BERNARDES LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO. Genesis and paleoclimatic significance of palygorskite in the cretaceous paleosols of the Bauru Basin, Brazil. CATENA, v. 168, p. 19-pg., 2018-09-01. (15/17632-5)

DA SILVA, MARCIO LUIZ; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; BERNARDES LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO. Genesis and paleoclimatic significance of palygorskite in the cretaceous paleosols of the Bauru Basin, Brazil. CATENA, v. 168, n. SI, p. 110-128, SEP 2018. (15/17632-5)

MARQUES DOS SANTOS, CAIO AUGUSTO; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; NAKASUGA, WAGNER MASSAYUKI; RESENDE, ROSANA SILVEIRA; TELLO SAENZ, CARLOS ALBERTO; RODRIGUES NUNES, JOAO OSVALDO. Sedimentary provenance of the Marilia Formation (Bauru Basin), Southeast Brazil. GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, v. 55, n. 4, JUN 2019. (15/17632-5)

BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; BERNARDES LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO; DO NASCIMENTO, DIEGO LUCIANO; DA SILVA, MARCIO LUIZ. Facies and palaeosol analysis in a progradational distributive fluvial system from the Campanian-Maastrichtian Bauru Group, Brazil. SEDIMENTOLOGY, v. 66, n. 2, p. 699-735, FEB 2019. (15/17632-5)

DA SILVA, MARCIO LUIZ; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; BERNARDES LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO. Mineralogia de paleossolos da Formação Marília e seu significado na evolução ambiental do Maastrichtiano da Bacia Bauru, sudeste do Brasil. BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, v. 47, n. 3, p. 403-426, JUL-SEP 2017. (15/17632-5)

MARTINEZ, PEDRO; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; LADEIRA, FRANCISCO; CORREA, LETICIA; NASCIMENTO, DIEGO LUCIANO. From the micromorphology of paleoweathering fronts to paleoenvironmental analysis: A case study of the Cretaceous dune fields of Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil. CATENA, v. 211, p. 22-pg., 2022-04-01. (15/17632-5)

DA SILVA, MARCIO LUIZ; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO BERNARDES. Palaeosols as stratigraphic proxies and palaeosurface markers in distributive fluvial systems. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 127, p. 10-pg., 2023-05-05. (20/07997-4, 15/17632-5)

GUEDES SILVA, GABRIEL TEOFILO; NASCIMENTO, DIEGO LUCIANO; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; BERNARDES LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO; SILVA, MARCIO LUIZ. Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) chelonian burrows preserved in floodplain deposits in the Bauru Basin of Brazil: Evidence for the fossorial origin of turtle shells. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 596, p. 12-pg., 2022-04-21. (15/17632-5)

DELGADO, L.; BATEZELLI, A.; LADEIRA, F. S. B.. Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction of Lower to Upper Cretaceous sequences of the Bauru Basin based on paleosol geochemistry and mineralogical analyses. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 569, MAY 1 2021. (15/17632-5)

NASCIMENTO, DIEGO LUCIANO; NETTO, RENATA GUIMARAES; INDICATTI, RAFAEL PREZZI. Neoichnology of mygalomorph spiders: Improving the recognition of spider burrows in the geological record. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 108, JUN 2021. (17/11985-9, 15/17632-5, 12/18287-1)

ALVES, DIEGO SULLIVANN DE JESUS; LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO BERNARDES; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO. Development of an argillic horizon in polygenetic paleosols in the Marilia Formation (Maastrichtian), Brazil: Precautions for paleoenvironmental interpretation. CATENA, v. 210, p. 15-pg., 2022-03-01. (15/17632-5)

DO NASCIMENTO, DIEGO LUCIANO; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; BERNARDES LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO. FRESHWATER DECAPODA TRACE FOSSILS IN FLOODPLAIN PALEOSOLS OF MARILIA FORMATION IN MINAS GERAIS STATE (SE BRAZIL). Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, v. 20, n. 3, p. 287-298, SEP-DEC 2017. (15/17632-5)

DO NASCIMENTO, DIEGO LUCIANO; BATEZELLI, ALESSANDRO; BERNARDES LADEIRA, FRANCISCO SERGIO. The paleoecological and paleoenvironmental importance of root traces: Plant distribution and topographic significance of root patterns in Upper Cretaceous paleosols. CATENA, v. 172, p. 789-806, JAN 2019. (15/17632-5)