Time constraints on magmatism along the Major Gercino Shear Zone, southern Brazil: Implications for West Gondwana reconstruction

Chemale, Farid; Mallmann, Guilherme; Bitencourt, Maria de Fátima; Kawashita, Koji

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Time constraints on magmatism along the Major Gercino Shear Zone, southern Brazil: Implications for West Gondwana reconstruction

Date

2012

Authors

Chemale, Farid

Mallmann, Guilherme

Bitencourt, Maria de Fátima

Kawashita, Koji

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

The Dom Feliciano Belt, situated in southernmost Brazil and Uruguay, contains a large mass of granite-gneissic rocks (also known as Florianópolis/Pelotas Batholith) formed during the pre-, syn- and post-orogenic phases of the Brasiliano/Pan-African cycle