Bivalves permianos da fase de continentalização das bacias do Gondwana Ocidental: sistemática, paleogeografia e bioestratigrafia

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Caracterização radiométrica e de exalação de Radônio em rochas ornamentais silicáticas beneficiadas no Estado do Espírito Santo

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Emanação de radônio em rochas ornamentais e para revestimento do estado do Ceará, Brasil

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Termocronologia e história denudacional da Serra do Mar e implicações no controle deposicional da Bacia de Santos

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Radioelementos naturais na área do Projeto Rio Preto (GO)

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Proveniência de arenitos albianos (Grupo Itapecuru), borda leste da bacia de São Luís-Grajaú, Maranhão, usando análise de minerais pesados e química mineral

Depósitos albianos da bacia de São Luís-Grajaú, antigamente conhecidos apenas em subsuperfície como ‘Unidade Indiferenciada’ do Grupo Itapecuru, foram recentemente encontrados ao longo do rio Itapecuru, na parte leste desta bacia. São argilitos avermelhados, esverdeados a cinzas, arenitos estratificados e maciços e subordinadamente calcários, interpretados como depósitos de delta progradante para ENE/E e ESE e conectado a uma plataforma restrita. Para determinar a proveniência de arenitos albianos, foram coletadas 18 amostras para estudos de minerais pesados (fração 0,062-0,125 mm) usando-se microscópio petrográfico convencional e microscópio eletrônico de varredura. Os arenitos foram classificados como quartzo-arenito moderadamente a bem selecionado, cimentado por dolomita, cujos principais minerais pesados são zircão (4-70%), granada (12-74%), turmalina (3-20%), estaurolita (1-9%), rutilo (1-8%) e barita (0-55%), enquanto cianita, anatásio (autigênico), anfibólio (hornblenda), andaluzita, sillimanita, espinélio e ilmenita ocorrem raramente. A maioria dos grãos é irregular angulosa, mas grãos bem arredondados, particularmente de turmalina e zircão, também estão presentes. Texturas superficiais incluem fraturas conchoidais, marcas de percussão em V e pequenos buracos, estes últimos em grãos arredondados de turmalina e zircão, enquanto feições de corrosão estão principalmente presentes em barita (cavidades rômbicas), cianita, estaurolita (superfície mamilar) e granada (facetas bem formadas por dissolução). Grãos de zircão, com texturas de zoneamento oscilatório e razões U/Th ≥ 0,5 e Zr/Hf média de 29, indicam proveniência de granitos e migmatitos, enquanto os tipos de turmalina, determinados como dravita e shorlita, são oriundos, principalmente, de metapelitos e metapsamitos aluminosos e/ou pobres em Al, com menor contribuição de granitos e rochas meta-ultramáficas. As granadas, por sua vez, são ricas em almandina e têm baixos teores dos componentes de espessartita, grossulária e piropo. Suas fontes potenciais são rochas metamórficas de baixo a médio grau e granitos. Com base em análises de minerais pesados e progradação do sistema deltaico para ENE/E e ESE, as áreas mais prováveis como fontes potenciais de arenitos albianos são o cráton São Luís, os cinturões neoproterozóicos Araguaia e Gurupi, bem como a bacia paleozóica do Parnaíba, esta fornecendo sedimentos de grãos arredondados.

Dissolved uranium, radium and radon evolution in the Continental Intercalaire aquifer, Algeria and Tunisia

Natural, dissolved U-238-series radionuclides (U, Ra-226, Rn-222) and activity ratios (A.R.s: U-234/U-238; Ra-228/Ra-226) in Continental Intercalaire (Cl) groundwaters and limited samples from the overlying Complexe Terminal (CT) aquifers of Algeria and Tunisia are discussed alongside core measurements for U/Th (and K) in the contexts of radiological water quality, geochemical controls in the aquifer, and water residence times. A redox barrier is characterised downgradient in the Algerian Cl for which a trend of increasing U-234/U-238 A.R.s with decreasing U-contents due to recoil-dominated U-234 solution under reducing conditions allows residence time modelling similar to 500 ka for the highest enhanced A.R. = 3.17. Geochemical modelling therefore identifies waters towards the centre of the Grand Erg Oriental basin as palaeowaters in line with reported C-14 and Cl-36 ages. A similar U-234/U-238 trend is evidenced in a few of the Tunisian CI waters. The paleoage status of these waters is affirmed by both noble gas recharge temperatures and simple modelling of dissolved, radiogenic He-4-contents both for sampled Algerian and Tunisian CI and CT waters. For the regions studied these waters therefore should be regarded as "fossil" waters and treated effectively as a non-renewable resource. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Thoron and radon activity concentration in mineral waters of spas from southeastern Brazil

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Complex, 3D strain patterns in a synkinematic tonalite batholith from the Aracuai Neoproterozoic orogen (Eastern Brazil): Evidence from combined magnetic and isotopic chronology studies

This work combines structural and geochronological data to improve our understanding of the mechanical behaviour of continental crust involving large amount of magma or partially melted material in an abnormally hot collisional belt. We performed a magnetic and geochronological (U/Pb) study on a huge tonalitic batholith from the Neoproterozoic Aracual belt of East Brazil to determine the strain distribution through space and time. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, combined with rock magnetism investigations, supports that the magnetic fabric is a good proxy of the structural fabric. Field measurements together with the magnetic fabrics highlight the presence in the batholith of four domains characterized by contrasted magmatic flow patterns. The western part is characterized by a gently dipping, orogen-parallel (similar to NS) magmatic foliation that bears down-dip lineations, in agreement with westward thrusting onto the Sao Francisco craton. Eastward, the magmatic foliation progressively turns sub-vertical with a lineation that flips from sub-horizontal to sub-vertical over short distances. This latter domain involves an elongated corridor in which the magmatic foliation is sub-horizontal and bears an orogen-parallel lineation. Finally the fourth, narrow domain displays sub-horizontal lineations on a sub-vertical magmatic foliation oblique (similar to N150 degrees E) to the trend of the belt. U/Pb dating of zircons from the various domains revealed homogeneity in age for all samples. This, together with the lack of solid-state deformation suggests that: 1) the whole batholith emplaced during a magmatic event at similar to 580 Ma, 2) the deformation occurred before complete solidification. and 3) the various fabrics are roughly contemporaneous. The complex structural pattern mapped in the studied tonalitic batholith suggests a 3D deformation of a slowly cooling, large magmatic body and its country rock. We suggest that the development of the observed 3D flow field was promoted by the low viscosity of the middle crust that turned gravitational force as an active tectonic force combining with the East-West convergence between the Sao Francisco and Congo cratons. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Implicações sobre a natureza das fontes mantélicas envolvidas na gênese da Província Magmática do Paraná

Neste estudo, buscou-se compreender os processos e materiais que contribuíram às fontes mantélicas envolvidas na gênese da Província Magmática do Paraná (PMP). O papel que a crosta, a litosfera e o manto terrestre (raso ou profundo) desempenham na geração de assinaturas químicas e isotópicas em basaltos de derrames continentais e oceânicos tem sido um tema intensamente pesquisado e muito debatido na literatura internacional (e.g., Sheth, 2005). Embora muitos estudos já tenham sido conduzidos na PMP, existe ainda uma grande controvérsia com relação à natureza das regiões-fonte dos magmas (manto litosférico continental ou manto sublitosférico), como também acerca dos mecanismos geodinâmicos que provocam o início da fusão dessas regiões-fonte (e.g., Bellieni et al., 1984; Hawkesworth et al., 1992). Nesse contexto, uma grande quantidade de análises de elementos traço (litófilos e siderófilos), como também dados isotópicos de quatro sistemas de decaimento radioativo (Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, U-Th-Pb e Re-Os), foram obtidos em basaltos que ocorrem no norte e sul da PMP. A regionalização geoquímica e isotópica (Sr-Nd-Pb) observada nas rochas basálticas da PMP tem sido frequentemente interpretada como resultante da fusão de manto litosférico subcontinental heterogêneo. Entretanto, dados geoquímicos de elementos altamente siderófilos e de razões isotópicas 187Os/188Os, obtidos neste estudo, indicam uma fonte mantélica homogênea, já que os basaltos baixo-TiO2 e alto- TiO2 possuem razões isotópicas de ósmio muito similares (187Os/188Osi = 0,1295±0,0018), as quais são distintas daquelas de manto litosférico subcontinental antigo (Proterozoico ou Arqueano; 187Os/188Os = 0,113). Os dados isotópicos Re-Os exibem uma tendência linear (187Re/188Os versus 187Os/188Os), definindo uma isócrona de boa qualidade (idade = 131,6 ± 2,3 Ma), consistente com as idades obtidas em trabalhos anteriores utilizando o método 40Ar/39Ar. Comumente, a PMP tem sido geneticamente ligada ao hotspot Tristão da Cunha via Rio Grande Rise e Walvis Ridge. No entanto, as razões isotópicas de ósmio determinadas nas rochas da Ilha de Tristão da Cunha são muito distintas daquelas dos basaltos da PMP, reforçando que essa pluma não deve ter contribuído com matéria na gênese dessas rochas. Desta forma, para explicar todas as características isotópicas dos basaltos da PMP é necessário o envolvimento de três componentes mantélicos (Marques et al., 1999). Um deles, empobrecido e semelhante ao DMM, estaria presente na fonte dos basaltos alto-TiO2 e baixo-TiO2, dominando as composições isotópicas de ósmio. Os outros dois componentes enriquecidos (EM-I e EM-II) seriam responsáveis pelas variações nas composições isotópicas de Sr-Nd-Pb. Na gênese dos basaltos alto-TiO2 provavelmente ocorreu envolvimento de crosta continental inferior delaminada (EM-I), enquanto nas rochas baixo-TiO2 há indicação de participação de crosta continental superior reciclada (EM-II). O componente empobrecido possui composição semelhante à de peridotitos de arco, sendo que essa assinatura isotópica pode ter sido gerada por processos metassomáticos relacionados a processos de subducção neoproterozóicas, que teriam modificado o manto astenosférico (DMM). No processo de aglutinação do Gondwana esse manto astenosférico metassomatizado pode ter sido incorporado à base da litosfera, sofrendo posterior refusão, por ocasião da atividade ígnea da PMP.

La cadena de oscilaciones del clima en el pasado de Canarias

[ES] En Canarias están las pruebas de la existencia de una cadena climática en esta parte del Globo: eslabones de clima de pleno glacial árido-frío (dunas), de clima interglacial temprano árido-sub-húmedo (polvo), de clima cálido y húmedo de máximo interglacial (depósitos marinos), de clima de transición árido-templado (calcretas) y otra vez clima glacial-árido-frio. Esta cadena se desarrolla desde hace cinco millones de años inicialmente en adagio (lento y majestuoso) para pasar sucesivamente a un andante, allegro y vivace. Este largo proceso está medido desde 1981 hasta este año de 2013 por todas las dataciones existentes: K/Ar en lavas, U/Th en fósiles marinos y terrestres, C14 tradicional y en acelerador atómico en fósiles, OSL en dunas, Series de U en corales, además de ensayos sobre aminoácidos e isótopos de Sr en marcha. Todo ello con una espléndida y sorprendente información paleontológica.

Neogastropodos fosiles de las Canarias Orientales

[ES] Los depósitos marinos fosilíferos de Fuerteventura y Lanzarote habían sido interpretados por los autores como diferentes niveles del Cuaternario. Los Neogastrópodos colectados pertenecen al Plioceno inferior (Murex conglobatus, Nucella plessisi, Ancilla glandiformis, Conus pelagicus y Conus mercati) y al Pleistoceno superior (Murex saxatilis, Thais haemastoma, Harpa rosea, Conus papilionaceus, Conus mediterraneus y Conus testudinarius). Confirman un carácter muy cálido, ya revelado por los Strombus coronatus y los Strombus bubonius (Meco, 1977), que permiten relacionarlos respectivamente con un episodio evidenciado en el paleoclima del Plioceno y con el «Ultimo interglacial». La posición de los depósitos en relación con basaltos datados radiométricamente (Meco y Stearns, 1981) y paleomagnéticamente (Fuster y Carracedo, 1979) y con dataciones U-Th en curso (Pomel y Meco) dan un interés especial a la determinación paleontológica.

Rapporti tra tettonica e clima durante l'esumazione nelle Alpi Centrali. Evidenze dalla termocronologia e dall'analisi strutturale lungo il traforo ferroviario del Sempione

(U-Th)/He and fission-track analyses of apatite along deep-seated tunnels crossing high-relief mountain ranges offer the opportunity to investigate climate and tectonic forcing on the topographic evolution. In this study, the thermochronologic analysis of a large set of samples collected in the Simplon railway tunnel (western-central Alps; Italy and Switzerland) and along its surface trace, coupled with kinematic and structural analysis of major fault zones intersecting the tunnel, constrains the phenomena controlling the topographic and structural evolution, during the latest stage of exhumation of the Simplon Massif, and the timing in which they operated. The study area is located at the western margin of the Lepontine metamorphic dome where a complex nappe-stack pertaining to the Penninic and Ultrahelvetic domains experienced a fast exhumation from the latest Oligocene onward. The exhumation was mainly accommodated by a west-dipping low-angle detachment (the Simplon Fault Zone) which is located just 8 km to the west of the tunnel. However, along the section itself several faults related to two principal phases both with important dip-slip kinematics have been detected. Cooling rates derived from our thermocronological data vary from about 10 °C/Ma at about 10 Ma to about 35 °C/Ma in the last 5 Ma. Such increase in the cooling rate corresponds to the most important climatic change recorded in the northern hemisphere in the last 10 Ma, i.e. the shift to wetter conditions at the end of the Messinian salinity crisis and the inception of glacial cycles in the northern hemisphere. In addition, (U-Th)/He and fission-track age patterns lack of important correlation with the topography suggesting that the present-day relief morphology is the result of recent erosional dynamics. More in details, the (U-Th)/He tunnel ages show an impressive uniformity at 2 Ma, whereas cooling rates calculated at 1 Ma increase towards the two major valleys. This indicates a focusing of erosive processes in the valleys which led to the shaping of present-day topography. Structural analysis documents the presence of two phases of brittle deformation postdating the metamorphic phases in the area. The first one is directly related to the last phase of activity along the Simplon Fault Zone and is characterized by extension towards SO and vertical shortening. The young one is characterized by extension towards NO and horizontal shortening in a along the NE-SO direction. Structures related to the first phase of brittle deformation generate important variations in the older ages' dataset, until 3 Ma, suggesting that tectonics controlled rocks exhumation up to that age. Structures related to the second phase generate some variations also in the younger age dataset, highlighting the activity of faults bordering the massif and suggesting a continuous activity also after 2 Ma. However, most of (U-Th)/He tunnel ages, varying slightly around 2 Ma, document that the Simplon area has experienced primarily erosional exhumation in this time span. In conclusion, all our data suggest that in the central Italian Alps the climatic signal gradually overrode the tectonic effects after about 5 Ma, as a consequence of the climatic instability started at end of Messinian salinity crisis and improved by the onset of glaciations in the northern hemisphere.

Erosione e sollevamento nell'arco calabro-peloritano

The Calabrian-Peloritani arc represents key site to unravel evolution of surface processes on top of subducting lithosphere. During the Pleistocene, in fact the arc uplifted at rate of the order of about 1mm/yr, forming high-standing low-relief upland (figure 2). Our study is focused on the relationship between tectonic and land evolution in the Sila Massif, Messina strait and Peloritani Mts. Landforms reflect a competition between tectonic, climatic, and surficial processes. Many landscape evolution models that explore feedbacks between these competing processes, given steady forcing, predict a state of erosional equilibrium, where the rates of river incision and hillslope erosion balance rock uplift. It has been suggested that this may be the final constructive stage of orogenic systems. Assumptions of steady erosion and incision are used in the interpretation of exhumation and uplift rates from different geologic data, and in the formulation of fluvial incision and hillslope evolution models. In the Sila massif we carried out cosmogenic isotopes analysis on 24 samples of modern fluvial sediments to constrain long-term (~103 yr) erosion rate averaged on the catchment area. 35 longitudinal rivers profiles have been analyzed to study the tectonic signal on the landscape evolution. The rivers analyzed exhibit a wide variety of profile forms, diverging from equilibrium state form. Generally the river profiles show at least 2 and often 3 distinct concave-up knickpoint-bounded segments, characterized by different value of concavity and steepness indices. River profiles suggest three main stages of incision. The values of ks and θ in the lower segments evidence a decrease in river incision, due probably to increasing uplift rate. The cosmogenic erosion rates pointed out that old landscape upland is eroding slowly at ~0.1 mm/yr. In the contrary, the flanks of the massif is eroding faster with value from 0.4 to 0.5 mm/yr due to river incision and hillslope processes. Cosmogenic erosion rates mach linearly with steepness indices and with average hillslope gradient. In the Messina area the long term erosion rate from low-T thermochronometry are of the same order than millennium scale cosmogenic erosion rate (1-2 mm/yr). In this part of the chain the fast erosion is active since several million years, probably controlled by extensional tectonic regime. In the Peloritani Mts apatite fission-track and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry are applied to constraint the thermal history of the basement rock. Apatite fission-track ages range between 29.0±5.5 and 5.5±0.9 Ma while apatite (U-Th)/He ages vary from 19.4 to 1.0 Ma. Most of the AFT ages are younger than the overlying terrigenous sequence that in turn postdates the main orogenic phase. Through the coupling of the thermal modelling with the stratigraphic record, a Middle Miocene thermal event due to tectonic burial is unravel. This event affected a inner-intermediate portion of the Peloritani belt confined by young AFT data (<15 Ma) distribution. We interpret this thermal event as due to an out-of–sequence thrusting occurring in the inner portion of the belt. Young (U-Th)/He ages (c. 5 Ma) record a final exhumation stage with increasing rates of denudation since the Pliocene times due to postorogenic extensional tectonics and regional uplift. In the final chapter we change the spatial scale to insert digital topography analysis and field data within a geodynamic model that can explain surface evidence produced by subduction process.

Isotope geochemical and geochronologic studies of basement units in the Central Western Carpathians (Slovakia)

In dieser Arbeit werden geochronologische und isotopen-geochemische Daten zur Entwicklung der Zentralen Westlichen Karpathen präsentiert. Die Karpathen bilden die östliche Fortsetzung der Alpen und können in drei Alpine Grundgebirgsdecken unterteilt werden, von denen zwei, die Veporische und die Gemerische, bearbeitet wurden. In der Veporischen Einheit wurden polymetamorphe Grundgebirgseinheiten untersucht, um deren genaue Altersstellung zu definieren und sie isotopengeochemisch zu klassifizieren. Dagegen wurde in der der Gemerischen Einheit, welche die Veporische Einheit überlagert, ein spezialisierter S-Typ Granit im Detail untersucht, um die petrogenetischen Prozesse, die zur magmatischen Entwicklung dieses Granits geführt haben, zu identifizieren. U-Pb Datierungen an Zirkonen der Veporischen Grundgebirgseinheiten zeigen für die gesamte Veporische Einheit ordovizische Entsehungsalter an (440-470 Ma). Diese Datierungen revidieren publizierte kambrische Entstehungsalter dieses Grundgebirges. Die Isotopensignatur (epsilon Nd und 87Sr/86Sr) der ordovizischen Grundgebirgseinheiten, bestehend aus stark überprägten Amphiboliten und Gneissen, ist von der Signatur der sich im Norden anschliessenden Tatrischen Einheit gut unterscheidbar. Die Bleiisotopenzusammensetzung dieser Gesteine ist stark krustal geprägt und überschneidet sich mit der der Tatrischen Einheit. Zusammen mit den T-DM Altern sind diese Einheiten vergleichbar mit prävariskischen Einheiten der Alpen. Somit kann das ordovizische Grundgebirge zu den peri-Gondwana Terranen gezählt werden, die an einem aktiven Kontinentalrand im Norden von Gondwana gebildet wurden. In den Gesteinen der Veporischen Einheit wurde im Weiteren eine starke metamorphe überprägung und intensiver felsischer Magmatismus karbonischen Alters erkannt (320-350 Ma). Dieses Ereignis ist zeitgleich mit dem Magmatismus, welcher hauptsächlich in der sich im Norden anschliessenden Tatrischen Einheit beobachtet wird. Dieser gehört der variskischen Orogenese an. Intensive alpine Deformation und Metamorphose konnte in der südlichen Veporischen Einheit anhand der Einzelzirkondatierungen und der Isotopendaten der ordovizischen Einheiten nachgewiesen werden. Am Dlha Dolina Granit in der Gemerischen Einheit können starke Fraktionierungs- und Auto-Metasomatose-Effekte beobachtet werden. Durch die magmatische Fraktionierung wird eine Anreicherung der SEE erzeugt, wogegen die Metasomatose die SEE stark verarmt. Es kommt sogar zur Ausbildung eines Tetraden Effektes im SEE Muster, welche den starken Einfluss von Fluiden während der spät-magmatischen Phase belegt. Gesamtgesteins Pb-Pb Daten beschränken das minimale Intrusionsalter dieses Granites auf 240 Ma. Dieses Alter ist in guter übereinstimmung mit den Sr-Isotopendaten der magmatisch dominierten Gesteine, wohingegen die stark metasomatisch geprägten Gesteine ein zu radiogenes 87Sr/86Sri aufweisen. Während dieser Arbeit wurde intensiv mit der Blei-Isotopenzusammensetzung von Gesamtgesteinsproben gearbeitet. Um die Auswertung dieser Daten optimieren zu können wurde ein Computerscript für das GPL Programm Octave erstellt. Die Hauptaufgabe dieses Scripts besteht darin, Regressionen für geochronologische Anwendungen gemäss York (1969) zu berechnen. Ausserdem können mu und kappa-Werte für diese Regressionen berechnet und eine Hauptkomponentenanalyse, welche hilfreich für den Vergleich von zwei Datensätzen ist, durchgeführt werden. Am Ende der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die analytische Methode für einen Mikrowellen beschleunigten Säureaufschluss von granitoidem Material zur Bestimmung der Sr- und Nd-Isotopenzusammensetzung und der Elementkonzentrationen vorgestellt. Diese kombinierte Methode nutzt ein TIMS für die Sr und Nd Isotopenmessungen und eine Einzelkollektor-ICPMS zur Bestimmung der SEE, Rb und Sr Konzentrationen, welche mithilfe von relativen Sensitivitätsfaktoren gegenüber einem internen Standard quantifiziert werden. Diese Methode wird durch Messungen von internationalen Referenzmaterialien bewertet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine Reproduzierbarkeit von <10% für die Elementkonzentrationen und von <5% für Elementverhältnisse.