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- Bispo-Santos, F., et al.
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Paleomagnetism of paleoproterozoic mafic and felsic volcanic rocks of the Rio Negro-Juruena Province, Southwestern Amazonian Craton, Brazil
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Several paleogeographic configurations for the Amazonian Craton have been suggested along its geological history. Paleomagnetic tests for suggested configurations are however restricted due to very sparce and low quality paleomagnetic data, especially for Paleoproterozoic. In an attempt to improve our understanding of the geodynamic evolution, a paleomagnetic study was performed on felsic volcanic rocks of the Colider Suite, and associated mafic rocks in the Rio Negro-Juruena Province, southwestern Amazonian Craton. These rocks have well dated zircon U-Pb ages between 1.80-1.78 Ga. Very stable northern (southern) directions with moderate to steep negative (positive) inclinations were isolated during AF and thermal demagnetization. Rock magnetism experiments show that the magnetization, which is probably of primary origin, in the felsic rocks is carried by hematite and in the mafic rocks by Ti-poor titanomagnetite. A preliminary mean direction (D=187.4°, I=50.9°, N=16, A95=11.3°, K=11.7) yield a paleomagnetic pole located at 289.4°E, 65.4°S (A95=12.9°), which is classified with quality factor of Q=5. Paleogeographic reconstructions using key Paleoproterozoic poles suggest that Laurentia, Baltica, North China, and Amazonian Craton were located in laterally contiguous positions forming a large continental mass at 1.83-1.77 Ga ago.
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- D'Agrella-Filho, M.S., et al.
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Paleomagnetic evidence for oblique collision between Amazonia and Laurentia at about 1.1 Ga
- 2004
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Ingår i: International Geological Congress, Abstracts. ; , s. 1089-
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The connection between Amazonia and Laurentia at late Meso- proterozoic times through the Grenville/Sunsas-Aguapei collisional belts is a key feature of Rodinia paleogeography.However, at least three different geometries are proposed for such connection, mainly due to the paucity of paleomagnetic data for Amazonia.Connections along Greenland and Labrador were initially proposed based on the fit of geological provinces and scarse virtual geomagnetic poles.More recently, a connection through the Llano belt in Texas was proposed based on a single well dated 1.2 Ga paleopole obtained in mafic rocks from the Nova Floresta Formation. We present a series of poles obtained on sedimentary rocks of the Aguapei Group (western Matto Grosso State-Amazonian Craton) and intrusive mafic rocks, whose evolution is related to the Meso-Neoproterozoic Aguapei-Sunsas orogeny (1.3-0.9 Ga).Together with the 1.2 Ga Nova Floresta pole, they define a straight apparent polar wander path which matches the Laurentia APWP by 1.1 Ga for a connection along the (present day) Labrador region. The pole's trajectories imply a high degree of obliquity for such a collision in agreement with tectonic models put forward for the southwestern margin of Amazonia, the southeastern margin of Laurentia and the southwestern margin of Baltica.
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- Elming, Sten-åke, et al.
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A palaeomagnetic and Ar-40/Ar-39 study of late precambrian sills in the SW part of the Amazonian craton: Amazonia in the Rodinia reconstruction
- 2009
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Ingår i: Geophysical Journal International. - 0956-540X .- 1365-246X. ; 178:1, s. 106-122
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- A new key palaeomagnetic pole (Plat. = 64.3 degrees S, Plon. = 271.0 degrees E, N = 14, A(95) = 9.2 degrees; Q = 5) is calculated from a primary magnetization isolated in early Neoproterozoic Aguapei basic sills and dykes hosted by 1.3-1.0 Ga sedimentary rocks from the southwestern part of the Amazon craton. The characteristic remanence carried by stable, pseudo-single domain titanomagnetite shows two antipodal polarities that pass a reversals test. Magnetic anisotropy for most sites shows fabric orientations that are typical of sills, with horizontal magnetic foliations concordant to the flat-lying bedding of the host sedimentary rocks. Ar-40/Ar-39 analyses for one of the sills reveal a well-defined plateau age at 981 +/- 2 Myr. A tectonic reconstruction for Amazonia relative Laurentia based on this new pole 'is consistent with' a position of the present northwestern part of Amazonia attached with eastern Laurentia close to Greenland at ca. 981 Ma. On basis of palaeomagnetic and geological data, we propose a scenario where Amazonia moved northeastwards along the present southeast coast of Laurentia from ca. 1200 to 980 Ma. By 980 Ma, Amazonia is placed alongside Laurentia and Baltica, in a position similar to other reconstructions of Rodinia but with a significantly different orientation.
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- Evans, D. A D, et al.
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Return to Rodinia? Moderate to high palaeolatitude of the São Francisco/Congo craton at 920 Ma
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Ingår i: Geological Society Special Publication. - 0305-8719. ; 424:1, s. 167-190
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- Moderate to high palaeolatitudes recorded in mafic dykes, exposed along the coast of Bahia, Brazil, are partly responsible for some interpretations that the São Francisco/Congo craton was separate from the low-latitude Rodinia supercontinent at about 1050 Ma. We report new palaeomagnetic data that replicate the previous results. However, we obtain substantially younger U-Pb baddeleyite ages from five dykes previously thought to be 1.02-1.01 Ga according to the 40Ar/39Ar method. Specifically, the so-called «A-normal» remanence direction from Salvador is dated at 924.2±3.8 Ma, within error of the age for the «C» remanence direction at 921.5±4.3 Ma. An «A-normal» dyke at Ilh»us is dated at 926.1±4.6 Ma, and two «A-normal» dykes at Olivença have indistinguishable ages with best estimate of emplacement at 918.2±6.7 Ma. We attribute the palaeomagnetic variance of the «A-normal» and «C» directions to lack of averaging of geomagnetic palaeosecular variation in some regions. Our results render previous 40Ar/39Ar ages from the dykes suspect, leaving late Mesoproterozoic palaeolatitudes of the São Francisco/Congo craton unconstrained. The combined «A-normal» palaeomagnetic pole from coastal Bahia places the São Francisco/Congo craton in moderate to high palaeolatitudes at c. 920 Ma, allowing various possible positions of that block within Rodinia.
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