Pernambuco Fault, the Glossary
The Pernambuco Fault or Pernambuco Shear Zone in northeastern Brazil is a fault radiating from the Trans Brazilian Lineament eastwards to the coast, a major geological feature.[1]
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8 relations: Africa, Brazil, Cameroon, Central African Shear Zone, Fault (geology), Foumban Shear Zone, South America, Trans Brazilian Lineament.
- Geology of Brazil
- Seismic faults of Brazil
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
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Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.
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Central African Shear Zone
The Central African Shear Zone (CASZ) (or Shear System) is a wrench fault system extending in an ENE direction from the Gulf of Guinea through Cameroon into Sudan.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.
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Foumban Shear Zone
The Foumban Shear Zone, or Central Cameroon Shear Zone (CCSZ), is a fault zone in Cameroon that has been correlated with the Pernambuco fault in northeastern Brazil, which splays from the Trans-Brazilian Lineament. Pernambuco Fault and Foumban Shear Zone are Palaeogeography stubs.
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South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Trans Brazilian Lineament
The Trans Brazilian Lineament (TBL), or Transbrasiliano Lineament, is a major shear zone that developed in the Precambrian period, and that has been reactivated several times since then, mostly recently during the Mesozoic. Pernambuco Fault and Trans Brazilian Lineament are Seismic faults of Brazil.
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See also
Geology of Brazil
- Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin)
- Amazonian Craton
- Andean orogeny
- Araguainha crater
- Araripe Geopark
- Atlantic Shield
- Brasiliano orogeny
- Brazilian Journal of Geology
- Campos Basin
- Cariri Velhos belt
- Colônia crater
- Damara orogeny
- Geology of Brazil
- Green ubatuba
- Guiana Shield
- Hamza River
- Iron Quadrangle
- Itabirite
- Mining in Brazil
- Noronha hotspot
- Paraná and Etendeka traps
- Paranapanema block
- Parnaíba Basin
- Pedra da Galinha Choca
- Pernambuco Fault
- Pre-salt layer
- Purus Arch
- Río de la Plata Craton
- Riachão Ring
- São Francisco Craton
- Sanga da Alemoa
- Santa Marta crater
- Serra da Cangalha
- Sierra Ballena Shear Zone
- Sobral Fault
- South American Plate
- Sunsás orogeny
- Trindade hotspot
- Verdete
Seismic faults of Brazil
- Pernambuco Fault
- Sobral Fault
- Trans Brazilian Lineament