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São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil

Tectonic Genealogy of a Miniature Continent

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Editors:
  1. Monica Heilbron

    1. Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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  2. Umberto G. Cordani

    1. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Maracana, Brazil

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  3. Fernando F. Alkmim

    1. Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Regional Geology Reviews (RGR)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Evolutionary Synthesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303
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    2. The Paleomagnetic Record of the São Francisco-Congo Craton

      • Manoel S. D’Agrella-Filho, Umberto G. Cordani
      Pages 305-320

    3. Tectonic Genealogy of a Miniature Continent

      • Monica Heilbron, Umberto G. Cordani, Fernando F. Alkmim, Humberto L. S. Reis
      Pages 321-331
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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’.

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

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