EM - Escola de Minas

URI permanente desta comunidadehttp://www.hml.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/6

Notícias

A Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto foi fundada pelo cientista Claude Henri Gorceix e inaugurada em 12 de outubro de 1876.

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    Marine or freshwater? : accessing the paleoenvironmental parameters of the Caldas Bed, a key marker bed in the Crato Formation (Araripe Basin, NE Brazil).
    (2021) Varejão, Filipe Giovanini; Silva, Victor Ribeiro; Assine, Mario Luis; Warren, Lucas Veríssimo; Matos, Suzana Aparecida; Rodrigues, Mariza Gomes; Fürsich, Franz Theodor; Simões, Marcello Guimarães
    The Aptian Crato Formation is world renowned for its well-preserved fossils in microbially-induced laminated limestones, which are regarded as one of the main Cretaceous Konservat-Lagerstätte of the geological record. Detailed stratigraphic investigation and mapping of the up to 90-m-thick Crato Formation at the eastern border of the Araripe Plateau allowed recognition of a regionally persistent fossil-bearing muddy interval, herein defined as the Caldas Bed. At its type locality, it is defined as an up to 2-m-thick coarsening-upward succession of grey/green mudstone and interbedded sandy siltstone and claystone. The 0.85- to 2-m-thick interval was recognized in several localities along the outcrop belt, and it is bounded by sharp, lower (Konservat-Lagerstätte limestone) and upper (sandstone and heterolithic facies) contacts. Despite pre vious literature data suggesting the presence of marine mollusks, the bed contains freshwater bivalves, small gastropods, spinicaudatans, plant remains, trace fossils, and rare ostracods. The Caldas Bed records benthic paleocommunities representing a short-term isochronous regional freshening event, marked by abrupt changes in sedimentation pattern, bathymetry, salinity, oxygenation and water chemistry.
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    Sedimentary facies and depositional model of the Lower Cretaceous Quiricó Formation (Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil) and their implication for the occurrence of vertebrate fauna at the Coração de Jesus region.
    (2021) Cabral, Victor Carvalho; Mescolotti, Patricia Colombo; Varejão, Filipe Giovanini
    The Coração de Jesus region, northern Minas Gerais state, Brazil, is highly relevant in the Sanfranciscana Basin context due to the presence of titanosaurs, abelisaurids, and noasaurids. However, there is a poor stratigraphic constrain of the occurrences and few paleoenvironmental investigations in the area. Herein, a detailed sedi- mentologic and stratigraphic investigation of the fossiliferous succession is conducted to position the vertebrate assemblage in the stratigraphy. The sedimentary rocks are interpreted as part of the Quirico ́ Formation (Areado Group), representing the thickest occurrence of the unit (ca. 56 m) to the north of the Abaet ́e sub-basin. There, two main sedimentary successions are recognized, with the lower succession dominated by mudstone facies, and the upper succession dominated by sandstone facies. Vertebrate fossils and trace fossils of the species Taenidium barretti, Skolithos isp. and Arenicolites isp. are recorded uniquely within the lower succession, where wetter environmental conditions prevailed. The sedimentary succession is interpreted as a lacustrine system with increasing influence of eolian processes, which suggests an intensification of the aridity in the region during Lower Cretaceous.