Isótopos de Nd na proveniência de rochas e sedimentos da bacia potiguar, ne do Brasil

Nd ISOTOPES IN THE PROVENANCE OF TERRIGENOUS AND CARBONATE ROCKS AND SEDIMENTS OF THE POTIGUAR BASIN, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL. Mesozoic and Cenozoic rocks from the Potiguar Basin, including terrigenous and carbonate sediments have been investigated to identify their isotopic signature and source areas. Additionally, this study aims to determine the provenance of terrigenous and carbonate sediments on the Brazilian Continental shelf adjacent to Potiguar Basin. The Sm-Nd isotopic signatures of the rocks yielded model ages (TDM) in the range of 2,19- 2,88 Ga, indicating archean to paleoproterozoic sources from the basement. The terrigenous sediments yielded model ages (TDM) in the range of 2,31-2,26 Ga, from 17,5 to 0 cm depth. Despite the small number of samples, limited variations of provenance ages indicates the homogenization of the sediments, probably due to the strong influence of the basement, as the main source of sediments to the shelf. The Sm-Nd isotopic signatures of the carbonate sediments yielded model ages (TDM) in the range of 2,09-2,61 Ga, indicating archean to paleoproterozoic sources from the basement. The results also indicate that the shelf sediments are mainly derived from the Açu River or other small rivers from the Setentrional Sector of Rio Grande do Norte State. The littoral drift doesn´t seem to contribute with sediments from the Oriental Sector since isotopic signatures from this sector were not detected.

Pirometamorfismo nos arenitos da Formação Açu, Bacia Potiguar, NE do Brasil

Pyrometamorphism results from conditions of high temperatures and very low pressures provoked by the intrusion of hypabyssal basic bodies into sedimentary or metassedimentary hosting rocks. The onshore portion of the Potiguar Basin in NE Brazil offers examples of this type of metamorphism nearby the contacts of Paleogene to Neogene plugs, sills and dikes of diabases and basalts crosscutting sandstones, siltstones and shales of the Açu Formation (Albian-Cenomanian). The thermal effects over these rocks are reflected on textures and minerals assemblages that characterize the sanidinite facies of metamorphism, often with partial melting of the feldspathic and mica-rich matrix. The liquid formed is potassic and peraluminous, with variably colored rhyolitic glass (colorless, yellow, brown) comprising microcrystals of tridymite, sanidine and clinoenstatite, besides residual detrital clasts of quartz and rarely zircon, staurolite and garnet. Lenses of shale intercalated within the sandstones display crystallites of Fe-cordierite (sekaninaite), mullite, sanidine, armalcolite (Fe-Ti oxide) and brown spinel. The rocks formed due to the thermal effect of the intrusions are called buchites for which two types are herein described: a light one derived from feldspathic sandstone and siltstone protoliths; and a dark one derived from black shale protoliths. Textures indicating partial melting and minerals such as sanidine, mullite, tridymite and armalcolite strongly demonstrate that during the intrusion of the basic bodies the temperature reached 1,000-1,150°C, and was followed by quenching. Cooling of the interstitial melts has as consequences the closure of pores and decrease of the permeability of the protolith, which varies from about 17-11% in the unaffected rocks to zero in the thermally modified types. Although observed only at contacts and over small distances, the number of basic intrusions hosted within the Potiguar Basin in both onshore and offshore portions leaves opened the possibility of important implications of the thermal effects over the hydrocarbon exploration in this area as well in other Cretaceous and Paleozoic basins in Brazil

Relics of eclogite facies assemblages in the Ceara Central Domain, NW Borborema Province, NE Brazil: Implications for the assembly of West Gondwana

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Occurrence and geochemistry of metamafic rocks from the Forquilha Eclogite Zone, central Ceara (NE Brazil): geodynamic implications

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

High-pressure granulites from Carire, Borborema Province, NE Brazil: Tectonic setting, metamorphic conditions and U-Pb, Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd geochronology

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Modelos geotectonicos aplicados ao Pre-Cambriano superior do NE do Estado de Sao Paulo e areas adjacentes do Estado de Minas Gerais: uma discussao

The main geotectonics models presented during the last 25 yr to explain the evolution of the Late Precambrian (Brasiliano Cycle) terranes of the NE of the State of Sao Paulo and the adjacent areas of the State of Minas Gerais, domain of the Guaxupe Massif, SE Brazil, are presented and discussed. The models can be classified in: 1) classic; 2) mainly ensialic; and 3) applications of the plate tectonic theory. -from English summary

Structural and geochronological studies of the Médio Coreaú domain, NE Brazil: Constraints on Brasiliano/Pan-African tectonic evolution in the NW part of the Borborema Province

Recent structural investigations and geochronological studies of rocks from the Médio Coreaú domain in the NW part of northeast Brazil's Borborema Province provide important constraints on the tectonic evolution of the region both preceeding and during the assembly of West Gondwana. Field observations of structural features and fabrics have revealed the presence of four distinct deformational phases in the MCD: D1, D2, D3 and D4. Only the early Paleoproterozoic gneisses record the D1 tectonic event and its preservation is cryptic owing to strong overprinting by the subsequent tectonic phases. The D2, D3 and D4 events affected younger supracrustal rocks and Neoproterzoic magmatic units, and U-Pb geochronological constraints show that all of these tectonic phases represent deformational events that occurred during Brasiliano collision between the West African craton and the NW part of the Borborema Province. The D2 phase, lasting between ca. 622 and 591 Ma, represents a frontal collision stage, which generated NW verging thrust-nappe systems, low-angle foliation, high-grade metamorphism and crustal anatexis. Transition to a strike-slip regime (D3) occurred at around 591 Ma when the region entered a phase of escape tectonics. During this time, the motion of crustal blocks towards NE and E was accommodated along numerous anastomosing shear zones. Syntectonic emplacement of granitoid plutons took place in transtensional domains of the shear zone system. The intrusion of late tectonic granitoids and rapid uplift and cooling of the orogen around 560 Ma as a result of D4 transpressional movements marked the end of the D3 transcurrent regime. These findings show that only the early Paleoproterozoic gneisses in the Médio Coreaú domain are polycyclic in nature. Rather than representing distinct orogenic events, the D2, D3 and D4 tectonic phases are a manifestation of progressive deformational events that developed in response to changes in the regional stress field during convergence and collision between the Borborema Province and its surrounding cratons.

Geoquímica dos sedimentos superdiciais de fundo do Estuário do Rio Maracanã, NE do Pará

O Estuário do rio Maracanã localizado na mesoregião Nordeste do Pará, esta situado na Reserva Extrativista Marinha de Maracanã (Lei 9.985/00), ao qual tem como principal objetivo garantir o uso sustentável e conservação dos recursos renováveis, protegendo as condições de vida e cultura da população que, em geral, são pescadores, pequenos comerciantes e a própria comunidade local. Devido as suas características geoambientais, representar um importante pólo de desenvolvimento regional, buscou-se nesta dissertação, o formalismo geoquímico para a interpretação de resultados analíticos relacionados com a geoquímica dos sedimentos superficiais de fundo do estuário do rio Maracanã para a determinação de metais pesados (MP) (Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn), nas frações granulométricas menores que 0,64 11m, por espectrometria de absorção atômica de maneira a conhecer os níveis de background atualmente inexistentes para realização de futuros trabalhos de monitoramento ambiental na região nordeste do estado do Pará. Neste estuário, registrou-se a predominância das frações silte-argila em relação a fração areia, além de identificar semelhança mineralógica, indicando a presença de caulinita, ilita e esmectita. De um modo geral o teor de matéria orgânica (MO) (5,4:t0,70%) nos sedimentos foi distribuído de forma homogênia, e o pH não sofreu grandes variações, oscilando entre fracamente ácidos (6,48) e fracamente alcalinos (7,13). Com relação aos MP, verificou-se que: 1) no estuário do rio Maracanã as concentrações de cádmio ficar~m abaixo do limite de detecção do aparelho (0,009 ppm); 2) o cobalto variou de 46 a 55 ppm (50,97:t2,31 ppm) na fração total, e de de 5 a 7 ppm (6:tO,37 ppm) na fração biodisponível; 3) o cromo variou de 126 a 152 ppm (140,33:t6,56 ppm) na fração total, e de 17 a 24 ppm (20,73:t1, 7 ppm) na fração biodisponível; 4) o cobre variou de 17 a 21 ppm (18,97:t1, 19 ppm) na fração total, e de 6 a 9 ppm (7,0 :t 0,69 ppm) na fração biodisponivel; 5) o Ferro variou de 3,4 a 4,6% (4,14:t 0,24 %) na fração total, e de 1,5 a 1,9 % (1,66:t 0,1 %) na fração biodisponível; 6) o manganês variou de 293 a 545 ppm (423,53:t74,63 ppm) na fração total, e de 168 a 499 ppm (335,1 :t91,3 ppm) na fração biodisponível; 7) o níquel variou de 44 a 53 ppm (48,77 :t: 2,27 ppm) na fração total, e de 7 a 9 ppm (8,03:t:O,56 ppm) na fração biodisponível; 8) o chumbo variou de 42 a 48 ppm (45,63:t:1,69 ppm) na fração total, e de 14 a 17 ppm (15,13:t:O,78 ppm) na fração biodisponível; 9) o zinco variou de 72 a 85 ppm (78,83:t:3,44 ppm) na fração total, e de 26 a 32 ppm (29,43:t:1,65 ppm) na fração biodisponível. A concentração dos MP biodisponíveis analisados para o Estuário do rio Maracanã encontram-se abaixo dos VGQS (valores guias de qualidade de sedimentos) estabelecidos pela Agência Ambiental do Canadá (AAC) , pela National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratíon (NOM) indicando que raramente devem ocorrer algum efeito adverso para biota da região. Considerando que a região é uma Reserva Extrativista e que não foram encontradas evidências de contaminação antrópica associadas aos MP selecionados nas suas frações total e biodisponível no estuário do rio Maracanã, é possível considerar que os dados obtidos para as concentrações de MP selecionada nas duas frações geoquímicas analisadas, representam o valor próximo ao "background" característico desta região. Desta forma o estuário do rio Maracanã torna-se um sítio de referência para estudos biogeoquímicos e de ecotoxicologia de sedimentos de ambientes similares na costa paraense, além do mais, os dados obtidos nesta dissertação poderão servir como subsídio para futuras investigações geoquímicas e ambientais na região, uma vez que se estabeleceram faixas de concentração e relações de referências para vários MP presentes nos sedimentos de fundo deste estuário.

Laternenlied: Mit Feuer: 1. Sie ler-nen nichts, sie ler-nen nichts die Herrn Hochwohl-ge-bo-ren! Ver-geb-lich schmettert des Ge-richts Po-sau-ne ih-ren Oh-ren ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Abdruck eines Revolutionsliedes (nach dem Vorbild des französischen 'Ça ira' von 1789): "Weil denn die Herrn vom bes-sern Blut die neu-e Zeit nicht ler-nen: drum hängt die Herren kurz und gut ... hoch, hoch an die La-ter-nen!" Vgl. dazu Dunder, W. G.: Denkschrift über die Wiener October-Revolution; Wien 1849 S. 36: "Dieses Gedicht erschien abgedruckt im politischen Studenten-Courier vom 4. October [1848], Nr. 91, redigirt von Adolf Buchheim und Oscar Falke [recte Georg Peter] ..."

Profiles of diatoms, pollen, XRD, XRF and organic composition of two sediment cores (PG2022 and PG2023) from Lake Kyutyunda in Yakutia, NE Siberia, Russia

Although the climate development over the Holocene in the Northern Hemisphere is well known, palaeolimnological climate reconstructions reveal spatiotemporal variability in northern Eurasia. Here we present a multi-proxy study from north-eastern Siberia combining sediment geochemistry, and diatom and pollen data from lake-sediment cores covering the last 38,000 cal. years. Our results show major changes in pyrite content and fragilarioid diatom species distributions, indicating prolonged seasonal lake-ice cover between ~13,500 and ~8,900 cal. years BP and possibly during the 8,200 cal. years BP cold event. A pollen-based climate reconstruction generated a mean July temperature of 17.8°C during the Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM) between ~8,900 and ~4,500 cal. years BP. Naviculoid diatoms appear in the late Holocene indicating a shortening of the seasonal ice cover that continues today. Our results reveal a strong correlation between the applied terrestrial and aquatic indicators and natural seasonal climate dynamics in the Holocene. Planktonic diatoms show a strong response to changes in the lake ecosystem due to recent climate warming in the Anthropocene. We assess other palaeolimnological studies to infer the spatiotemporal pattern of the HTM and affirm that the timing of its onset, a difference of up to 3,000 years from north to south, can be well explained by climatic teleconnections. The westerlies brought cold air to this part of Siberia until the Laurentide ice-sheet vanished 7,000 years ago. The apparent delayed ending of the HTM in the central Siberian record can be ascribed to the exceedance of ecological thresholds trailing behind increases in winter temperatures and decreases in contrast in insolation between seasons during the mid to late Holocene as well as lacking differentiation between summer and winter trends in paleolimnological reconstructions.