The 3.4-3.5 Ga São José do Campestre massif, NE Brazil: remnants of the oldest crust in South America

Dantas, Elton L; Van Schmus, W.R.; Hackspacher, P C; Fetter, A H; de Brito Neves, Benjamin; Cordani, Umberto; Nutman, Allen; Williams, Ian

The 3.4-3.5 Ga São José do Campestre massif, NE Brazil: remnants of the oldest crust in South America

Date

2004

Authors

Dantas, Elton L

Van Schmus, W.R.

Hackspacher, P C

Fetter, A H

de Brito Neves, Benjamin

Cordani, Umberto

Nutman, Allen

Williams, Ian

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

The oldest fragment of continental crust recognized in South America occurs as an isolated Archean enclave in northeastern Brazil's Borborema Province, ca. 600Ma Brasiliano-Pan African orogenic belt. This Archean fragment, the São José do Campestre mass