Outcrop-based facies and stratigraphic studies in the region of Cáceres, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, subdivided the Nobres Formation into: lower member, composed of dolostone, intraclastic dolopackstones, sandy dolostones, stratiform stromatolites and evaporitic molds, interpreted as tidal flat/sabkha deposits; and upper member, constituted of dolostone, dolomitic sandstone, stratiform to domal and wrinkled stromatolites, evaporite molds, sandstones and mudstones, interpreted as mixed tidal flat deposits. The stacking of these deposits up to 200 m thick is composed by meter-thick shallowing/brining upward cycles related to a hot arid climate. The peritidal cycles also suggest continuous and recurrent generation of accommodation linked to tectonic subsidence. The siliciclastic inflow at the end of the deposition of the Nobres Formation that hindered the carbonate sedimentation and is attributed to the uplift of source areas linked to the initial phase of closure of the Clymene Ocean, during the Pampean-Araguaia Orogeny, at the limit Neoproterozoic-Cambrian.
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