Depósitos carbonáticos de Tangará da Serra (MT): uma nova ocorrência de capa carbonática neoproterozóica no sul do Cráton Amazônico

Abstract

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.