Web-Joint-Venture

  • UNESP (Rio Claro, Brazil)
  • Geological Institute (Freiburg, Germany)

    • Korrekturversion Stand: 25. March 1998

    Neotectonics of southern Minas Gerais and eastern São Paulo, Brazil

    Neotectônica, Morfogênese e Sedimentação Moderna no estado de São Paulo e regiões adjacentes.

    FAPESP No 95/044117-3 (Projeto Temático)

    Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Y. Hasui (UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, Brazil)
    Dr. H.-D. Ebert (UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, Brazil)
    Dr. Norberto Morales (UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, Brazil)
    Participants: A. H. F. Gontijo (UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, Brazil)
    Dr. R. L. Benerguy (UFPA, Belem-PA, Brazil)
    R. D. Costa (UFMG, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil)
    Prof. Dr. L. A. D. Fernandes (UFRGS, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil)
    M. M. Ferreira (UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, Brazil)
    D. L. Góis (UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, Brazil)
    Dr. J. R. Jimènez-Rueda (UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, Brazil)
    Dr. Ch. Lindenbeck (Geol. Inst., Freiburg, Germany)
    M. A. Neves (UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, Brazil)
    Dr. A. G. Pires Neto (UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, Brazil)
    Dr. C. C. Porcher (UFRGS, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil)
    Dr. A. Saadi (UFMG, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil)
    M. dos Santos (UNESP, Rio Claro-SP, Brazil)
    Prof. Dr. J. B. Sena Costa (UFPA, Belem-PA, Brazil)
    Dr. M. B. da Silva (UFPA, Belem-PA, Brazil)
    Dr. H. Ulmer (Geol. Inst., Freiburg, Germany)
    (photo by N. Morales)

    Part of the Excursion Area including Taubate basin

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    		Topography (19.000 triangles, 1.100 kB)

    Topography (7.000 triangles, 393 kB)

    Excursion Stops

    Drainage pattern maps, a basic technique of neotectonics.
    Region Minduri (Stop2A, 23/Sep,
    41 kB)
    Sinistral
    dextral ?

    (173 kB)
    Boa Vista, ...discussing talus versus brittle shear
    (Stop6A, 23/Sep,
    158 kB)    		 Listric normal faults
    Left: Kaolinization, Right: Pegmatite (Stop 4B, 25/Sep,
    116 kB)
    displacing two layers of organic soils
    Displaced lower tertiary sediments
    at the top of Serra da Bocâina,
    affected by E-W strike-slip faults
    (Stop6B, 25/Sep,
    101 kB)    		 Half-graben structure, Resende perpendicular orientated to the
    tertiary Resende basin
    (Stop 5B, 25/Sep,
    117 kB)

    Hardrocks

    6 km NNW' Carvalhos (552E/7574N) /
    Map 1:50.000: Arantina - MG
    (Stop8A, 24/Sep,
    153 kB)    		 Granite, Garnet, Biotite-Gneiss(Andrelândia group) with ptygmatic
    and extensional veins. Detail (pencil): Lobate cruspate structure
    (Stop8A, 24/Sep,
    448 kB)
    (Stop11A, 25/Sep,
    130 kB)    		 Garnet Migmatitic gneiss with mylonitic structure
    (Stop11A, 25/Sep,
    163 kB)

    The geological story: A Model

    Drawn copy from the fieldbook of J. B. Sena Costa
    (not at scale, 180 kB)

    People

    Cambuquira-MG, 106 kB Boa Vista , 107 kB
    Cambuquira (World's second best table water...) (Stop1, 23/Sep,
    44 kB)    		 Somewhere lost in space, 43 kB

    Miscellaneous

    Shaded perspective views of the area
    with Geo3View..., 81 kB    		 Pseudo-Neotectonics: Displaced bore hole due to gravity driven mass movement...
    (Stop3, 24/Sep,
    127 kB)

    The region in GMT (Generic Mapping Tools)

    Clickable Image Map (21 kB)

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