Projects
GEOSUDESTE 2017
GIS synthesis of the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí-West Congo orogen and related craton during Gondwana supercontinent amalgamation.
Project in the framework of GEOSUDESTE-2017 symposium on the Geology of southeastern Brazil in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the definition of the Brasiliano Cycle and 40th anniversary of the definition of the Araçuaí belt.
Geosudeste2017 took place as scheduled. The project itself is extended with 2 years till end 2019 to enable all contributors to provide the necessary updated and edited GIS layers for the integration of the West Congo and Araçuai belts according to a uniform stratigraphy, valid for the entire PAn-African "belt".
A first version of the intergated West-Congo belt stratigraphy is attached. It correlates the stratigraphies from Angola, DR Congo, R. Congo and Gabon using the most recent published works.
Principal investigator:
Dates:
2016 2019Museum staff:
External collaborators:
Pedrosa-Soarez A. (Universdiade Federale de Minas Gerais, Brazil)Thieblement D. (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, France)