The metacarbonate rocks of Itatuba (Paraíba): A record of sedimentary recycling in a Paleoproterozoic collision zone of the Borborema province, NE Brazil

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2013

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dos Santos, Edilton
Neto, Joao Adauto Souza
Carmona, Luis Christian M
Armstrong, Richard
Santos, Lauro Cezar M Lira
Mendes, Lucas Upa D Santos

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Elsevier

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The Alto Moxotó Terrane (AMT) is a Paleoproterozoic domain structured within the Neoproterozoic collage that forms the Borborema Province in Northeastern Brazil. In the Itatuba region (state of Paraíba) the dominant rocks consist of banded granodioritic

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Keywords: carbonate rock; collision zone; gneiss; granodiorite; mafic rock; mantle source; melting; orthogneiss; Proterozoic; rare earth element; sedimentary rock; shear zone; SHRIMP dating; ultramafic rock; uranium-lead dating; zircon; Borborema; Brazil Borborema Province; Intrusive metaplutonic-metacarbonate complex; Northeastern Brazil; Paleoproterozoic terrane

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Precambrian Research

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2037-12-31