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Landforms and Landscape Evolution of the Equatorial Margin of Northeast Brazil

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The equatorial margin of the Brazilian “Nordeste” is especially rich in stratigraphic landmarks that help in understanding the nature of landforms and reconstructing the geomorphic history. It illustrates the interest of combined morphostructural, morphostratigraphic, and morphopedological approaches in the study of a large area (~200,000 km2). The objectives are: (1) to propose a review of the geological data; (2) to analyze and revise the morphostructural and morphostratigraphic patterns; (3) to investigate features that might be specifically related to the complex history recorded by a passive margin intersecting a failed rift arm; (4) to show that this type of study is an irreplaceable tool for further geomorphological and geological researches on basement areas, passive margins, and related sedimentary basins; (5) to give a scientific substrate to an inventory of geodiversity in this region particularly rich in remarkable geomorphic and geological features.

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Peulvast, JP., Bétard, F. (2015). Introduction. In: Landforms and Landscape Evolution of the Equatorial Margin of Northeast Brazil. Springer Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18203-2_1

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