Microfácies carbonáticas da formação Itaituba (Carbonífero da Bacia do Amazonas), na região do Município de Itaituba (PA)

Abstract

This work was carried out aiming at the interpretation and inference of the paleoenvironments of a carbonate succession belonging to the Itaituba Formation (Pensilvaniano of the Amazon Basin), which appears on the banks of the Tapajós River, SW of the state of Pará, petrographic studies focused at the characterization and identification of sedimentary microfacies were performed from the analysis of 50 thin sections. The petrographic analysis was developed according to the standard methodology for studies of this nature, essentially involving the classification of carbonate rocks and the characterization and individualization of microfacies. As a result of these analyzes, five lithotypes (mudstones, wackestones, packstones, grainstones and boundstones) and nine microfacies were identified: Mudstone with evaporites (Me), Wackstone with terrígenos (Wt), Wackstone with autigenic quartz and phytoclasts (Wqf), Wackstone (Wbc), Packstone with brachiopods (Pb), Grainstone with brachiopods (Gb), Grainstone with fusulinids (Gf), Grainstone with binders (Ga) and Boundstone with intraclasts (Bi). From these microfacies, four biofacies were distinguished (Biofacies 01, Biofacies 02, Biofacies 03 and Biofacies 04), based on the trends and paleocology of the bioclasts, and five associations of non-skeletal grains (Association 01, Association 02, Association 03, Association 04 and Association 05), based on the sedimentological significance of these grains. From this, five types of microfacies, representative of five distinct depositional systems were interpreted: MFT-01) semi-restricted coastal sabhka, MFT-02) tidal plain, MFT-03) lagoon, MFT-04) tidal channels and MFT -05) bioclastic bars. These types of microfacies indicate a depositional carbonaceous platform model in ramp, with the development of a shallow marine depositional system, dominated by carbonate sedimentation, influenced by tide, under the dominant regime of semiarid climatic and temperature of the water mass varying from temperate to hot.