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JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages 315-327Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2016.10.001
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Evaporites; Gypsum; Ceara State (Brazil); Araripe Basin; Ipubi Formation
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- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
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The Ipubi Formation in the Araripe Basin (Northeast Brazil) has evaporite-lutite successions rich in gypsum, a mineral of great regional economic relevance, a highlighted stratigraphic mark, and also a natural boundary for underlying successions potentially analogous to Pre-Salt hydrocarbon reservoirs of the Brazilian coastal basins. In this study, syngenetic and diagenetic aspects of the Ipubi Formation at Santana do Cariri (Ceara State) were investigated by means of fades analysis, petrography, and mineralogical/chemical analyses of evaporites and shales. The results show that the contact relationship between evaporites and manly shales, without signs of subaerial exposure and laterally adjacent, was associated with shallow, calm and somewhat anoxic waterbodies, locally salt-supersaturated (brines) but under seasonal variations of water levels. This scenario could have shared place with hydrothermal phenomena in a playa lake depositional system. Regarding diagenesis, although there is evidence supporting pseudomorphic replacement of gypsum by anhydrite, the burial of the Ipubi Formation would have been limited due to the frequent occurrence of gypsum without any trace of chemical replacement. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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