Abstract
The Brasiliano (∼600 Ma) belt of Paramirim divides the São Francisco craton (as defined by Almeida, 1967, 1969) into two parts: to the west is the São Francisco craton proper; to the east is the Salvador craton, forming an extension of the Congo craton. The basement of the Paramirim belt, of Archean and Early Proterozoic age, is intruded by subalkaline granitoids dated around 1700 Ma. The cover, known as the Espinhaço Supergroup, consists of felsic magmatic rocks, overlain by clastic sediments depoited in a continental rift during the time interval ∼1700–1100 Ma. The Espinhaço Supergroup was deformed during the Brasiliano orogeny, at about 600 Ma. It is characterized by shallow-dipping, submeridional, large-scale ductile shear zones with western vergence and mineral and/or extension lineation indicating tectonic transport from east to west. These ductile shear zones extend south into the outer units of the Brasiliano Araçuaí mobile belt and the Lower Proterozoic of the Quadrilatero Ferrifero. There are no structural data supporting the hypothesis of a Middle Proterozoic deformation of the Paramirim belt that should have been obliterated during the Brasiliano orogeny. However, a possible pre-Brasiliano deformation does not affect the question of the division of the Brasiliano-São Francisco craton.
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