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Inferências paleoambientais para o Nordeste da Amazônia Oriental a partir do estudo de registros fósseis e composição isotópica de carbono (d13C) e oxigênio (d18O) em rocha total de carbonatos da Formação Pirabas (PA), Mioceno Inferior
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-11-03) FERREIRA, Denys José Xavier; RUIVO, Maria de Lourdes Pinheiro; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9419564604488031
The Lower Miocene (~23¿16 Ma.) from the Northeastern Eastern Amazon has aroused interest in the scientific community during many decades. It belongs to a geological Epoch characterized by a transition period to the modern world, and marked by many climatic and geological changes, that allowed the establishment of a rich fauna and flora. Within this context, Pirabas Formation is discussed. It is an Lower Miocene unit characterized by great carbonate and silicate sediment deposition, considered one of the most significant paleontological units from Brazilian Cenozoic. Many researches were developed on Pirabas Formation, which allowed the accuracy of reconstruction interpretation of its possible Miocene landscape. Even though there were efforts related to the recuperation of paleoenvironment information from Northeastern Eastern Amazon trough the integration among fossil and sediment data, as well as stratigraphic and facies information, there’s still a lack in researches related to the recuperation of integrated and refined information in paleoenvironment between paleocomunity and geochemical studies. This gap of studies illustrates Pirabas Formation as an important elucidative unit for past scenarios and regional environment evolution, as well as being of great relevance for the comprehension of impacts from global Miocene events in Brazilian territory, specially in northern Atlantic coast. The main objective of this work, of multidisciplinary approach, is to refine the paleoenvironment interferences in Pirabas Formation, related to space disposition of paleoenvironment and the dynamic of sea level in Northern Pará State. For the study, three areas were chosen due to its importance and logistic: Ponta do Castelo (Fortaleza Island), Atalaia Beach (Salinopólis City) and B-17 Mine (Capanema City). The methods used in this research were diversity analysis, dominance and similarity of paleofauna, as well as Correspondence Analysis (CA), from fossil data from Pirabas Formation in order to characterize the paleoenvironment; and the composition of stable carbon isotopes (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O), in carbonate whole rocks from the studied unit, to comprehend the paleoenvironment dynamics. The results indicated: 1) the diversity of the registered paleofauna for the areas in Formação Pirabas is apparently related to the type of depositional environment, in which Capanema and Salinópolis are similar for presenting restricted depositional environment, such as lagoon and estuary, and Fortaleza Island indicated better association to the coastal shelf during marine regression; 2) there are predominancy relations between the paleoenvironment according to the temporal representativeness of some facies from the respective depositional cycles in each studied area, as the coast line approaches during marine regression. ; 3) Ponta do Castelo is related to a paleoenvironment of marine/coastal predominance; Atalaia Beach to lagoon with estuary influences; and B-17 Mine to estuary and fluvial; 4) there was a tendency to carbon isotopes (δ13C) impoverishment, indicating the continental influence in the coast during marine regression; 5) and propensity to oxygen isotopes (δ18O) enrichment, reveling influences of the latitude and continent formation effects in the areas during sea retrieve. Trough the results of this research it was possible to understand the space distribution of the paleoenvironment of predominancy (suggested term this work) in Northeastern Eastern Amazon, as well as refine the paleoenvironment interference methods to Pirabas Formation.