Improvement using epidote in thermocronology by fission track and Pernambuco Lineament dating, Northeast, Brazil

• Grant number: 14/16683-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: December 29, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Geophysics
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Julio Cesar Hadler Neto
• Grantee: Wagner Massayuki Nakasuga
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/12679-3 - Structural analysis of latent tracks in epidote, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

In this project, we want to apply the results obtained in master's and doctoral degree by this candidate and unite them to apatite and zircon thermochronometers for use in conjunction. For this, we performed a field in the state of Pernambuco on a geological fault of great extent, the Pernambuco Lineament. Furthermore, it is intended to obtain age of U-Pb zircon sample region. And with that, get information from the crystallization of zircon collected rock and with fission tracks on the formation of the geological fault. Following the strategy currently adopted by the Group of Chronology UNICAMP, will also be an attempt to obtain ages of fission track without the use of nuclear reactors. Also, is proposing an internship abroad to get experience in studying the latent track with the techniques of transmission electron microscopy and small-angle X-ray scattering. (AU)