São Francisco Craton, eastern Brazil : tectonic genealogy of a miniature continent

• Other Authors: Cordani, Umberto G (Editor), Flecha de Alkmim, Fernando (Editor), Heilbron, Monica (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, [2017]
• Series: Regional geology reviews.
• Subjects: geologie > Brazílie > São Francisco (Brazílie : řeka); geology > Brasil > São Francisco River (Brazil); elektronické knihy; sborníky; electronic books; papers of several authors

The region of the São Francisco river valley in eastern Brazil encompasses two main components of the geologic framework of the South American continent: the São Francisco craton and its marginal orogenic belts. Cratons, as the oldest, differentiated and relatively stable pieces of the continental l...