Analysis of relations between Cerrado vegetation and the superficial formations in Depressão Periférica Paulista area through the OSL (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) method

• Grant number: 12/25322-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Physical Geography
• Principal Investigator: Archimedes Perez Filho
• Grantee: Diego Luciano do Nascimento
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IG). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The prevailing climatic oscillations during the Quaternary reshaped the entire landscape complex of São Paulo State, changing the distribution of vegetation and the processes of morphogenesis and pedogenesis until then active. The current spatial organization of the vegetation is a result of the reorganization of physical natural systems and the understanding of the determinants of this organization allows us to analyze the processes responsible for the evolution of cerrado in the Depressão Periférica Paulista area. The proposed research aims to analyze the evolution of the landscape during the Quaternary, by dating the soil parent material by Optically Stimulated Luminescence method (OSL), establishing relationships with the distribution of vegetation cover and Cenozoic deposits correlative to the morphogenetic processes active during the Pleistocene. (AU)