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Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares

Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares

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D-Index
40
Citations
6655
World Ranking
5783
National Ranking
32

Overview

Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science. Their research largely focuses on geophysics, geochemistry and petrology, and artificial intelligence, contributing to a diverse set of scientific domains.

The scientist's main research topics cover geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and elemental analysis, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geological formations and processes, and geological and geophysical studies.

Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Multi-proxy evidence for subduction of the Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean and Wilson cycle tectonics in the South Atlantic Brasiliano Orogenic System of Western Gondwana, 2022, Precambrian Research
  • Integration of elemental and isotope data supports a Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean realm, 2021, Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • Towards an integrated tectonic model for the interaction between the Bambuí basin and the adjoining orogenic belts: Evidences from the detrital zircon record of syn-orogenic units, 2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Characterizing terranes and a Neoproterozoic suture zone in Central Hoggar (Tuareg Shield, Algeria) with airborne geophysics and Landsat 8 OLI data, 2022, Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Tonian island arc remnants in the northern Ribeira orogen of Western Gondwana: The Caxixe batholith (Espírito Santo, SE Brazil), 2020, Precambrian Research

The scientist's work has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Precambrian Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Geoscience Frontiers

Collaborative research is a significant aspect of Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares's career. Frequent co-authors include Cristiano Lana, Ivo Dussin, Fabrício de Andrade Caxito, Elton Luiz Dantas, and Gláucia Queiroga, reflecting ongoing partnerships within their research community.

Best Publications

  • The Araçuaí-West-Congo Orogen in Brazil: an overview of a confined orogen formed during Gondwanaland assembly

    A Pedrosa-Soares

  • Kinematic evolution of the Araçuaí-West Congo orogen in Brazil and Africa: Nutcracker tectonics during the Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana

    Fernando F. Alkmim;Stephen Marshak;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Guilherme Gravina Peres

  • Similarities and differences between the Brazilian and African counterparts of the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí-West Congo orogen

    A. C. Pedrosa-Soares;F. F. Alkmim;L. Tack;C. M. Noce

  • Late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian granitic magmatism in the Araçuaí orogen (Brazil), the Eastern Brazilian Pegmatite Province and related mineral resources

    A. C. Pedrosa-Soares;Cristina P. De Campos;Carlos Noce;Luiz Carlos Silva

  • Evolution of polycyclic basement complexes in the Araçuaí Orogen, based on U–Pb SHRIMP data: Implications for Brazil–Africa links in Paleoproterozoic time

    Carlos M. Noce;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Luiz Carlos da Silva;Richard Armstrong

  • Neoproterozoic oceanic remnants in eastern Brazil: Further evidence and refutation of an exclusively ensialic evolution for the Araçuaí–West Congo orogen

    Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Philippe Vidal;Othon Henry Leonardos;Benjamin Bley de Brito Neves

  • Orógeno Araçuaí : síntese do conhecimento 30 anos após Almeida 1977.

    Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Carlos Maurício Noce;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Luiz Carlos da Silva

  • Sobre a evolução tectônica do orógeno Araçuaí-Congo ocidental.

    Fernando Flecha Alkmim;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Carlos Maurício Noce;Simone Cerqueira Pereira Cruz

  • Toward a new tectonic model for the Late Proterozoic Araçuaí (SE Brazil)-West Congolian (SW Africa) Belt

    A.C Pedrosa-Soares;C.M Noce;Ph Vidal;R.L.B.P Monteiro

  • Tectono-sedimentary evolution of sedimentary basins from Late Paleoproterozoic to Late Neoproterozoic in the São Francisco craton and Araçuaı́ fold belt, eastern Brazil

    M.A Martins-Neto;A.C Pedrosa-Soares;S.A.A Lima

  • Neoproterozoic glacial deposits from the Araçuaí orogen, Brazil : age, provenance and correlations with the São Francisco craton and West Congo belt.

    Marly Babinski;A. C. Pedrosa-Soares;R. I. F. Trindade;M. Martins

  • The Ediacaran Rio Doce magmatic arc revisited (Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system, SE Brazil)

    Mahyra Tedeschi;Tiago Novo;Antônio Pedrosa-Soares;Ivo Dussin

  • The hot back-arc zone of the Araçuaí orogen, Eastern Brazil : from sedimentation to granite generation.

    Camila Gradim;Jorge Roncato;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Umberto Cordani

  • Tonian rift-related, A-type continental plutonism in the Aracuai Orogen, eastern Brazil: New evidence for the breakup stage of the Sao Francisco-Congo Paleocontinent

    L.C. da Silva;A.C. Pedrosa-Soares;A.C. Pedrosa-Soares;Teixeira L.R.;R. Armstrong

  • New evidence of an Ediacaran age for the Bambuí Group in southern São Francisco craton (eastern Brazil) from zircon U–Pb data and isotope chemostratigraphy

    Gustavo Macedo Paula-Santos;Marly Babinski;Matheus Kuchenbecker;Sergio Caetano-Filho

  • Reavaliação da evolução geológica em terrenos pré-cambrianos brasileiros com base em novos dados U-Pb SHRIMP, parte II: Orógeno Araçuaí, Cinturão Mineiro e Cráton São Francisco Meridional

    Luiz Carlos da Silva;Richard Armstrong;Carlos Maurício Noce;Maurício Antônio Carneiro

  • How many rifting events preceded the development of the Araçuaí-West Congo orogen?

    Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim

  • O EMBASAMENTO ARQUEANO E PALEOPROTEROZÓICO DO ORÓGENO ARAÇUAÍ

    Carlos M. Noce;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Luiz Carlos da Silva;Fernando F. de Alkmim

  • Multi-proxy evidence for subduction of the Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean and Wilson cycle tectonics in the South Atlantic Brasiliano Orogenic System of Western Gondwana

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  • Detrital zircon age patterns and provenance assessment for pre-glacial to post-glacial successions of the Neoproterozoic Macaúbas Group, Araçuaí orogen, Brazil

    Matheus Kuchenbecker;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Marly Babinski;Mark Fanning

  • Extensional collapse in the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí orogen, eastern Brazil : a setting for reactivation of asymmetric crenulation cleavage.

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim;Alan Whittington;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Flecha de Alkmim
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Ivo Antônio Dussin
Ivo Antônio Dussin Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Marly Babinski
Marly Babinski Universidade de São Paulo
Cristiano Lana
Cristiano Lana Stellenbosch University
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong Australian National University
Elton Luiz Dantas
Elton Luiz Dantas University of Brasília
Ricardo I.F. Trindade
Ricardo I.F. Trindade Universidade de São Paulo
Monica Heilbron
Monica Heilbron Rio de Janeiro State University
Umberto G. Cordani
Umberto G. Cordani Universidade de São Paulo
Dunyi Liu
Dunyi Liu Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

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