This book illustrates the diversity of hypogene speleogenetic processes and void-conduit
patterns depending on variations of the geological environments by presenting regional and …

The Bocaina Plateau, which is situated on the eastern flank of the continental rift of
southeastern Brazil, is the highest part of the Serra do Mar. Topographic relief in this area is …

Apatite fission-track analysis was used for the determination of thermal histories and ages in
Precambrian areas of southeast Brazil. Together with geological and geomorphologic …

Rifted continental margins (RCM) are large-scale features of Earth's surface that show
substantial morphological variations. Classical escarpment features are the subject of many …

Abstract The Mantiqueira Province represents a series of supracrustal segments of the
South-American counterpart formed during the Gondwana Supercontinent agglutination. In …

The different tectonic stages that occurred at the end of the Proterozoic and during the
Phanerozoic have an important bearing on the tectonothermal history of the South American …

Abstract The Morro do Padre deposit contains a valuable niobium resource estimated at
14.5 Mt at 1.52 wt% Nb 2 O 5 (at a cut-off grade of 0.5% Nb 2 O 5) hosted in carbonatite …

Abstract The South American Platform encompasses the São Francisco Craton (SFC) and
the Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system (AROS) located in the eastern Brazil. These geologic …

Passive continental margins (PCMs) form at divergent plate boundaries in response to
continental breakup and subsequent formation of new oceanic basins. The onshore …

Low-temperature thermochronology focuses on the comprehension of the upper crust's
thermal history, where morphotectonic processes take place. We present a robust …