masterThesis
Sitios geologicos e geomorfologicos dos municipios de Acari, Carnaúba dos Dantas e Currais Novos, região seridó do Rio Grande do Norte
Fecha
2003-03-31Registro en:
MEDEIROS, Wendson Dantas de Araújo. Geological and geomorphological sites of the towns of Acari,
Carnaúba dos Dantas and Currais Novos, seridó region of Rio Grande do Norte. 2003. 154 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Recursos Minerais; Recursos Hídricos; Meio Ambiente) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2003.
Autor
Medeiros, Wendson Dantas de Araújo
Resumen
Geological and Geomorphological Sites of the Towns of Acari, Carnaúba dos
Dantas and Currais Novos, Seridó Region of the Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil,
consist s of a study about geological, geomorphological, mineralogical, palaeontological and
archaeological features of the study area, aiming the identification of sites that presents
scientific, historical, cultural, economic and ecological excellent importance, and that they
deserve to receive special protection for its maintenance for the gifts and future generations.
It was developed according with methods adopted for the Brazilian Commitee of Geological
and Paleontological Sites SIGEP/UNESCO and by Initiati ve of Sofia for the Preservation of
the Mineral Diversity of the Planet, objectifying the description of the main sites, the its
environmental problematic and proposal of protectionistic measures. Seven sites with
features and typical structures had been identified that they deserve to be aim of protection.
In the Acari town, three sites had been identified: geological -geomorphologicalarchaeological
site Barra of the Carnaúba; geological-geomorphological site of the
Gargalheiras; and geological-geomorphological site Bico of Arara. In Carnaúba of the
Dantas, the geomorphological complex river of the Bojo that possesss canyons and deep
throats, with rocky-arts registers of the three great rocky-arts traditions of northeast:
Northeast Seridó Sub-tradition, Wasteland and Itaquatiara. In the Currais Novos town, 3
sites had been also identified: geomorphological site Canyon of the Apertados;
geomorphological-archaeological-palaeontological complex of the Totoró; e, geologicalmineralogical
site Brejuí. Because to the environmental problematic that it involves each one
of the identified sites, it is proposed, as a guarantee of protection to these sites, its economic
exploitation with the ecogeotouristic activity, that it aims at to the integration of the
community in programs of environmental education and others, besides providing to the
generation of job and income for the towns. Finally, a series of measures is suggested that
they aim at to the efectivation of the activity and to the protection of the sites that they can be
classified as natural heritage, in accordance with the denomination of UNESCO, in its
program World Natural Heritage