Pan-African shear zones in the Kaoko belt (Namibia) and links across southwestern ...
| Grant number: | 14/05881-8 |
| Support type: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |
| Effective date (Start): | August 18, 2014 |
| Effective date (End): | August 05, 2015 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences |
| Principal Investigator: | Mario da Costa Campos Neto |
| Grantee: | Caue Rodrigues Cioffi |
| Supervisor abroad: | Andreas Moeller |
| Home Institution: | Instituto de Geociências (IGC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Local de pesquisa : | University of Kansas, United States |
| Associated to the scholarship: | 12/24933-3 - Geological evolution of migmatites from the infrastructure of Southern Brasília belt nappe system, BP.DR |
Abstract The aim of this project is a collaborative work with Professor Andreas Möller at The University of Kansas, USA. Professor Möller is director of the KU LA-ICP-MS Geochronology laboratory, which is equipped with a Thermo Scientific Element2 ICP-MS coupled with a 193nm ArF Excimer laser ablation system. He is an expert in geochronology, especially on dating metamorphic events and reconstructing P-T-t paths through in-situ U-Pb methodologies. The expertise of Professor Möller and the facilities of KU LA-ICP-MS laboratory will contribute in a major way to the Phd project of the applicant. The main goal of this cooperation is dating of Archean to Proterozoic crust-forming and metamorphic events in the basement rocks of the Southern Brasília Orogen and the subsequent reworking of these rocks during the Neoproterozoic orogeny by zircon and titanite U-Pb LA-ICP-MS. The U-Pb data will be combined with whole-rock Nd, Sr and geochemical data to construct a petrogenetic model for the basement rocks of the Southern Brasília Orogen. (AU) | |