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Geological Magazine; July 2002; v. 139; no. 4; p. 453-463; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756802006659
© 2002 Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Article

Vila Maria Formation (Silurian, Paraná Basin, Brazil): integrated radiometric and palynological age determinations

ANA M. P. MIZUSAKI*,§, JOSÉ HENRIQUE G. MELO{dagger}, MARIA L. VIGNOL-LELARGE* and PHILIPPE STEEMANS{ddagger}

* Geoscience Institute, Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
{dagger} PETROBRAS Research & Development Centre – CENPES/PDEP/BPA, Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil
{ddagger} NFSR research associate, Paleobotany, Paleopalynology & Micropaleontology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

§ Author for correspondence: ana.mizusaki{at}ufrgs.br

Fresh shale samples taken from a well-known outcrop section of the Silurian Vila Maria Formation, located on the northeastern margin of the Paraná Basin (Três Barras Farm, Goiás State, central-western Brazil), have been analysed for both palynological and radiometric age determinations. The rocks yielded a fairly diverse, age-definitive cryptospore assemblage, and the same samples proved suitable for Rb–Sr analysis, despite Silurian sedimentary rocks being rarely suited to radiometric dating techniques. This study thus introduces an alternative, independent method for estimating the minimum depositional age of the Vila Maria Formation. The Rb–Sr age value has been calculated via an isochron diagram that yields 435.9 ± 7.8 Ma. Accordingly, the latter value is interpreted as the minimum depositional age of the analysed Vila Maria strata, implying their deposition during Llandovery times. This concurs with the palynological results, which indicate an age no older than Early Silurian and, more particularly, favour an Early to Middle Llandovery (Rhuddanian–Early Aeronian) attribution.

Key Words: Silurian • absolute age • palynology • biostratigraphy • Parana Basin






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