Geologia da formação Rio Claro na Folha Rio Claro (SP)
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1995-04-20
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Zaine, José Eduardo [UNESP]
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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Este trabalho consistiu no estudo e interpretação da Formação Rio Claro em um contexto de evolução morfo-tectônica do Cenozóico paulista. A Formação Rio Claro tem sua seção-tipo no Município de Rio Claro, capeia grandes interflúvios planos 50 a 60 m acima do Rio Corumbataí, entre as cotas de 580 a 670 m. A área de estudo abrangeu a Folha Rio Claro na escala 1: 50.000, onde a unidade ocupa cerca de 25% da folha. O estudo envolveu descrição e levantamento de seções colunares da unidade, definição do padrão estrutural, através do tratamento estatístico de 1.269 dados de lineamentos obtidos em fotografias aéreas, além de medidas de fraturas e falhas, tanto da Formação Rio Claro como da Formação Corumbataí, subjacente. A maior parte do sítio urbano de Rio Claro está assentada sobre a Formação Rio Claro, o que justificou um estudo mais detalhado sobre a unidade. Esta formação apresenta como características marcantes: fraca litificação e profunda alteração pedogenética, espesso solo arenoso e domínio de litotipos arenosos, esbranquiçados, amarelados a avermelhados, variando de areia fina a grossa, com intercalação de camadas de conglomerados e de sedimentos argilosos. A espessura máxima é da ordem de 40 m, predominando valores entre 25 e 30 m. A descoberta de novos fósseis vegetais, ainda inéditos na unidade, e mesmo em outras seqüências cenozóicas correlatas no Estado de São Paulo, amplia o conhecimento da tafoflora da unidade. A análise estrutural de falhas e de fraturas revela dois eventos tectônicos distintos: o primeiro, distensivo e o outro, transcorrente. Com base na tectônica, indica-se idade, no mínimo, miocênica, para a Formação Rio Claro. O conhecimento geológico-estrutural da Formação Rio Claro permitirá um melhor planejamento do uso do solo no Município de Rio Claro...
The Rio Claro Formation of Cenozoic age has its type section in the Municipio of Rio Claro, São Paulo, where it supports thick sandy soils on uplands well above the valley of the Corumbataí River. The formation was studied over an area of 600 km 2 , five sections were described in detail and structural studies were made of 1.269 lineaments and some of its outcrops. These studies were made because much of the city of Rio Claro is built on this formation. Characteristically, the Rio Claro Formation occurs on large flat interfluves 50 to 60 m above the Corumbataí River at elevations between 580 to 670 m, has a distinct disconformity at its base, and consists predominantly of fine to coarse sand with only a few thin beds of gravel and clay. Colors range from white to yellowish and redish at depth. Maximum thickness appears to be about 40 m, although thicknesses of 25 to 30 m are more typical. Fossils consist mostly of fragmental, poorly preserved plant remains, in clay lenses. Newly plants fossils described are very important to paleobotanical knowledge of this sedimentary unity. Structural analysis of faulted and fractured outcrops reveals two different tectonic events - the first was tensional and the second transcorrent. These are thought to indicate a pre Miocene age. The geological and structural knowledge on Rio Claro Formation will be enable to a better planning and management on soil employments in the Municipio of Rio Claro. So, more wells could be very helpful to a study foccused mainly on buildings, underground water and mining.
The Rio Claro Formation of Cenozoic age has its type section in the Municipio of Rio Claro, São Paulo, where it supports thick sandy soils on uplands well above the valley of the Corumbataí River. The formation was studied over an area of 600 km 2 , five sections were described in detail and structural studies were made of 1.269 lineaments and some of its outcrops. These studies were made because much of the city of Rio Claro is built on this formation. Characteristically, the Rio Claro Formation occurs on large flat interfluves 50 to 60 m above the Corumbataí River at elevations between 580 to 670 m, has a distinct disconformity at its base, and consists predominantly of fine to coarse sand with only a few thin beds of gravel and clay. Colors range from white to yellowish and redish at depth. Maximum thickness appears to be about 40 m, although thicknesses of 25 to 30 m are more typical. Fossils consist mostly of fragmental, poorly preserved plant remains, in clay lenses. Newly plants fossils described are very important to paleobotanical knowledge of this sedimentary unity. Structural analysis of faulted and fractured outcrops reveals two different tectonic events - the first was tensional and the second transcorrent. These are thought to indicate a pre Miocene age. The geological and structural knowledge on Rio Claro Formation will be enable to a better planning and management on soil employments in the Municipio of Rio Claro. So, more wells could be very helpful to a study foccused mainly on buildings, underground water and mining.
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Geologia estrutural - Rio Claro (SP), Evolução morfo-tectônica, Tectônica cenozóica, Cenozóico, Cenozóico
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ZAINE, José Eduardo. Geologia da formação Rio Claro na Folha Rio Claro (SP). 1994. 90 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas, 1994.