Comparative geological evolution of the Borborema Province and São Francisco Craton (eastern Brazil): Decratonization and crustal reworking during West …

SP Neves - Precambrian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
80% of the continental crust was produced during the 4.0–2.0 Ga time span, but the
preserved area of Archean/early Paleoproterozoic cratons is smaller than 40%. Part of this …

Temporal variations in the incompatible trace element systematics of Archean TTGs: Implications for crustal growth and tectonic processes in the early Earth

P Sotiriou, A Polat, B Windley, T Kusky - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we applied classification and tectonic setting diagrams, N-MORB-normalised
trace element and incompatible element temporal variation diagrams, Nb/Nb*, Pb/Pb …

Evidence for a missing late veneer from 182W and 142Nd systematics in the Archean São Francisco Craton

FP Leitzke, JJ Pakulla, J Tusch, A Ravindran… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The oldest crustal remnants on Earth are represented by greenstone belts and tonalite-
trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) associations that form most of Archean blocks worldwide …

Basement inliers of the Araçuaí-West Congo orogen: key pieces for understanding the evolution of the São Francisco-Congo paleocontinent

M Kuchenbecker, D Barbuena - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
The Araçuaí-West Congo orogen is a confined orogen, formed by the inversion of a gulf of
the São Francisco-Congo paleocontinent during the Neoproterozoic assembly of …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of the 3.65–2.58 Ga Mairi Gneiss Complex, Brazil: Implications for growth of the continental crust in the São Francisco Craton

I de Camargo Moreira, EP Oliveira, DFM de Sousa - Geoscience Frontiers, 2022 - Elsevier
The composition and formation of the Earth's primitive continental crust and mantle
differentiation are key issues to understand and reconstruct the geodynamic terrestrial …

[HTML][HTML] Paleo-and Mesoarchean TTG-sanukitoid to high-K granite cycles in the southern São Francisco craton, SE Brazil

C de Morisson Valeriano, CVG Turbay, H Bruno… - Geoscience …, 2022 - Elsevier
The generation of the continental crust is widely accepted to have taken place
predominantly in the Archean, when TTG magmatism associated with greenstone-belt …

A review of 3.66 to 2.77 Ga crustal differentiation in the northern São Francisco Craton, Brazil

R Gordilho Barbosa, A Ferreira, FP Leitzke… - International Geology …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Archaean crustal evolution of the northern São Francisco Craton (SFC) reveals
significant similarity with Kaapvaal-Zimbabwe and Pilbara, cratons, especially before 3.0 Ga …

Disclosing Rhyacian/Orosirian orogenic magmatism within the Guanhães basement inlier, Araçuaí Orogen, Brazil: A new piece on the assembly of the São Francisco …

J Grochowski, M Kuchenbecker, D Barbuena… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Guanhães block is one of the basement units present in the context of the
Neoproterozoic West Gondwana assembly. It was reworked as a basement inlier within the …

Crustal reworking and Archean TTG generation in the south Gavião Block, São Francisco Craton, Brazil

LBL Lopes, CE Ganade, LD Campos… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
Origin of early Earth's felsic crust is a matter of growing debate in which the rock record from
old cratons plays a key role. In northeast Brazil, the São Francisco Craton preserves the …

Archean and Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution and evidence for cryptic Paleoarchean-Hadean sources of the NW São Francisco Craton, Brazil: Lithochemistry …

R de Assis Barros, F de Andrade Caxito… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Cristalândia do Piauí Block, located in the northwestern margin of the São Francisco
Craton, represents the basement of the Rio Preto Fold Belt. It is composed of Archean …