“…Most of the area has been investigated only by smallscale surveys (Barbosa et al, 1969;Costa et al, 1976;Araújo and Alves, 1979;Correia Filho and Sá, 1980;Fernandes et al, 1982). A few areas were studied in more detail, such as Almas-Dianópolis (Costa, 1985;Cruz andKuyumjian, 1998, 1999;Cruz, 2001), Almas-Conceiç ão do Tocantins (Padilha, 1984), Cavalcante-Teresina de Goiás-Campos Belos-Nova Roma (Botelho, 1992;Botelho et al, 1995Botelho et al, , 1998Botelho et al, , 1999Alvarenga et al, 1999Alvarenga et al, , 2007, Arraias (Campos et al, 2001), Paranã (Campos et al, 2010), and Natividade (Gorayeb et al, 1988;Oliveira et al, 2012). Recently, CPRM (Geological Survey of Brazil) undertook the mapping of the region in 1:250,000 scale.…”