Fácies sedimentares das formações Andirá e Arari, permiano da bacia do Amazonas, com base em testemunhos de sondagem no lago Soares, Amazonas

Abstract

This work presents the results of sedimentological and palynological analysis carried out in approximately 230 m of core samples of the PBAT-15-43 borehole, where sedimentary fácies and contact relationships were described among alluvial (base) deposits and fluvial (top) fans of the Paleozoic Andirá and Arari formations from Amazon basin, respectively. This borehole is located at Soares' Lake (Autazes, Amazon) and it was selected in function of the good quality of the recovered cores, freely available by the Potassio do Brazil company. Ten sedimentary facies were identified and clustered in three facies associations, denominated informally as I, II and III. The facies association I were interpreted as fluvial with channel and flood plain deposits. The association II, similarly, of fluvial environment includes facies from processes of seismic nature and pen contemporaneous to the formation of alluvial deposits. The association III were interpreted as an alluvial fan environment with deposits of gravitational debris flows. Additionally palynological analysis in these formations endorsed the age, and environmental interpretation of the final deposition process phase of the Permian in the area. The inferior unit (Arari) was barren in palynomorphs. The Andirá Formation, superior unit, contains a fairly well preserved palynoflora constituted mainly by the species Lueckisporites virkkiae, Corisaccites alutas, Hamiapollenites andiraensis, H. karooensis, Vittatina costabilis, V. saccata, V. subsaccata and Tornopollenites toreutos. Important species of the Punctatisporites, Verrucosisporites, Limitisporites, Cycadopites and Stratopodocarpites genera are also present. Elements of the paleomicroplancton (acritarchs) were not detected. The sedimentologic data, corroborated by the recovered palynoflora indicate that the sedimentation can be associated to the continental (fluvial-lacustrine) environment, indicating a Late Permian age for the Andirá's strata formation.