Underneath the wetlands of the Brazilian Pantanal are hidden key ecological and geological events of the history of our planet. In this chapter we show that Precambrian rocks forming the hills and mountains surrounding the ...

Although 20% of Brazilian territory is covered by wetlands, wetland inventories are still incomplete. In 1993, Brazil signed the Ramsar Convention but a coherent national policy for the sustainable management and protection ...

The Pantanal is a Quaternary sedimentary basin located in the central-west region of Brazil. Its origin has been linked to stresses transmitted from the western margin of the South American continent into the interior of ...

The channel-floodplain relationship is used to understand flooding dynamics in the Pantanal wetland. To understand how different fluvial styles along the Upper Paraguay River (UPR) control the hydrology of the Pantanal ...

Nhecolandia is a fossil lobe of the Taquari River megafan and a prominent geomorphic subunit of the Pantanal wetlands because of the presence of >10,000 small lakes. We investigated the stratigraphic records of three saline ...

Despite recent advances in wetland studies, ancient wetland deposits are still not well documented, and their facies characteristics are poorly registered. Sedimentary facies and sequence stratigraphic analysis of the ...

The Pantanal is one of the largest wetland in the world, and its located almost in the central part of South America. Preliminary studies on the chemical features of waters were carried out in July, 1983 in Rio Paraguai ...

The Pantanal is one of the largest wetland in the world, and its located almost in the central part of South America. Preliminary studies on the chemical features of waters were carried out in July, 1983 in Rio Paraguai ...