This paper discusses the evolution and the Late Proterozoic assembly of the South
American continent (ie the West Gondwana) under the light of global tectonics. The northern …

The Mantiqueira Province (MPV) is a large, complex structural province deformed by the
Neoproterozoic/Early Paleozoic Brasiliano Orogenic event in South America. Its evolution is …

Gondwana resulted from accretion of fragments of the Rodinia supercontinent. However,
precise times and circumstances of individual accretions are still disputed. Aggregation of …

Abstract The Dom Feliciano Belt is an orogenic association that extends from southern Brazil
to Uruguay parallel to the Atlantic coastline for over 1100 km. It was assembled in the …

Abstract The Luís Alves Microplate (LAM) is an allochthonous block accreted to the eastern
border of the Rio de La Plata and Paranapanema cratons, located between the …

Abstract Neoproterozoic–Cambrian amalgamation of West Gondwana involved the collision
of several terranes of older crust that are now in eastern South America and western Africa …

The Paraná continental flood basalt province is a voluminous bimodal volcanic sequence,
with< 5% silicic rocks ('rhyolites') lying on top of the basalts, concentrated towards the South …

The Brasiliano Cycle in southern Brazil and Uruguay is represented by three major NE-SW
trending geotectonic units: the Vila Nova belt, Tijucas belt and Dom Feliciano belt. The Vila …

The Santa Catarina granulite complex (SCGC) is mainly composed of intermediate to felsic
orthogneisses of trondhjemitic, tonalitic and granodioritic compositions (TTG) intruded by …

Abstract The Mantiqueira Province represents a series of supracrustal segments of the
South-American counterpart formed during the Gondwana Supercontinent agglutination. In …