A sedimentary pattern, characterized by four marine successions, is identified at the northwestern portion of São João de Pirabas coastal plain (northeastern of Pará State) using morphostratigraphical analysis. The successions are: (i) basal retrogradational marine succession - SB, (intertidal mangrove muds, old beach ridges sand and tidal channel sand); retrogradational marine succession - S1, (sandy sediments of the shoreface); progradational succession - S2 (tidal flat and chêniers associated) and; actual retrogradational succession - S3 (dune-beach ridges, longitudinal sandy bars and bays, migrate over mangrove deposits). The evolution of this plain is related to sea-level changes associated with neotectonic movements since the Pliocene that gave origin to the SB succession during transgressive period related to Upper Pleistocene (?). The S1, S2, and S3 successions were developed due to transgressive and regressive cycles during last 5.100 years B.P. until today.
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