Oceanographic characteristics of baía de Todos os Santos, Brazil

M Cirano, GC Lessa - Revista brasileira de geofísica, 2007 - SciELO Brasil
Based on a vast set of in situ data, a first comprehensive overview of the oceanographic
characteristics of Baía de Todos os Santos (BTS) is provided. BTS is the second largest …

Neotectonic reactivation of shear zones and implications for faulting style and geometry in the continental margin of NE Brazil

FHR Bezerra, DF Rossetti, RG Oliveira, WE Medeiros… - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
The eastern continental margin of South America comprises a series of rift basins developed
during the breakup of Pangea in the Jurassic–Cretaceous. We integrated high resolution …

Stepped surfaces and palaeolandforms in the northern Brazilian «Nordeste»: constraints on models of morphotectonic evolution

JP Peulvast, V de Claudino Sales - Geomorphology, 2004 - Elsevier
From the Parnaiba Basin to the Borborema Plateau (northeastern Brazil), the crystalline and
sedimentary highlands and plains of the huge Jaguaribe–Piranhas amphitheatre are …

Patterns of sediment dispersion coastwise the State of Bahia-Brazil

ACSP Bittencourt, J DOMINGUEZ… - Anais da Academia …, 2000 - SciELO Brasil
Using the average directions of the main wave-fronts which approach the coast of Bahia
State-coinciding with that of the main wind occurring in the area-and of their periods, we …

Low post-Cenomanian denudation depths across the Brazilian Northeast: implications for long-term landscape evolution at a transform continental margin

JP Peulvast, VC Sales, F Bétard, Y Gunnell - Global and Planetary Change, 2008 - Elsevier
The Brazilian Northeast affords good opportunities for obtaining reliable timings and rates of
landscape evolution based on stratigraphic correlations across a vast region. The landscape …

The Barreiras Group in the Northeastern coast of the State of Bahia, Brazil: depositional mechanisms and processes

GS VILAS BÔAS, FJ SAMPAIO… - Anais da Academia …, 2001 - SciELO Brasil
The Barreiras Group is a Miocene to Lower Pleistocene continental terrigenous sedimentary
deposit exhibiting a large occurrence along the Brazilian coast. In the Conde region, located …

A reevaluation of the late quaternary sedimentation in Todos os Santos Bay (BA), Brazil

GC Lessa, ACSP BITTENCOURT, A Brichta… - Anais da Academia …, 2000 - SciELO Brasil
Todos os Santos Bay is a large ($\approx $1000 km²), structurally controlled tidal bay in
northeast Brazil. Three main drainage basins debouch into the bay, providing a mean …

Neotectonic evolution of the Brazilian northeastern continental margin based on sedimentary facies and ichnology☆,☆☆

R Gandini, D de Fátima Rossetti, RG Netto… - Quaternary …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Quaternary post-Barreiras sediments are widespread along Brazil's passive margin. These
deposits are well exposed in the onshore Paraíba Basin, which is one of the rift basins …

Geomorphic indices, machine learning and osl-palynology chronology to assess neotectonic deformation in the continental margin–Northeastern Brazil

CMP Souza, CCU de Lima, LM Costa… - Journal of South …, 2022 - Elsevier
The continental margin of Northeast Brazil (NE Brazil) is the most seismogenic of the
passive margin of South America and has several evidence of neotectonics. However, the …

Numerical modeling of weathering, erosion, sedimentation, and uplift in a triple junction divergent margin

V Sacek, JM de Morais Neto… - Geochemistry …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of numerical models of landscape evolution in divergent margins are focused
on the simulation of margins with simplified lithological control on landscape erosion …