Facies analysis of tertiary alluvial fan deposits in the Jundiai region, São Paulo, southeastern Brazil

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2005-09-01

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Neves, M. A.
Morales, N.
Saad, A. R.

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Elsevier B.V.

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This article presents an analysis of facies of sedimentary sequences that occur as discontinuous bodies in the Jundiai region, west of the main Tertiary continental basins of the southeastern Brazil continental rift. Nine identified sedimentary facies, grouped into four associations, suggest the existence of an ancient alluvial fan system whose source area was the Japi mountain range (Serra do Japi). The deposits are considered Tertiary in age and chronocorrelated with those identified in the Atibaia region and at other sites up to 100 km east and northeast of Jundiai. The depositional model adopted to explain the filling of the basin proposes that the alluvial fans, which directly derive from the source area, terminated in a braided channel longitudinal to the basin axis that flowed to northwest, in a similar configuration to that of the present day. This basin may have extended to the Atibaia region or formed a set of small basins laterally contiguous to the faults associated with the rift. Such occurrences show that the formation of rift basins was broader than the area presently occupied by the main deposits. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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alluvial fans, Cenozoic, facies analysis, southeastern Brazil

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Journal of South American Earth Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon-Elsevier B.V., v. 19, n. 4, p. 513-524, 2005.