Volume 112 (2025) Fascículo I
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- Friedrich Welwitsch’s prolegomena of Angolan geologyPublication . Brandão, José Manuel Moraes Vale; Mesquita Soares, SofiaABSTRACT: Recent work at the drill core library of LNEG at Alfragide has brought to light a small collection of rocks and fossils gathered by the Austrian physician and botanist Friedrich Welwitsch during his prolific expedition to Angola (Iter Angolense, 1853-1860) on behalf of the Portuguese crown. The samples were seen and mentioned by Paul Choffat, in 1889, but have remained completely forgotten ever since. Revisiting the samples, this article, which extends the evocation of 150 years of Welwitsch's passing, recalls the scientific partnership with the French naturalist Arthur Morelet, who studied mollusk faunas, and reviews the geological notes taken during the years of herborisations. Considering those notes and samples, it can be said that these pioneering elements in the study of the geology of Angola are, in essence, consistent with the recent knowledge and geological mapping of that territory.
- Zeolites and associated minerals as indicators of post-magmatic hydrothermal alteration in Mesozoic tholeiitic basalts in Northeastern BrazilPublication . Araujo, Lidyane; Castro Jobim Vilalva, Frederico; Franco de Souza, Raquel; Bustamante, Andres; Souza, LaécioABSTRACT: In northeastern Brazil, tholeiitic basalts and microgabbros from the Rio Ceará-Mirim dike swarm and Serra do Cuó basaltic flow experienced post-magmatic hydrothermal alteration, forming secondary minerals that replaced magmatic phases and filled amygdules. Petrographic, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric, and chemical analyses identified laumontite, quartz, and calcite as the dominant amygdule minerals in the Rio Ceará-Mirim dikes, formed at temperatures < 150 °C (Stage II) following an earlier low to moderate-temperature (< 150 – 200 ºC) alteration phase (Stage I). In the Serra do Cuó basalts, polymineralic amygdule formation began with mafic phyllosilicates (from < 150 to ~200 °C, Stage I) and proceeded to Ca-Na zeolites (~250 °C, Stage II). These assemblages reflect fluid composition changes due to primary mineral destabilization by heated meteoric fluids. Results indicate fluid composition, rather than temperature, as the primary control on mineral variability, highlighting the role of host-rock chemistry in hydrothermal alteration.
- Oceanos e continentes: no fim dos séculos XV e XX, e no início do século XXIPublication . Ribeiro, AntónioRESUMO: Durante os séculos XV e XVI, os descobridores portugueses substituíram a geografia Mediterrânica pela Atlântica. De algum modo, é possível estabelecer um paralelo com a perspetiva atual da Tectónica de Placas Macias, em que a litosfera oceânica arrasta a litosfera rígida dos escudos pré-câmbricos.