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 …

Basement inliers, commonly known as terranes, are important tectonic elements in orogenic
belts of all ages the world over. Since their identification and initial description in the 1970 …

This review summarizes the results of nearly 50 years of application of geophysical data to
study tectonic problems in Borborema Province (BP), Northeastern Brazil. Much information …

Complexly deformed rocks that exhibit refolded folds and overprinting planar fabrics are
often interpreted as the result of polyphase deformation and described in a scheme of …

Western Gondwana amalgamated by collision of continental blocks that did not form prior
conjugated margins (extroversion), and by typical Wilson cycles, when continental blocks …

Abstract The Neoproterozoic-Cambrian (Brasiliano) intracontinental Patos-Pernambuco
shear system is developed in Archean to Neoproterozoic crust, reactivating rift margins N of …

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 …

Abstract The Borborema Province BP (NE Brazil) consists of a complex rock mosaic
composed mainly by Proterozoic metasedimentary belts that amalgamate Archean-to …

Neoproterozoic breakup of Rodinia resulted in the formation of several oceanic realms
between dispersing cratons, which were later consumed during the assembly of Gondwana …

The accretionary record of Precambrian orogens is often masked by systematic magmatic,
metamorphic and/or structural overprints. The Neoproterozoic Borborema Province presents …