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Geodiversity Index Map of Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeast Brazil: Cartography and Quantitative Assessment by Marília Cristina Santos Souza Dias; Jéssica Oliveira Domingos; Silas Samuel dos Santos Costa; Marcos Antonio Leite do Nascimento; Matheus Lisboa Nobre da Silva; Larissa Praxedes Granjeiro; Rafael Felipe de Lima Miranda is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Geodiversity Index Map of Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeast Brazil: Cartography and Quantitative Assessment about?
The values of geodiversity, defined through different qualitative and/or quantitative methods, represent a fundamental asset for the development of geoconservation actions. Quantitative methods can be considered those of less subjectivity since their dependence on the evaluator and its scientific knowledge is restricted. In turn, aiming to clearly expose the achieved results, this work used geoprocessing tools, as it has been used in several studies of geodiversity index in Brazil. Rio Grande do Norte, a state located in the extreme northeast and one of the smallest of the country, still does not have an assessment for its entire territory, despite being geologically diverse, with rocks dated back from the Archean until the Holocene. Thus, the objective of this work is to fill this gap in the studies of Brazilian geodiversity. For this, we used the evaluation methodology based on the grid overlay, with 5.5 × 5.5 km mesh, on the available cartographic bases: lithology, mineral occurrences, geomorphology, pedology, and hydrography. The thematic subindexes were added, which resulted in the geodiversity index map for the entire state. It was classified into five classes: very low, low,
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- Author
- Marília Cristina Santos Souza Dias; Jéssica Oliveira Domingos; Silas Samuel dos Santos Costa; Marcos Antonio Leite do Nascimento; Matheus Lisboa Nobre da Silva; Larissa Praxedes Granjeiro; Rafael Felipe de Lima Miranda
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)