Large-scale strike-slip faults are fundamental tectonic elements of the continental lithosphere. They constitute plate boundaries (continental transforms), separate terranes …
FA Caxito, LCML Santos, CE Ganade… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract Both the Borborema Province of NE Brazil and the geological provinces of NW Africa (the Trans-Saharan Orogen consisted of the Tuareg and Benino-Nigerian shields and …
RG Oliveira, WE Medeiros - Precambrian Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Borborema Province BP (NE Brazil) consists of a complex rock mosaic composed mainly by Proterozoic metasedimentary belts that amalgamate Archean-to …
LCM de Lira Santos, RG de Oliveira, WE de Medeiros… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
The accretionary record of Precambrian orogens is often masked by systematic magmatic, metamorphic and/or structural overprints. The Neoproterozoic Borborema Province presents …
Abstract The Cariris Velhos Belt is an unique domain of the Borborema Province, Brazil, because it presents magmatic and metamorphic lithotectonic associations spanning all the …
Pre-Brasiliano rocks in the Borborema Province (NE Brazil) are concentrated in basement blocks, such as the Alto Moxotó Terrane. Petrographic, geochemical, and U-Pb and Sm-Nd …
Abstract Whole rock Sm‐Nd isotope mapping of metaplutonic and metasedimentary rocks in the Tranversal Sub‐province of the Borborema Province (central Western Gondwana) is …
Abstract Rhyacian (c. 2.30–2.05 Ga) subduction-accretion and collisional processes are thought to represent an important event of crustal growth and reworking, often reported in …
We present field, U-Pb zircon geochronology and geochemical data from grey gneisses and amphibolites from Tróia Massif of Northern Borborema Province, NE-Brazil. U-Pb zircon …