Soil erosion and land degradation are global problems and pose major issues in many
countries. Both soil erosion and mass movement are two forms of land degradation and …

The Brazilian Caatinga is considered the richest nucleus of the Seasonally Dry Tropical
Forests (SDTF) in the Neotropics, also exhibiting high levels of endemism, but the timing of …

Rifting and related normal stress regime in the equatorial continental margin of Brazil
ceased during the Late Cretaceous, when the stress regimes in eastern South America and …

As a parallel to the “biodiversity hotspot” concept used in conservation biology,“geodiversity
hotspots” can be defined as geographic areas that harbor very high levels of geodiversity …

In the last decade, detailed geomorphological analyses of northeast Brazil led the authors to
publish a model of landscape development in which long-term landform evolution was …

This paper analyzes different types of karst landforms and their relationships with fracture
systems, sedimentary bedding, and fluvial processes. We mapped karst features in the …

The Mesozoic sediments of the Araripe Basin peak at ca. 1000 m, more than 500 m above
the host Precambrian basement. This means that an intracontinental graben has been …

The eastern continental margin of South America comprises a series of rift basins developed
during the breakup of Pangea in the Jurassic–Cretaceous. We integrated high resolution …

At the border between the states of Ceará and Pernambuco (northeast Brazil), the Chapada
do Araripe is a high plateau (800–1000 m asl) formed by a slab of Cenomanian fluvial …

The control of normal fault growth by preexisting basement structures is still a worldwide
matter of debate. The objectives of the present study are (i) to investigate where rift faults …