São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil

Part I. Overview

1. The São Francisco Craton and Its Margins
Monica Heilbron, Umberto G. Cordani, Fernando F. Alkmim

2. Lithospheric Features of the São Francisco Craton
Marcelo Assumpção, Paulo A. Azevedo, Marcelo P. Rocha, Marcelo B. Bianchi

Part II. The Craton Basement

3. Nature and Evolution of the Archean Crust of the São Francisco Craton
Wilson Teixeira, Elson Paiva Oliveira, Leila Soares Marques

4. The Paleoproterozoic Eastern Bahia Orogenic Domain
Johildo Salomão Figueirêdo Barbosa, Rafael Gordilho Barbosa

5. The Paleoproterozoic Mineiro Belt and the Quadrilátero Ferrífero
Fernando F. Alkmim, Wilson Teixeira

Part III. Intracratonic Basins and Precambrian Mafic Dyke Swarms

6. The Paramirim Aulacogen
Simone Cerqueira Pereira Cruz, Fernando F. Alkmim

7. The São Francisco Basin
Humberto L. S. Reis, Fernando F. Alkmim, Renato C. S. Fonseca, Thiago C. Nascimento, João F. Suss, Lúcio D. Prevatti

8. Mafic Dykes: Petrogenesis and Tectonic Inferences
Vicente A. V. Girardi, Wilson Teixeira, Maurízio Mazzucchelli, Elson Paiva Oliveira, Paulo César Corrêa Costa

9. The Recôncavo-Tucano-Jatobá Rift and Associated Atlantic Continental Margin Basins
Andres Gordon, Nivaldo Destro, Monica Heilbron

Part IV. Marginal Belts

10. The Southern Brasília Belt
Claudio Morisson Valeriano

11. The Northern Brasília Belt
Reinhardt A. Fuck, Márcio M. Pimentel, Carlos J. S. Alvarenga, Elton L. Dantas

12. The Rio Preto and Riacho do Pontal Belts
Fabrício A. Caxito, Alexandre Uhlein, Elton Dantas, Ross Stevenson, Marcos Egydio-Silva, Silas S. Salgado

13. The Sergipano Belt
Elson P. Oliveira, Brian F. Windley, Neal J. McNaughton, Juliana F. Bueno, Rosemery S. Nascimento, Marcelo J. Carvalho, Mario N. C. Araújo

14. The Araçuaí Belt
Fernando F. Alkmim, Matheus Kuchenbecker, Humberto L. S. Reis, Antônio C. Pedrosa-Soares

15. The Ribeira Belt
Monica Heilbron, André Ribeiro, Claudio Morisson Valeriano, Fábio V. Paciullo, Júlio Cesar H. Almeida, Rudolph Johannes A. Trouw, Miguel Tupinambá, L. G. Eirado Silva

Part V. Evolutionary Synthesis

16. The Paleomagnetic Record of the São Francisco-Congo Craton
Manoel S. D’Agrella-Filho, Umberto G. Cordani

17. Tectonic Genealogy of a Miniature Continent
Monica Heilbron, Umberto G. Cordani, Fernando F. Alkmim, Humberto L. S. Reis

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Geology, Structural Geology, Historical Geology, Economic Geology