The Luís Alves Terrane in southern Brazil is one of the largest expositions Archean to Paleoproterozoic units that acted as basement for development Neoproterozoic Pan-African/Brasiliano orogenic belts Mantiqueira Province, South America. Combined field observations, petrography, Hf and U-Pb LA-ICP-MS zircon titanite isotopic data are presented this terrane. dataset spans a large time range wit...

Near-surface tectonic and geomorphic processes involve cooling of rocks through low temperatures (50^2003C). Because rates of helium diffusion in apatite, titanite, and zircon are sensitive to temperature variations in this range, uranium^thorium/helium thermochronometry ((U^Th)/He dating) is well-suited to establishing the timing and rates of these processes in the geologic record. However, be...