Este trabalho apresenta a aplicação do índice RDE (Relação Declividade-Extensão) para a identificação de regiões sujeitas a deformações tectônicas ao longo da bacia hidrográfica do Rio do Peixe, região ocidental paulista. Parte-se da premissa de que os cursos d'água representam os elementos mais apropriados para este tipo de análise por se ajustarem rapidamente a deformações crustais, mesmo àquelas muito sutis, gerando modificações perceptíveis em seus parâmetros morfométricos. Técnicas como esta são particularmente úteis em áreas como o oeste paulista, caracterizadas por apresentarem relevo suave e profundo intemperismo químico, que resultam espessos regolitos e raros afloramentos. O índice RDE é calculado como sendo a razão entre a amplitude altimétrica de cada curso d'água e o logaritmo natural de sua extensão. Os valores obtidos podem ser plotados em mapa (no ponto mediano de cada drenagem), possibilitando o traçado de linhas de isovalores (isodefs). No caso do vale do Rio do Peixe, foram delineadas três principais anomalias (A, B e C), que representam áreas em processo de soerguimento, o que condiciona reflexos na formação e distribuição dos depósitos neoquaternários como os terraços, aluviões atuais e, possivelmente, leques aluviais hodiernos. Com base nos dados tectônicos disponíveis para esta região, pode-se atrelar as anomalias A e B respectivamente às suturas crustais Ribeirão Preto e Presidente Prudente; a anomalia C, de menor porte, ainda carece de maiores informações de campo, podendo estar associada com a sutura crustal Três Lagoas. Vale lembrar que estas suturas são feições herdadas do embasamento pré-cambriano, e que apresentam reflexos em toda a pilha sedimentar e ígnea da Bacia do Paraná, como também no traçado de lineamentos, sendo sugestivas da atuação de uma tectônica de caráter ressurgente.Keywords: fluvial morphometry, neotectonics, hydraulic gradient. ABSTRACTThis paper presents the identification of tectonic deformation through the application of the stream-gradient index (slope x length) method in the Rio do Peixe hydrographic basin, located in western State of São Paulo. The main principle used is that river valleys are the best tools for this type of analysis because of their fast adjustment to even the most gentle crustal deformations. This type of analysis for structural studies is extremely useful in the western region of the State of São Paulo, where deep chemical weathering results in a thick regolith and scarce outcrops. The stream length index is the ratio of the altimetric amplitude of each drainage and the natural logarithm of its length. The value obtained is plotted on maps at the median point of each drainage, allowing the drawings of lines with the same values (isodefs). Three anomalies (A, B and C) were identified along the Rio do Peixe valley representing uplift sectors indicated by the formation and distribution of Upper Quaternary deposits in terraces and modern fluvial plains and alluvial fans. In correlation with known tectonic data for this region it is possible to...
Compared with crocodylomorph body fossils, the record of fossil crocodiloid eggs is scarce and poorly understood, a gap partially attributed to their typically thin eggshell, which is not conducive to preservation. A remarkable new association of well-preserved eggs and eggshells from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous) is described and compared to other known materials, while the significance of their unique oological features is discussed. These eggs constitute a new ootaxon, Bauruoolithus fragilis oogen. et oosp. nov., diagnosed by the following characteristics: elongate and elliptical egg with blunt ends; length-to-diameter ratio of 1:0.55; outer surface slightly undulating; shell thickness ranging from 0.15 to 0.25 mm; pore openings elliptical or teardrop-shaped, ranging from 30 to 80 lm in diameter; and shell units wider than higher, with the interstices forming an obtuse triangle. Specimens of Bauruoolithus also show only slight signs of extrinsic degradation that, coupled with the evidence that some of them constitute hatched eggs, suggests that the egg-laying taxon had a different pattern of egg incubation, in which the hatchling could break through the rather thin eggshell relatively easily and that the extrinsic degradation of the eggshell was not necessary. This contrasts with the pattern of incubation for all other known crocodylomorphs and crocodiloid eggs, where extrinsic degradation is a key component of the hatching process.
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