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Análise faciológica da Formação Alter do Chão (Cretáceo, Bacia do Amazonas), próximo à cidade de Óbidos, Pará, Brasil
(2012-03) MENDES, Anderson Conceição; TRUCKENBRODT, Werner Hermann Walter; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues
Cretaceous deposits of the Alter do Chão Formation, exposed on the banks of the Amazon river, near the town of Óbidos - PA, record a succession of sandstones, conglomerates and mudstones. Seven lithofacies have been recognized which comprise massive conglomerate (Cm), trough cross-bedded sandstone (St), planar cross-bedded sandstone (Sp), climbing cross-laminated sandstone (Sl), massive mudstone (Mm), bioturbated mudstone (Mb) and deformed mudstone (Md). These facies are organized in fining-upward cycles, 1 to 6m thick, and have been grouped into two associations: channel fill and overbank deposits belonging to a fluvial meandering system. The channel-fill deposits include lenticular gravel bars composed of facies Cm and St, sandy bedforms with facies St, Sp and Sl, and lateral accretion bar, consisted of facies St, Sp and Mm, but with distinct migration with regard to that of the sandy bed forms. While paleocurrent measurements from facies St and Sp of sandy bedforms indicate a preferred orientation of paleoflow to SW and a subordinate flow to S, the lateral accretion bar migrates to E/ESE. The following overbank elements have been recognized based on their geometric relationships: muddy floodplain deposits including abandoned channel plug, crevasse splay channel filled with facies St and Sp and natural levee deposits composed of facies St, Sl and Mm. While the muddy channel plug overlies sandstones, the crevasse channel fill is in contact with mudstones of the floodplain and also cuts through fine-grained sandstones and mudstones interpreted as natural levee deposits. Adjacent muddy lenses in the same stratigraphic level on sandstone but with smaller width than that of the abandoned channel are attributed to swales, filled during floods, capping lateral accretion bar.
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Análise faciológica e aspectos estruturais da formação Águas Claras, região central da Serra dos Carajás-PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 1995-01-31) NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues; TRUCKENBRODT, Werner Hermann Walter; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5463384509941553
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Carbon and oxygen isotope geochemistry of Ediacaran outer platform carbonates, Paraguay Belt, central Brazil
(2007-09) RICCOMINI, Claudio; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues; SIAL, Alcides Nóbrega
After the late Cryogenian glaciation the central region of Brazil was the site of extensive deposition of platformal carbonates of the Araras Group. This group includes a basal cap carbonate sequence succeeded by transgressive, deep platform deposits of bituminous lime mudstone and shale. Facies and stratigraphic data combined with carbon and oxygen isotopic analyses of the most complete section of the transgressive deposits, exposed in the Guia syncline, were used to evaluate the depositional paleoenvironment and to test the correlation of these deposits along the belt and with other units worldwide. The studied succession consists of 150 m thick tabular beds of black to grey lime mudstone and shale with predominantly negative d13CPDB values around –2.5 to -1 . The d13CPDB profile of Guia syncline shows a clear correlation with the upper portion of Guia Formation in the Cáceres region, about 200 km to the southwest. The d13CPDB profile of the Araras Group is comparable with d13CPDB profiles of Ediacaran units of the southern Paraguay Belt, western Canada, and the Congo and Kalahari cratons. Moreover, facies distribution, stratigraphy and the carbon isotopic profile of the Araras Group match the middle Tsumeb Subgroup in Namibia, which reinforces the Ediacaran age assigned to the Araras Group.
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Deformação das rochas siliciclásticas paleoproterozoicas do Grupo Araí como exemplo das reativações de falhas do embasamento, Serra do Tepequém, Roraima, norte do Brasil
(2012-12) FERNANDES FILHO, Lucindo Antunes; PINHEIRO, Roberto Vizeu Lima; TRUCKENBRODT, Werner Hermann Walter; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues
Serra do Tepequém region comprises paleoproterozoic siliciclastic rocks from Araí and Suapi Groups, which are part of Roraima Super-group. Field data indicate that bedding is dipping towards SE and NW in different domains limited by NE-SW sinistral oblique faults with both normal and also reverse displacements. The structural setting is formed by regional scale forced folds represented by kilometre scale kink bands and chevron folds. The proposed framework is compatible with upper-to-middle crustal level. The studied faults were controlled by reactivation of early ductile basement fabric. These findings differ from previous regional models, based on folding under ductile conditions related to colisional tectonics. Results evidence the importance of Guiana Shield early basement structures in controlling the geometry of the brittle structures, which were seen on the cover rocks of Serra do Tepequém.
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Depósitos carbonáticos de Tangará da Serra (MT): uma nova ocorrência de capa carbonática neoproterozóica no sul do Cráton Amazônico
(2008-12) SOARES, Joelson Lima; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues
Cap carbonates are exceptional deposits related to the end of Neoproterozoic low-latitude glaciations. In the Tangará da Serra region, south Amazon craton, was described a Neoproterozoic carbonatic succession with approximately 20 m thick that includes the upper part of the Mirassol d'Oeste Formation and the base of the Guia Formation, respectively the dolomitic and calcareous caps of basal Araras Group. The cap dolomite is composed of pinkish peloidal dolograinstones with planar to low angle truncated laminations interpreted as deposits of a shallow to moderately deep platform. The cap limestone consists in massive to laminated siltstone and megaripple bedded crystalline limestone interpreted as deposits of moderately deep wave dominated mixed platform. Rippled crystalline limestone with crystals fans (pseudomorphosed aragonite) interbedded with shales were interpreted as oversaturated-CaCO3 deep platform deposits. Limestone with slump structures, convolute bedding and sinsedimentary faults characterize deposits of slope and neptunians dykes, filled by calcareous breccias, and isolated deformed limestone beds suggest seismic activity during the sedimentation. The succession of Tangará da Serra extends the occurrence of cap carbonates in the southern Amazon craton and corroborate with the presence of a large carbonate to mixed platform formed during the transgression after the glaciation Puga, correlate to Marinoan event.
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Depósitos flúvio-costeiros da Formação Raizama, Ediacarano-Cambriano da faixa Paraguai Norte, região de Nobres, Mato Grosso, Brasil
(2014-12) SANTOS, Hudson Pereira; SILVA JÚNIOR, José Bandeira Cavalcante da; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues; ABRANTES JÚNIOR, Francisco Romério
The Ediacaran-Cambrian Raizama Formation presents siliciclastic deposits exposed discontinuously along of the southern margin of the Amazon Craton and the Northern Paraguay Belt, Central-Western Brazil. These deposits are interpreted as progradational coastal succession conformably overling the carbonate platform succession of the Upper Araras Group. The facies and stratigraphic analysis of outcrop section were carried out in the Nobres region, State of Mato Grosso, allowed the individualization of seventeen facies, grouped into five facies associations (FA): FA1) lower shoreface, consisting of sandstone with parallel and wave-truncated lamination (microhummocky) parted by laminated mudstones, locally bioturbed by Skolithos; FA2) upper shoreface, composed by parallel and swaley cross bedded sandstone; FA3) subtidal, represented by sandstones with tangential and through cross stratifications drapped by siltstone/very fine sandstone laminae interpreted as channel and bar deposits; FA4) tidal flat is characterized by sandstones with tangential and sigmoidal cross bedding, even parallel stratification, low-angle cross bedding, mud cracks, siltstone/very fine sandstone rhythmites with flaser bedding, organized in shallowing-meter scale cycles; and FA5) distal braid plain consisting of sandstones with through cross-bedding and laterally discontinuous lags, parallel stratification and low-angle cross stratification partially reworked by wave. The sedimentation of the Raizama Formation suggests an increase in the siliciclastic supply linked to uplift regions of the Craton in the northwest of the studied area, succeeding the Araras carbonate platform deposits. Tubular trace fossils in the FA1 indicate, by the first time, the presence of burrowed organisms, what strongly points to an age near of the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary.
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Depósitos sedimentares neoproterozoicos do Grupo Tucuruí - Cinturão Araguaia, Nordeste do Pará
(2014-03) DUTRA, Alessandra de Cássia dos Santos; GORAYEB, Paulo Sérgio de Sousa; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues
The Tucuruí Group of Neoproterozoic age outcrops in Tucuruí region, northeastern of Pará state, along with the transition between the Amazonian Craton and Araguaia Belt. The group is defined by a volcano-sedimentary sequence containing basaltic flows and diabase sill intrusions interbedded with siliciclastics deposits. The Tucuruí thrust fault override these sets rocky westward resulting in shearing, fracturing and fluid percolation in these rocks. The siliciclastic deposits consist of amalgamated subarkoses and siltstones, whose layers are oriented NNE-SSW direction with low dip to SE. In addition presenting coarsening and thickening upward. In this investigation were recognized two sedimentary facies associations: Deposits of Shoreface and Coastal Tempestites Face. This association suggests easy transport processes and sedimentation linked to a shallow marine environment, following the foreshore zone to zone shoreface under influence of wave storm. The petrographic analysis revealed the compositional and textural immaturity of arkosean sandstone and siltstone indicating nearby source area of provenance of mafic to intermediate igneous rocks. The sequence was subject to the mesodiagenetic sedimentary conditions. Thus, the siliciclastic deposits of Tucuruí Group represent the portion of a preserved segment influenced by coastal storm waves in a rift basin or foreland with nearby source area, composed of igneous rocks with strong relief, and marked predominantly by physical weathering. Basaltic volcanic flows occurred during the evolution of this basin.
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Environmental changes in the western Amazônia: morphological framewor, geochemistry, palynology and radiocarbon dating data
(2011-09) HORBE, Adriana Maria Coimbra; BEHLING, Hermann; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues; MAPES, Russell
The sediments from the Coari lake, a “terra firme” lake sculpted into Plio-Pleistocene deposits, and the Acará lake, a flooding-type lake developed on Quaternary sediments in the floodplain of the mid-Solimões river, in the western Amazônia, Brazil, were studied to investigate the environmental condition of their developing. This study includes mineral composition, geochemistry, Pb isotope, palinology, radiocarbon-age and morphological framework of the lakes obtained from SRTM satellite images. The geological and the environmental conditions in the two lakes are highly variable and suggest that their evolution reflect autogenic processes under humid rainforest condition. Although kaolinite, quartz, muscovite, illite, and smectite are the main minerals in both lakes, the geochemistry indicates distinct source, the Acará lake sediments have higher concentrations of Al2O3, Fe2O3, FeO, CaO, K2O, MgO, Na2O, P2O5, Ba, V, Cu, Ni, Zn, Pb, Sr, Li, Y and La and have more radiogenic Pb than the Coari lake sediments. The radiocarbon ages suggest that at 10160 yr BP the Coari lake started to be developed due to avulsion of the Solimões river, and the Acará lake was formed by the meander abandonment of Solimões river retaining its grass dominated shore at ca. 3710 yr BP.
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Evolução de um sistema lacustre árido Permiano, parte superior da Formação Pedra de Fogo, borda oeste da Bacia do Parnaíba
(2014-12) ANDRADE, Luiz Saturnino de; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues; SILVA JÚNIOR, José Bandeira Cavalcante da
Stratigraphic and facies analysis in the Filadélfia region, TO, BR, at the western of the Parnaíba Basin, allowed redefine the paleoenvironment of the upper portion of the Pedra de Fogo Formation of Permian age. The studied deposits are a series of approximately 100 m thick, predominantly siliciclastic, with subordinate carbonates and evaporites, where were defined 21 sedimentary facies that could be grouped into six facies associations (AF): AF1) Lacustrine with ephemeral river deposits; AF2) Storm wave-influenced lake deposits; AF3) Continental sabkha deposits; AF4) Central lake deposits; AF5) Eolian dunes field deposits; and AF6) Lake/oasis deposits with inunditos. These associations indicate that during Permian, an extensive lacustrine arid system developed adjacent to eolian dunes fields and continental sabkha, as well as with contributions from ephemeral rivers. Fluvial incursions into lakes propitiated the formation of suspension lobes and sheet flows (AF1). Sabkha plains (AF3) were formed in the marginal portions of the lake that eventually were influenced by storms waves (AF2), while central zone were site of intense pelitic deposition (AF4). The low supply of eolian sand in this system resulted in the formation of restricted dune fields (AF5), with development of interdune lakes (oasis), where proliferating giant ferns, sporadically flooded by ephemeral rivers (AF6). The facies associations data, corroborated by the paleogeography of the region during the Late Permian, indicate that settling of the top part of the Pedra de Fogo Formation was laid during a hot and arid climate.
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Paleoambiente da Formação Prosperança, embasamento neoproterozóico da Bacia do Amazonas
(2011-03) BARBOSA, Roberto César de Mendonça; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues
The Neoproterozoic Prosperança Formation represents a sedimentary cover of southern Guyana Shield and is poorly exposed when contrasted with Paleozoic record of Amazonas and Solimões basins. Conglomerates, arkosic sandstones and mudstones are the characteristics deposits filling basement grabens. This unit is overlain unconformably by neoproterozoic carbonate rocks of Acarí Formation (observed only in cores). These formations represent the sedimentary basement of oil producing Paleozoic basins of the Amazon region. The precise characterization and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Prosperança Formation are important for their distinction from Paleozoic units. Stratigraphic analysis was carried out at lower Negro River, State of Amazonas. Four facies associations were interpreted as products of a fluvial-deltaic system: prodelta/lacustrine, delta front, foreshore/shoreface and distal braided plain. Mudstones distributed along several kilometers suggest a sedimentary basin probably of lacustrine/restricted sea origins. Complex structured deltaic lobes were fed by braided distributaries that migrated mainly to SE. Sandstones generated under oscillatory/combined flux are conformable with shoreline deposits. Planar to trough cross-bedded sandstones are related to migration of subaqueous dunes, associated to fluvial-braided processes. Lenses of conglomerate, planar to trough cross-bedded sandstones, possibly of paleozoic age, which overlies unconformably the Prosperança Formation migrated to NW as product of proximal braided plain system and is in contrast to the S-directed cross-stratification of the Prosperança sandstones.
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Reavaliação paleoambiental e estratigráfica da Formação Nobres do Grupo Araras, Neoproterozóico da Faixa Paraguai, região de Cáceres (MT)
(2012-12) RUDNITZKI, Isaac Daniel; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues
Outcrop-based facies and stratigraphic studies in the region of Cáceres, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, subdivided the Nobres Formation into: lower member, composed of dolostone, intraclastic dolopackstones, sandy dolostones, stratiform stromatolites and evaporitic molds, interpreted as tidal flat/sabkha deposits; and upper member, constituted of dolostone, dolomitic sandstone, stratiform to domal and wrinkled stromatolites, evaporite molds, sandstones and mudstones, interpreted as mixed tidal flat deposits. The stacking of these deposits up to 200 m thick is composed by meter-thick shallowing/brining upward cycles related to a hot arid climate. The peritidal cycles also suggest continuous and recurrent generation of accommodation linked to tectonic subsidence. The siliciclastic inflow at the end of the deposition of the Nobres Formation that hindered the carbonate sedimentation and is attributed to the uplift of source areas linked to the initial phase of closure of the Clymene Ocean, during the Pampean-Araguaia Orogeny, at the limit Neoproterozoic-Cambrian.
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Reconstituição paleoambiental das formações Motuca e Sambaíba, Permo-Triássico da Bacia do Parnaíba no sudoeste do Estado do Maranhão, Brasil
(2013-09) ABRANTES JÚNIOR, Francisco Romério; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues
The interval between the Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic was marked by paleogeographic and paleoclimatic global changes, partly attributed to catastrophic events. The intense continentalization of the supercontinent Pangaea of End-Permian propitiated the development of extensive deserts that succeeded the coastal and platform environments of Early Permian. The records of these events in northern Brazil are found in intracratonic basins, particularly in the Permo-triassic succession of the Parnaíba Basin. The facies and stratigraphic outcrops analysis of this succession allowed the individualization of 14 sedimentary facies grouped into four facies associations (FA): FA1 and FA2 related to deposits of Motuca Formation and, FA3 and FA4, representative of the base of Sambaíba Formation. The FA1 - Shallow lake/Mudflat consists of red laminated mudstone with lenses of gypsum, calcite and marl, besides lobes of sigmoidal sandstones. The FA2 - Saline pan consists of lenticular bodies of laminated gypsum, nodular gypsum and gypsarenite, overlapped by greenish mudstones with dolomite nodules and palygorskite. The FA3 - sand sheet and FA4 - dunes field are formed, respectively, for orange cream sandstones with even parallel stratification and medium- to large-scale cross-bedding. In the contact between Motuca and Sambaíba formations occurs a deformed interval, laterally continuous for hundreds of kilometers. Brecciated and contorted bedded siltstones and mudstone (Motuca Formation) and sandstone with sinsedimentary faults/microfaults, convolute lamination and mud-filled injection dykes (Sambaíba Formation) are interpreted as seismites triggered by high magnitude earthquakes (> 8 according Richter scale).
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A seção-tipo da Formação Serra do Quilombo, Grupo Araras, Neoproterozoico da Faixa Paraguai Norte, Mato Grosso
(2013-06) MILHOMEM NETO, João Marinho; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues; MACAMBIRA, Moacir José Buenano
After the last Cryogenian glaciation (ca. 635 Ma), large carbonate platforms were developed in several cratonic regions of the Earth and, despite the intense dolomitization of these deposits, paleoceanographic and paleoenvironmental pieces of information are preserved. One of the most important examples of this period in Brazil are the dolostones of Serra do Quilombo Formation, which belong to the upper portion of the Araras Group, exposed in the northern Paraguay Belt, south of the Amazonian Craton. The stratigraphic revaluation of this formation in its type-section and in a reference section in the Nobres region, based on facies and stratigraphic analyses, allowed to enlarge the paleoenvironmental interpretations and to propose a depositional model. The study succession of 140 m thick includes Serra do Quilombo Formation in sharp basal contact with the limestones of Guia Formation and the gradual contact, to the top, with the sandy dolostones of Nobres Formation, at the top. Serra do Quilombo Formation comprises a shallowing upward succession, which includes two facies associations: 1) deep to moderately shallow carbonate platform, composed of laminated dolostone rich in organic matter and a massive to laminated dolostone; and 2) storm influenced shoreface, consisting of hummocky/swaley to planar stratified sandy dolostone, sandy/oolitic dolostone with wave cross laminations and matrix-supported dolomitic breccias. Serra do Quilombo Formation represents the progradational record of a high-stand system tract, in a homoclinal carbonate ramp, installed on the southern part of the Amazonian Craton during the Ediacaran.
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Sedimentação coluvial pleistocênica na região de Presidente Figueiredo, nordeste do estado do Amazonas
(2009-06) SARGES, Roseane Ribeiro; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues; RICCOMINI, Claudio
This paper describe Upper Pleistocene colluvial deposits in the Presidente Figueiredo region, northestern State of Amazonas, Brazil. Outcrop-based sedimentologic and stratigraphic study, integrated with geomorphologic analysis and optically stimulated luminescence dating, allowed to characterize the architecture and lithofacies of these sedimentary successions and provided information about the denudation history and landscape changes in the central Amazonian region during the Pleistocene. The colluvial deposits consist of sands and mainly matrix-suppported gravels with massive beddding, locally with inverse grading, suggestive of deposition by gravitaty and torrential flows. Two types of colluvial deposits were identified: Colluvial deposits 1, dated at 57.000±5.000 years BP, constituted of gravels and sands with fragments of pelite, lateritic crusts and ferruginous sandstone, overlying Early Paleozoic rocks; and Colluvial deposits 2, yielding 22.100±2.600 years BP, consisting of gravels with fragments of semi-flint kaolin and lateritic crust, overlying Cretaceous kaolinic silciclastic deposits of the Alter do Chão Formation. The types of fragments indicate as sources Phanerozoic weathered rocks and lateritic bauxitic and ferruginous laterites which were removed during denudation of plateau. The two colluvial events described here seem to confirm that the main phases of geomorphogenesis are correlated with periods of forest retreat related to the two dry climatic events recorded during the Upper Pleistocene in Amazonia.