Editors:
- Examines the tectonic genealogy and development history of the Sao Francisco Craton, a 'miniature continent' located in Eastern Brazil
- Provides a panorama of the evolutionary history of a piece of continental lithosphere between the Paleoarchean and the Cenozoic eras
- Contains wide range of information from all fields of geology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Regional Geology Reviews (RGR)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview
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Front Matter
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Intracratonic Basins and Precambrian Mafic Dyke Swarms
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Front Matter
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About this book
Corresponding to the most intensively studied portion of the Precambrian nucleus of the South American plate, the São Francisco craton and its margins host a rock record that spans from the Paleoarchean to the Cenozoic. Precambrian sedimentary successions that witness ancient Earth processes - many of them of global significance - are especially well preserved and exposed in this region. With all these attributes the São Francisco craton together with its fringing orogenic belts can be viewed as a ‘continent within a continent’ or a ‘continent in miniature’.
Editors and Affiliations
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Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Monica Heilbron
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Maracana, Brazil
Umberto G. Cordani
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Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil
Fernando F. Alkmim
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil
Book Subtitle: Tectonic Genealogy of a Miniature Continent
Editors: Monica Heilbron, Umberto G. Cordani, Fernando F. Alkmim
Series Title: Regional Geology Reviews
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01715-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01714-3Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79130-2Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01715-0Published: 05 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2364-6438
Series E-ISSN: 2364-6446
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 148 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geology, Structural Geology, Historical Geology, Economic Geology