The continental record of Ediacaran volcano-sedimentary successions in southern Brazil and their global implications

Terra Nova

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 259-266

  Janikian, Liliane ^a,b   De Almeida, Renato Paes ^b   Da Trindade, Ricardo Ivan Ferreira ^a   Fragoso cesar, Antonio Romalino Santos ^b   D'Agrella Filho, Manoel Souza ^a   Dantas, Elton Luis ^c   Tohver, Eric ^d  

^a Instituto de Astronomia

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; EDIACARAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 48249130875     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00814.x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Basei, M.A.S., Siga, O., Jr, Masquelin, H., Harara, O.M., Reis Neto, J.M. and Preciozzi, F.P., 2000. The Dom Feliciano Belt of Brasil and Uruguay and its foreland domain, the Rio de La Plata Craton: Framework, tectonic evolution and correlation with similar provinces of Southwestern Africa. In: Tectonic Evolution of South America (U.G. Cordani, E.J. Milani, A. Thomaz Filho and D.A. Campos, eds), pp. 311-334. 31 st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro.
2. Bingen, B., Griffin, W.L., Torsvik, T.H. and Saeed, A., 2005. Timing of Late Neoproterozoic glaciation on Baltica constrained by detrital zircon geochronology in the Hedmark Group, south-east Norway. Terra Nova, 17, 250-258.
3. Bowring, S., Myrow, P., Landing, E., Ramezani, J. and Grotzinger, J., 2003. Geocronological constraints on terminal Neoproterozoic events and the rise of metazoans. Geophys. Res. Abstr., 5, 13219.
4. Calver, C.R., Black, L.P., Everard, J.L. and Seymour, D.B., 2004. U-Pb zircon age constraints on late Neoproterozoic glaciation in Tasmânia. Geology, 32, 893-896.
5. Canfield, D.E., Poulton, S.W. and Narbonne, G.M., 2007. Late-Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life. Science, 315, 92-95.
6. Chemale, F., Jr, 2000. Evolução geológica do Escudo Sul-rio-grandense. In: Geologia do Rio Grande do Sul (M. Holz and L.F. De Ros, eds), pp. 13-52. CIGO-UFRGS, Porto Alegre.
7. Condon, D.J. and Prave, A.R., 2000. Two from Donegal: Neoproterozoic glacial episodes on the northeast margin of Laurentia. Geology, 28, 951-954.
8. Condon, D., Zhu, M., Bowring, S., Wang, W., Yang, A. and Jin, Y., 2005. U-Pb ages from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, 308, 95-98.
9. Corkeron, M.L. and George, A.D., 2001. Glacial incursion on a Neoproterozoic carbonate platform in the Kimberley region, Australia. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 113, 1121-1132.
10. 13C profiles: Examples from the Neoproterozoic Buah Formation of Oman. Terra Nova, 16, 62-67.
11. D'Agrella-Filho, M.S. and Pacca, I., 1988. Paleomagnetism of the Itajaí, Castro and Bom Jardim Groups from southern Brazil. Geophys. J., 93, 365-376.
12. Eyles, N. and Eyles, C.H., 1989. Glacially-influenced deep-marine sedimentation of the Late Precambrian Gaskiers Formation, Newfoundland, Canada. Sedimentology, 36, 601-620.
13. Eyles, N. and Januszczak, N., 2007. Syntectonic subaqueous mass flows of the Neoproterozoic Otavi Group, Namibia: Where is the evidence of global glaciation? Basin Res., 19, 179-198.
14. Fike, D.A., Grotzinger, J.P., Prat, L.M. and Summons, R.E., 2006. Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean. Nature, 444, 744-747.
15. Fragoso-Cesar, A.R.S., Fambrini, G.L., Almeida, R.P., Pelosi, A.P.M.R., Janikian, L., Riccomini, C., Machado, R., Nogueira, A.C.R. and Saes, G.S., 2000. The Camaquã extensional basin: Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian sequences in southernmost Brazil. Rev. Bras. Geociên., 30, 438-441.
16. Gastal, M.C.P. and Lafon, J.M., 1998. Gênese e evolução dos granitóides metaluminosos de afinidade alcalina da porção oeste do Escudo Sul-rio-grandense: geoquímica e isótopos de Rb-Sr e Pb-Pb. Rev. Bras. Geociên., 28, 11-28.
17. Halverson, G.P., Hoffman, P.F., Schrag, D.P., Maloof, A.C. and Rice, A.H.N., 2005. Toward a Neoproterozoic composite carbon-isotope record. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 117, 1181-1207.
18. Janikian, L., 2004. Seqüências deposicionais e evolução paleoambiental do Grupo Bom Jardim e da Formação Acampamento Velho, Supergrupo Camaquã, Rio Grande do Sul. Unpublished Doctoral Thesis. IGc-USP, São Paulo, 189 pp.
19. Janikian, L., Almeida, R.P., Fragoso-Cesar, A.R.S. and Fambrini, G.L., 2003. Redefinição do Grupo Bom Jardim (Neoproterozóico III) em sua área-tipo: Litoestratigrafia, evolução paleoambiental e contexto tectônico. Rev. Bras. Geociên., 33, 349-362.
20. Janikian, L., Almeida, R.P., Fragoso-Cesar, A.R.S., Corrêa, C.R.A. and Pelosi, A.P.M.R., 2005. Evolução paleoambiental e seqüências deposicionais do Grupo Bom Jardim e Formação Acampamento Velho (Supergrupo Camaquã) na porção norte da Sub-Bacia Camaquã Ocidental. Rev. Bras. Geociên., 35, 245-256.
21. Knoll, A.H. and Carroll, S.B., 1999. Early animal evolution: Emerging views from comparative biology and geology. Science, 284, 2129.
22. Knoll, A., Walter, M., Narbonne, G. and Christie-Blick, N., 2006. The Ediacaran period: A new addition to the geologic time scale. Lethaia, 39, 13-30.
23. Laux, J.H., Pimentel, M.M., Dantas, E.L., Armstrog, R., Armele, A. and Nilson, A.A., 2004. Mafic magmatism associated with the Goiás magmatic arc in the Anicuns region, Goiás Central, Brazil: Sm-Nd isotopes and new ID-TIMS and SHRIMP U-Pd data. J. South Am. Earth Sci., 16, 615-630.
24. McCall, G., 2006. The Vendian (Ediacaran) in the geological record: Enigmas in geology's prelude to the Cambrian explosion. Earth-Sci. Rev., 77, 1-229.
25. Narbonne, G.M., 2005. The Ediacara biota: Neoproterozoic origin of animals and their ecosystems. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 33, 421-442.
26. Ribeiro, M. and Fantinel, L.M., 1978. Associações petrotectônicas do Escudo Sul-Riograndense: I Tabulação e distribuição das associações petrotectônicas do Escudo do Rio Grande do Sul. Inhering. Ser. Geol. 5, 19-54.
27. Smith, J.B., Barley, M.E., Groves, D.I., Krapez, B., Mc-Naughton, N.J., Bickle, M.J. and Chapman, H.J., 1998. The Sholl shear zone, West Pilbara: Evidence for a domain boundary structure from the integrated tectonostratigraphic analysis, SHRIMP U-Pb dating and isotopic and geochemical data of granitoids. Precambrian Res., 88, 143-171.
28. Thompson, M.D. and Bowring, S.A., 2000. Age of the Squantum 'tillite', Boston basin, Massachussets: U-Pb zircon constraints on termal Neoproterozoic glaciation. Am. J. Sci., 300, 630-655.
29. Tohver, E., D'Agrella Filho, M. and Trindade, R.I.F., 2006. Paleomagnetic record of Africa and South America for the 1200-500 Ma interval, and evaluation of Rodinia and Gondwana assemblies. Precambrian Res., 147, 193-222.
30. Vasconcelos, P.M., Onoe, A.T., Kawashita, K., Soares, A.J. and Teixeira, W., 2002. 40Ar-39Ar geochronology at the Instituto de Geociências, USP: Instrumentation, analytical procedures, and calibration. An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc., 74, 297-342.