Comparative geological evolution of the Borborema Province and São Francisco Craton (eastern Brazil): Decratonization and crustal reworking during West …

SP Neves - Precambrian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
80% of the continental crust was produced during the 4.0–2.0 Ga time span, but the
preserved area of Archean/early Paleoproterozoic cratons is smaller than 40%. Part of this …

[HTML][HTML] Toward an integrated model of geological evolution for NE Brazil-NW Africa: The Borborema Province and its connections to the Trans-Saharan (Benino …

FA Caxito, LCML Santos, CE Ganade… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract Both the Borborema Province of NE Brazil and the geological provinces of NW
Africa (the Trans-Saharan Orogen consisted of the Tuareg and Benino-Nigerian shields and …

Neoproterozoic magmatic arc volcanism in the Borborema Province, NE Brazil: possible flare-ups and lulls and implications for western Gondwana assembly

FA Caxito, CF Basto, LCM de Lira Santos, EL Dantas… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract New zircon U-Pb (SHRIMP and LA-ICPMS), elemental and Nd-Sr geochemistry
data on rhyolitic metavolcanic and metavolcaniclastic rocks of NE Brazil characterize …

A complete Wilson Cycle recorded within the Riacho do Pontal Orogen, NE Brazil: Implications for the Neoproterozoic evolution of the Borborema Province at the heart …

FA Caxito, A Uhlein, EL Dantas, R Stevenson… - Precambrian …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Riacho do Pontal Orogen (RPO) is part of the extensive Brasiliano/Pan-African
orogenic system in northeastern South America (Borborema Province). This region is crucial …

The role of V-shaped oceans and ribbon continents in the Brasiliano/PanAfrican assembly of western Gondwana

FA Caxito, FF Alkmim - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Western Gondwana amalgamated by collision of continental blocks that did not form prior
conjugated margins (extroversion), and by typical Wilson cycles, when continental blocks …

How many oceans closed during the Brasiliano Cycle in northeastern Brazil? Implications for the amalgamation of western Gondwana

SP Neves - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
In a pre-Mesozoic drift reconstitution, the Borborema Province in northeastern Brazil
connects with the Central African Fold belt to the East and with the Nigerian and Tuareg …

Decratonization by rifting enables orogenic reworking and transcurrent dispersal of old terranes in NE Brazil

CE Ganade, RF Weinberg, FA Caxito, LBL Lopes… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Dispersion and deformation of cratonic fragments within orogens require weakening of the
craton margins in a process of decratonization. The orogenic Borborema Province, in NE …

[HTML][HTML] Relics of ophiolite-bearing accretionary wedges in NE Brazil and NW Africa: connecting threads of western Gondwana´ s ocean during Neoproterozoic times

LCM de Lira Santos, FA Caxito, MH Bouyo… - Geosystems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Neoproterozoic breakup of Rodinia resulted in the formation of several oceanic realms
between dispersing cratons, which were later consumed during the assembly of Gondwana …

New U–Pb zircon ages of Nyong Complex meta‐plutonites: Implications for the Eburnean/Trans‐Amazonian Orogeny in southwestern Cameroon (Central Africa)

S Owona, L Ratschbacher, G Afzal M… - Geological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
New LA–ICP–MS U–Pb zircon ages from the Nyong Complex of southwestern Cameroon—
a part of the West Central African Fold Belt—trace Late Mesoarchean (∼ 2,850 Ma), Middle …

Long-lived localized magmatism in central-eastern part of the Pernambuco-Alagoas Domain, Borborema Province (NE Brazil): Implications for tectonic setting, heat …

SP Neves, CML Teixeira, O Bruguier - Precambrian Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Magmatic activity circumscribed to a restricted area lasting for tenths of millions of years
allows to link changes in magma chemistry to deformation, and thus to determine the …