2015-02-272015-02-272013-02-17ABRANTES JÚNIOR, Francisco Romério. A zona de contato entre as formações Motuca e Sambaíba, Permo-Triássico da bacia do Parnaíba, regiões de Filadélfia (TO), Riachão (MA) e Loreto (MA). 2013. 81 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Geociências, Belém, 2013. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geologia e Geoquímica.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/6361The 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 Terminal 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 Parnaíba Basin, particularly in the contact between the Permian Motuca Formation and Triassic Sambaíba Formation. The Motuca Formation consists predominantly of red laminated mudstone with subordinated lenses of gypsum, calcite and marl. In the eastern Parnaiba Basin, the facies of Motuca Formation become sandier with the expressive occurrence of sigmoidal cross-bedded sandstones. The Sambaíba Formation consists of orange cream sandstones with even parallel stratification and medium- to largescale cross-bedding. Usually, the contact between these units is sharp, where fine sandstones with cross lamination and flaser/wavy bedding (Motuca Formation) are overlaid by sandstones with sin-sedimentary faults/microfaults and convolute lamination (Sambaíba Formation). Fourteen sedimentary facies grouped into four associations (FA) were identified: FA1 – shallow lake / mudflat, FA2 - saline pan, FA3 – sand sheet and FA4 – dunes field. The FA1 interpreted as an extensive, low energy shallow lacustrine environment, with predominance of suspension and sporadically influenced by sand inflow provided of ephemeral rivers. This lake system was probably influenced by expansion and contraction periods due to changes in predominantly arid climate. The most expressive periods of contraction of lake, in the western portion of the Parnaiba Basin, was marked by development of mudflats, ephemeral saturated carbonates ponds and saline pans (FA2).Extensive sandy plains or sand sheet (FA3), locally with wetlands, was intensely reworked by eolian processes. The FA4 is interpreted as part of an erg composed of eolian dune/draas in the saturated sand zone, and subordinate dry interdune. In the contact between Motuca and Sambaiba 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).Geochemical anomalies of trace elements such as Mn, Cr, Co, Cu and Ni in the contact zone between the formations, together with the presence of microparticles of metallic composition in the clay matrix of these seismites, corroborate with meteorite impacts event in the Permian-Triassic boundary, related Riachão impact structure.porAcesso AbertoSedimentologiaPermo-TriássicoFormação MotucaFormação SambaíbaBacia Hidrográfica do Rio ParnaíbaRegião Nordeste - BrasilDissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS::GEOLOGIA::SEDIMENTOLOGIA