São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil (original) (raw)

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Editors:

• Umberto G. Cordani1,
• Fernando F. Alkmim2

1. Monica Heilbron
   1. Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2. Umberto G. Cordani
   1. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Maracana, Brazil
3. Fernando F. Alkmim
   1. Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil

• Examines the tectonic genealogy and development history of the Sao Francisco Craton, a 'miniature continent' located in Eastern Brazil

• Provides a panorama of the evolutionary history of a piece of continental lithosphere between the Paleoarchean and the Cenozoic eras

• Contains wide range of information from all fields of geology

• Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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The region of the São Francisco river valley in eastern Brazil encompasses two main components of the geologic framework of the South American continent: the São Francisco craton and its marginal orogenic belts. Cratons, as the oldest, differentiated and relatively stable pieces of the continental lithosphere, preserve a substantial part of the Earth's memory. Orogenic belts, on the other hand, record collisional processes that occurred during a limited time span. Because of their topographic relief, mountain belts developed along craton margins provide however access to rock successions not exposed in the low lands of the adjacent cratons. The combination of geologic information obtained in cratonic domains and their marginal orogenic belts thus form the basis for deciphering substantial periods of Earth’s history.
Corresponding to the most intensively studied portion of the Precambrian nucleus of the South American plate, the São Francisco craton and its margins host a rock record that spans from the Paleoarchean to the Cenozoic. Precambrian sedimentary successions that witness ancient Earth processes - many of them of global significance - are especially well preserved and exposed in this region. With all these attributes the São Francisco craton together with its fringing orogenic belts can be viewed as a ‘continent within a continent’ or a ‘continent in miniature’.

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

1. Overview

2. The Craton Basement

3. Intracratonic Basins and Precambrian Mafic Dyke Swarms

   1. The São Francisco Basin

      • Humberto L. S. Reis, Fernando F. Alkmim, Renato C. S. Fonseca, Thiago C. Nascimento, João F. Suss, Lúcio D. Prevatti
        Pages 117-143

4. Marginal Belts

   1. The Sergipano Belt

      • Elson P. Oliveira, Brian F. Windley, Neal J. McNaughton, Juliana F. Bueno, Rosemery S. Nascimento, Marcelo J. Carvalho et al.
        Pages 241-254

   2. The Araçuaí Belt

      • Fernando F. Alkmim, Matheus Kuchenbecker, Humberto L. S. Reis, Antônio C. Pedrosa-Soares
        Pages 255-276

   3. The Ribeira Belt

      • Monica Heilbron, André Ribeiro, Claudio Morisson Valeriano, Fábio V. Paciullo, Júlio Cesar H. Almeida, Rudolph Johannes A. Trouw et al.
        Pages 277-302

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Editors and Affiliations

• Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Monica Heilbron

• Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Maracana, Brazil

Umberto G. Cordani

• Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil

Fernando F. Alkmim

Bibliographic Information

• Book Title: São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil
• Book Subtitle: Tectonic Genealogy of a Miniature Continent
• Editors: Monica Heilbron, Umberto G. Cordani, Fernando F. Alkmim
• Series Title: Regional Geology Reviews
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01715-0
• Publisher: Springer Cham
• eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
• Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
• Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01714-3Published: 16 December 2016
• Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79130-2Published: 04 July 2018
• eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01715-0Published: 05 December 2016
• Series ISSN: 2364-6438
• Series E-ISSN: 2364-6446
• Edition Number: 1
• Number of Pages: VIII, 331
• Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 148 illustrations in colour
• Topics: Geology, Structural Geology, Historical Geology, Economic Geology

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