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Umberto G. Cordani

Umberto G. Cordani

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Earth Science
Brazil
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
59
Citations
12665
World Ranking
2020
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Brazil Leader Award
  • 1990 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America

Overview

Umberto G. Cordani is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on the subfields of Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Atmospheric Science. The main topics addressed in their work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Cordani's recent publications cover diverse geological topics. Selected papers include:

  • The Rio Apa Terrane reviewed: U Pb zircon geochronology and provenance studies provide paleotectonic links with a growing Proterozoic Amazonia (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • A long-lived active margin revealed by zircon U-Pb-Hf data from the Rio Apa Terrane (Brazil): New insights into the Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Amazonian Craton (2020, Precambrian Research)
  • Dawn of metazoans: to what extent was this influenced by the onset of "modern-type plate tectonics"? (2020, Brazilian Journal of Geology)
  • Rhyacian and Neoproterozoic magmatic associations of the Gurupi Belt, Brazil: Implications for the tectonic evolution, and regional correlations (2020, Geoscience Frontiers)
  • The Nico Pérez terrane (Uruguay) and its archean and paleoproterozoic inheritance (2021, Andean geology)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Cordani include:

  • Kei Sato
  • Victor Câmara Maurer
  • Alvaro Rodrigo Iriarte
  • Wilson Teixeira
  • Frederico Meira Faleiros

The main venues publishing Cordani's work include:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Brazilian Journal of Geology
  • Andean geology
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Earth-Science Reviews

Cordani's contributions cover interdisciplinary connections between geological sciences and computational approaches, reflected in the notable presence of Artificial Intelligence among their fields of study.

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 1990, membership in the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa), and the GSA Honorary Fellow Award from The Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Tectonic evolution of South America

    Umberto Giuseppe Cordani;Edison José Milani;Antonio Thomaz Filho;Diogenes de Almeida Campos

  • Tectonic evolution of South America during the Late Proterozoic

    Benjamin Bley de Brito Neves;Umberto G. Cordani

  • A review of the geochronology of the Amazonian Craton: Tectonic implications

    Wilson Teixeira;Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari;Umberto Giuseppe Cordani;Koji Kawashita

  • The precambrian evolution of the South American cratonic margin south of the Amazon River

    F. F. M. de Almeida;G. Amaral;U. G. Cordani;K. Kawashita

  • Crustal evolution of the south american platform

    Umberto G. Cordani;Kei Sato;Wilson Teixeira;Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari

  • The position of the Amazonian Craton in supercontinents

    U.G. Cordani;W. Teixeira;M.S. D'Agrella-Filho;R.I. Trindade

  • Proterozoic accretionary belts in the Amazonian Craton

    Umberto G. Cordani;Wilson Teixeira

  • Estudo preliminar de integração do pré-cambriano com os eventos tectônicos das bacias sedimentares brasileiras

    Umberto G. Cordani;Benjamim Bley de Brito Neves;Reinhardt A. Fuck;Roberto Porto

  • Potassium-argon ages of alkaline rocks from southern Brazil

    G. Amaral;J. Bushee;U.G. Cordani;K. Kawashita

  • Tearing up Rodinia: the Neoproterozoic palaeogeography of South American cratonic fragments

    U. G. Cordani;M. S. D'Agrella-Filho;B. B. Brito-Neves;R. I. F. Trindade

  • Potassium-argon dates of basaltic rocks from Southern Brazil

    G. Amaral;U.G. Cordani;K. Kawashita;J.H. Reynolds

  • Geochronological, isotopic, and geochemical data from Permo-Triassic granitic gneisses and granitoids of the Colombian Central Andes

    C.J. Vinasco;U.G. Cordani;H. González;M. Weber

  • African, southern Indian and South American cratons were not part of the Rodinia supercontinent: evidence from field relationships and geochronology.

    Alfred Kröner;Umberto Cordani

  • THE GEOLOGIC EVOLUTION OF SOUTH AMERICA DURING THE ARCHAEAN AND EARLY PROTEROZOIC

    Umberto G. Cordani;Benjamim Bley De Brito Neves

  • Geochronology of Proterozoic basement inliers in the Colombian Andes: tectonic history of remnants of a fragmented Grenville belt

    Umberto Cordani;A. Cardona;D. Jimenez;D Liu

  • Crustal evolution of the South American Platform, based on Nd isotopic systematics on granitoid rocks

    Umberto G. Cordani;Kei Sato

  • Idade do vulcanismo no Oceano Atlântico Sul

    Umberto Giuseppe Cordani

  • Ediacaran 2,500-km-long synchronous deep continental subduction in the West Gondwana Orogen

    Carlos Ganade de Araujo;Daniela Rubatto;Joerg Hermann;Umberto Cordani

  • Test of Continental Drift by Comparison of Radiometric Ages: A pre-drift reconstruction shows matching geologic age provinces in West Africa and Northern Brazil.

    P. M. Hurley;J. R. Rand;W. H. Pinson;H. W. Fairbairn

  • The 3.4–3.5 Ga São José do Campestre massif, NE Brazil: remnants of the oldest crust in South America

    E.L Dantas;W.R Van Schmus;P.C Hackspacher;A.H Fetter

  • Evolução tectônica da Amazônia com base nos dados geocronológicos

    Umberto G. Cordani;Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari;Wilson Teixeira;Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilson Teixeira
Wilson Teixeira Universidade de São Paulo
Koji Kawashita
Koji Kawashita Universidade de São Paulo
Allen P. Nutman
Allen P. Nutman University of Wollongong
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Universidade de São Paulo
Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari
Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari Universidade de São Paulo
Benjamim Bley de Brito Neves
Benjamim Bley de Brito Neves Universidade de São Paulo
Francisco Hervé
Francisco Hervé Andrés Bello University
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Agustín Cardona
Agustín Cardona National University of Colombia
Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares
Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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