Teses em Geologia e Geoquímica (Doutorado) - PPGG/IG

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O Doutorado Acadêmico pertence ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geologia e Geoquímica (PPGG) do Instituto de Geociências (IG) da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA).

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Fácies e proveniência de depósitos siliciclásticos cretáceos e neógenos da bacia do Amazonas: implicações para a história evolutiva do proto-amazonas.
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-06-23) MENDES, Anderson Conceição; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8867836268820998
Siliciclastic deposits exposed near the channel of the modern Amazon River and overlaid by Neogene units have been attributed to the Cretaceous, formally named as Alter do Chão Formation. Integrated studies based on sedimentology, stratigraphy, trace fossils, petrography of sandstones and heavy minerals, as well as, U-Pb dating of zircon grains allowed reconstitute the depositional paleoenvironment and infer the probable source areas of these Cretaceous deposits in the Amazon Basin. Despite its wide geographical distribution throughout the Amazonas Basin, stratigraphic and sedimentological studies of Alter do Chão Formation were located in areas where there was not allowed a better paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic reconstruction. These deposits record the evolution of a large-scale fluvial system or “Big River”, with meandering pattern in the central-eastern Amazonas Basin, while in the western portion of the basin, predominate an anastomosed configuration with large overbank zones colonized by animals and plants. The recorded of this biologic activity are traces fossil of Taenidium, Planolites, Diplocraterion, Beaconites, Thalassinoides, adhesive meniscate burrows and excavations of insects and vertebrates, as well as, root marks. The fluvial succession consists of kaolinitized and locally silicified conglomerates, sandstones and pelites, grouped in eight architectural elements, Gravel Bar, Sand edforms, Lateral Accretion Bar, Levee, Channels, Crevasse Splay Lobes, Abandoned Channel Fills and Overbank Fines. The expressive terrigenous supply probably came of uplifted areas related to Gurupá Arch, eastern limit of the basin, and zircon grains ages range from 1.8 to 2.9 Ga, indicate the Maroni-Itacaiúnas and Central Amazon provinces as main cratonic sources of sediments. The massive sediment input reflected in the hundreds of meters thick of cretaceous deposits, extense for thousands of kilometres, suggests expressives drainages from the craton, feeding an approximate E-W-oriented "Big River”. Probably, the Late Cretaceous paleogegraphy will be similar to current configuration of the modern Amazon River, but with opposite migration, directioned to the Pacific Ocean. The unconformity between Alter do Chão Formation and Neogene deposits attests long period of subarial exposure in the Amazon Basin during the Paleogene, coincident with the development of lateritic-bauxitic profiles. Paleocurrent measures confirms the flow reversion to the east, in direction of Atlantic, during the Neogene. Additionally, the spectrum of zircon grains ages, ranging from 0.5 to 2.7 Ga, comparable to obtained for Quaternary deposits, indicates cratonic and mainly Andean sources, recording the beginning of the Amazon River. The results obtained here allowed, by first time, to propose a transcontinental drainage model for the Late Cretaceous, as weel as, to record the initial sedimentation of proto-Amazon river during the Neogene.
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O mar epicontinental Itaituba na região central da Bacia do Amazonas: paleoambiente e correlação com os eventos paleoclimáticos e paleoceanográficos do carbonífero
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2019-03-14) SILVA, Pedro Augusto Santos da; NOGUEIRA, Afonso César Rodrigues; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8867836268820998
The Carboniferous paleogeography of the West Gondwana was dominated by epicontinental seas connected with the Panthalassa Ocean to the west. 50m-thick Pennsylvanian mixed siliciclastic-carbonate transgressive succession of the Amazonas Basin, Northern Brazil, were studied in outcrops and cores using facies and stratigraphic analysis in combination with O- and C-isotopic stratigraphy. Thirty-four facies, representative of coastal to shelf depositional systems grouped in three facies associations (FA): FA1) coastal desertic deposits, consisting of fine to medium-grained sandstone, mudstone and fine-grained dolostone that corresponds to a complex association of aeolian dunes, sand sheets, interdunes, fluvial channels and lagoon deposits bioturbated by Palaeophycus, Lockeia, Thalassinoides and Rosselia trace fossils; FA2) mixed tidal flat setting, constituted by fine to medium-grained sandstone, mudstone, shale, siltstone, lime mudstone and fine dolostone interpreted as supratidal, tidal channel, tidal delta and lagoon deposits with some brachiopod and echinoderm body fossils; and FA3) carbonate shelf deposits, consisting of lime mudstone, wackestone, packstone and grainstone with allochems (ooids and peloids), terrigenous grains and abundant and diversified open shallow marine benthic organisms, including, fish remains, foraminifers, brachiopods, echinoderms, gastropods, bryozoans, trilobites, corals, ostracodes, and conodonts, interpreted as bioclastic bars and carbonate shelf deposits. The conodonts species Neognathodus symmetricus, Streptognathodus sp. and Ellisonia sp. in the FA3 indicate the Baskirian-Moscovian age. The dolomitization affected the limestone and sandstone of AF1 and AF2 replacing the micritic matrix and occur as saddle dolomite indicating mixed of meteoric and marine waters and late burial. The neomorphism of opaque micritic matrix and bivalve shells are indicated by the growing of xenotopic mosaic of calcite crystals. In contrast, the secondary calcite cement is equant, fiber, bladed and espatic. Micritization is found in the bioclast shells exhibiting micritic coatings. The autigenesis of quartz and biogenic pyrite is commonly found in FA2 and FA3. The mechanic and chemical compaction in limestone caused the porosity reduction, cementation, fractures and development of dissolution seams and stylolite. The sandstones were cemented by quartz, calcite and iron hydroxides/oxides and show concave-convex and sutured contacts between quartz grains. The predominance of eodiagenetic and subordinate mesodiagenetic features in the Monte Alegre-Itaituba succession indicated less modified framework by the diagenesis corroborating the pristine signature of δ13C values ranging from ~ -2 to ~+5.28‰. This enriched trend upsection coadunate with high organic productivity triggered by massive flourishment of euphotic-controlled benthic organisms mainly in the FA3. Five types of shallowing upward asymmetric cycles characterize the Monte Alegre-Itaituba succession. Peritidal cycles in coastal desertic (Cycle I) were formed by alternance of dolostone and sandstone with δ13C values ranging from -1.5 to +0.3‰. Cycles II consist in interbedded of sandstone-mudstone and sandstone-mudstone-floatstone rhythmites and the Cycle III constitute dolostone interbedded with sandstone. These cycles II and III were interpreted as tidal flat and lagoon deposits with δ13C values ranging from +3,98%₀ to +4, 62%₀. The Cycle IV is a rhythmite formed by wackestones/mudstones couplets while the Cycle V consists of alternance of grainstones, wackestones and lime mudstone (ABC cyclicity) passing upsection for cycles composed by wackestones and lime mudstone (AB cyclicity). The cycles IV and V are shelf deposits with δ13C values ranging from +3,65%₀ a +5,28%₀. The stacking of 53 cycles with average thickness of 1,1 m, combined with Fisher plot diagram, indicated an aggradational to retrogradational stacking pattern inserted in the lowstand to early transgressive system tract (Cycles I-III) and late transgressive system tract (Cycles IV and V). The succession was deposited in ~13 Ma and individual cycles accumulated in an approximately 0.25 my typical of fourth order cycles related to high-frequency fluctuations of relative sea level. These data were correlated to the global δ13C and sea-level curves that positioned the Monte Alegre-Itaituba succession in the Late Serpukhovian to Early Moscovian age. The influence of Late Misssipian glaciation was negligible in these deposits but the post-glacial transgression combined with slow subsidence of the Amazonas basin caused the generation of allogenic cycles I, IV and V. The cycles II and III were formed by autochthonous processes during a period of equilibrium between supply and glacioeustasy. The Monte Alegre-Itaituba succession is the record of a large Amazonia epicontinental sea that was directly connected with the Panthalassa Ocean during Pennsylvanian.

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