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| Author(s): |
Leandro de Godoi Pinton
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Rio Claro. 2016-08-01. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas. Rio Claro |
| Defense date: | 2016-06-10 |
| Advisor: | Cenira Maria Lupinacci; Fabiano Tomazini da Conceição |
| Abstract | |
The present research aimed to evaluate the dynamics of the morphogenetic processes of the cuesta relief in the Late Quaternary (Upper Pleistocene-Upper Holocene) and in the current anthropic periods. Based on this evaluation, the denudative sequence was reconstituted in a geological time scale, and the implications of the anthropogenic morphology constitution in the evolution of this compartment in a historical time scale were verified as well. In order to achieve this objective, depositional dating were performed through Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) and the Pb-210 method (210Pb). In addition, specific morphostructural, geomorphological and land-use/land-cover mapping were performed. The Cavalheiro Stream basin – Analândia (SP) – was chosen as the study area due to its natural distribution, in the transition of the sandstone-basaltic Cuestas and the Paulista Peripheral Depression and the essentially rural land-use evolution as well. The systemic analysis comparing the colluvium material ages (OSL) with the regional paleoclimatic fluctuations and the morphostructural/anthropogenic features arrangement provided an evolutionary model of the cuestas relief, characterized by the following denudative sequence: 1) First dry phase from 30,770 ± 4,930 to 8,000 ± 1,000 years BP (transition between the Upper Pleistocene and the Lower Holocene, extended until the beginning of the Middle Holocene); 2) First wet phase from 7,420 ± 980 to 4,500 ± 750 years BP (Middle-Upper Holocene); 3) Second dry phase from 3,940 ± 665 to 2,215 ± 250 years BP (Upper Holocene); and 4) Anthropogenic phase, from 1962 to 2013 (historical series of 51 years). Fluvial sediments dating through the 210Pb method was inefficient as a complementary resource to detail the anthropogenic phase in the cuestas due to the predominance of sedimentary covers in the lithopedologic composition of this compartment. However, the quantification of the morphological changes in relation with the systematization of the geoindicators corroborates the anthropogenic action on the cuestas relief formation. The cuestas paleomorphogenetic reconstitution demonstrated that the denudative processes in the Late Quaternary (Upper Pleistocene-Upper Holocene) and in the recent anthropic period display a complex configuration, with a cyclic and polygenic dynamics. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/20513-0 - Evolution of the morphogenetics processes in cuestiform relief: The Cavalheiro hydrographic basin - Analândia/SP |
| Grantee: | Leandro de Godoi Pinton |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |