Zircon and titanite LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of Archean to Paleoproterozoic crust-forming events and Neoproterozoic reworking processes of the basement rocks of the Southern Brasília orogen

• Grant number: 14/05881-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: August 18, 2014
• End date: August 05, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Geology
• Principal Investigator: Mario da Costa Campos Neto
• Grantee: Caue Rodrigues Cioffi
• Supervisor: Andreas Moeller
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IGC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: 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)

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)

CIOFFI, CAUE RODRIGUES; CAMPOS NETO, MARIO DA COSTA; MOLLER, ANDREAS; ROCHA, BRENDA CHUNG. Titanite petrochronology of the southern Brasilia Orogen basement: Effects of retrograde net-transfer reactions on titanite trace element compositions. LITHOS, v. 344, p. 393-408, NOV 2019. (13/13530-8, 14/05881-8, 16/25987-0, 16/23266-4, 12/24933-3)

CIOFFI, CAUE RODRIGUES; CAMPOS NETO, MARIO DA COSTA; MOLLER, ANDREAS; ROCHA, BRENDA CHUNG. Tectonic significance of the Meso- to Neoarchean complexes in the basement of the southern Brasilia Orogen. Precambrian Research, v. 287, p. 91-107, DEC 2016. (13/13530-8, 14/05881-8, 12/24933-3)