O registro sedimentar do final do Neoproterozóico tem sido alvo de intensas pesquisas desde a retomada dos modelos de glaciação extrema e rápidas mudanças climáticas, com destaque para a hipótese Snowball Earth. Esses modelos baseiam-se na identificação, em todos os continentes, de sucessões neoproterozóicas que compreendem diamictitos sobrepostos por carbonatos, interpretados, respectivamente, como depósitos glaciais e pós-glaciais. A fim de explicar o caráter global da distribuição dos diamictitos e sua aparente transição rápida para carbonatos, alguns autores propuseram hipóteses de que o planeta teria sofrido mudanças climáticas extremas, e de que estas teriam ocorrido na forma de três eventos glaciais durante o Criogeniano e o Ediacarano (Sturtian, Marinoan e Gaskiers). Outros autores consideram que a correlação global destes depósitos pode ser explicada pelo modelo Zipper-rift, que considera a existência de geleiras de altitude, condicionadas pelo soerguimento das ombreiras de sistemas de rifts, supostamente abertos durante a fragmentação do supercontinente Rodínia. Apesar de intensos esforços para correlacionar estas sucessões, ainda persistem dúvidas a esse respeito. Isto se deve, em parte, à ênfase dada ao estudo das sucessões carbonáticas sobrejacentes, em detrimento das pesquisas nos próprios diamictitos. Dentro desse contexto, o presente estudo tem como alvo a sucessão sedimentar inferior do Grupo Una, interpretada como representativa do evento Sturtian, localizada na porção norte do Cráton do São Francisco, Bahia, Brasil. Foram realizadas análises de fácies, de associações de fácies e de proveniência sedimentar com o objetivo de testar os modelos de dinâmica glacial propostos para o período e avaliar localmente o caráter da transição entre diamictitos e carbonatos. O Grupo Una apresenta área de afloramento de aproximadamente 16.000 km2 e compreende depósitos sedimentares isentos de metamorfismo, que se encontram distribuídos em três sinclinais (Salitre, Irecê e Una-Utinga). Na base, compreende arenitos, diamictitos e pelitos com clastos esparsos da Formação Bebedouro, interpretada em termos das associações de fácies (1) Transicional marinha influenciada por banquisas e/ou icebergs e (2) Marinha de plataforma continental. A passagem para a unidade de topo ocorre de forma brusca, em contato plano com dolomitos maciços a laminados com pseudomorfos de aragonita, sobrepostos por ritmitos de calcarenitos e calcilutitos com laminação planoparalela, laminação cruzada cavalgante, estromatólitos e slumps, dividos nas associações de fácies de (3) Plataforma carbonática rasa influenciada por ondas e (4) Rampa carbonática influenciada por escorregamentos. Dados de contagem de litotipos em clastos e seções delgadas indicam variação lateral de proveniência, com fontes particulares para cada uma das áreas investigadas. Essa variação é interpretada como resultado de aporte de geleiras de vale ou do tipo outlet na margem glacio-marinha, indicando a presença de altos topográficos. A datação U-Pb SHRIMP de seixos revelou predomínio de fontes próximas, com contribuição local de fontes mais distantes, sugerindo alguma deposição a partir de icebergs provenientes da margem oposta da bacia, talvez a mais de 150 km à leste, sobre os Blocos Jequié ou Itabuna-Salvador- Curaçá. Datações de cristais de zircão detrítico da matriz dos diamictitos confirmam os dados obtidos a partir de seixos, e permitem a identificação de uma fonte jovem, de fora do cráton, com cerca de 850 Ma. Esse dado limita a idade máxima da unidade. Ainda que a proveniência da Formação Bebedouro indique a existência de altos topográficos adjacentes à bacia, a ausência de controles tectônicos na sedimentação, evidenciada pela grande persistência lateral de sistemas deposicionais com pouca variação de espessura, não corrobora o modelo de desenvolvimento das geleiras neoproterozóicas em margens de sistemas de rifts. / The sedimentary record of Neoproterozoic age has become a major subject of research since the rebirth of the models of extreme glaciation and rapid climatic changes for the period, including the Snowball Earth hypothesis. These models are founded on the identification, in all continents, of Neoproterozoic diamictites directly overlain by carbonates, which are interpreted respectively as glacial and post-glacial deposits. In order to explain the global distribution of diamictites and their apparently rapid transition to carbonates, some authors have proposed hypothesis of extreme climatic change related to three glacial episodes during the Cryogenian and the Ediacaran (Sturtian, Marinoan e Gaskiers). On the other hand, some authors consider that the global correlation of these deposits is the consequence of altitude-nucleated glaciers formed on the shoulders of rift systems during the breakup of the Rodinia Supercontinent, in what is called the Zipper-rift model. Despite the efforts to establish a chronological correlation among the several successions, many questions still persist, in part due to the great emphasis on the study of the carbonate successions and the scarce work on the diamictites. The present work aims at studding the lower section of the Una Group, interpreted as related to the Sturtian glacial event and located in the northern region of the São Francisco Craton, Bahia, Brazil. Facies, facies associations and clastic provenance analysis were performed in order to test the current models on the Neoproterozoic glacial dynamics and to locally evaluate the passage from diamictites to carbonates. The Una Group crops out in a area of approximately 16,000 km2 and is composed of sedimentary deposits without metamorphism, preserved in three synclinal folds (Salitre, Irece e Una-Utinga). At its base, the unit comprises sandstones, diamictites and mudstones with dropstones grouped into the Bebedouro Formation. This formation comprises two facies associations: (1) Marine transitional deposits influenced by ice-shelves and/or icebergs and (2) Continental platform marine deposits. The passage to the upper unit is marked by a sharp planar surface above which lay two facies associations: (3) Wave influenced shallow carbonatic platform deposits, comprising massive to laminated dolomites, locally with aragonite pseudomorph crystals, overlain by (4) Carbonatic ramp influenced by slumps, composed of calcareous grainstones and mudstones with plane-parallel lamination, climbing ripples, slump structures and locally stromatolites. Pebble lithology and thin section compositional data indicate great spatial variation of provenance, with specific sources for each of the investigated areas. This variation is interpreted as the consequence of valley or outlet glaciers feeding the glaciomarine margin, thus indicating the presence of topographically elevated areas near the basin. U-Pb SHRIMP dating of selected pebbles reveals the dominance of nearby sources, with the local contribution of far-traveled clasts, suggesting mixing with sediments deposited from icebergs which came from the opposite basin margin, as far as 150 km to the east. U-Pb SHRIMP dating of detrital zircon grains from the matrix of the diamictites confirmed this model and lead to the identification of a source from outside the craton with approximately 850 Ma. This data constraints the maximum depositional age of the Bebedouro Formation. Despite provenance from the Bebedouro Formation indicates the presence of topographically elevated areas near the basin, the absence of tectonic controls on the sedimentation, evidenced by the great lateral continuity of the depositional systems and their small thickness variation, does not confirm the model of development of neoproterozoic glaciers over the shoulders of rift systems.

As bacias de Taubaté e Resende são bacias continentais paleógenas do tipo rift, orientadas segundo a direção NE a ENE e fazem parte do segmento central do Rift Continental do Sudeste do Brasil. Ambas foram instaladas durante o Eoceno, resultantes de um campo de esforços distensivo de direção NW-SE. Este campo reativou zonas de cisalhamento de direção NE do embasamento pré-cambriano como falhas normais, importantes durante a instalação e evolução da bacia. Há também inúmeras estruturas transversais ao eixo da bacia, de direções N-S, NE-SW e NW-SE, as quais compreendem falhas e dobras que estiveram ativas durante diferentes intervalos de tempo, embora seus papeis na evolução da bacia ainda sejam pouco conhecidos. A fim de reconhecer estas estruturas em subsuperfície na Bacia de Taubaté, cinco perfis sísmicos longitudinais ao eixo da bacia foram interpretados, demonstrando o caráter distinto dessas estruturas como falhas normais e inversas, que interceptam diferentes unidades sísmicas, indicando uma deformação tectônica polifásica. A presença de altos estruturais transversais, distinguíveis em perfis sísmicos, ativos durante a abertura da bacia, pode estar relacionada com anticlinais formados na capa das falhas, durante uma evolução relacionada ao crescimento das falhas principais de borda em um regime distensivo de direção NW-SE. Ainda, foram descritas em afloramentos falhas sinsedimentares de componente normal, de direção NW-SE e transversais à Bacia de Resende, dispostas em um alto ângulo com relação à orientação ENE das falhas principais de borda. Estas estruturas foram interpretadas como falhas de alívio formadas no mesmo contexto distensivo. As relações estratigráficas e a análise de paleotensões das populações de falhas indicaram que as estruturas transversais estão relacionadas a quatro eventos deformacionais: compressão NE-SW, provavelmente durante o Mioceno; compressão NW-SE, durante o Pleistoceno Superior; distensão E-W a NW-SE durante o Holoceno; e por fim compressão E-W relacionada ao campo de esforços atual. A evolução da Bacia de Santos na porção adjacente offshore durante o Cenozoico pode estar diretamente relacionada à presença de estruturas transversais, mudanças de campo de estresse e a geração e eventos deformacionais nas bacias continentais do tipo rift. / The Taubaté and Resende are NE-to-ENE-oriented Paleogene continental rift basins of the central segment of the Continental Rift of Southeastern Brazil. Both basins were installed during the Eocene as a result of a NW-SE-oriented extensional stress field. This stress field reactivated NE-trending shear zones of the Precambrian basement as normal faults, which played a major role during the basin installation and evolution. There are also numerous N-S, NE-SW and NW-SE-oriented structures transverse to the NE-trending basin axis. These structures comprise faults and folds that were active at different time intervals, but their role in the basin evolution is poorly understood yet. In order to recognize these structures in the subsurface in Taubaté Basin, five longitudinal seismic profiles were interpreted showing their distinctive character as normal and reverse faults, which intersect different seismic units and indicate a polyphasic tectonic deformation. The presence of transverse structural highs, recognizable in the seismic profiles, which were active during the opening of the basin, can be related to anticlines formed in the hangingwall during an evolution related to the growing of the border master faults in a NW-SE-trending extensional regime. Moreover, syn-sedimentary NW-SE-oriented transverse normal faults oblique to the ENE-orientation of the border master faults were described in outcrops in the Resende Basin. These structures are interpreted as release faults and thus formed in the same extensional context. Stratigraphic relationships and paleostress analysis of fault populations indicate that transverse structures are related to four deformational events: a NE-SW-oriented compression probably during the Miocene, a NW-SE-oriented compression in the Late Pleistocene to Holocene, an E-W-to-NW-SE-oriented extension in the Holocene and lastly, an E-W-oriented compression related to the present-day stress field. The evolution of the adjoining offshore Santos Basin during the Cenozoic has a narrow correlation with the formation and evolution of Taubaté and Resende basins. The migration of depocenters in the Santos Basin during the Cenozoic can be associated with the presence of NW-SE-oriented transverse structures, changes in the stress fields, and generation and deformation events in the continental rift basins

This master thesis studies cyclic pattern of the Nýřany Member (Middle Pennsylvanian, Moscovian) in the Slaný coalfield situated in the Kladno-Rakovník Basin. The main objective is to identify laterally persistent cycles and to find out their possible origin. Set of cross-sections constructed from boreholes proved lateral stability of 40 - 60 m thick units called the mesocycles. In all, eight mesocycles were identified (N0 - N7), of which the mesocycle N7 was newly defined. Maps of thickness and sand content constructed for each mesocycle provided additional information on subsidence rate and distribution of clastic sediments by fluvial processes. Lateral stability of the mesocycles suggests their allocyclic character and regionally operating mechanism responsible for their formation. Regularity in repetition of the mesocycles as indicated by their similar thicknesses and architecture may suggest that the mechanism could be periodic, possibly of climatic origin. This hypothesis is supported by calculated mean duration of the mesocycles to be ~ 400 ky, based on previously published high-precision CA-ID-TIMS radioisotopic ages of intercalated tonsteins. This "periodicity" approaches 413 ky periodicity of the long eccentricity, one of the Milankovitch orbital cycles, which, in turn, is considered here...

Os sistemas eólicos foram abundantes e muito comuns no início da Era Proterozoica Era, depois de 2.2 Ga. No entanto, a maioria das sucessões eólicas dessa idade são intensamente deformadas e fragmentadas, o que implica que até o momento, poucas tentativas foram feitas para aplicar uma abordagem de estratigrafia de sequências, para determinar os mecanismos de construção, acumulação e preservação das sequências eólicas, da mesma forma, não existem trabalhos realizados até o presente momento que utilizem os registros de acumulação eólica e reconstruções paleogeográficas para modelar a circulação atmosférica do Pré- Cambriano. A Formação Mangabeira é uma sucessão eólica de idade Mesoproterozóica bem preservada no Cráton do São Francisco, nordeste do Brasil. Duas unidades principais foram identificadas com base na arquitetura deposicional e na análise dos paleoventos. A unidade inferior da Formação Mangabeira (~ 500 m de espessura) compreende depósitos eólicos de duna, interdunas, lençóis de areia eólicos, assim como depósitos fluviais. Estes depósitos são organizados em ciclos sedimentares que se sucedem verticalmente, cada ciclo com 6 a 20 m de espessura, caracterizados por lençóis de areia eólicos e depósitos fluviais que são substituídos por dunas eólicas e depósitos interdunas indicando uma tendência de ressecamento para o topo. Os dados de paleoventos indicam um transporte atual dominantemente à norte. Estes ciclos surgem em resposta a oscilações climáticas de um clima relativamente úmido para condições climáticas áridas possivelmente relacionadas com forças orbitais. O limite entre a Unidade Inferior e a Unidade Superior sobrejacente é marcado por uma mudança na arquitetura deposicional e uma mudança brusca no padrão de paleoventos. A Unidade Superior (200 m de espessura) é caracterizada por sucessivos sets de estratos cruzados simples, cada set com ~ 3 a 10 m de espessura, que indicam a migração e acumulação de grandes dunas eólicas sem regiões de interdunas, e que se acumulou como um sistema eólico seco. Os dados de paleoventos indicam transporte atual predominantemente ao sul. Esta sucessão se acumulou durante um episódio de longa duração de hiperaridez. Localmente, a Unidade Superior inclui depósitos fluviais menores que registram um evento úmido de curta duração, ou uma inundação rara por sistemas fluviais provenientes das margens da bacia. A combinação dos dados de paleoventos com mapas paleogeográficos demonstra uma boa correlação entre a circulação atmosférica e distribuição das massas de terras. Entre 1,6-1,54 Ga o Cráton São Francisco estava localizado entre as latitudes médias e o equador. Os registros do regime de vento a partir dos estratos cruzados da Unidade Inferior são consistentes com as posições paleogeográficas do Cráton do São Francisco entre 25º a 35º S, prevalecendo um padrão de vento zonal. Entre 1,54-1,5 Ga a grande massa de terra (cratons do São-Francisco, Congo e Sibéria) derivou mais ao norte atingindo paleolatitudes entre 30º S e 30ºN. Nessa altura, o Cráton do São Francisco estava posicionado na zona equatorial. Esta paleogeografia é consistente com os paleoventos registrados na Unidade Superior, dominando um padrão de vento de monções. / Aeolian systems were abundant and widespread in the early Proterozoic Era, after 2.2 Ga. However, the majority of aeolian successions of such great age are intensely deformed and are preserved only in a fragmentary state meaning that, hitherto, few attempts have been made to apply a sequence stratigraphic approach to determine mechanisms of aeolian construction, accumulation and preservation in such systems, as the same way, no attempts to use the records of aeolian accumulation and palaeogeographic reconstructions of the land mass distribution to model Precambrian atmospheric circulation have been undertaken so far. The Mangabeira Formation is a well preserved Mesoproterozoic erg succession covering part of the São Francisco Craton, northeastern Brazil. Two main units are identified based on stratigraphic architecture and analysis of regional palaeo-sand transport directions. The lower unit of the Mangabeira Formation (~500 m thick) comprises aeolian deposits of dune, interdune, and sand-sheet origin, as well as some of water-lain origin. These deposits are organized into vertically stacked depositional cycles, each 6 to 20 m thick and characterized by aeolian sandsheet and water-lain deposits succeeded by aeolian dune and interdune deposits indicative of a drying-upward trend. Palaeocurrent data indicate aeolian sand transport dominantly to the presentday north. These cycles likely arose in response to climatic oscillations from relatively humid to arid conditions, possibly related to orbital forcing. The boundary between this lower unit and an overlying upper unit is an unconformity of regional extent marked by a change in the depositional architecture and an abrupt shift in palaeocurrent pattern. The Upper Unit (200 m thick) is characterized by stacked sets of simple cross strata, each ~3 to 10 m thick, which are indicative of the migration and accumulation of large aeolian dunes that lacked interdune flats of appreciable size, and which accumulated as a dry aeolian system. Palaeocurrent data indicates aeolian sand transport dominantly to the present-day south. This succession is interpreted to have accumulated during a long-lived episode of hyper-aridity. Locally, the upper unit includes minor fluvial deposits that may record a short-lived event of heightened humidity, or a rare flood event by fluvial systems sourced from the basin margin. The combination of the palaeowinds data with 1.6 - 1.5 Ga palaeogeographic maps demonstrate a good correlation between atmospheric circulation and land mass distribution. At 1.6 to 1.54 Ga São Francisco Craton has been located between mid-latitudes and equatorial zone. The wind regime records from the cross-strata of the Lower Unit are consistent with the palaeogeographic positions of São Francisco between 25º to 35º S, prevail a zonal wind pattern. At 1.54 to 1.5 Ga the large land mass (São-Francisco-Congo and Siberian cratons) drifted farther north reaching palaeolatitudes between 30º S and 30ºN. At that time the São Francisco Craton has been located in the equatorial zone. This palaeogeography is consistent with the northwestern palaeowinds directions recorded in the Upper Unit which dominates a monsoonal wind pattern.

As rochas do Grupo Península Trinity e das unidadesequivalentes abrangem arenito, argilito e conglomerado, além de seus correspondentes metamórficos, e cuja formação é atribuída a correntes de turbidez. Afloram na parte norte da Península Antártica e arquipélagos adjacentes. Amostras de arenito, arcósio e conglomerado dessas unidades foram analisadas com intuito de traçar sua proveniência. A partir da análise petrográfica de arenito foi constatada a similaridade entre as rochas das formações do Grupo Península Trinity, Formação Grauvaca-Folhelho e Formação Miers Bluff. As rochas apresentam composição quartzo-feldspática, com baixa porcentagem de fragmentos líticos de composição plutônica, vulcânica e metamórfica. Diferenças composicionais ocorrem na Formação View Point, na qual também ocorre subarcóseo; e na Formação Miers Bluff, arcóseo lítico. As idades U-Pb de grãos detríticos de zircão para as rochas do Grupo Península Trinity da região de Botany Bay são concordantes e a mais jovem é 324 ± 8 Ma, ainda com quantidade expressiva de grãos com idades de 512 a 541Ma e 1001 a 1091Ma. Valores de ?Nd para rocha total, calculados para 220 Ma estão entre -5 e -8, indicando influência de fontes crustais recicladas ou de razoável residência crustal. A extensa gama de idades para a área-fonte indica reciclagem sedimentar de fonte diversa, com idades carboníferas, cambrianas e pré-cambrianas. O ?Hf calculado para as idades de U-Pb dos grãos de zircão detríticos mais jovens variade -1,2 a -5,7, também indicam extensa residência crustal. A amostra da Formação Legoupil, que complementa os dados de idades U-Pb em grãos detríticos de zircão para oGrupo Península Trinity, apresenta idade mais jovem de 265 ± 2, restringindo a idade máxima de sedimentação ao Permiano. Para as amostras da Formação Grauvaca-Folhelho as idades U-Pb em grãos detríticos de zircão apresentam duas concentrações bem definidas, permo-triássica e cambriana, com idade concordante mais jovem de 216 ± 2 Ma e mais antiga de 1,8 ± 0,13 Ga. Essas idades são condizentes com as dos grãos detríticos de zircão do Grupo Península Trinity. A partir dos dados de idades de grãos detríticos dezircão pode-se definir como a idade máxima para deposição para as formações Legoupil e Grauvaca-Folhelho sendo permo-triássica, assim como para as rochas do GrupoPenínsula Trinity em Botany Bay. Idades essas que levam a sugerir como fonte a Patagônia, no maciço Norte-patagônico, e Antártica Ocidental, na Terra de Mary Byrd. Estascondizem tanto em idade como em tipo de fonte, ígnea e metamórfica, com contribuição sedimentar. / The rocks of the Trinity Peninsula Group and equivalent units comprise sandstone, mudstone and conglomerate, as wel as their corresponding metamorphic rocks, whose formation is attributed to turbidity currents. They crop out in the northern Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent islands. Samples of sandstone, arkose and conglomerate of these units were analyzed in order to trace their provenance. From the petrographic analysis of sandstone was found similarity between the rocks of the Trinity Peninsula Group, Greywacke-Shale Formation and Miers Bluff Formation. The rocks have quartz-feldspathic composition, low percentage of lithic fragments of plutonic, volcanic and metamorphic rocks. Compositional differences occur in View Point Formation, which also occurs subarkose, and Miers Bluff Formation, lithic arcóseo. The U-Pb ages dates of detrital zircon grains in the rocks of the Trinity Peninsula Group region of Botany Bay are concordant and the youngest is 324 ± 8 Ma, but concentrations around 512-541Ma and 1001-1091Ma are common. Values of ?Nd calculated for 220 Ma are between -5 and -8, indicating influence of recycled crustal sources or with reasonable crustal residence. With extensive range of ages for the source area, indicating sediment recycling of diverse source areas, with ages spread from Carboniferous to Cambrian and Precambrian. The ?Hf calculated for dates U-Pb of younger detrital zircon ranges from -1.2 to -5.7, also indicate extensive crustal residence. The sample of Legoupil Formation, which complements the U-Pb dates for detrital zircon grains of the Trinity Peninsula Group, presents younger date of 265 ± 2, restricting the maximum age of the sedimentation asPermian. For samples of Greywacke-Shale Formation the U-Pb dates for detrital zircon grains exhibit two well-defined concentrations, permo-triassic and cambrian, with younger concordant date of 216 ± 2 Ma and older of 1.8 ± 0,13 Ga. These dates are consistent with those of detrital zircon grains from the Peninsula Group Trinity. From the data on detrital zircon grains can be defined as the maximum age for deposition for Legoupil and Greywacke-Shale formations being permo-triassic, as well as the rocks of the Trinity Peninsula Group in Botany Bay. Dates that suggest as a source area Patagonia, in Northern Patagonian massif and West Antarctica, in the Mary Byrd Land. These areas are consistent with both in age and rock types, igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary, as the source area.

A Baía de Sepetiba, localizada entre a Baía de Guanabara e a Baía de Ilha Grande, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, está inserida em um cenário estratégico para o desenvolvimento econômico do Estado. Isto ocorre devido ao aumento da concentração populacional, que está diretamente relacionado com o turismo, com a presença de portos e de áreas industriais. Sendo assim, se faz necessário estudar sua estrutura geológica e dinâmica sedimentar para entender sua evolução ao longo do tempo e para uma utilização mais racional desta área. Utilizando-se da sísmica rasa de alta resolução e da sonografia de varredura lateral juntamente com dados pretéritos de amostragem superficial de sedimentos, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar sua geologia holocênica. A investigação, em subsuperfície, da geologia estrutural e sedimentar dessa baía, através da interpretação de 09 perfis sísmicos, baseada na determinação de diferentes tipos de ecotexturas, revelou a presença de diferentes pacotes sedimentares depositados ao longo do Holoceno. Ao todo, foram encontrados 15 tipos de ecotexturas perfazendo 14 camadas sedimentares, que estão relacionados em 4 Grupos de acordo com sua distribuição. Já a investigação em superfície através dos registros sonográficos, baseada nos diferentes graus de reflexão acústica (backscattering) e parametrizada pelos dados de amostragem direta pretérita, identificou 6 padrões sonográficos distintos. Com isso foi confeccionado um novo mapa de distribuição textural dos sedimentos superficiais da Baía de Sepetiba. Com a correlação dos dados de sísmica rasa com os dados sonográficos, foi possível ainda sugerir a provável existência de neotectonismo na área de estudo. / The Sepetiba Bay, located between the Guanabara Bay and the Ilha Grande Bay, Rio de Janeiro State, is part of a strategic scenario for the economic development of the State. This is due to increased population density, which is directly related to tourism, with the presence of ports and industrial areas. Therefore, it is necessary to study its geological structure and sediment dynamics to understand its evolution over time and to a more rational use of this area. By using high resolution seismics and side scan sonar data, this study aims to investigate the holocenic geology. The subsurface investigation of its structural and sedimentary geology, by interpretation of seismic profiles, were based in the determination of the seismic facies, along the Holocene. It was found 15 seismic facies premaking 14 sedimentaries layers that were separated in 4 Groups according to their distribution. The research with the side scan sonar, was based on the different degrees of acoustic backscattering and was parameterized by data from direct sampling. It was identified six distinct sonar patterns . Thus a new textural map of the distribution of surface sediments was made. With the correlation of seismic profiles and side scan sonar data it is possible to map a shallow fault that suggests the existence of a possible neotectonism in the study area.

Ce travail pionnier porte sur l'étude de l'architecture stratigraphique du Bassin de la Cuanza à partir d'une approche conjuguée multi-échelle croisant la géomorphologie, l'interprétation sismique et la sédimentologie de faciès de l'intervalle Oligocène à Actuel. L'objectif est de préciser l'âge, le partitionnement de faciès, les milieux de dépôts de la zone littorale dans le but de dater et de caractériser les mouvements verticaux en relation avec le fluage du sel (tectonique gravitaire) et le soulèvement général de la marge en lien avec la déformation de la lithosphère. L'analyse détaillée des affleurements de la zone côtière permet de manière complémentaire de préciser les conditions de drainage de la paléo-Cuanza avec la mise en évidence d'un prisme deltaïque de type patte d'oiseau au Pliocène qui prograde sur un système éolien côtier. Par ailleurs, plus vers l'intérieur du bassin, à hauteur de BomJesus, une zone de haut-fond conduit à la mise en place d'un Gilbert delta alimenté par une possible proto-Cuanza, en marge de la plate-forme mixte du Miocène inférieur. Plus au large de cette plate-forme, dans le secteur de Cabo do São Braz à Barra do Cuanza, l'analyse détaillée de l'architecture stratigraphique sur les falaises permet de caractériser d'un point de vue faciès et processus de dépôt une succession de systèmes de chenaux-levées en compensation montrant localement des processus d'injection sableuse précoce en lien avec l'instabilité des bordures du chenal. Ces systèmes Oligocène à Pliocène sont étroitement contrôlés par la croissance des diapirs (Cabo Ledo) et alimentés à la fois par les apports fluviatiles, le démantèlement des plis diapiriques et des apports de la plate-forme mixte. A Sangano, les marges des chenaux turbiditiques contiennent des sables bioclastiques à bioturbations de type skolithos et Ophiomorpha qui indiquent l'instabilité gravitaire de la plate-forme qui borde les gouttières subsidentes, avec un potentiel de recolonisation du fond sableux par les faunes "turbiportées". En remontant vers le Nord on passe progressivement à des faciès de pente soulignés par des niveaux de black-shales qui marquent la fenêtre de productivité planctonique. Ces faciès sont surmontés par des marnes à intervalles de tempestites caractéristiques de l'offshore transition. Enfin, au Sud de Miradouro da Lua, on a pu mettre en évidence dans le Miocène supérieur des faciès contouritiques qui remontent la pente suivant une succession de cannelures d'érosion. Ces faciès sont tronqués par des dépôts sableux bioturbés typiques d'un environnement de shoreface. Depuis Cabo de Sao Braz jusqu'à Luanda on observe donc une succession à la fois temporelle et paléo-environnementale qui conforte le modèle de soulèvement différentiel/basculement de la série vers le Nord. Du Sud vers le Nord, on observe ainsi une évolution depuis des dépôts turbiditiquesinterdiapiriques oligocènes à miocènes inférieur dans le secteur de Cabo do São Braz/Cabo Ledo jusqu'à des faciès deltaïques de la paléo-Cuanza Pliocène et fluviatiles de braid-delta Pléistocène à hauteur de Miradouro da Lua. / This pioneering work, focuses on the study of the stratigraphic architecture of the Cuanza Basin, from a combined multi-scale approach crossing the geomorphology, seismic interpretation and sedimentologicalfacies from Oligocene interval to Present. The objective is to identify the age, the partitioning of facies, the environments of deposition of the coastal zone in order to date and characterize the vertical movements in relation to the salt creep (gravitational tectonic) and the general uplift of the margin related to the deformation of the lithosphere. Detailed analysis of the outcrops of the coastal zone allowed in a complementary manner specify the conditions of drainage of the paleo-Cuanza putting thus in evidence the identification of a deltaic prism type bird's foot in Pliocene which prograde on a coastal aeolian system. In addition, over to the basin, up to Bom Jesus, a shoal area led to the establishment of a Gilbert delta powered by a possible proto-Cuanza, in conjunction with the mixed platform of lower Miocene. Most off the shelf, in the area of Cabo de Sao Braz to Barra do Cuanza, a detailed analysis of the stratigraphic architecture of the cliffs allowed characterize in a viewpoint facies and depositional processes in a succession of channel-levee systems in compensation, showing locally early sandy injection processes related to the instability of the channel borders. These systems Oligocene to Pliocene are tightly controlled by the growth of diapirs (Cabo Ledo) and and sometimes they are fed by fluvial deposits, dismantling folds diapirs and contributions from mixed platform. In Sangano the turbidite channel banks contain the bioclastic sands with bioturbations type Skolithos and Ophiomorpha which indicate gravitational instability of the shelf that edge the subsidence incisions with a potential for colonization of the sandy bottom by Fauns "turbiportées". Going up to the north we pass gradually to slope facies highlighted by levels of black-shale that marks the window of planktonic productivity. These facies are overlain by marl with intervals of tempestites, characteristics of the offshore transition. Finally, to the South of Miradouro da Lua, we were able to put in evidence in upper Miocene contouritesfacies that climbs the slope following a series of grooves erosion. These facies are truncated by sandy deposits bioturbed typical of shoreface. From Cabo de Sao Braz until Luanda, sometimes is possible to obsreve a temporal and paleoenvironmental succession which reinforces the model of differential uplift or tilting of the series toward to the North. From South to the North, is observed an evolution of interdipiricturbiditic deposits of Oligocene to lower Miocene in the area of Cabo do Sao Braz / Cabo Ledo to deltaic facies of the paleo-Cuanza - Pliocene fluvial braid-delta of Pleistocene in Miradouro da Lua.

Les écosystèmes côtiers méditerranéens sont soumis à de multiples sources de contamination (activités agricoles, industrielles et touristiques) impactant à des degrés divers les compartiments environnementaux (colonne d'eau, sédiments, biota, ...). En particulier, des études précédentes ont démontré que les sédiments de la Rade de Toulon présentent un niveau de multi-contamination très important, qui pourrait avoir des conséquences non-négligeables sur l'écosystème côtier, ce qui nécessite la réalisation de différentes études complémentaires visant à mieux comprendre les processus régissant le transfert potentiel des polluants vers le milieu environnant. Dans ce contexte, les objectifs de cette thèse consistent à étudier les processus contrôlant la dynamique des polluants inorganiques dans la colonne sédimentaire et à l'interface eau/sédiment et à évaluer leur remobilisation potentielle vers la colonne d'eau. Trois modes principaux de dispersion peuvent conduire à une remobilisation des contaminants: (1) la diagénèse précoce mobilisant des éléments nutritifs et des éléments traces métalliques et métalloïdes, (2) la remobilisation des contaminants lors de remises en suspension sédimentaire, et (3) le flux diffusif à l'interface eau/sédiment en lien avec la mobilité des contaminants dans la colonne sédimentaire. Pour atteindre ses objectifs, ce projet de thèse combine des approches in-situ (carottage d'interface, extraction de l'eau interstitielle, traitement/analyse des eaux interstitielles et des fractions solides, …), des expériences en laboratoire (suivi cinétique de la remobilisation des contaminants lors des mélanges eau/sédiment, extractions séquentielles…), des outils de modélisation (calcul de la spéciation chimique, simulation de la partition dissous/particulaire, simulation des profils sédimentaires, réactivité de la matière organique, …) ainsi que le traçage des sources de contamination et de leur transfert entre différents compartiments environnements à l'aide des isotopes stables du Pb. Ces travaux ont été réalisés en étroite collaboration avec le LASEM et avec la contribution de différents partenaires (EPOC/Université de Bordeaux, Ruđer Bošković Institut/Croatie, CAM/Université de Lausanne/Suisse, IFREMER, IRSN, …). / Mediterranean coastal ecosystems are exposed to several contamination sources (agricultural, industrial and touristic activities) impacting the environmental compartments (water column, sediment, biota ...) at various scales. Some previous studies showed, in particular, that the sediments of Toulon Bay present important contents of several contaminants, which may have non-negligible impacts on the coastal ecosystem, and which require further studies to better understand the processes governing the potential pollutants transfer to the surrounding environment. In this context, the objectives of this PhD are to study the processes controlling the inorganic pollutants dynamic in the sediment column and at the sediment/water interface and to assess their potential remobilization to the water column. Three main modes of dispersion can lead to contaminants remobilization : (1) the early diagenesis mobilizing nutrients, trace metals and metalloids, (2) the contaminants remobilization during sediment resuspension events, and (3) the diffusive flux from the sediment/water interface due to the sedimentary mobility of contaminants. To achieve its goals, this PhD project combines in-situ approaches (interface coring, extraction, treatment and analysis of porewater and solid fractions, ...), laboratory experiments (kinetic monitoring of contaminants remobilization during sediment resuspension, sequential extractions, ...), modeling tools (chemical speciation calculation, dissolved/particulate partition simulation, depth profiles simulation, organic matter reactivity, …) and contamination sources tracking and transfer between various environmental compartments using Pb stable isotopes. These studies were performed in close cooperation with the LASEM and with the contribution of different partners (EPOC/University of Bordeaux, Ruđer Bošković Institute/Croatia, CAM/University of Lausanne/Suisse, IFREMER, IRSN, …).

abstract: East African extensional basins have played a crucial role in revealing the evolution and characteristics of the early stages of continental rifting and for providing the geological context of hominin evolution and innovation. The numerous volcanic eruptions, rapid sedimentation and burial, and subsequent exposure through faulting and erosion, provide excellent conditions for the preservation of tectonic history, paleoenvironment data, and vertebrate fossils. The reconstruction of depositional environments and provision of geochronologic frameworks for hominin sites have been largely provided by geologic investigations in conjunction with paleontological studies, like the Ledi-Geraru Research Project (LGRP). High-resolution paleoclimate records that can be directly linked to hominin fossil outcrops have been developed by the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) which collected sedimentary-paleolake cores at or near key hominin fossil sites. Two chapters of this dissertation are a result of research associated with the HSPDP. For HSPDP, I establish a tephrostratigraphic framework for the drill cores from the Northern Awash (Afar, Ethiopia) and Baringo-Tugen Hills-Barsemoi (Kenya) HSPDP sites. I characterize and fingerprint tephra through glass shard and feldspar phenocryst geochemistry. From tephra geochemical analyses, I establish chronostratigraphic ties between the HSPDP cores’ high-resolution paleoclimate records to outcrop stratigraphy which are associated with hominin fossils sites. Three chapters of this dissertation are a result of field work with the LGRP. I report new geological investigations (stratigraphic, tectonic, and volcanic) of two previously unmapped regions from the eastern Ledi-Geraru (ELG), Asboli and Markaytoli. Building upon this research I present interpretations from tephra analyses, detailed stratigraphic analyses, and geologic mapping, of the Pleistocene (~2.6 to < 2.45 Ma) basin history for the LGRP. My work with the LGRP helps to reconstruct a more complete Early Pleistocene depositional and geologic history of the lower Awash Valley. Overall, this dissertation contributes to the reconstruction of hominin paleoenvironments and the geochronological framework of the Pliocene and Pleistocene faunal/hominin records. It further contributes to rift basin history in East Africa by elaborating the later structural and stratigraphic history of the lower Awash region. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Geological Sciences 2019

Southern Star Valley is a structural and physiographic basin bounded on the east by the southern Star Valley fault, an active normal fault associated with Basin and Range extension. The southern Star Valley fault separates southern Star Valley from the Salt River Range and forms a dramatic north-south trending topographic escarpment. Statistical analysis of relative-age dating (RD) parameters taken from glacial deposits in the Salt River Range defined distinctive age groups for the deposits, and comparison of RD data allowed correlations with late Pleistocene and Holocene glacial deposits elsewhere in the Rocky Mountains. However, the sedimentary lithologies in the glacial deposits in the study area and inherent variability of RD data limited definitive regional correlations. The southern Star Valley fault (SSVF) lies in a parabola-shaped zone of large, seismogenic normal faults. The zone trails to the west of the eastward-migrating Yellowstone hot spot. Basin-facing fault scarps up to 11 meters high created by recurrent late Quaternary faulting along the southern Star Valley fault are preserved in late-Pleistocene and Holocene alluvial fans along the Salt River Range front. Radiocarbon ages from faulted deposits exposed in a trench provide age estimates of ca. 8,090 ± 80 and 5,540 ± 70 yrs. B. P. for the two most recent paleoearthquakes. The magnitudes of the paleoearthquakes, based on surface rupture height and length and estimates, were between Ms6.9 and Ms7.1. The tectonic geomorphology of river alluvium and alluvial fans near the SSVF suggests that recurrent faulting has downdropped the northern end of southern Star Valley more in relationship to the southern part of the valley and created a deep depocenter in the northern part.