The Brasília belt and Tocantins province, central Brazil
D’el-Rey Silva, Luiz José Homem
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D’el-Rey Silva, Luiz José Homem
This book is based on robust field and laboratory work constituting the core of a project of scientific research carried out over the last 40 years, which has led the author to a solid understanding of the role of underthrusting and ductile dripping deformation as the primary natural mechanisms responsible for the construction of orogenic belts in general. It constitutes a fascinating scientific piece for geologists and geophysicists, as it brings together for the first time a combination of structural geology data and a large basket of multidisciplinary data available in the modern literature regarding lithostratigraphy, provenance, geochronology, geochemistry and geophysics, mainly, and represents a brand-new advanced approach to the tectonic evolution of central Brazil, with ultimate consequences spreading onto the evolution of the São Francisco Craton and rimming belts, as well as West Gondwana.
The author, a biographee in Marquis Who's Who annual publications (USA; 2010-2017) for his scientific achievements, built a renowned career as a lecturer of structural geology and tectonics at the University
of Brasília (UnB) since 1993. He graduated as a geologist in 1971 from UnB and got MSc and PhD degrees in Geology, respectively from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA; 1984) and the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL; 1992), with academic formation also including two postdoctoral stages, one in the RHUL’s Geology Department (Egham-UK) and the Geological Survey of Finland in Helsinki (2001) and the other at the Federal University of Sergipe, in 2016. The fifty-four-year-long career provided him with an acknowledged experience centered on the deformation and evolution of the Archean-Paleoproterozoic Curaçá Belt, in the northern São Francisco Craton, eastern Brazil, and several of the craton’s rimming belts, mainly the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Brasília and Paraguay belts, which compose the Tocantins Province, and the Sergipano and Araçuaí belts, and also on the structural controls of complexly deformed mineral deposits across Brazil, primarily, and Canada, too. The list of his scientific publications exceeds 70 pieces of work, including approximately 40 scientific papers written in English and published in peer-reviewed, reputable international and national periodicals.