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Application of bauxite waste from amazon region in the heavy clay industry
(2013-12) HILDEBRANDO, Edemarino Araujo; SOUZA, José Antônio da Silva; ANGÉLICA, Rômulo Simões; NEVES, Roberto de Freitas
In this work, a method was developed for the application of red mud, an alkaline leaching waste, from a bauxite processing plant located in northern Brazil (Amazon region) as starting material for heavy clay products. Samples were prepared by pressing blends of red mud and clay, which were then fired at temperatures from 900 ºC to 1190 ºC. Characterization was carried out by chemical analysis, differential thermal analysis (DTA) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), and the following ceramic properties were evaluated: water absorption, linear shrinkage and flexural strength. In order to evaluate the Na+ stability in the dense ceramic, leaching tests were also carried out on the specimens after sintering process. Results indicated that samples with 50 and 70 wt% of red mud are proper for being used in the production of ceramic bodies, due to its excellent properties, mainly high mechanical resistance and low water absorption, showing thus, an option to minimizing the environmental impacts caused by the aluminum industry.
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Avaliação tecnológica de cerâmicas tradicionais incorporadas com rejeito do minério de manganês
(2014-12) RODRIGUES, L. dos S.; SILVA, J. C.; ANGÉLICA, Rômulo Simões; RABELO, A. A.; FAGURY, Renata Lilian Ribeiro Portugal; FAGURY NETO, Elias
The ceramic industry has a great environmental role when it comes to recycling waste. The industrial production that has been developed in the Northern Region of Brazil makes room for use of waste as a substitute raw material in the production of ceramics. This substitution in addition to the environmental advantage also provides interesting physical characteristics in the ceramics produced. This work aimed to study the effects caused by the incorporation of manganese ore tailings in formulations of ceramic clay, to examine the extent to which it is possible to incorporate this waste without prejudice to the product properties. It was proposed some formulations containing varying amounts of tailings. The ceramic bodies were shaped and sintered at 1000 ºC to 1200ºC for 2 h. Results demonstrated that the material showed a decreasing in the porosity and water absorption, and an increasing in the bending strength as a result of the densification promoted by the tailing incorporation which acts as fluxing agent.
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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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Considerações filogenéticas e biogeografia histórica dos malacostráceos (decápodes e isópodes) cenozóicos do Brasil
(2010-03) TÁVORA, Vladimir de Araújo; PAIXÃO, Gleicy Mara Carvalho; SILVA, Fabrício Araújo da
This work deals the analysis of the Historical Biogeography of the brazilian cenozoic paleocarcinofauna, recorded in the Maria Farinha, Tremembé and Pirabas formations. This taxa has affinity with the tethian carcinofaunas and modern aspect. The paleobiogeographic setting allows to situate their biological events of the origin, dispersional and irradiation trends in the tethian, south high latitude and amphitropical origins. The majority of the brazilian carcinofauna has affinity with the tethian faune, that migrate in two seaways, west and east. The phylogenetic relationships suggest appearence of the Thalassinoidea group from the Caridea infraordo. The Retroplumidae family (genus Costacopluma) recorded at Maria Farinha Formation is directed related with the cenozoic ocypodid (i.e. genus Uca at Pirabas Formation, living in the same ecological niches and environmental tolerances. Also, the morphological similarities between Xanthoidea and Portunoidea in the Paleocene, suggest monophyletic relationships with Goneplacidae and Hexapodidae. The detailed phylogenetic studies in Goneplacidae family reveals that Glyphithyreus genus is related with Eucratopsinae subfamily.
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Determinação da composição isotópica de estrôncio em águas naturais: exemplos de sua aplicação em águas subsuperficiais da zona costeira na região Bragantina-PA
(2007) BORDALO, Adriana Oliveira; MOURA, Candido Augusto Veloso; SCHELLER, Thomas
Analytical procedures used for determining the concentrations and isotope composition of strontium in subsurface waters, by mass spectrometry, are described. Sampling was performed in coastal plateaus, salt marsh and mangrove environments in the coastal region of Pará. Coastal plateau waters have δ87Sr between 1.51 and 6.26‰ and Sr concentration bellow 58 ppb. Salt marsh waters show δ87Sr between 0.55 and 0.90‰ and Sr concentration between 93 and 114 ppm, while mangrove waters have δ87Sr around zero and Sr concentration above 15 ppm. Differences in the 87Sr/86Sr ratio in these subsurface waters are detected, as well as seasonal variations in the coastal pleteau waters.
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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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Estratigrafia da faixa de dobramentos Paraguai-Araguaia no centro-norte do Brasil
(1997-12) HASUI, Yociteru; ABREU, Francisco de Assis Matos de; SILVA, José Maurício Rangel da
The Paraguai-Araguaia Fold Belt, constituted during the Brasiliano Cycle, extends to the north of Bananal Island, with submeridian trend. Between the 9º 30'S and 3º30'S parallels, the fold belt is represented by the Baixo Araguaia Group, an ophiolitc belt, some granitic bodies and by the Rio das Barreiras Formation. The Baixo Araguaia Group comprises three formations named, from the bottom to the top, Estrondo, Couto Magalhães and Pequizeiro, the latter one being of magmatic-sedimentary characted related to the ophiolitic belt. The ophiolitic belt is associated to the Tocantins-Araguaia geosuture, which seems to be manifested at the surface only in the northern region by a thrust fault, where glaucophanitic greenschist facies rocks have been recognized. The fold belt evolution shows a western trending polarity for the geosynclinal phenomena, except for the basic-ultrabasic magmatism.
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Evolução geológica das sequências do embasamento do Cinturão Araguaia na região de Paraíso do Tocantins (TO), Brasil
(2013-09) ARCANJO, Silvia Helena de Souza; ABREU, Francisco de Assis Matos de; MOURA, Candido Augusto Veloso
Isotopic studies based on single zircon Pb-evaporation and Sm/Nd (whole rock) methodologies, allowed advances at the lithostratigraphic scene and geologic evolution of basement, in the south segment of Araguaia Belt. The identified geological processes took place from the Achaean (2.6 Ga and TDM ages varying between 2.78 and 3.25 Ga) through Neoproterozoic Era. The Paleoproterozoic ortognaisses, represented by Rio dos Mangues Complex, are placed between 2.05 and 2.08 Ga, and they were formed from a mantellic and youthful source, with a small crustal contribution where TDM ages are 2.35 e 2.21 Ga. At the end of the Paleoproterozoic, a strong crustal shortening happened, and a partial melting of isolated and thickening compartments were facilitated, generating some igneous bodies (1.85 and 1.82 Ga) and Serrote Granite (1.86 Ga), that comes from sources situated between 2.50 and 2.43 Ga. At the end of the Mesoproterozoic, the region was marked by taphrogenetic processes, evidenced by the appearance of alkaline magmatism (1.05 Ga), beyond depositional basins, amongst which the one that received the sediments that had originated the supracrustals of Araguaia Belt. Through the inversion in the geodynamic conditions, in the Neoproterozoic, a process of horizontal shortening with crustal thickening and distinct volumetric and spatial melting occurred, which may have generated Matança and Santa Luzia Granites. The Araguaia Belt was built from this tectonic motion. The tectonic mass transport in the Amazonian Craton might have occurred, resulting in the current architecture in the form of imbricate fans.
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Granitóides proterozóicos como marcadores da evolução geotectônica da região nordeste do Pará, Brasil
(2009-12) PALHETA, Edney Smith de Moraes; ABREU, Francisco de Assis Matos de; MOURA, Candido Augusto Veloso
Granitoids cropping out inside Phanerozoic sedimentary cover in northeast Pará, Brazil (Gurupi region), records the geotectonic evolution of this region. 207Pb/206Pb single zircon evaporation ages were obtained for different granitoid bodies of the region, besides Sm-Nd isotopic studies. Almost all the plutons are genetically related with regional geological processes operative during this crustal segment formation, which includes the São Luís Craton. Such processes are associated with amalgamation of island arcs and Archean nuclei during the Palaeoproterozoic (2.15 to 2,07 Ga). The reworking of the southwestern margin of the São Luís Craton at the end of the Neoproterozoic formed the Gurupi Belt and is recorded by the occurrence of a granitic pluton of 549 ± 4 Ma.
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Heavy mineral as a tool to refine the stratigraphy of kaolin deposits in the Rio Capim Area, Northern Brazil
(2007-09) GÓES, Ana Maria; ROSSETTI, Dilce de Fátima; MENDES, Anderson Conceição
Studies of heavy minerals in kaolin deposits from the Ipixuna Formation in the Rio Capim area (Northern Brazil) showed a mature to super mature assemblage dominated by zircon and tourmaline, and subordinately rutile, kyanite and staurolite. These minerals do not change much throughout the whole section; however, each kaolin unit displays a particular signature, defined by differences in the proportions of the whole assemblage of heavy minerals, as well as of their textural characteristics. This work revealed that the lower and upper kaolin units can be definitely considered as distinct depositional sequences. A higher proportion of opaque minerals and higher zircon values characterize the lower unit. The higher volumes of anhedric, rounded to sub-rounded grains of zircon and tourmaline in the upper unit suggests that this includes grains that were undergone to a higher degree of reworking. The increased volume of unaltered staurolite and kyanite in the upper unit leads to conclude that, even considering sediment reworking, a distinct source must be invoked. The results also show that the characteristics of the heavy mineral assemblage from the intermediate unit are comparable with those from the upper unit, which suggests they might record a same stratigraphic sequence.
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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.
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Synthesis and characterization of zeolite NaP using kaolin waste as a source of silicon and aluminum
(2014-08) HILDEBRANDO, Edemarino Araujo; ANDRADE, Christiano Gianesi Bastos; ROCHA JUNIOR, Carlos Augusto Ferreira da; ANGÉLICA, Rômulo Simões; DIAZ, Francisco Rolando Valenzuela
The synthesis of zeolite NaP using kaolin waste, from the Amazon region, as a predominant source of silicon and aluminum has been studied. The zeolitisation process occurred in hydrothermal conditions using static autoclaving and the effects of time, temperature, and the Si/Al ratio were investigated. The starting material and the phases formed as reaction products were characterized by XRD, SEM and FTIR. The results showed that pure zeolite NaP is hydrothermally synthesized, at 100 °C for 20 hours, using metakaolin waste material in alkaline medium in presence of additional silica. The XRD and SEM analyses indicate that the synthesized zeolite presents good crystallinity.

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