Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 50).

The Lagonegro Zone comprises three structural units which outcrop within the pile of decollement nappes forming the southern Italian Appenines. Stratigraphic, structural and sedimentological evidence suggests that the zone represents the relics of a Mesozoic basin that developed amidst the carbonate platforms bordering the southern margin of Tethys. Mapping has confirmed that the Lagonegro I, Lagonegro II and Monte Foraporta Units are separated by thrusts and are stacked in ascending order. Middle Triassic fine-grained terrigenous clastic sediments and neritic limestone olistoliths of Lagonegro Unit II record the disintegration of a young carbonate platform under the influence of extensional tectonics. Deposition and redeposition of hemi-pelagic lime-mud washed from the adjacent shallow-water platforms during the Late Triassic is manifested in both Lagonegro units by the cherty limestones of the Sirino Formation; a gradual transition from calcareous to siliceous deposition at the top of the formation reflects the subsidence of the basin-floor beneath the Calcite Compensation Depth. Contrasting patterns of siliceous and calciclastic sedimentation developed during the Jurassic, probably imposed by renewed extensional tectonics; coeval calciclastic deposition in a small, and at times anoxic marginal basin is recorded in the Monte Foraporta Unit. Dolomitisation of basinal carbonate rocks took place during the Jurassic due to mixing of saline pore-fluids with meteoric water recharged from the adjacent carbonate platforms. Deposition of terrigenous shales below the Calcite Compensation Depth occurred during the Lower Cretaceous, but calcareous sedimentation was resumed in the Late Cretaceous and Palaeogene. The progressive deepening of the basin documented by these facies transitions is attributed to regional subsidence, caused by crustal extension and attenuation, and relative accretion of the surrounding platforms; comparable basal stratigraphies in several ophiolitic zones of the Alpine-Mediterranean region suggest that many Tethyan 'oceanic' basins may have initially developed in a similar manner.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-211). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--Acadia University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-180). Also available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Carleton University, 1992. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Orientador: Elson Paiva de Oliveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T22:46:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Grisolia_MariaFernandaPereira_M.pdf: 11518476 bytes, checksum: 78e6dbc87f588ed4d9104ec88d51df15 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A área em estudo localiza-se entre o embasamento mesoarqueano do Núcleo Serrinha e o Greenstone Belt do Rio Itapicuru (BA). O Núcleo Serrinha é constituído pelo Complexo Santa Luz, caracterizado por rochas metamórficas gnáissico-migmatíticas (Mascarenhas 1979), cobertas pelas vulcânicas do Grupo Capim (Winge 1984, apud. Cruz Filho et al. 2003) e pelas seqüências vulcano-sedimentares do Greenstone Belt do Rio Itapicuru (Brito Neves et al. 1980), intrudidas por granitóides diversos e recobertas por unidades fanerozóicas. Embora vários estudos tenham sido feitos, ou estão em desenvolvimento no GBRI, pouco se conhece sobre as rochas sedimentares do mesmo e quase nada sobre as relações de contato do GBRI e o embasamento. Por este motivo, foi planejado um projeto de cartografia geológica da transição embasamento-greenstone que resultou em um mapa geológico de uma área com cerca de 700 km2 entre as cidades de Nordestina, Queimadas e Santa Luz, a oeste da exposição principal do greenstone belt do Rio Itapicuru. Nesta região foi mapeada uma sequência de rochas sedimentares clásticas metamorfisadas denominada Sequência Metassedimentar Monteiro por Grisolia (2007) e Moreto (2007) em seus trabalhos de conclusão de curso de Geologia. Estudos de proveniência de sedimentos, erosão e possíveis ambientes tectônicos foram feitas pela primeira vez em metassedimentos do greenstone belt Rio Itapicuru, Bloco Serrinha, Bahia, utilizando geocronologia U-Pb, LA-ICP-MS em zircões detríticos, geoquímica e isótopos Sm- Nd. O protólito das rochas metassedimentares foram classificados como arcósia, xistos, grauvacas e arenitos. O índice químico de alteração (CIA) varia 39-70 indicando intemperismo químico moderado nas áreas fonte. Rochas félsicas a intermediárias (granito, granodiorito, andesito e riolito) são as principais rochas fonte, e, secundariamente, rochas máficas (basalto e gabro). A maioria das amostras mostram ?Nd negativo (0) valores variando de -6,83 a -34,29 e apenas uma amostra resultou ?Nd (0) = +2,38. Idades modelo de Nd (TDM) apresentam idades entre 2,0-2,2 Ga, com alguns outliers em 2,67 Ga. Os dados U-Pb em zircões detríticos de quatro amostras resultaram em populações com idades 207Pb/206Pb de 2,16, 2,14, 2,15, 2,17, 2,18, 2,20, 2,21 e 2,23 Ga, com alguns grãos mais velhos sendo alguns arqueanos. Os resultados isotópicos indicam que o metassedimentos do greenstone belt Rio Itapicuru possuem áreas fonte principalmente em terrenos Palaeoproterozoicos como os Greenstone Belts Rio Itapicuru e Rio Capim, e muito raramente rochas arqueanas. No entanto, as populações de zircão entre 2,17 Ga e 2,24 Ga não são encontradas no bloco Serrinha, exigindo, portanto, fontes ainda não encontradas. Diagramas de configuração tectônica sugerem que os sedimentos podem ter sido depositados principalmente em margens continentais ativas. Nossos dados confirmam um modelo em que os basaltos e granitos de arco do greenstone belt Rio Itapicuru acrescionaram para uma margem continental ativa desconhecida que colodidiu com outras estruturas pré-existentes, sendo posteriormente empurradas contra um microcontinente Arqueano. / Abstract: The area is located between the basement of the mesoarchean Serrinha Block and the Rio Itapicuru Greenstone Belt (BA). The Serrinha Block consists in the SantaLuz Complex, characterized by gneissic-migmatitic rocks (Mascarenhas 1979), covered by (Winge 1984, apud. Cruz Filho et al. 2003) volcano-sedimentary sequences of the Rio Itapicuru and Rio Capim greenstone belts (Brito Neves et al. 1980), intruded by granitoids and covered by several Phanerozoic units. Although several studies have been conducted or are under development in RIGB, little is known about the sedimentary rocks and almost nothing about the geological relations between RIGB and basement. For this reason, a project was planned with geological mapping of the transition-greenstone basement, which resulted in a geological map of an area of approximately 700 km2 between the towns of Nordestina, Queimadas and Sant Luz, west of the main display of the RIGB. A sequence of metamorphosed clastic sedimentary rocks was mapped known as Monteiro metamorphic sequence by Grisolia (2007) and Moreto (2007) in their final graduation work of Geology. Studies of sediment provenance, weathering and possible tectonic environments have been made for the first time in metasedimentary rocks of the Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt, Serrinha Block, Bahia, using LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology in detrital zircons and whole-rock geochemistry and Sm-Nd isotope data. The protolith of the metasedimentary rocks were classified as arkose, shale, greywacke and sandstone. The chemical index of alteration (CIA) ranges from 39-70 indicating moderate chemical weathering in source areas. Intermediate and felsic rocks (granite, granodiorite, rhyolite and andesite) are the likely main source rocks, and secondarily mafic rocks (basalt and gabbro). Most samples show negative ?Nd(0) values ranging from -6.83 to -34.29 and only one sample yielded ?Nd(0) = +2.38. Depleted mantle Nd model ages (TDM) fall most in the range 2.0 to 2.2 Ga, with a few outliers at 2.67 Ga. The U-Pb data on detrital zircons of four samples yielded 207Pb/206Pb age populations of 2.16 to 2.23 Ga, with a few grains older and only on Archaean grain. The isotope results indicate that the metasedimentary rocks the Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt have source areas mostly in Palaeoproteroic terranes such as the Rio Itapicuru and Rio Capim greenstone belts, and very much rarely in Archaean rocks. However, zircon populations between 2.17 Ga and 2.24 Ga are not found in the Serrinha block, thus requiring sources not yet found. Diagrams of tectonic setting suggest that the sediments may have been deposited mostly on active continental margins. Our data support a model in which basalts and arc granites of Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt accretted onto an unknown active continental margin and the entire pile collided with, and was thrusted onto Archaean microcontinents. / Mestrado / Geologia e Recursos Naturais / Mestre em Geociências

Mémoire (M.Sc.T.)--université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2000. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

The Permo-Triassic lower Beaufort Group fluvial deposits extend over 100s of kilometres within the Karoo Basin, South Africa. A detailed study of the depositional architecture and stacking patterns of sand bodies within a 900 m thick succession has enabled interpretation of the controls on ancient river channel and overbank processes. Facies include very fine- to medium-grained sandstone, intra-formational conglomerate, mudstone and palaeosols. Channel-belts are dominated by upper flow regime structures, consistent with a flashy to ephemeral fluvial system. The overbank deposits comprise splays interbedded with purple, green and grey mudstone; these floodplain colour changes signify water table fluctuations. A hierarchy of channel-related elements has been established that recognises beds, bedsets, storeys, channel-belts, complexes and complex sets. Each channel-belt may be single- or multi-storey, whereby one storey represents the complete cut and fill cycle of a single migrating river, comprising bar accretion elements and channel-abandonment fill. The abandonment fill elements often consist of heterolithic plugs of climbing ripple-laminated very fine-grained sandstone, or interbedded claystone with siltstone. The Beaufort channel-belts preserve either lateral- or downstream-accretion patterns, or a combination. Each belt has either a lenticular or tabular geometry, recognisable by an erosional base overlain by intra-formational conglomerate lag and barform deposits. Genetically related channel-belts cluster to form complexes, of which two broad styles have been identified: Type A) laterally and vertically stacked channel-belts, and Type B) sub-vertically stacked channel-belts. There is evidence of localised clustering of sub-vertically stacked channel-belts adjacent to extensive overbank mudstone deposits. The apparent lack of a well-defined ‘container’ surface with mappable margins, suggests that this stacked channel-belt architecture represents an avulsion complex rather than a palaeovalley-fill. The lateral and stratigraphic variability in fluvial-overbank architecture is interpreted as the interplay of several controls. Allogenic forcing factors include, tectonic subsidence that influences accommodation, sediment supply, and high frequency climate cycles associated with the flashy discharge regime and expressed in the mudrock colour changes and distribution of palaeosols. The depositional river style, variability in channel-belt stacking patterns and compensational stacking of some channel-belt/splay complexes is interpreted to be the result of autogenic channel avulsion, supported by an absence of significant erosion. The relative merits of basin-axial trunk river and distributive fluvial system (DFS) models are assessed from detailed architectural and stratigraphic outcrop studies.