| Summary: | The Paraguay Belt is composed by sediments deposited due to extensional events followed by inversion with deformation and magmatism and lastly collision of the Amazonian Craton and Paranapanema Block. The marine sedimentation, with Neoproterozoic ages, should have occurred in a continental shelf region, at about 800-550 Ma, when the closing of many oceans gave place to the amalgamation of the Gondwana supercontinent. Three areas were selected for this study which configuration define the perpendicular profile of the Paraguay Belt and allow the characterization of the main regional structures.
The structural analysis in the sites here reported and surrounding areas allow suggesting that three deformational events are recorded in the rocks of this region. The sedimentary bedding S0, marked by alternations of dark gray and whitish coloration in the seritic phyllites is folded and the axial plane (Sn) is marked by a cleavage of ardosian. These surfaces are cut by two other deformations, Sn + 1 surface that plunges at high angles to SE as fracture cleavage and Sn + 2 that is orthogonal to the previous deformations and has NW-SE direction with vertical dips, where sometimes occurs quartz veins with high gold content. The Paraguay Belt fan geometry observed in the Sn foliation was developed during the closing of a Brazilian ocean that evolved between the Paranapanema Block and the Amazonian Craton.
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