The seaboard of Brazil is a highly favorable setting for studying episodes of worldwide sea-
level rise because of its passive nature. Previous studies of the equatorial coast of Brazil …

In this paper, we provide a review of the properties and behavior of active faults in the
Borborema Province, northeastern Brazil, using instrumental, historical and …

This study is focused on speleogenesis of the Toca da Boa Vista (TBV) and Toca da
Barriguda (TBR), the longest caves in South America occurring in the Neoproterozoic Salitre …

No Nordeste setentrional brasileiro, as formas de relevo têm sido classicamente descritas
como resultantes de sucessivos ciclos de aplainamento. Nessa perspectiva, são …

We constrained the tectonic evolution of the intracratonic Cretaceous Rio do Peixe Basin
(RPB) in NE Brazil, combining structural and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) …

The breakup of Pangea in the Mesozoic placed the South American and African plates
under horizontal extension, which triggered rifting and the formation of intracontinental …

Intraplate deformation during the Mesozoic breakup of West Gondwana predominantly
occurred along major ancient lithospheric discontinuities. The Precambrian Patos Shear …

Background Phylogeographic research has advanced in South America, with increasing
efforts on taxa from the dry diagonal biomes. However, the diversification of endemic fauna …

Studies on the geomorphological evolution of the South American passive margin have
been based on the pediplanation model, which predicts that its morphology is a response to …

The Mesozoic sediments of the Araripe Basin peak at ca. 1000 m, more than 500 m above
the host Precambrian basement. This means that an intracontinental graben has been …