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North and northeast Brazil

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The Phanerozoic from N and NE Brazil contains a rich geological archive including Gondwanian paleoenvironments, intracontinental rifts and post-breakup interior basins.

Devonian sandstones exposed at the margins of the Tapajós River  (Amazonas Basin)

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Gently folded Early Cretaceous deltaic rocks in the Recôncavo Basin (Itaparica island)

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Peculiar dewatering structures in the Recôncavo Basin (Frades island)

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Jurassic pre-rift fluvio-eolian sandstones in Barra do Paraguaçu (Recôncavo Basin)

Mining of Aptian evaporites in the Parnaíba Basin, NE Brazil

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Ostracod-rich lacustrine beds in the Cretaceous Araripe Basin

Sunset in the Araripe Basin

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