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The Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park is a nature conservation protected area, which was included in the World Heritage List by UNESCO in December 2001 because of the geomorphological and ecological sites that characterize the Brazilian Central Plateau and the Cerrado Biome. The forms of the Veadeiros plateau have been developed mainly on gently folded rocks from the Neoproterozoic Araí and Paranoá groups. The elevation of the plateau is about 1,200 m above mean sea level and is characterized by smooth topography. The edges of the Veadeiros Plateau are controlled by fault zones showing precipitous escarpments. The highest step is located in the western part of the plateau where many waterfalls occur along the rivers descending from the plateau surface. Thus, the park is well known for its natural landscape of great beauty, particularly due to the waterfalls, vertical escarpments, canyons, and bedrock rivers. Such a wonderful scene results from differential landscape dissection controlled by a variety of Neoproterozoic rocks crossed by faults and fractures, mostly subvertical. In this chapter, we present geological and geomorphological aspects that have influenced region, considering four environments: (a) Veadeiros Plateau; (b) Preto River in the region controlled by faults; (c) Escarpment; and (d) Moon Valley.
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de Carvalho Júnior, O.A., Guimarães, R.F., Martins, É.d.S., Gomes, R.A.T. (2015). Chapada dos Veadeiros: The Highest Landscapes in the Brazilian Central Plateau. In: Vieira, B., Salgado, A., Santos, L. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of Brazil. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8023-0_20
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