_______________________________________________________ This work presents a paleomagnetic study perfomed on felsic volcanic rocks of the Colider Suite (5 oriented cores and 42 oriented hand samples, 12 sites), Flor da Serra and Guadalupe mafic rocks (75 oriented cores and 3 oriented hand samples, 11 sites). These units are situated in the northern Mato Grosso State (southwestern Amazonian Craton), close to the Alta Floresta, Colider, Terra Nova, and Matupá cities. The Colider Suite rocks have been dated by the U-Pb (zircon) method, and ages vary between 1.80 and 1.78 Ga. Radiometric determinations are not yet available for the Guadalupe Intrusive. Two very stable magnetization components were isolated after AF and thermal demagnetization: northern (southern) directions with moderate to steep downward (upward) inclinations (component B-Dm=187.4°, Im=50.9°, N=16 α95=11.3°, K=11.7) were isolated for most Colider Suite rocks and associated mafic rocks. Northern upward direction with moderate inclination (component A-Dm=356.5°, Im=47.6°, N=3, α95=15.8°, K=61.9) was found for the Guadalupe gabbro and other two mafic dikes. Rock magnetism experiments show that the magnetization is carried by hematite, which is probably primary in origin, in the felsic rocks. In the mafic rocks the main magnetic carrier is Ti-poor titanomagnetite in the PSD magnetic structure. Two paleomagnetic poles were determined for these components, which are located at 289.4°E,-65.4°N (α95=12.9°) (SC pole, Colider Suite) and 298.8°E, 50.4°N (α95=15.1°) (IG pole, Guadalupe Intrusive). An age of 1.780 ± 7 Ma is attributted to pole SC (quality factor Q=5), which is considered a key pole for the Amazon Craton. Paleogeographic reconstructions using Paleoproterozoic key poles suggest 65 xviii Sumário _______________________________________________________ Agradecimentos iii Resumo vi Abstract viii Lista de Figuras x Lista de Tabelas xvii Capitulo 1: Introdução Capitulo 2: Contexto Geológico 2.1. O conceito de Cráton 2.2. Aspecto Geológico do Cráton Amazônico 2.3. Contexto Geológico Regional 2.4. Geologia Local 2.4.1. Suíte Colíder 2.4.2. Intrusivas Máficas Guadalupe 2.4.3. Suíte Intrusiva Flor da Serra 2.4.4. Dados Geocronológicos 2.5. Localização da Área de Estudo 2.6. Análise Petrográfica