Paulo Araujo de Azevedo
University of Brasília
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Archive | 2017
Marcelo Assumpção; Paulo Araujo de Azevedo; Marcelo Peres Rocha; Marcelo Bianchi
Studying the thick lithosphere of cratons is important to help understand their formation and the mechanisms for their preservation. We present a synthesis of the information available for the deep structure in Eastern Brazil, from seismological and gravity data, to characterize the Sao Francisco Craton (SFC) and help better define its lateral boundaries at depth. Crustal thicknesses of the SFC, known mainly from receiver function studies, range from 38 to 42 km, except for a localized thickening (up to 44 km) in the northern part, and crustal thinning towards the Atlantic continental margin in Bahia state. Overall, the crust is slightly thicker near the geologically-defined surface boundaries (40–42 km) and slightly thinner in the center (38–40 km), which is consistent with generally low Bouguer anomalies and high topography to the East and to the West of the craton probably defining the suture zones during the Gondwana amalgamation. Modeling of gravity anomalies with some seismic constraints indicates a relatively low-density lithospheric mantle for the SFC, despite higher Pn velocity, which is consistent with a Fe-depleted, buoyant lithosphere, which helps preserve the cratons’s root. Surface-wave continental-scale tomography suggested the thickest lithosphere, around 200 km, to be in the Archean southern part of the SFC, consistent with regional P- and S-wave tomography. Both the surface-wave and the body-wave tomographies show high upper mantle velocities beneath the Brasilia fold belt, next to the SFC’s surface limits, which is interpreted as a continuation at depth of the craton’s lithosphere, beneath the low-grade external metamorphic domain of the Brasilia fold belt. Analysis of the SFC seismicity shows that most earthquakes now occur on shallow (<2 km) normal faults formed during the formation of the Brasiliano continental margin, now reactivated under the present E–W compressional stresses.
Geophysical Journal International | 2015
Paulo Araujo de Azevedo; Marcelo Peres Rocha; José Eduardo Pereira Soares; Reinhardt A. Fuck
Seismological Research Letters | 2018
Marcelo Bianchi; Marcelo Assumpção; Marcelo Peres Rocha; Juraci Carvalho; Paulo Araujo de Azevedo; Sergio L. Fontes; Fábio L. Dias; Joaquim Mendes Ferreira; Aderson F. do Nascimento; Marcos V. Ferreira; Iago S. L. Costa
Tectonophysics | 2016
Marcelo Peres Rocha; Paulo Araujo de Azevedo; Giuliano Sant’Anna Marotta; Martin Schimmel; Reinhardt A. Fuck
12th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society & EXPOGEF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15-18 August 2011 | 2011
Pedro Vencovsky Nogueira; Marcelo Peres Rocha; Welitom Rodrigues Borges; Luciano Soares da Cunha; Eduardo Xavier Seimetz; Marcio Maciel Cavalcanti; Paulo Araujo de Azevedo
Geociências (São Paulo) | 2013
Eduardo Xavier Seimetz; Marcelo Peres Rocha; Welitom Rodrigues Borges; Pedro Vencovsky Nogueira; Marcio Maciel Cavalcanti; Paulo Araujo de Azevedo
V Simpósio Brasileiro de Geofísica | 2012
Paulo Araujo de Azevedo; Marcelo Peres Rocha; José Eduardo Pereira Soares; Reinhardt A. Fuck
12th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society & EXPOGEF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15-18 August 2011 | 2011
Marcelo Peres Rocha; Welitom Rodrigues Borges; Eduardo Xavier Seimetz; Paulo Araujo de Azevedo; Marcio Maciel Cavalcanti; Pedro Vencovsky Nogueira
12th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society & EXPOGEF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15-18 August 2011 | 2011
Paulo Araujo de Azevedo; Eduardo Xavier Seimetz; Marcio Maciel Cavalcanti; Marcelo Peres Rocha; Welitom Rodrigues Borges; Luciano Soares da Cunha; Pedro Vencovsky Nogueira
12th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society & EXPOGEF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15-18 August 2011 | 2011
Eduardo Xavier Seimetz; Marcio Maciel Cavalcanti; Paulo Araujo de Azevedo; Marcelo Peres Rocha; Welitom Rodrigues Borges; Pedro Vencovsky Nogueira