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| Author(s): |
Alethea Ernandes Martins Sallun
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Geociências (IG/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2007-06-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Kenitiro Suguio;
Marcondes Lima da Costa;
Claudio Limeira Mello;
Paulo Roberto dos Santos;
Andre Oliveira Sawakuchi
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| Advisor: | Kenitiro Suguio |
| Abstract | |
Sandy Pleistocene deposits of colluvial origin are found in several regions of Brazil, within São Paulo, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul states. Associated to distinct geological contexts, these deposits are known by different names, like Paranavaí Formation (São Paulo, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul states), Piquerobi Formation (São Paulo State) and Cachoeirinha Formation (Mato Grosso do Sul State). In this context, it was possible to recognize from sedimentological, geochronological and stratigraphical viewpoints the Quaternary deposits occurring at Paraná River Upstream Hydrographic Basin (São Paulo, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul states), through the allostratigraphy, with formal proposition of the Alto Rio Paraná Allogroup, which is constituted by Paranavaí Alloformation colluvial deposits and Paraná Alloformation alluvial deposits. The obtained data indicated that Paraná River Upstream is active, at least from the past 1 My until today in shaping the relief by construction (terraces) and destruction (dissection) processes. These geological records would testify important palaeoclimatic changes and/or neotectonic events, that modified the baselevels and re-shaped the relief. The Paranavaí Alloformation deposits colluvial aggradation episodes, installed on peneplained surfaces shaped during the Pleistocene, are tentatively correlatable with worldwide known millennial scale palaeoclimatic changes, mostly between transitional phases of oxygen isotope stages. (AU) | |