A Formação Salinas, Orógeno Araçuaí (MG): história deformacional e significado tectônico

The Salinas Formation, made up of metasandstones, metapelites and metaconglomerates, occurs mainly in the surroundings of the town of Salinas, northern Minas Gerais. In this region, rocks of the Salinas Formation lie unconformably on top of the Macaubas Group on the west, and are intruded by Neoproterozoic and Cambrian granites on the east. Four generations of deformational structures were documented in this region, three of them affecting the...