Denudation rates of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero (Minas Gerais, Brazil) : preliminary results from measurements of solute fluxes in rivers and in situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be.

• Autor(a) principal: Salgado, André Augusto Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Braucher, Régis, Colin, Fabrice, Nalini Júnior, Hermínio Arias, Varajão, Angélica Fortes Drummond Chicarino, Varajão, César Augusto Chicarino
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFOP
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/3799; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2005.08.064
• topic: Weathering; Denudation; Cosmogenic nuclides; Quadrilátero Ferrífero

This paper investigates the denudation rates in the Quadrila´tero Ferrı´fero, Minas Gerais State (Brazil). The aim is to compare chemical weathering rates from measurements of solute fluxes in rivers and long-term mean erosion rates deduced from in situproduced cosmogenic 10Be concentrations measured in fluvial sediments. Both water samples and sediments were collected in fifteen stations (checkpoints) located in four hydrographic basins with low anthropogenic perturbations. Depending of the type of substratum, three degrees of chemical denudation rates from water samples are observed: (i) high rates in marbles; (ii) medium rates in schists, phyllites, granites, gneisses and migmatites; (iii) low rates in quartzites and itabirites. Preliminary results of long-term erosion rates deduced from in situ-produced 10Be are comparable with those of chemical rates.