Estudo de proveniência da sedimentação aptiana aflorante na porção norte da sub-bacia de Alagoas

Abstract

The outcrops Praia de Japaratinga, Barreiras do Boqueirão and Morro de Camaragibe, Alagoas sub-basin, are located in the cities of Japaratinga and Passo de Camaragibe, northern state of Alagoas. These exposures show facies of the deposits of a fluvial-deltaic-turbidity system, until now attributed to Maceió Formation, Lower Aptian age. Their facies characterize deposits of catastrophic flows with SW dominant paleocurrent, that are cuted by streams channeled oblique paleocurrent the last, about to SE, indicating at least the existence of two distinct sources areas. This study aimed to indicate the source of these sediments joining stratigraphy, petrography, whole rock geochemistry and geochronology of detrital zircon via LA-ICP-MS data. Both geochemical whole rock, as the geochronology of zircons showed different chemistry and age patterns for facies paleocurrent SW regarding the facies of SE paleocurrent. The detrital zircon ages found in the samples, although. indicate origin of the Borborema Province, there was a predominance of Neoproterozoic age crystals for the SW Paleocurrent facies, and Neoproterozoic ages with contribution of Paleoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic terranes for facies paleocurrent SE. Regarding the stratigraphic position of the studied outcrops, it was used palynology in siltstones and shales for obtaining depositional age. The presence of pollen species Sergipea tenuiverrucata is indicative of Upper Aptian age for the rich black shales in conchostracans and fish fragments present in the top section of the outcrop Barreiras do Boqueirão. This age puts such outcrops stratigraphically above the Maceió Formation, considered deposited in Aptian Lower to Middle.