The tectonic significance of the Cabo Frio Tectonic Domain in the SE Brazilian margin: a Paleoproterozoic through Cretaceous saga of a reworked continental margin

ABSTRACT: The Cabo Frio Tectonic Domain is composed of a Paleoproterozoic basement tectonically interleaved with Neoproterozoic supracrustal rocks (Buzios-Palmital successions). It is in contact with the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Ribeira Orogen along the SE Brazilian coast. The basement was part of at...

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Main Authors: Renata da Silva Schmitt, Rudolph Trouw, William Randall Van Schmus, Richard Armstrong, Natasha S. Gomes Stanton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Geology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2317-48892016000700037&lng=en&tlng=en

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