Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-12-12T18:53:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaEmanuellaFirminoBarbosa_TESE.pdf: 17456528 bytes, checksum: 1ca17d60d4523399fe8138c2a7d13c40 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-12-13T21:30:21Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaEmanuellaFirminoBarbosa_TESE.pdf: 17456528 bytes, checksum: 1ca17d60d4523399fe8138c2a7d13c40 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-13T21:30:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MariaEmanuellaFirminoBarbosa_TESE.pdf: 17456528 bytes, checksum: 1ca17d60d4523399fe8138c2a7d13c40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-28 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico (CNPq) / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / Uma pesquisa geomorfol?gica detalhada usando Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) foi realizada ao longo da parte ocidental do rio Assu, estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil. O estudo foi complementado por uma s?rie de sondagens com trado, indicadores de foramin?feros bent?nicos de sedimentos, bem como data??o por Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) e por Radiocarbono (C14). Esses dados permitiram reconstruir a evolu??o desta ?rea desde o Pleistoceno tardio at? o presente. O ba?a rasa, que agora est? completamente preenchido formado dentro dos limites da morfologia antecedente desenvolvida desde a ?ltima interglacial. Os principais fatores for?adores respons?veis pelo reposicionamento do litoral, que correu em um ?ngulo de ca. 35% para a costa atual no Pre Holoceno e M?dio Holoceno foram: (1) atividade tect?nica ao longo da linha de falha de Afonso Bezerra, define a estrutura de horst-graben da Serra do Mel, (2) inunda??o r?pida da ba?a do paleovale raso durante a ?ltimo pulso da transgress?o do Holoceno ca. 7500 cal BP e (3) prograda??o r?pida do estu?rio do rio Assu atrav?s da acumula??o de sedimentos costeiros e sedimentos fluviais. / A detailed geomorphological survey using Light Detection and Ranging was carried out along the western part of Assu River, NE, Brazil. The study was complemented by a series of shallow boreholes, sediment benthic foraminifera indicators, as well as radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dating and permitted to reconstruct the evolution of this area from the late Pleistocene until the present. The shallow embayment, which is now completely infilled formed within the limits of antecedent morphology developed since the last interglacial. The main forcing factors responsible for repositioning of the shoreline, which ran at an angle of ca. 35% to the present coast in Early/mid Holocene were: (1) tectonic activity along Afonso Bezerra a strike-slip fault line which defines the horst-graben structure of Mel dome, (2) fast inundation of the shallow paleovalley embayment during the last pulse of Holocene transgression ca. 7500 cal BP, and (3) fast progradation of the Assu estuary through accretion of coastal drift and fluvial sediments.