A geomorphological overview of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero reveals a conspicuous region where roots of metassedimentary Proterozoic strucutures, displaying young relief features, are in evidence over a sea of hills from the Archean basement. This paper deals with the landscape evolution in the “Quadrilátero Ferrífero” region, based on the integrated analysis of quantitative data of the erosion rates (10 Be) and of the soil types developed from the main rocks of the region. The 10Be concentration extracted from quartz of veins, […]

Tillage influences both surface and subsurface soil physical conditions, and consequently the values of the factors related to the rainfall-water erosion process. A field experiment using simulated rainfall was conducted from October, 1999 to May, 2000, in the Planalto Sul Catarinense region, Lages, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, in order to evaluate some of the factors related to the rainfall-water erosion process under steady runoff-rate, with three different soil tillage methods. The soil used in the study was a clayey Typic […]

Soil loss tolerance refers to the maximum rate of annual soil loss that will permit crop productivity to be obtained economically and indefinitely. Besides the usual form, it can also be used in the Universal Soil Loss Equation as a criteria to better define terrace spacing on croplands. This research work was developed during 1998, at the Agroveterinary Center/UDESC, in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil, to establish soil loss tolerance values by water erosion for 73 soil profiles of Santa Catarina, […]