Cyclicity in Earth sciences, quo vadis? Essay on cycle concepts in geological thinking and their historical influence on stratigraphic practices
Daniel Galvão Carnier Fragoso,Matheus Kuchenbecker,Antonio Jorge Campos Magalhães,Claiton Marlon Dos Santos Scherer,Guilherme Pederneiras Raja Gabaglia,and André Strasser
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de
Geociências, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Matheus Kuchenbecker
Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Instituto
de Ciência e Tecnologia, Centro de Estudos em Geociências,
Laboratório de Estudos Tectônicos, Diamantina, Brazil
Centro de Pesquisas Professor Manoel Teixeira da Costa, Instituto
de Geociências, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte,
Brazil
Antonio Jorge Campos Magalhães
Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade
de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Geologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geodinâmica e Geofísica (PPGG-LAE), Natal, Brazil
China-Brazil Joint Geoscience Research Center IGGCAS, Beijing, 100029, China
Claiton Marlon Dos Santos Scherer
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de
Geociências, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Guilherme Pederneiras Raja Gabaglia
Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
André Strasser
Department of Geosciences,
Geology-Paleontology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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For a long time, human beings have lived with the idea of cycles, as attested by many ancient traditions. This perception led our way of observing and interpreting the most diverse types of phenomena. In the Earth sciences, cyclicity has crucial epistemological value. It offers simple solutions for cause and consequence analysis in time and space. The intention here is to review how such ideas emerged in the geosciences, supporting current stratigraphic principles and practices.
For a long time, human beings have lived with the idea of cycles, as attested by many ancient...
