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Fernando Flecha de Alkmim

Fernando Flecha de Alkmim

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Earth Science

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45
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Overview

Fernando Flecha de Alkmim is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in Brazil. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Computer Science.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Computer Science

More specifically, their subfields of expertise encompass:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Paleontology

The main topics within their research focus on:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Frequent publication venues where they have contributed include:

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • Scientific Reports
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Tectonophysics

Their recent papers reflect a focus on geodynamics, tectonics, and geochemical processes. Notable publications include:

  • U-Pb ages of pre- to post-salt carbonates, Santos and Campos basins, SE Brazil: Implications for the evolution of the South Atlantic (2024, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • Integration of elemental and isotope data supports a Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean realm (2021, Geochemical Perspectives Letters)
  • The role of V-shaped oceans and ribbon continents in the Brasiliano/PanAfrican assembly of western Gondwana (2023, Scientific Reports)
  • Geodynamic evolution of the Minas Basin, southern São Francisco Craton (Brazil), during the early Paleoproterozoic: Climate or tectonic? (2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences)
  • Grãos detríticos de zircão do Grupo Itacolomi em sua área tipo, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais: idades, proveniência e significado tectônico (2020, Geologia USP Série Científica)

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Cristiano Lana
  • Fabrício de Andrade Caxito
  • Gláucia Queiroga
  • Santiago Humberto
  • M Valeriano Claudio

Best Publications

  • Transamazonian orogeny in the Southern São Francisco craton region, Minas Gerais, Brazil : evidence for paleoproterozoic collision and collapse in the Quadrilátero Ferrı́fero.

    Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Stephen Marshak

  • 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

  • Proterozoic first-order sedimentary sequences of the São Francisco craton, eastern Brazil.

    Fernando F. Alkmim;Marcelo A. Martins-Neto

  • 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

  • Unravelling a Proterozoic basin history through detrital zircon geochronology: The case of the Espinhaço Supergroup, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Farid Chemale;Ivo A. Dussin;Fernando F. Alkmim;Maximiliano Sousa Martins

  • 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

  • Assembling West Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic: Clues from the São Francisco craton region, Brazil

    Fernando F. Alkmim;Stephen Marshak;Marco A. Fonseca

  • The ancestry and magmatic evolution of Archaean TTG rocks of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero province, southeast Brazil.

    Cristiano Lana;Fernando F. Alkmim;Richard Armstrong;Ricardo Scholz

  • Proterozoic contraction/extension tectonics of the southern SÃO Francisco Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim

  • 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

  • Stabilization of the southern portion of the São Francisco craton, SE Brazil, through a long-lived period of potassic magmatism

    Rafael Cotta Romano;Cristiano de Carvalho Lana;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Gary Stevens

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

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

  • 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

  • Proterozoic crustal extension and the generation of dome-and-keel structure in an Archaean granite–greenstone terrane

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim;Hanna Jordt-Evangelista

  • The Tectonic interaction between the Paramirim Aulacogen and the Araçuaí Belt, São Francisco craton region, Eastern Brazil

    Simone Cerqueira Pereira Cruz;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim

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

    Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim

  • The Archean-Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero (Brasil): Current models and open questions

    F. Farina;C. Albert;C. Martínez Dopico;C. Aguilar Gil

  • Palaeoproterozoic assembly of the São Francisco craton, SE Brazil : new insights from U–Pb titanite and monazite dating.

    Carmen Aguilar;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Cristiano de Carvalho Lana;Federico Farina;Federico Farina

  • O EMBASAMENTO ARQUEANO E PALEOPROTEROZÓICO DO ORÓGENO ARAÇUAÍ

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares
Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Cristiano Lana
Cristiano Lana Stellenbosch University
Ivo Antônio Dussin
Ivo Antônio Dussin Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Stephen Marshak
Stephen Marshak University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Umberto G. Cordani
Umberto G. Cordani Universidade de São Paulo
Monica Heilbron
Monica Heilbron Rio de Janeiro State University
Marly Babinski
Marly Babinski Universidade de São Paulo
Elton Luiz Dantas
Elton Luiz Dantas University of Brasília
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong Australian National University
Gary Stevens
Gary Stevens Stellenbosch University

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