Detecção de prováveis deformações neotectônicas no Vale do Rio do Peixe, Região Ocidental Paulista, mediante aplicaçao de Índices RDE (Relac̈ão Declividade-Extensão) em segmentos de drenagem

• Autor(a) principal: De Carlos Etchebehere, Mario Lincoln
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Saad, Antonio Roberto [UNESP], Santoni, Gisele [UNESP], Da Costa Casado, Fabio, Fulfaro, Vicente José [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/geociencias/article/view/449; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/69320
• topic: Fluvial morphometry; Neotectonics; Rio do Peixe hydrographic basin; Stream-gradiente index; Western São Paulo State; Cretaceous; deformation; detection method; magmatism; morphometry; neotectonics; sedimentary rock; stream; valley; Brazil; Rio do Peixe Valley; Sao Paulo [Brazil]; South America; Marilia

Running water is one of the most important of all the physical processes which fashion the landscape, allowing gravity to operate along the valley floors. Besides this, the streams show a fast adjustment to the crustal deformations, even to the most gentle ones. This geologic behavior turns them a potential tool for neotectonic studies, specially the analysis of morphotnetric parameters associated with hydraulic gradient and discharge, this second factor being directly proportional to the extension of the streams. Both elements, gradient and stream length, can be combined in the SL index. The purpose of this paper is to show the RDE index application in the neotectonics analysis of the Rio do Peixe hydrographic basin and to compare the obtained values with the geologic basement incised by the streams. This basement encompasses Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of post-Serra Oeral Formation magmatism (Caiuá and Bauru groups) and Quaternary deposits that include chiefly recent alluvial plains and some Pleistocene terrace deposits. In the final part of this paper, an attempt is made in order to correlate the RDE results and the neotectonic framework admitted to this portion of the São Paulo State territory, as well as with field geologic, seismologic and paleoseismologic known elements. The results indicate the presence of two groups of anomalies: The first set corresponds to the Marília-Exaporã Plateau border, and the second one, located in the central portion of the hydrographic basin, is correlated to the Presidente Prudente seimogenic zone.