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| Author(s): |
Fernanda Aparecida Leonardi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências |
| Defense date: | 2014-08-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Francisco Sérgio Bernardes Ladeira;
Regina Célia de Oliveira;
Antonio Carlos Vitte;
Rogério Elias Soares Uagoda;
Emerson Martins Arruda
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| Advisor: | Fabiano Tomazini da Conceição; Francisco Sérgio Bernardes Ladeira |
| Abstract | |
The theory of pediplanation proposed by King em 1956 has gained attention in Brazil since his publication about the evolution of the relief of the Brazilian eastern portion. This King's work has given rise to reviews and reflections from the national geomorphological community. Besides King, many authors have published with this approach, highlighting Moraes Rego (1932), De Martonne (1943), Freitas (1951), Almeida (1964), Bigarella and Ab¿Sáber (1964), Barbosa (1965), Bigarella and Andrade (1965), Braun (1971), among others. In spite of a certain stagnation after the decade of 1980, the theme "paleosurfaces" has been highlighted in the last two decades, mainly due to the uprising of new methods of analysis, including the possibility of absolute dating in intemperism profiles. This work aims to associate the iron laterite profiles with elevation levels by using laterite profiles as a chronostratigraphic mark possible to be dated, through chemical, mineralogical, macromorphological analysis and dating by (U-Th)/He of the laterite iron profiles. Two main areas have been studied deeper: the eastern quadrant of Quadrilátero Ferrífero (Catas Altas region), next to Serra do Caraça, showing a laterite iron profile at 890m of altitude, with 10km of extension, under Fonseca Formation, in which a laterite iron profile was sampled; and the western quadrant of Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Serra do Rola Moça region and northern Serra da Moeda, where a laterite iron profile was also sampled, at about 1400m of altitude, under the itabirite in situ (in Serra do Rola Moça). In these areas the iron laterite surface was mapped and the geochemical, mineralogical analysis and dating (U-Th)/He of the sampled laterite profiles was done. The ages found range in the Catas Altas region from 33,09±1,11Myr ago to 0,71±0,05Myr ago and in the profile of Serra do Rola Moça from 6,08±0,20 Myr ago to 0,43±0,04 Myr ago. The data show that the laterite iron surface began its forming 33Myr ago in Catas Altas region, regarding that from this moment goethite has been dissolving and recrystallizing, then, the more recent ages. Thus, Quadrilátero Ferrífero area was exposed 60Myr ago, this means that the configuration of the relief with the tops was the same 60Myr ago, especially being the Serra do Caraça region. The material dated in Serra do Rola Moça meet the ages listed for the neighboring areas, as Mina do Capão Xavier in Serra da Moeda (about 6 to 8 Myr ago). Finally, in paleosurface analysis altitude levels cannot be associated with former flattening surfaces in a direct way. According to the regional study in Quadrilátero Ferrífero, we can state that independently of the altitude levels, what prevails in the landscape is the Sul-Americana surface and we did not find secure evidence of the Gondwana surface, older (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/15285-5 - MAPPING, CHARACTERIZATION AND DATING OF ALTERATION PROFILES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND CORRELATION OF GEOMORPHIC SURFACES: CASE OF STUDY OF THE MINAS GERAIS SOUTHEAST |
| Grantee: | Fernanda Aparecida Leonardi |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |