Rocks of Late Cretaceous age in the central part of Utah are dominantly elastic. In general, the sediments in the west are of conglomerate and sandstone of continental origin; the sediments in the east are of sandstone and shale of marine origin, These rocks were deposited at or near the western shore of a sea which extended from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico. The strand line lay in a general northern direction through Utah with land to the west and marine water to the east.

Despite the economic importance of dolomitised Upper Cretaceous strata, little work has been conducted to further the understanding of the controls on dolomitisation during a green-house period with low marine Mg/Ca ratio. This study presents a multidisciplinary, multi-scale approach using field, petrographical and geochemical data to understand the mechanism of dolomitisation in North Africa and western Mediterranean in order to determine the controls on dolomitisation of Upper Cretaceous strata. Two field areas have been chosen that exhibit similar facies and are time equivalent, located along the Jeffara Escarpment in southern Tunisia and in the Iberian Range of central Spain. Both areas comprise facies deposited in mid-ramp, platform margin, lagoon, inter- and supra-tidal environments. Based on the distribution of facies, a sequence stratigraphic model was proposed for both areas which show similar changes in relative sea level. In the Iberian Basin there is strong evidence of a dramatic rearrangement in basin architecture resulting from tectonic activity during the Upper Cenomanian, whilst on the Jeffara Escarpment deposition took place on a passive margin. Both areas show evidence of warm, arid climates; even though the Iberian Range was in a more northerly palaeogeographic position, there was a rain shadow which affected facies distribution and dolomitisation. Planar dolomite fabrics, dull luminescence under cathodoluminescence, marine trace element concentrations and marine to slightly enriched oxygen isotope values suggest that dolomitisation occurred from mesosaline, marine fluids. Dolomitisation occurred from multiple fluxes of dolomitising fluids, controlled by high frequency changes in relative sea level. A cessation of dolomitisation only occurred during late transgressive systems tract of low order sea level cycles as a result of platform flooding. The Distribution of dolomitising fluids was partly controlled by pre-cursor limestone with low permeability horizons acting as aquicludes and permeable sandstones acting as aquifers. Changes in basin architecture caused reversals in flow of dolomitising fluids on the Iberian Range whilst increased subsidence caused cessation of dolomitisation due to rapid increase in relative sea level on the platform top. Dolomitisation occurred over a wider geographical area in the Jeffara Escarpment compared to the Iberian Range as a result of higher fluid salinity, larger brine pool and higher temperature of dolomitising fluids. The distribution of dolomitised strata of the circum-Tethys and across the Arabian Plate suggests that early reflux dolomitisation occurred within arid climate belts, and did not require hypersaline conditions, evidenced by evaporite distribution, as previously suggested. This study has important implications for the hydrocarbon industry by improving our ability to predict distribution, size and geometry of dolomitised strata essential for hydrocarbon exploration and field development. Furthermore this study has improved our understanding on the controls on dolomitisation during greenhouse periods with low Mg/Ca ratio of seawater and high frequency sea level changes.

Heightened industry focus on the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Eagle Ford has resulted from recent discoveries of producible unconventional petroleum resource in this emerging play. However, little has been published on the facies and facies variabilities within this mixed carbonate-clastic mudrock system. This rock-based study is fundamental to understanding the controls, types, and scales of inherent facies variabilities, which have implications for enhanced comprehension of the Eagle Ford and other mixed carbonate-clastic mudrock systems worldwide. This study utilizes 8 cores and 2 outcrops with a total interval equaling 480 feet and is enhanced by synthesis of thin section, XRD, XRF, isotope, rock eval/TOC, and wireline log data. Central Texas Eagle Ford facies include 1) massive argillaceous mudrock, 2) massive argillaceous foraminiferal mudrock, 3) laminated argillaceous foraminiferal mudrock, 4) laminated foraminiferal wackestone, 5) cross-laminated foraminiferal packstone/grainstone, 6) massive bentonitic claystone, and 7) nodular foraminiferal packstone/grainstone. High degrees of facies variability are observed even at small scales (50 ft) within the Eagle Ford system and are characterized by pinching and swelling of units, lateral facies changes, truncations, and locally restricted units. Facies variability is attributed to erosional scouring, productivity blooms, bottom current reworking, and bioturbation. At the 10-mile well spacing scale and greater, the data significantly overestimates intra-formational facies continuity but is successful in defining the following four-fold stratigraphy: The basal Pepper Shale is an argillaceous, moderate TOC, high CGR and GR mudrock. The Waller Member is a newly designated name used in this study for an argillaceous and foraminiferal, high TOC, massive mudrock with a generally moderate CGR and GR profile. The Bouldin Member is a high energy, carbonate-rich (foraminiferal), low TOC, low and variable CGR but high GR zone. Finally, the South Bosque Formation is an argillaceous and foraminiferal, moderate TOC, massive and laminated mudrock with a moderate CGR and GR signature. GR logs alone are inadequate for determination of facies, TOC content, depositional environment, and sequence stratigraphic implications. Using integrated lithologic, isotopic, and wireline log data, cored wells in the study area are correlated across the San Marcos Arch. Geochemical proxies (enrichment in Mo, Mn, U, and V/Cr) indicate that maximum basin restriction occurred during deposition of the Bouldin Member. Bottom current activity influenced depositional processes and carbonate sediment input was driven by water column productivity. These primary controls on Eagle Ford stratigraphy and character are independent from eustatic fluctuation, rendering classical sequence stratigraphy unreliable. / text

No presente trabalho o gênero fóssil Bauruemys elegans é redescrito. Sua anatomia craniana e pós-craniana foi analisada em detalhes com base em novos exemplares coletados deste fóssil. Bauruemys elegans é um quelônio do Cretáceo Superior da Bacia Bauru, encontrado no Município de Pirapozinho, interior do estado de São Paulo e descrito originalmente por Suárez em 1969 como “Podocnemis elegans". Os materiais analisados foram comparados com a osteologia de representantes atuais dos clados Chelidae, Pelomedusidae e Podocnemididae, bem como com descrições de outros táxons disponíveis na literatura. As relações filogenéticas de Bauruemys elegans dentro do clado Podocnemidinura foram analisadas através da análise de parcimônia envolvendo 19 táxons e 56 caracteres. Nesta análise Bauruemys elegans constitui, de fato, um gênero distinto entre os podocnemidídeos, corroborando propostas já descritas na literatura. A análise também revelou que, através dos caracteres osteológicos, Bauruemys elegans possui afinidades filogenéticas próximas aos podocnemidídeos atuais, posicionando-se como grupo-irmão do clado formado pelo fóssil Cambaremys langertoni e pela Família Podocnemididae. / In this study, the fossil Bauruemys elegans is redescribed. Its cranial and postcranial anatomy was analysed in detail based on new specimens collected. Bauruemys elegans is a chelonian from Upper Cretaceous of the Bauru Basin founded in the municipality of Pirapozinho, São Paulo state and was originally described by Suarez (1969) as Podocnemis elegans. The specimens analysed was compared with some extant representatives of Chelidae, Pelomedusidae and Podocnemididae families and descriptions avaliable on the literature. The phylogenetic affinities of the Bauruemys elegans within Podocnemidinura was evaluated through a parsimony analysis envolving 19 taxa and 56 characters. The results of phylogenetic analysis shows that Bauruemys elegans is, in fact, a distinct genus within the clade Podocnemididae. This corroborated anterior hypothesis proposed. Adittionally, this analysis using osteological characters, indicate Bauruemys elegans as the sister group of Cambaremys langertoni and Podocnemididae.

A Bacia dos Parecis é uma bacia intracratônica, com uma área de 500.000 km2 na região Centro-Oeste do Brasil. Ocupa a porção sul-sudeste do Cráton Amazônico, tendo este como maior parte de seu embasamento. Acumula mais de 6.000 m de sedimentos, relacionados ao Paleozoico, Mesozoico e Cenozoico. O registro mesozoico inclui unidades sedimentares e vulcânicas. O registro cretácico da Bacia dos Parecis consiste em duas sequências sedimentares com assinaturas deposicionais distintas. Essas sequências são fisicamente descontínuas e relacionadas a diferentes depocentros, nas porções leste e oeste do Arco da Serra Formosa, ou seja, sub-bacias Juruena e Alto Xingu. Isto gera controvérsias em termos de correlação regional, posicionamento estratigráfico e correta subdivisão das sequências. Com base em afloramentos e testemunhos de sondagem foi possível a reconstituição do registro a partir das associações de fácies. Estas associações juntamente com o reconhecimento regional de superfícies e relações estratigráficas permitiu a identificação de uma assinatura deposicional diferencial para cada sequência. Na sub-bacia Juruena foram depositadas sequências predominantemente clásticas, fluviais e eólicas. Na sub-bacia do Alto Xingu, na base foram identificadas fácies de natureza química e clástica e no topo, sedimentação clástica. A reconstituição da evolução da bacia no Mesozoico e a contextualização das unidades cretácicas foram efetuadas levando-se em conta os registros do tectonismo, do magmatismo e da sedimentação na região. A evolução da bacia no Mesozoico teve início no Triássico Superior e Jurássico Inferior com vulcanismo e sedimentação, sucedido de soerguimento e erosão até o Cretáceo Inferior, quando ocorreram magmatismos básico e alcalino. A partir do Cretáceo Superior, com início da fase compressiva da Orogenia Andina e abertura do Oceano Atlântico, desenvolveu-se tectonismo e a sedimentação na sub-bacia Juruena no Cenomaniano. Porém, na sub-bacia Alto Xingu esta ocorre a partir do Coniaciano. A análise do registro fossilífero e as relações com unidades adjacentes indicam uma idade entre Cenomaniano-Turoniano para a sequência da sub-bacia Juruena e Coniaciano-Santoniano para a sequência da sub-bacia Alto Xingu. Assim, foi proposta uma nova unidade litoestratigráfica para esta última, denominada de Formação Rio Tapirapé. A atuação da tectônica na geração de subsidência diferenciada para cada sub-bacia ocasionou a geração de diferentes assinaturas deposicionais. Na sub-bacia Juruena a taxa de sedimentação superior à taxa de subsidência é perceptível, gerando sequências clásticas de alta energia. Na sub-bacia Alto Xingu, a taxa de subsidência é superior à taxa de sedimentação, com um sistema lacustre transgressivo nas fases iniciais. Ao final em ambas as sub-bacias prevalecem sistemas sedimentares fluviais e deltaicos enquanto a taxa de subsidência é reduzida. A reconstituição paleoambiental da sequência cretácica da sub-bacia Alto Xingu identificou uma sedimentação clasto-química de fundo e borda de lago na base. Na porção superior ocorre uma progradação com ambientes de prodelta, frente deltaica e uma planície deltaica com planície fluvial e deposição eólica. O posicionamento cronoestratigráfico Coniaciano-Santoniano baseou-se em fósseis de vertebrados e ostracodes que tem crono-correlatos regionais na Formação Adamantina (Grupo Bauru) e Formação Capacete (Bacia Sanfranciscana) e ainda na Formação Bajo de Carpa (Grupo Neuquén, na Argentina). / The Parecis Basin is an intracratonic basin, covering a huge area of 500.000 km2 in center-west portion of Brazil. The Amazonian Craton constitutes the most part of its basement. In this basin, there are an accumulation of more than 6,000 m of sediments, related to Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic ages. The Mesozoic record includes sedimentary and volcanic units. The cretaceous record of the Parecis Basin is represented by two sedimentary sequences characterized by distinct depositional signatures. These sequences are physically discontinuous, and related to different depocenters located in the east and west of Serra Formosa Arch, namely Juruena and Alto Xingu sub-basins. So, this distribution is controversy in terms of regional correlation, stratigraphic positioning and correct subdivision of the sequences. Based on outcrops and cores information it was possible the reconstruction of the record from the facies association, which together with regional surface recognition and stratigraphic relations allowed the identification of a differential depositional signature for each sequence. In the Juruena sub-basin, predominantly clastic fluvial and aeolian sequences were deposited. In the Alto Xingu sub-basin the base is marked by facies of lacustrine chemical and clastic nature but top, clastic sedimentation of a fluvio-deltaic system is recognized. The reconstruction of the mesozoic evolution of the basin and contextualization of the Cretaceous units were carried out taking into account records of tectonism, magmatism and sedimentation in the region. The basin evolution in Mesozoic age start in Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic period where occurred volcanism and sedimentation, followed by uplift and erosion until the Lower Cretaceous, when as occurred basic and alkaline magmatism. From the Upper Cretaceous, with the beginning of the compressive phase of Andean Orogeny and opening of the Atlantic Ocean, tectonism and sedimentation were developed in Juruena Sub-basin in the Cenomanian and Alto Xingu Sub-basin from Coniacian. The relation of the fossiliferous record with adjacent units allows to assign one related age between Cenomanian-Turonian to Juruena sub-basin sequence. But the Coniacian-Santonian to Alto Xingu sub-basin is being proposed an new lithostratigraphic. unit named Rio Tapirapé Formation results from this recognition. The tectonism is the main event in the generation of differentiated subsidence to each sub-basin and the differential depositional signatures. In the Juruena sub-basin the sedimentation rate over the subsidence rate is perceptible, and a clastic high energy sequence is deposited. In the Alto Xingu sub-basin, the subsidence rate is higher than the sedimentation rate, with a transgressive lacustrine system with chemical sedimentation in the initial phases. At the end of the process, in both sub-basins, fluvial and deltaic sedimentary systems prevail while the subsidence rate decreases. The paleoambiental reconstruction of Alto Xingu sub-basin cretaceous sequence indicates a chemical and clastic sedimentation of bottom and shoreline lake, in a context of high initial subsidence and low sedimentation rate. As the subsidence process decreased, a deltaic progradation became dominant with deposition in a prodelta environment, deltaic front and deltaic plain interbedded with fluvial plain, and aeolian deposition. The Coniacian–Santonian chronostratigraphic positioning was based on vertebrate fossils and ostracods with regional chrono-correlates in the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), the Capacete Formation (Sanfranciscana Basin), and also in the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group, in Argentina).

The Haymana basin in Central Anatolia (Turkey) formed on a Late Cretaceous to Middle Eocene fore &amp / #8211 / arc accretionary wedge. The aim of this study is to investigate the sedimentary cyclicity and depositional sequences in the Upper Cretaceous clastic successions of the Haymana basin. To be able to achieve this objective, a 250 m stratigraphic section, which is mainly composed of siliciclastics has been measured in the Haymana Basin. In this study, detailed lithofacies analyses were performed and five different facies were recognized in the studied interval of the Haymana Formation. Sandstones, shales and conglomerates are the most abundant in the succession. In the measured section, two chronozones were identified based on the biostratigraphic data. These are the lower Dicarinella asymetrica chronozone and the upper Globotruncanita elevata - Globotruncana ventricosa chronozone corresponding to the Upper Santonian and Lower to Middle Campanian, respectively. Sedimentological analyses, such as provenance, palaeocurrent and grain-size sphericity were also performed and their relation with depositonal environment and change in depositional conditions were discussed. In order to construct the sequence stratigraphic framework, detailed lithofacies analyses and their vertical association were carried out. The studied interval of the Haymana Formation represents a prograding submarine fan subdivided into three depositional sequences, each with several tens of meters thick successions and two sequence boundaries. Each depositonal sequence consists of system tracts and turbiditic basic sequences with sandstone and conglomeratic beds overlain by mudstones. Turbiditic basic sequences, the sandstone and mudstone alternation allows distinction of smaller subdivisions, namely, basic cyclic units, which are the building blocks of system tracts and turbiditic basic sequences. Depositional sequences of the studied section of the Haymana Formation may correspond to third order relative sea &amp / #8211 / level cycles. Accordingly, fourth &amp / #8211 / and fifth &amp / #8211 / order (Milankovich) cycles might be proposed as basic sequences and basic cyclic units, respectively.

The Eagle Ford is a well-known source rock for both sandstone (Woodbine) and carbonate (Austin and Buda) hydrocarbon reservoirs in East and South Texas. Recent discoveries have demonstrated that source rocks, such as the Eagle Ford, are capable of producing significant volumes of gas and oil. At the same time, variations in well producibility indicate that these rocks, like conventional reservoirs, display considerable geological heterogeneity. Yet, only limited research has been published on the subsurface stratigraphy and character of Eagle Ford facies. Understanding the types, controls, and distribution of these heterogeneities requires in-depth rock-based studies. In order to characterize Eagle Ford facies, 27 cores from 13 counties were investigated for rock textures, fabrics, sedimentary structures, and fossil assemblages. These studies were supported by light and electron microscopy as well as analysis of elemental chemistry and mineralogy. Regional subsurface stratigraphic correlations and facies distributions were defined using wireline logs calibrated from core studies. In South Texas, the Eagle Ford Formation was deposited during a second-order transgressive/regressive cycle on the flooded, oxygen-restricted Comanche Shelf. Nine depositional facies consisting predominately of organic-rich, fine-grained (5.0 % TOC) to coarser-grained (3.05 % TOC) fabrics were identified. Facies developed in low-energy environments episodically interrupted by higher-energy, event sedimentation (current winnowing, cohesive and non-cohesive density flows, and turbidity flows). Locally, these rocks show evidence of early diagenetic recrystallization of calcite. Concurrent water anoxia and organic matter preservation persisted locally into later Austin deposition, resulting in formation of a three-fold division of the Cenomanian-Coniacian Eagle Ford Formation. Common facies of lower and upper Eagle Ford members include (1) unlaminated, fissile, clay- and silica-rich, organic-rich mudrocks, (2) laminated, calcareous, organic-rich mudrocks, and (3) laminated, foraminifera- and peloid-rich, organic-rich packstones. The transitional Eagle Ford member consists of highly-cyclic (1) ripple-laminated, organic-rich wackestone (cycle base) and (2) burrowed, organic-lean lime wackestones (cycle top). Transitional Eagle Ford facies developed in oxygen-restricted, basinal depositional environments as distal equivalents to burrowed, foraminiferal lime wackestones of the Austin Formation. Facies complexities in the Eagle Ford stem from complicated and interrelated processes of sediment production and distribution, diagenesis, and water column chemistry. Integrated core studies shed light on both controls of facies formation and their spatial distribution. These findings provide a framework for upscaling the fine-scale, heterogeneous character of shelfal Eagle Ford mudrocks; thus allowing development of predictive models into the distribution of key reservoir properties in the subsurface. / text

A Bacia dos Parecis é uma bacia intracratônica, com uma área de 500.000 km2 na região Centro-Oeste do Brasil. Ocupa a porção sul-sudeste do Cráton Amazônico, tendo este como maior parte de seu embasamento. Acumula mais de 6.000 m de sedimentos, relacionados ao Paleozoico, Mesozoico e Cenozoico. O registro mesozoico inclui unidades sedimentares e vulcânicas. O registro cretácico da Bacia dos Parecis consiste em duas sequências sedimentares com assinaturas deposicionais distintas. Essas sequências são fisicamente descontínuas e relacionadas a diferentes depocentros, nas porções leste e oeste do Arco da Serra Formosa, ou seja, sub-bacias Juruena e Alto Xingu. Isto gera controvérsias em termos de correlação regional, posicionamento estratigráfico e correta subdivisão das sequências. Com base em afloramentos e testemunhos de sondagem foi possível a reconstituição do registro a partir das associações de fácies. Estas associações juntamente com o reconhecimento regional de superfícies e relações estratigráficas permitiu a identificação de uma assinatura deposicional diferencial para cada sequência. Na sub-bacia Juruena foram depositadas sequências predominantemente clásticas, fluviais e eólicas. Na sub-bacia do Alto Xingu, na base foram identificadas fácies de natureza química e clástica e no topo, sedimentação clástica. A reconstituição da evolução da bacia no Mesozoico e a contextualização das unidades cretácicas foram efetuadas levando-se em conta os registros do tectonismo, do magmatismo e da sedimentação na região. A evolução da bacia no Mesozoico teve início no Triássico Superior e Jurássico Inferior com vulcanismo e sedimentação, sucedido de soerguimento e erosão até o Cretáceo Inferior, quando ocorreram magmatismos básico e alcalino. A partir do Cretáceo Superior, com início da fase compressiva da Orogenia Andina e abertura do Oceano Atlântico, desenvolveu-se tectonismo e a sedimentação na sub-bacia Juruena no Cenomaniano. Porém, na sub-bacia Alto Xingu esta ocorre a partir do Coniaciano. A análise do registro fossilífero e as relações com unidades adjacentes indicam uma idade entre Cenomaniano-Turoniano para a sequência da sub-bacia Juruena e Coniaciano-Santoniano para a sequência da sub-bacia Alto Xingu. Assim, foi proposta uma nova unidade litoestratigráfica para esta última, denominada de Formação Rio Tapirapé. A atuação da tectônica na geração de subsidência diferenciada para cada sub-bacia ocasionou a geração de diferentes assinaturas deposicionais. Na sub-bacia Juruena a taxa de sedimentação superior à taxa de subsidência é perceptível, gerando sequências clásticas de alta energia. Na sub-bacia Alto Xingu, a taxa de subsidência é superior à taxa de sedimentação, com um sistema lacustre transgressivo nas fases iniciais. Ao final em ambas as sub-bacias prevalecem sistemas sedimentares fluviais e deltaicos enquanto a taxa de subsidência é reduzida. A reconstituição paleoambiental da sequência cretácica da sub-bacia Alto Xingu identificou uma sedimentação clasto-química de fundo e borda de lago na base. Na porção superior ocorre uma progradação com ambientes de prodelta, frente deltaica e uma planície deltaica com planície fluvial e deposição eólica. O posicionamento cronoestratigráfico Coniaciano-Santoniano baseou-se em fósseis de vertebrados e ostracodes que tem crono-correlatos regionais na Formação Adamantina (Grupo Bauru) e Formação Capacete (Bacia Sanfranciscana) e ainda na Formação Bajo de Carpa (Grupo Neuquén, na Argentina). / The Parecis Basin is an intracratonic basin, covering a huge area of 500.000 km2 in center-west portion of Brazil. The Amazonian Craton constitutes the most part of its basement. In this basin, there are an accumulation of more than 6,000 m of sediments, related to Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic ages. The Mesozoic record includes sedimentary and volcanic units. The cretaceous record of the Parecis Basin is represented by two sedimentary sequences characterized by distinct depositional signatures. These sequences are physically discontinuous, and related to different depocenters located in the east and west of Serra Formosa Arch, namely Juruena and Alto Xingu sub-basins. So, this distribution is controversy in terms of regional correlation, stratigraphic positioning and correct subdivision of the sequences. Based on outcrops and cores information it was possible the reconstruction of the record from the facies association, which together with regional surface recognition and stratigraphic relations allowed the identification of a differential depositional signature for each sequence. In the Juruena sub-basin, predominantly clastic fluvial and aeolian sequences were deposited. In the Alto Xingu sub-basin the base is marked by facies of lacustrine chemical and clastic nature but top, clastic sedimentation of a fluvio-deltaic system is recognized. The reconstruction of the mesozoic evolution of the basin and contextualization of the Cretaceous units were carried out taking into account records of tectonism, magmatism and sedimentation in the region. The basin evolution in Mesozoic age start in Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic period where occurred volcanism and sedimentation, followed by uplift and erosion until the Lower Cretaceous, when as occurred basic and alkaline magmatism. From the Upper Cretaceous, with the beginning of the compressive phase of Andean Orogeny and opening of the Atlantic Ocean, tectonism and sedimentation were developed in Juruena Sub-basin in the Cenomanian and Alto Xingu Sub-basin from Coniacian. The relation of the fossiliferous record with adjacent units allows to assign one related age between Cenomanian-Turonian to Juruena sub-basin sequence. But the Coniacian-Santonian to Alto Xingu sub-basin is being proposed an new lithostratigraphic. unit named Rio Tapirapé Formation results from this recognition. The tectonism is the main event in the generation of differentiated subsidence to each sub-basin and the differential depositional signatures. In the Juruena sub-basin the sedimentation rate over the subsidence rate is perceptible, and a clastic high energy sequence is deposited. In the Alto Xingu sub-basin, the subsidence rate is higher than the sedimentation rate, with a transgressive lacustrine system with chemical sedimentation in the initial phases. At the end of the process, in both sub-basins, fluvial and deltaic sedimentary systems prevail while the subsidence rate decreases. The paleoambiental reconstruction of Alto Xingu sub-basin cretaceous sequence indicates a chemical and clastic sedimentation of bottom and shoreline lake, in a context of high initial subsidence and low sedimentation rate. As the subsidence process decreased, a deltaic progradation became dominant with deposition in a prodelta environment, deltaic front and deltaic plain interbedded with fluvial plain, and aeolian deposition. The Coniacian–Santonian chronostratigraphic positioning was based on vertebrate fossils and ostracods with regional chrono-correlates in the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), the Capacete Formation (Sanfranciscana Basin), and also in the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group, in Argentina).

Orientador: Reinaldo José Bertini / Banca: Antonio Roberto Saad / Banca: Flávio Fernando Manzini / Resumo: O presente Trabalho objetiva o estudo dos afloramentos fossilíferos encontrados na região Noroeste do Estado de São Paulo, em especial nos arredores da Cidade de Jales. Os materiais fósseis encontrados pelo Autor compõem-se, em sua maioria, de crocodilomorfianos (Metasuchia Baurusuchidae e Sphagesauridae), resgatados em depósitos pertencentes especificamente às formações Santo Anastácio e Adamantina, Grupo Bauru. Os espécimens foram analisados e preliminarmente descritos, em conjunto com seus ambientes paleoecológicos e paleogeográficos. Análise litoestratigráfica, e confecção dos perfis de todos os afloramentos, permitirão algumas conclusões sobre os diferentes paleoambientes deposicionais. Procurou-se identificar os grupos taxonômicos da maneira mais especifica possível, relacionando o material em questão com os provenientes de outras regiões na mesma Bacia Bauru, na tentativa de estabelecer similaridades e/ou diferenças entre seus registros. Com isto contribui-se aos estudos sobre a evolução desta paleobiota, correlacionando-a aos processos evolutivos dos paleoambientes presentes nos diferentes estágios pelos quais esta estrutura bacinal passou ao longo do Cretáceo Superior. / Abstract: The present Work aims the study of the fossiliferous outcrops found in the Northwestern area of the Sao Paulo State, especially in the surroundings of the Jales City. The fossil materials found by the Author are composed, in majority, by crocodylomorphs (Metasuchia Baurusuchidae and Sphagesauridae), specifically recovered in deposits from the Santo Anastácio and Adamantina formations, Bauru Group. The specimens were analyzed and described preliminarily, as well their paleoecological and paleogeographical contexts. Lithostratigraphical analysis, and outcrops sketchs, will allow some conclusions on the different paleoenvironmental depositions. Looking to identify the taxons in detail, relating and comparing them to specimens collected from other areas in the same Bauru Basin, it attempts to establish similarities and differences among these different records. So it contributes to the studies about the evolution of this paleobiota, correlating it to the evolutionary process of the paleoenvironments, in the different stages the Bauru Basin moved across through the Upper Cretaceous. / Mestre

A Bacia dos Parecis é uma bacia intracratônica, com uma área de 500.000 km2 na região Centro-Oeste do Brasil. Ocupa a porção sul-sudeste do Cráton Amazônico, tendo este como maior parte de seu embasamento. Acumula mais de 6.000 m de sedimentos, relacionados ao Paleozoico, Mesozoico e Cenozoico. O registro mesozoico inclui unidades sedimentares e vulcânicas. O registro cretácico da Bacia dos Parecis consiste em duas sequências sedimentares com assinaturas deposicionais distintas. Essas sequências são fisicamente descontínuas e relacionadas a diferentes depocentros, nas porções leste e oeste do Arco da Serra Formosa, ou seja, sub-bacias Juruena e Alto Xingu. Isto gera controvérsias em termos de correlação regional, posicionamento estratigráfico e correta subdivisão das sequências. Com base em afloramentos e testemunhos de sondagem foi possível a reconstituição do registro a partir das associações de fácies. Estas associações juntamente com o reconhecimento regional de superfícies e relações estratigráficas permitiu a identificação de uma assinatura deposicional diferencial para cada sequência. Na sub-bacia Juruena foram depositadas sequências predominantemente clásticas, fluviais e eólicas. Na sub-bacia do Alto Xingu, na base foram identificadas fácies de natureza química e clástica e no topo, sedimentação clástica. A reconstituição da evolução da bacia no Mesozoico e a contextualização das unidades cretácicas foram efetuadas levando-se em conta os registros do tectonismo, do magmatismo e da sedimentação na região. A evolução da bacia no Mesozoico teve início no Triássico Superior e Jurássico Inferior com vulcanismo e sedimentação, sucedido de soerguimento e erosão até o Cretáceo Inferior, quando ocorreram magmatismos básico e alcalino. A partir do Cretáceo Superior, com início da fase compressiva da Orogenia Andina e abertura do Oceano Atlântico, desenvolveu-se tectonismo e a sedimentação na sub-bacia Juruena no Cenomaniano. Porém, na sub-bacia Alto Xingu esta ocorre a partir do Coniaciano. A análise do registro fossilífero e as relações com unidades adjacentes indicam uma idade entre Cenomaniano-Turoniano para a sequência da sub-bacia Juruena e Coniaciano-Santoniano para a sequência da sub-bacia Alto Xingu. Assim, foi proposta uma nova unidade litoestratigráfica para esta última, denominada de Formação Rio Tapirapé. A atuação da tectônica na geração de subsidência diferenciada para cada sub-bacia ocasionou a geração de diferentes assinaturas deposicionais. Na sub-bacia Juruena a taxa de sedimentação superior à taxa de subsidência é perceptível, gerando sequências clásticas de alta energia. Na sub-bacia Alto Xingu, a taxa de subsidência é superior à taxa de sedimentação, com um sistema lacustre transgressivo nas fases iniciais. Ao final em ambas as sub-bacias prevalecem sistemas sedimentares fluviais e deltaicos enquanto a taxa de subsidência é reduzida. A reconstituição paleoambiental da sequência cretácica da sub-bacia Alto Xingu identificou uma sedimentação clasto-química de fundo e borda de lago na base. Na porção superior ocorre uma progradação com ambientes de prodelta, frente deltaica e uma planície deltaica com planície fluvial e deposição eólica. O posicionamento cronoestratigráfico Coniaciano-Santoniano baseou-se em fósseis de vertebrados e ostracodes que tem crono-correlatos regionais na Formação Adamantina (Grupo Bauru) e Formação Capacete (Bacia Sanfranciscana) e ainda na Formação Bajo de Carpa (Grupo Neuquén, na Argentina). / The Parecis Basin is an intracratonic basin, covering a huge area of 500.000 km2 in center-west portion of Brazil. The Amazonian Craton constitutes the most part of its basement. In this basin, there are an accumulation of more than 6,000 m of sediments, related to Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic ages. The Mesozoic record includes sedimentary and volcanic units. The cretaceous record of the Parecis Basin is represented by two sedimentary sequences characterized by distinct depositional signatures. These sequences are physically discontinuous, and related to different depocenters located in the east and west of Serra Formosa Arch, namely Juruena and Alto Xingu sub-basins. So, this distribution is controversy in terms of regional correlation, stratigraphic positioning and correct subdivision of the sequences. Based on outcrops and cores information it was possible the reconstruction of the record from the facies association, which together with regional surface recognition and stratigraphic relations allowed the identification of a differential depositional signature for each sequence. In the Juruena sub-basin, predominantly clastic fluvial and aeolian sequences were deposited. In the Alto Xingu sub-basin the base is marked by facies of lacustrine chemical and clastic nature but top, clastic sedimentation of a fluvio-deltaic system is recognized. The reconstruction of the mesozoic evolution of the basin and contextualization of the Cretaceous units were carried out taking into account records of tectonism, magmatism and sedimentation in the region. The basin evolution in Mesozoic age start in Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic period where occurred volcanism and sedimentation, followed by uplift and erosion until the Lower Cretaceous, when as occurred basic and alkaline magmatism. From the Upper Cretaceous, with the beginning of the compressive phase of Andean Orogeny and opening of the Atlantic Ocean, tectonism and sedimentation were developed in Juruena Sub-basin in the Cenomanian and Alto Xingu Sub-basin from Coniacian. The relation of the fossiliferous record with adjacent units allows to assign one related age between Cenomanian-Turonian to Juruena sub-basin sequence. But the Coniacian-Santonian to Alto Xingu sub-basin is being proposed an new lithostratigraphic. unit named Rio Tapirapé Formation results from this recognition. The tectonism is the main event in the generation of differentiated subsidence to each sub-basin and the differential depositional signatures. In the Juruena sub-basin the sedimentation rate over the subsidence rate is perceptible, and a clastic high energy sequence is deposited. In the Alto Xingu sub-basin, the subsidence rate is higher than the sedimentation rate, with a transgressive lacustrine system with chemical sedimentation in the initial phases. At the end of the process, in both sub-basins, fluvial and deltaic sedimentary systems prevail while the subsidence rate decreases. The paleoambiental reconstruction of Alto Xingu sub-basin cretaceous sequence indicates a chemical and clastic sedimentation of bottom and shoreline lake, in a context of high initial subsidence and low sedimentation rate. As the subsidence process decreased, a deltaic progradation became dominant with deposition in a prodelta environment, deltaic front and deltaic plain interbedded with fluvial plain, and aeolian deposition. The Coniacian–Santonian chronostratigraphic positioning was based on vertebrate fossils and ostracods with regional chrono-correlates in the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), the Capacete Formation (Sanfranciscana Basin), and also in the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group, in Argentina).