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Cover Image:
Panoramic view of the Itaimbezinho Canyon, located near the cities of Gramado and Cambará do Sul, with almost 6 km in length and vertical walls up to 720 m high, over the Arroio Perdizes, on the cut edge of the escarpments that make up the National Park of Aparados da Serra, on the state boundary SC-RS: SE of Santa Catarina state and NE of Rio Grande do Sul state. The plateau was built on volcanic units of the Serra Geral Formation, Cretaceous Inferior. (Photo: C. D. R. Carneiro). Source of data: Wildner, W., Orlandi Filho, V., & Giffoni, L. E. (2006). Itaimbezinho e Fortaleza, RS e SC. Magníficos canyons esculpidos nas escarpas Aparados da Serra do planalto vulcânico da Bacia do Paraná. In: Winge, M., Schobbenhaus, C., Berbert-Born, M., Queiroz, E. T., Campos, D. A., Souza, C. R. G., & Fernandes, A. C. S. (Eds.) (2006). Sítios Geológicos e Paleontológicos do Brasil. Brasília: DNPM BRASIL. Depto. Nac. Prod. Mineral (DNPM)/Serv. Geol. Brasil (CPRM). Com. Bras. Sítios Geol. e Paleobiol. (SIGEP). URL: http://sigep.cprm.gov.br/sitio050/sitio050.pdf.
