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HOLOCENE EVOLUTION OF A WAVE-DOMINATED BARRIER-LAGOON SYSTEM IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2020

Rafael Cuellar de Oliveira e Silva Open the ORCID record for Rafael Cuellar de Oliveira e Silva [Opens in a new window] ,
Gilberto Tavares de Macedo Dias ,
Rodrigo Coutinho Abuchacra ,
Sérgio Cadena de Vasconcelos ,
Kita Chaves Damasio Macario Open the ORCID record for Kita Chaves Damasio Macario [Opens in a new window]  and
Estefan Monteiro da Fonseca
Rafael Cuellar de Oliveira e Silva*
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Geologia Marinha/LAGEMAR, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Dinâmica dos Oceanos e da Terra, Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Av. Gen. Milton Tavares de Souza s/n, Campus da Praia Vermelha – Gragoatá, 24210-346Niterói, RJ, Brazil
Gilberto Tavares de Macedo Dias
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Geologia Marinha/LAGEMAR, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Dinâmica dos Oceanos e da Terra, Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Av. Gen. Milton Tavares de Souza s/n, Campus da Praia Vermelha – Gragoatá, 24210-346Niterói, RJ, Brazil
Rodrigo Coutinho Abuchacra
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, Departamento de Geografia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FFP), Rua Dr. Francisco Portela, 1470 – Patronato, 24435-005São Gonçalo, RJ, Brazil
Sérgio Cadena de Vasconcelos
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, Departamento de Geografia e Meio Ambiente, Núcleo de Estudos em Ambientes Costeiros/NEAC, PUC-Rio, Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225 – Gávea, 22453-900Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Kita Chaves Damasio Macario
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Radiocarbono/LAC-UFF, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Av. Gen. Milton Tavares de Souza s/n, Campus da Praia Vermelha – Gragoatá, 24210-346Niterói, RJ, Brazil
Estefan Monteiro da Fonseca
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Geologia Marinha/LAGEMAR, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Dinâmica dos Oceanos e da Terra, Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Av. Gen. Milton Tavares de Souza s/n, Campus da Praia Vermelha – Gragoatá, 24210-346Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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*Corresponding author. Email: rafaelsilva@id.uff.br.
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Abstract

In a wave-dominated coast, most of the Jacarepaguá coastal plain is occupied by buildings. During a new construction in this region at Barra da Tijuca, the subsurface area was excavated, exposing its quartzose sand nature, with a high mollusk shell concentration and in situ echinoderms at –10 m depth. The possibility to access this area encouraged us to investigate the evolution of the coastal plain. A 7.84-m-long core was recovered by percussion drilling. Stratigraphic, grain size, and geochemical analysis were undertaken. Three carbonate samples were dated by radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry (14C AMS). The revised sea-level variation curve revealed that the last postglacial marine transgression reached the present mean sea-level at 7945–7500 cal BP. The sandy deposit bottom was an ancient shoreface, with in situ echinoderms buried at 7770–7540 cal BP by the Pleistocene inner barrier reworking due to the last marine transgression. The Holocene outer barrier-lagoon and its flood tidal delta were formed from 5440–5070 cal BP. Mid-Holocene marine regression allowed the outer barrier progradation and the lagoon shallowing/infill. This paper confirms prior models proposed by other researchers for the Rio de Janeiro central coast and shows its similarity with the New South Wales coast, Australia.

Keywords

Barra da Tijucacoastal barriersJacarepaguá coastal plainpaleoenvironmental reconstructionrelative sea-level variations
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Conference Paper
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Radiocarbon , Volume 63 , Issue 4: Featuring: CLARa Proceedings of the 1st Latin American Radiocarbon Conference , August 2021 , pp. 1175 - 1191
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Selected Papers from the 1st Latin American Radiocarbon Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 29 Jul.–2 Aug. 2019

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