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Wilson Teixeira is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, contributing to research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research addresses a range of topics with an emphasis on geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and elemental analysis, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, and geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies.

Wilson Teixeira has published extensively in several scientific venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Lithos
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Geoscience Frontiers
  • Geociências

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Wilson Teixeira include:

  • A geochronological review of magmatism along the external margin of Columbia and in the Grenville-age orogens forming the core of Rodinia, 2022, Precambrian Research
  • A reappraisal of the global tectono-magmatic lull at ∼ 2.3 Ga, 2022, Precambrian Research
  • Earth's oldest hotspot track at ca. 1.8 Ga advected by a global subduction system, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Large igneous provinces of the Amazonian Craton and their metallogenic potential in Proterozoic times, 2021, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Initiation of continental breakup documented in evolution of the magma plumbing system of the ca. 925 Ma Dashigou large igneous province, North China, 2021, Lithos

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Ciro Alexandre Ávila, Everton M. Bongiolo, Mauro César Geraldes, Frederico Meira Faleiros, and Manoel S. D'Agrella-Filho. Several co-authors have multiple joint publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Decifrando a terra

    Wilson Teixeira;Maria Cristina Motta de Toledo;Thomas R. Fairchild;Fabio Taioli

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

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

  • An outline of early proterozoic crustal evolution in the São Francisco craton, Brazil : a review

    Wilson Teixeira;Mário Cesar Heredia de Figueiredo

  • Proterozoic geologic evolution of the SW part of the Amazonian Craton in Mato Grosso state, Brazil

    Mauro C Geraldes;W.Randall Van Schmus;Kent C Condie;Stephanie Bell

  • A juvenile accretion episode (2.35–2.32 Ga) in the Mineiro belt and its role to the Minas accretionary orogeny: Zircon U–Pb–Hf and geochemical evidences

    W. Teixeira;C.A. Ávila;I.A. Dussin;A.V. Corrêa Neto

  • Pb, Sr and Nd isotope constraints on the Archaean evolution of gneissic-granitoid complexes in the southern São Francisco Craton, Brazil

    Wilson Teixeira;Maurício Antônio Carneiro;Carlos Maurício Noce;Nuno Machado

  • Evolução tectônica da Amazônia com base nos dados geocronológicos

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

  • Mesoproterozoic intraplate magmatic ‘barcode’ record of the Angola portion of the Congo Craton: Newly dated magmatic events at 1505 and 1110 Ma and implications for Nuna (Columbia) supercontinent reconstructions

    Richard E. Ernst;Eurico Pereira;Michael A. Hamilton;Sergei A. Pisarevsky

  • Rhyacian (2.23–2.20 Ga) juvenile accretion in the southern São Francisco craton, Brazil: Geochemical and isotopic evidence from the Serrinha magmatic suite, Mineiro belt

    Ciro Alexandre Ávila;Wilson Teixeira;Umberto Giuseppe Cordani;Candido Augusto Veloso Moura

  • A review of the tectonic evolution of the Sunsás belt, SW Amazonian Craton

    Wilson Teixeira;Mauro Cesar Geraldes;Ramiro Matos;Amarildo Salina Ruiz

  • 40Ar/39Ar geochronology at the Instituto de Geociências, USP: instrumentation, analytical procedures, and calibration

    Paulo M. Vasconcelos;Artur Takashi Onoe;Koji Kawashita;Adalberto José Soares

  • 40Ar/39Ar dating of 1.0–1.1 Ga magnetizations from the Sa˜o Francisco and Kalahari cratons: tectonic implications for Pan-African and Brasiliano mobile belts

    Paul R. Renne;Tullis C. Onstott;Manoel S. D'Agrella-Filho;Igor G. Pacca

  • Rhyacian evolution of subvolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the southern segment of the Mineiro belt, São Francisco Craton, Brazil

    Ciro Alexandre Ávila;Wilson Teixeira;Everton Marques Bongiolo;Ivo Antônio Dussin

  • Isotopic signatures of Paleoproterozoic granitoids from the southern São Francisco Craton and implications for the evolution of the Transamazonian Orogeny

    Carlos M. Noce;Wilson Teixeira;Jean J.G. Quéméneur;Veridiana T.S. Martins

  • Restored transect across the exhumed Grenville orogen of Laurentia and Amazonia, with implications for crustal architecture

    Eric Tohver;Wilson Teixeira;Ben van der Pluijm;Mauro Cesar Geraldes

  • A geochronological review of magmatism along the external margin of Columbia and in the Grenville-age orogens forming the core of Rodinia

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  • 2.17–2.10 Ga plutonic episodes in the Mineiro belt, São Francisco Craton, Brazil: U-Pb ages, geochemical constraints and tectonics

    N.S. Barbosa;W. Teixeira;C.A. Ávila;P.M. Montecinos

  • U-Pb geochronology of gneisses and granitoids in the quadrilátero Ferrífero (southern São Francisco Craton): age constraints for Archean and Paleoproterozoic magmatism and metamorphism

    Carlos Maurício Noce;Nuno Machado;Wilson Teixeira

  • Neoproterozoic western gondwana assembly and subductionrelated plutonism: the role of the Rio Negro Complex in the Ribeira Belt

    Miguel Tupinamba;Wilson Teixeira;Monica Heilbron

Frequent Co-Authors

Umberto G. Cordani
Umberto G. Cordani Universidade de São Paulo
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Universidade de São Paulo
Manoel S. D’Agrella-Filho
Manoel S. D’Agrella-Filho Universidade de São Paulo
Koji Kawashita
Koji Kawashita Universidade de São Paulo
Maurizio Mazzucchelli
Maurizio Mazzucchelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Ricardo I.F. Trindade
Ricardo I.F. Trindade Universidade de São Paulo
E. M. Piccirillo
E. M. Piccirillo University of Trieste
Ivo Antônio Dussin
Ivo Antônio Dussin Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Elson P. Oliveira
Elson P. Oliveira State University of Campinas
Eric Tohver
Eric Tohver Universidade de São Paulo

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