Coupling Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) and Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides (TCN) analysis to reconstruct changes in the Amazonian fluvial system in the Late Cenozoic (<5 Ma)

• Grant number: 14/23334-4
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): February 01, 2015
• Effective date (End): September 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Geology
• Principal researcher: André Oliveira Sawakuchi
• Grantee: Fabiano Do Nascimento Pupim
• Home Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IGC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/50260-6 - Structure and evolution of the Amazonian biota and its environment: an integrative approach, AP.BTA.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/09293-9 - Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides analysis to reconstruct changes in the Amazonian fluvial system in the late Cenozoic (<5 ma), BE.EP.PD

Abstract

The debate about the Amazonia landscape evolution has been highlighted in the last two decades, which the scientific advances agree that biotic and abiotic evolution might be intimately related. The main hypothesis argue that the transcontinental Amazonian fluvial system was established in the late Miocene and its evolution should be strongly influenced by tectonic, sea level and/or climatic oscillations during the Pliocene and Quaternary. However, a detailed reconstruction of the post-late Miocene history of Amazonia is still necessary to solve many geological and geomorphologycal problems, as well as improve the understanding about the response of the biodiversity to long-term environmental changes. This post-doctoral proposal aims to use an integrated approach combining OSL and TCN methods to improve the geochronology of late Cenozoic sedimentary units as well as track changes in the Amazonian fluvial system since the early Pliocene. The expected outcomes will provide new deals about: (1) how modern Amazonian fluvial system responded to late Cenozoic climate changes; (2) the potential integration of OSL and TCN methods to dating long-term depositional events (<5 Ma); (3) how erosion and sedimentation rates change over time in tropical lowlands. The proposed to use multiple geochronological methods in large fluvial systems will be a worldwide pioneer approach. In addition, this project will enable a international exchange between laboratories and researchers, in which we expect a strong scientific and technological development.

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)

GEROLIN, CRISTIANO REZENDE; PUPIM, FABIANO NASCIMENTO; SAWAKUCHI, ANDRE OLIVEIRA; GROHMANN, CARLOS HENRIQUE; LABUTO, GEORGIA; SEMENSATTO, DECIO. Microplastics in sediments from Amazon rivers, Brazil. Science of The Total Environment, v. 749, DEC 20 2020. Web of Science Citations: 1.

KERN, ANDREA K.; GROSS, MARTIN; GALEAZZI, CRISTIANO P.; PUPIM, FABIANO N.; SAWAKUCHI, ANDRE O.; ALMEIDA, RENATO P.; PILLER, WERNER E.; KUHLMANN, GABRIEL G.; BASEI, MIGUEL A. S. Re-investigating Miocene age control and paleoenvironmental reconstructions in western Amazonia (northwestern Solimoes Basin, Brazil). PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 545, MAY 1 2020. Web of Science Citations: 1.

BERTASSOLI, JR., D. J.; SAWAKUCHI, A. O.; CHIESSI, C. M.; SCHEFUSS, E.; HARTMANN, G. A.; HAEGGI, C.; CRUZ, F. W.; ZABEL, M.; MCGLUE, M. M.; SANTOS, R. A.; PUPIM, F. N. Spatiotemporal Variations of Riverine Discharge Within the Amazon Basin During the Late Holocene Coincide With Extratropical Temperature Anomalies. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 46, n. 15, p. 9013-9022, AUG 16 2019. Web of Science Citations: 0.

PUPIM, F. N.; SAWAKUCHI, A. O.; ALMEIDA, R. P.; RIBAS, C. C.; KERN, A. K.; HARTMANN, G. A.; CHIESSI, C. M.; TAMURA, L. N.; MINELI, T. D.; SAVIAN, J. F.; GROHMANN, C. H.; BERTASSOLI, JR., D. J.; STERN, A. G.; CRUZ, F. W.; CRACRAFT, J. Chronology of Terra Firme formation in Amazonian lowlands reveals a dynamic Quaternary landscape. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, v. 210, p. 154-163, APR 15 2019. Web of Science Citations: 3.

DE SOUZA, DANIEL H.; STUART, FINLAY M.; RODES, ANGEL; PUPIM, FABIANO N.; HACKSPACHER, PETER C. Controls on the erosion of the continental margin of southeast Brazil from cosmogenic Be-10 in river sediments. Geomorphology, v. 330, p. 163-176, APR 1 2019. Web of Science Citations: 0.

SAWAKUCHI, A. O.; JAIN, M.; MINELI, T. D.; NOGUEIRA, L.; BERTASSOLI, JR., D. J.; HAEGGI, C.; SAWAKUCHI, H. O.; PUPIM, F. N.; GROHMANN, C. H.; CHIESSI, C. M.; ZABEL, M.; MULITZA, S.; MAZOCA, C. E. M.; CUNHA, D. F. Luminescence of quartz and feldspar fingerprints provenance and correlates with the source area denudation in the Amazon River basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 492, p. 152-162, JUN 15 2018. Web of Science Citations: 7.

MCGLUE, MICHAEL M.; GUERREIRO, RENATO LADA; BERGIER, IVAN; SILVA, AGUINALDO; PUPIM, FABIANO N.; OBERC, VICTORIA; ASSINE, MARIO L. Holocene stratigraphic evolution of saline lakes in Nhecolandia, southern Pantanal wetlands (Brazil). Quaternary Research, v. 88, n. 3, p. 472-490, NOV 2017. Web of Science Citations: 6.

MACEDO, HUDSON DE AZEVEDO; STEVAUX, JOSE CANDIDO; ASSINE, MARIO LUIS; SILVA, AGUINALDO; PUPIM, FABIANO DO NASCIMENTO; MERINO, EDER RENATO; LO, EDWARD. CALCULATING BEDLOAD TRANSPORT IN RIVERS: CONCEPTS, CALCULUS ROUTINES AND APPLICATION. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE GEOMORFOLOGIA, v. 18, n. 4, p. 813-824, OCT-DEC 2017. Web of Science Citations: 3.

PUPIM, FABIANO DO NASCIMENTO; ASSINE, MARIO LUIS; SAWAKUCHI, ANDRE OLIVEIRA. Late Quaternary Cuiaba megafan, Brazilian Pantanal: Channel patterns and paleoenvironmental changes. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL, v. 438, n. A, p. 108-125, MAY 5 2017. Web of Science Citations: 7.

BERTASSOLI, JR., DAILSON J.; SAWAKUCHI, ANDRE O.; SAWAKUCHI, HENRIQUE O.; PUPIM, FABIANO N.; HARTMANN, GELVAM A.; MCGLUE, MICHAEL M.; CHIESSI, CRISTIANO M.; ZABEL, MATTHIAS; SCHEFUSS, ENNO; PEREIRA, TATIANA S.; SANTOS, RUDNEY A.; FAUSTINO, SAMANTHA B.; OLIVEIRA, PAULO E.; BICUDO, DENISE C. The Fate of Carbon in Sediments of the Xingu and Tapajos Clea ater Rivers, Eastern Amazon. FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, v. 4, 2017. Web of Science Citations: 2.

PUPIM, FABIANO DO NASCIMENTO; SAWAKUCHI, ANDRE OLIVEIRA; MINELI, THAYS DESIRE; NOGUEIRA, LUCIANA. Evaluating isothermal thermoluminescence and thermally transferred optically stimulated luminescence for dating of Pleistocene sediments in Amazonia. QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY, v. 36, p. 28-37, SEP 2016. Web of Science Citations: 1.

ANDRÉ OLIVEIRA SAWAKUCHI; VINICIUS RIBAU MENDES; FABIANO DO NASCIMENTO PUPIM; THAYS DESIREE MINELI; LIGIA MARIA ALMEIDA LEITE RIBEIRO; ANDRE ZULAR; CARLOS CONFORTI FERREIRA GUEDES; PAULO CÉSAR FONSECA GIANNINI; LUCIANA NOGUEIRA; WILLIAM SALLUN FILHO; MARIO LUIS ASSINE. Optically stimulated luminescence and isothermal thermoluminescence dating of high sensitivity and well bleached quartz from Brazilian sediments: from Late Holocene to beyond the Quaternary?. BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, v. 46, p. 209-226, Jun. 2016.

ASSINE, MARIO LUIS; MERINO, EDER RENATO; PUPIM, FABIANO DO NASCIMENTO; MACEDO, HUDSON DE AZEVEDO; MARTINHO DOS SANTOS, MAURICIO GUERREIRO. The Quaternary alluvial systems tract of the Pantanal Basin, Brazil. BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, v. 45, n. 3, p. 475-489, SEP 2015. Web of Science Citations: 16.