Geology of Brazil

Brazil Travel / Geology - When you travel through Southeast Brazil you can find Neoproterozoic traces for instance in form of the granitc intrusive rocks, which outcrop all over the Mar / Mantiqueira mountain chains.

During the Neoproterozoic, these rocks were part of supercontinent Gondwana which was formed through convergence, collision and fusion of fragments of Rodinia / Pannotia, the preceding supercontinents (see also Proterozoic).

The amalgation of West Gondwana (prototypes of South America and Africa united in one continent, prior to the opening of the South Atlantic) occured during the Brasiliano - Pan African orogenic cycle (850 - 500 Ma).