The Statherian Itabirite-Bearing Sequence from the Morro Escuro Ridge, Santa Maria De Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Journal of South American Earth Sciences 58 (2015) 33e53 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of South American Earth Sciences journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jsames The Statherian itabirite-bearing sequence from the Morro Escuro Ridge, Santa Maria de Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil * Flavia Cristina Silveira Braga a, , Carlos Alberto Rosiere b,Glaucia Nascimento Queiroga c, Vassily Khoury Rolim d,Joao~ Orestes Schneider Santos e, Neal Jesse McNaughton f a Graduate Program, Instituto de Geoci^encias, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil b Instituto de Geoci^encias, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil c Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil d Graduate Program, Instituto de Geoci^encias, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil e Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia f Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia article info abstract Article history: The itabirite-bearing metasedimentary sequence from Morro Escuro Ridge comprises the basal units Received 8 June 2014 of the Espinhaço Supergroup and makes up a small tectonic inlier developed during one of the Bra- Accepted 18 December 2014 siliano orogenic events (800-500 Ma), amongst horses of the Archean TTG gneisses, including sheared Available online 27 December 2014 granites of the anorogenic Borrachudos Suite (~1700 Ma). The metasedimentary rocks are comprised of low-to intermediate-amphibolite facies schists, quartzites, conglomerates and banded iron for- Keywords: mation (itabirite) correlatable with the sequences of the Serro Group, which underlies the meta- Morro Escuro Ridge sedimentary rocks of the Espinhaço Supergroup in the Serra da Serpentina Ridge.
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