The onset of the Neogene is market by the Oligocene-Miocene transition characterized by sea level global variations that triggered one of the major marine transgressions in the Earth. In Brazil, deposits related to this event are recorded in north equatorial coast with meaningful exposures in eastern Bragantina Platform, north of Pará State. These are composed by carbonate and siliciclastic deposits of the Pirabas Formation corresponding to onshore portion of a shallow carbonate platform. Stratigraphic studies allowed the Pirabas Platform division in inner platform and inner/middle platform. The inner platform is composed by tidal flats and lagoon (shallow and deep) deposits. The tidal flats are characterized by terrigenous dolomudstone, peloidal dolomudstone, boundstone with microbial mats, bioturbated rhythmites, and massive argillite. Shallow lagoon deposits are composed by laminated wackestone/packstone and bioturbated calcimudstone and the deep lagoon are constituted by dolowackstone, massive floatstone with bryozoan and massive wackestone with equinoderms. The inner/middle platform is composed by tidal inlets and bioclastic/front shoal barriers. Tidal flats deposits are constituted by wackestone/packstone with bryozoan, packstone with bryozoan and grainstone with foraminifers and red algae that display low-angle cross stratification. Bioclastic/front shoal barriers are constituted by bafflestone with bryozoan, wackestone/ packstone with Marginopora sp. and terrigenous, packstone/grainstone with foraminifers, and rudstone with bivalves. The platform displays a rich fossiliferous content composed by bryozoan, equinoderms, bivalves, gastropods, benthic and planktonic foraminifers, green and red algae, ostracods, coral fragments fossils; Gyrolithes, Thalassinoids, Sinusichnus trace fossils, this last one made by decapods crustaceous. In the inner platform the faunistic diversity is smaller dominated by bryozoan, planktonic foraminifers, ostracods, and trace fossils, while in the inner/middle platform zone this diversity is higher widely constituted by benthonic foraminifers fossils, bryozoans, bivalves and gastropods. The platform shows variations in the mineralogical content, where the calcite amount is directly related to exposition periods of the inner/middle platform with great carbonate precipitation. On the other hand, the dolomite, quartz, gypsum and pirite are related to progadation periods in the inner platform, with higher evaporation rates and continental influx. Faciological, fossiliferous and mineralogical variations displays that the Pirabas Formation was closely related to sea level variations leading to changes in shoreline recorded in high frequency shallow-upward cycles, with the cycles in the base of succession predominantly retrograditional while in the top are progradational. The chemostratigraphic framework from Pirabas Formation was made by carbon (δ13Ccarb) and oxygen (δ18Ocarb) isotopes, rare earth elements (ETR) and traces. Carbon isotopic ratios reflect a primary isotopic signature with variations of values related to each depositional environment. Oxygen isotopic ratios demonstrate a dispersive pattern related to diagenetic influence. The ETR’s show a homogeneous pattern with enriched concentrations in light ETR’s and heavy ETR’s depletion. Trace elements concentration (Fe, Sr and Mn) is within expected values to carbonate rocks with little influence of diagenesis in the geochemical content. The trend and δ13Ccarb excursion curve coincide with the variations observed in shallow-upward depositional cycles from Pirabas Formation. Intervals related to the sea level rise are marked by the δ13Ccarb ratios close to 0‰ while the intervals of the cycles with negative δ13Ccarb anomalies are linked to sea level falls. Correlations among δ13Ccarb curves from Pirabas Formation and global do not show close covariance, however we suggested that the δ13C purchased reflect, even minimally, the global isotopic excursions that marks the Eomiocene-Mesomiocene interglacial period. The sea level curve variation of Pirabas Formation display intervals similar to the short-term global eustatic curve. However, the bigger frequency of this sea level variations observed in Pirabas Formation probably indicates local tectonic factors interference in the sedimentation. Previous works suggested that the carbonate platform collapse in the Bragantina Platform region was influenced by the siliciclastic influx from Proto-cone of Amazonas River during the Mesomiocene. The comparative analysis of stratigraphic dates from basins and platforms along the coastal eastern portion in Amazon coastal zone suggests that the progressive increase of siliciclastic sedimentation, noted in the upper Pirabas Formation is related to the Barreira Formation progradation, as an answer to the transpressive/transtensive tectonic in Eo/ Mesomiocene due faults reactivations generated in the last thermal subsidence event in the Brazilian coast during the south Atlantic ocean formation.
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