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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Central Brazil"”.
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Structural Characteristics and Tectonic Evolution of the Pirineus Syntaxis, Central Brazil
… western margin of the Sao Francisco craton in central Brazil. Deformation in the Brasilia belt has been attributed broadly to the Neoproterozoic Brasiliano (=Pan African) orogeny. My 1:50,000-scale mapping of a 12,000 km2 region encompassing the Pirineus Syntaxis suggests that the curve …
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The Neoproterozoic São Francisco Basin, central Brazil: tectonic evolution, paleoclimate, and mineral systems
The São Francisco Basin (SFB; ca. 950-550 Ma), central Brazil, hosts sediments deposited during most of the Neoproterozoic Era and so is a critical repository of information concerning the evolution of the late pre-Cambrian world. Detailed study and revision of existing stratigraphy reveals that …
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Contribuição ao conhecimento da fauna helmintológica do Anu Branco (Guira Guira (G. M.))
… 1933 and the latter two species occurring in Brazil for the first time. Oxyspirura anacanthura (Molin, 1860) refered by STRACHAN (1957) in Guira guira (Gm.) from Central Brazil Region is also studied.
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Diversidade de Chiroptera do quaternário de Serra da Mesa (GO) com ênfase na morfologia do aparelho mastigatório
… of the Serra da Mesa in the State of Goias, Central Brazil. Quaternary fossils were obtained from four limestone caves, namely Igrejinha, Carneiro, Nossa Senhora Aparecida, and ltambé. The taxonomic identification of the fragments was based on a original comparative study of the masticatory …
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Revisão taxonômica de espécies de Scinax duartei (B. Lutz, 1951) (Anura, Hylidae)
… complex has a large distribution in Southeastern Brazil, being Scinax sp. nov. "Goiás" the only species of the complex know to Central Brazil, in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, GO. Taxonomics notes about the complex are added and compared with literature data.
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Soybean expansion in Brazil: A quantitative assessment of past technological and environmental changes and implications for future climate change
Brazil is today the world's second largest soybean producer, and the crop is cultivated throughout the country. However, this was not always the case. The most productive soybean regions of today were deemed unsuitable for soybean planting until the 1970's, and the crop was limited to southern …
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Hydrogeological and Hydrochemical Characterization of the Matozinhos-Pedro Leopoldo Karst, Brazil
… near the metropolis of Belo Horizonte, East Central Brazil, in an area undergoing rapid urbanization and land degradation. Qualitative dye tracing experiments have determined the groundwater routes and catchment areas in the two major drainage basins in the area, Samambaia Basin and …
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A Ritual Aesthetics of Loss and Memory among the Boe (Bororo)
The Boe people of Central Brazil, widely known in the ethnographic record as Bororo, live today in small forested reserves amidst a vast landscape of cattle farms and soya plantations. Despite dramatic transformations in their physical and human surroundings, the Boe continue to practise intricate …