Andean orogenic signature in the Quaternary sandy barriers of Southernmost Brazilian Passive Margin-Paradigm as a source area

Farid Chemale Junior; Ernesto Luiz Correa Lavina; Julierme Justin Carassai; Tiago Jonatan Girelli; Cristiano Lana

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Farid Chemale Junior, Ernesto Luiz Correa Lavina, Julierme Justin Carassai, Tiago Jonatan Girelli, Cristiano Lana. Andean orogenic signature in the Quaternary sandy barriers of Southernmost Brazilian Passive Margin-Paradigm as a source area[J]. Geoscience Frontiers, 2021, 12(4): 101119. doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2020.11.015

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Farid Chemale Junior, Ernesto Luiz Correa Lavina, Julierme Justin Carassai, Tiago Jonatan Girelli, Cristiano Lana. Andean orogenic signature in the Quaternary sandy barriers of Southernmost Brazilian Passive Margin-Paradigm as a source area[J]. Geoscience Frontiers, 2021, 12(4): 101119. doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2020.11.015

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Farid Chemale Junior, Ernesto Luiz Correa Lavina, Julierme Justin Carassai, Tiago Jonatan Girelli, Cristiano Lana. Andean orogenic signature in the Quaternary sandy barriers of Southernmost Brazilian Passive Margin-Paradigm as a source area[J]. Geoscience Frontiers, 2021, 12(4): 101119. doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2020.11.015

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Andean orogenic signature in the Quaternary sandy barriers of Southernmost Brazilian Passive Margin-Paradigm as a source area

doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2020.11.015

a Programa de Pós Graduação em Geologia, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 93022-220, São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil;
b Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal do Ouro Preto, 35400-000, Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil

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We would like to acknowledge the Brazilian Scholarship Agency (CAPES) for the scholarship to the second author (JJC) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development-CNPq for the financial support (grant #305053/2014-0). We would like to thank the Microanalysis Laboratory of the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto for SEM-EDS analyses.

Received Date: 2020-06-09
Rev Recd Date: 2020-11-28
Publish Date: 2021-07-17

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Multiple source provenance of sediments and submarine fan formation are herein investigated based on Quaternary sandy barriers of the Brazilian Southernmost Coastal Plain. LA-ICP-MS dating on 1625 detrital zircons from marine and aeolian facies sands of four successive lagoon-barrier systems are analyzed. The characterization of Archean to Pleistocene zircons into a younger Andean (22 ±4 Ma to 1 ±1 Ma, 48 from 1625), Mesozoic to Paleozoic, and Mesoproterozoic (479 from 1622) populations suggest that the main feeding of sediments to the coastal plain occurred through the La Plata River drainage system. The significant contribution of sediments is transported from the mouth of La Plata River northward by longshore circulation (littoral drift). Minor contributions are also recognized as. a farther source associated with the Patagonia drainage and nearby source related to the Uruguay/Rio Grande do Sul Shield and the Paraná Basin, drained by the Camaquã and Jacuí rivers. The latter one is recognized by the contribution from Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic, and some Paleoproterozoic and Archean zircon grains. The definition of the sources of clastic sediments allows inferences about the origination of Rio Grande Fan where both the cold Falkland and the warm Brazil currents played a major role.
- U-Pb zircon,
- Coastal plain,
- Andean provenance,
- Source to sink process,
- Rio Grande Fan,
- Ocean Atlantic

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