Sedimentology, stable isotopes and palinology of quaternary deposits from eastern of Marajó Island, Pará State / Sedimentologia, isótopos estáveis e palinologia de depósitos quaternários no leste da Ilha do Marajó, Estado do Pará

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2010

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Analysis of Quaternary sediments in Amazonia is of great interest for reconstructing the dynamic evolution of its drainage basin, and to support discussions related to paleoclimate, sea level and tectonics. Few studies emphasize this type of approach, which is mainly due to lack of natural exposures due to the low topography of the area. This work integrates facies analysis, radiogenic dating, 13C, 15N and C/N analyses of an 124 m-thick obtained in the area located near Lake Arari, northeastern Marajó Island, State of Pará. The studied sediments were deposited in the last 50 ka, and record the following depositional environments: fluvial channel, represented by massive, moderately sorted, fine- to coarse-grained, locally conglomeratic, sand, and subordinate mud with parallel lamination, which are arranged in several fining upward cycles up to 8 m thick; outer estuarine basin to shallow marine, mainly consisting of mud with parallel to streaky lamination, interbedded with lenticular and wavy/flaser heterolithic layers, forming a coarsening upward succession; inner estuarine basin, lithologically similar to the outer estuarine basin to shallow marine deposits, with smaller thickness (up to 10 m), and with layers arranged in coarsening and fining upward cycles; tidal flat, formed by lenticular and wavy/flaser heterolithic layers, which are locally interbedded with massive sand packages up to 1 m thick, forming finning upward cycles up to 4 m thick; estuarine channel, formed by a succession about 15 m thick, consisting of fine to coarse-grained sand and, secondarily, heterolithic deposits, which are arranged in both

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lake arari paleoenvironments nível relativo do mar relative sea level palinologia marajó island stable isotopes paleoambientes isótopos estáveis ilha do marajó lago arari quaternary geology palinology geologia do quaternário

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