Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa
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Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa (born in Alto Rio Doce
, Minas Gerais
, Brazil
) usually known as Professor Licínio is a retired geologist
. He is Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Geociências of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
(UFMG).
from the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto
in 1941. He then entered the Brazilian National Department of Mineral Production (DNPM), working for the Brazilian Geological Survey where he carried out a variety of mapping and geological tasks for many decades. He acquired through public examination the chair of General Geology and Petrology at the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto. He was able to divide his working time with projects of the Brazilian Geological Survey and his teaching duties at the Escola de Minas.
, through a joint agreement between the DNPM and the USA Board of Economic Warfare
, and later with the United States Geological Survey
Licínio focused on the exploration of strategic minerals in Brazil. In the USGS-DNPM joint program led by John van Norstrand Dorr II, was part of the team which for the first time mapped the Iron Quadrangle of Minas Gerais) from 1945 to 1965, with the use at that time of modern methods of aerial photography
base maps. In the late sixties Professor Darcy Ribeiro
invited Licínio to be one of the educators in charge, together with professors Viktor Leinz(University of São Paulo
), Othon H. Leonardos (University of Rio de Janeiro) and others, to plan the creation of the Institute of Geosciences of the University of Brasilia
He has a Master of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University
and a doctorate
from the former Universidade do Brazil. He was granted a scholarship from the Brazilian Research Council in order to get full experience of the mapping of granite
-migmatitic terrains in Scandinavia
. In his honor a mineral was named barbosalite by M. L. Lindelberg and William T. Pecora.
He is a full member of the Brazilian Geological Society, where he did voluntary work for the editorial board of the Revista Brasileira de Geociências. He published papers on field geology, stratigraphy
, historical geology
, economic geology
, geochemistry
, and on sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic petrology
.
Alto Rio Doce
Alto Rio Doce is a Brazilian city in the state of Minas Gerais. As of 2004 its population is estimated to be 13,703....
, Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
) usually known as Professor Licínio is a retired geologist
Geologist
A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...
. He is Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Geociências of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais is a federal university located in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The students are admitted through yearly exams called vestibular....
(UFMG).
Early career
He graduated as a mining and civil engineerCivil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...
from the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto
Ouro Preto
-History:Founded at the end of the 17th century, Ouro Preto was originally called Vila Rica, or "rich village," the focal point of the gold rush and Brazil's golden age in the 18th century under Portuguese rule....
in 1941. He then entered the Brazilian National Department of Mineral Production (DNPM), working for the Brazilian Geological Survey where he carried out a variety of mapping and geological tasks for many decades. He acquired through public examination the chair of General Geology and Petrology at the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto. He was able to divide his working time with projects of the Brazilian Geological Survey and his teaching duties at the Escola de Minas.
World War II and subsequent work
During World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, through a joint agreement between the DNPM and the USA Board of Economic Warfare
Board of Economic Warfare
The Office of Administrator of Export Control was established in the United States by Presidential Proclamation 2413, July 2, 1940, to administer export licensing provisions of the act of July 2, 1940 . Brigadier General Russell Lamont Maxwell, United States Army, headed up this military entity...
, and later with the United States Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology,...
Licínio focused on the exploration of strategic minerals in Brazil. In the USGS-DNPM joint program led by John van Norstrand Dorr II, was part of the team which for the first time mapped the Iron Quadrangle of Minas Gerais) from 1945 to 1965, with the use at that time of modern methods of aerial photography
Aerial photography
Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position. The term usually refers to images in which the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Cameras may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may be taken by a photographer, triggered remotely or...
base maps. In the late sixties Professor Darcy Ribeiro
Darcy Ribeiro
Darcy Ribeiro was a Brazilian anthropologist, author and politician. Darcy Ribeiro's ideas of Latin American identity have influenced several later scholars of Latin American studies...
invited Licínio to be one of the educators in charge, together with professors Viktor Leinz(University of São Paulo
University of São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian university and one of the country's most prestigious...
), Othon H. Leonardos (University of Rio de Janeiro) and others, to plan the creation of the Institute of Geosciences of the University of Brasilia
University of Brasília
The University of Brasília , is one of the largest and most prestigious Brazilian public universities funded by the Brazilian federal government...
He has a Master of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
and a doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
from the former Universidade do Brazil. He was granted a scholarship from the Brazilian Research Council in order to get full experience of the mapping of granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
-migmatitic terrains in Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
. In his honor a mineral was named barbosalite by M. L. Lindelberg and William T. Pecora.
He is a full member of the Brazilian Geological Society, where he did voluntary work for the editorial board of the Revista Brasileira de Geociências. He published papers on field geology, stratigraphy
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy, a branch of geology, studies rock layers and layering . It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks....
, historical geology
Historical geology
Historical geology is the use of the principles of geology to reconstruct and understand the history of the Earth. It focuses on geologic processes that change the Earth's surface and subsurface; and the use of stratigraphy, structural geology and paleontology to tell the sequence of these events...
, economic geology
Economic geology
Economic geology is concerned with earth materials that can be used for economic and/or industrial purposes. These materials include precious and base metals, nonmetallic minerals, construction-grade stone, petroleum minerals, coal, and water. The term commonly refers to metallic mineral deposits...
, geochemistry
Geochemistry
The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks, water, and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earth's chemical components in time and space, and...
, and on sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic petrology
Petrology
Petrology is the branch of geology that studies rocks, and the conditions in which rocks form....
.
Publications
- Barbosa, A. L. M., 1943. Mica o mineral da victoria. Observações Economicas e Financeiras, Year VII, no. 94.
- Barbosa, A. L. M., 1944. Mica in Governador Valadares. Mineração e Melalurgia, vol.8, no. 43, p. 29-34.
- Barbosa, A. L. M., 1956. A formação de engenheiros de minas e geólogos para a economia mineral do Brasil. Revista da Escola de Minas, vol. 20, no.5.
- Barbosa, A.L.M., 1961. Tectônica do Quadrilátero Ferrífero. Semana de Estudos Geológicos do Quadrilátero Ferrífero. Sociedade de Intercâmbio Cultural e Estudos Geológicos (SICEG), Boletim nº 1, p. 49-53. Ouro Preto.
- Barbosa, A. L. M., 1968. Contribuições recentes à geologia do Quadrilátero Ferrífero. Instituto de. Geociências, UFMG, 1985: 26p
- Barbosa, A. L. M. and Grossi Sad, J. H. 1973. Tectonic control of sedimentation and trace-element distribution in iron ores of central Minas Gerais, Brazil. In: SYMPOSIUM ON GENESIS OF PRECAMBRIAN IRON AND MANGANESE DEPOSITS, Kiev, 1970.Proceedings... Kiev, UNESCO, p. 125-131.
- Barbosa, A. L. M and Grossi Sad, J.H. 1973. The tectonic control of sedimentation in a major Precambrian basin of iron deposition, exemplified from central Minas Gerais, Brazil. In: Genesis of Precambrian iron and manganese deposits: Proceedings of the Kiev Symposium, 1970. Paris , UNESCO.
- Barbosa, A. L. M and Grossi Sad, J.H. 1983. Petrografia dos charnockitos e rochas afins ao longo da divisa Minas Gerais – Rio de Janeiro. Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia, Núcleo de Minas Gerais, Anais do II Simpósio de Geologia de Minas Gerais, Boletim no.3, pp. 63–74.
- Barbosa, A. L. M. , Ladeira, E. A. and Ferreira, C. M. 1983. Excursão geológica nos arredores de Ouro Preto e Marina: Estratigrafia e tectônica dos supergrupos Rio das Velhas e Minas nos Distritos de Ouro Preto e de Mariana e jazida de topázip imperial de Vermelhão, Saramenha. Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia, Núcleo de Minas Gerais, Anais do II Simpósio de Geologia de Minas Gerais, Boletim no.3, p. 478-482.
- Dorr, J. V. N II and Barbosa, A. L. M., 1963. Geology and ore deposits of the Itabira District, Minas Gerais, Brazil.U. S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 341-C. Washington,DC, 110p.
- Dorr, J. V. N. II, Guild, P. W., and Barbosa, A. L. M., 1952. The iron ore deposits of Brasil: Origin of the Brazilian iron ores, Symposium sur les gisements de fer du Monde, v.1, p. 286-298, XIX International Geological Congress, Algiers.
- Dorr, J.V.N.II, Herz. N., Barbosa, A.L.M. and Simmons, G.C.,1959/1961.Outline of the Geology of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Brasil, Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral. Publicação Especial 1, 120p. Rio de Janeiro *:(In Engl. and Port.).
- Park, C.F., Dorr, J. V. N. II, Guild, P.W. and Barbosa, A. L. M., 1951. Manganese ores of Brazil. Economic Geology, vol.46, no.1.
- Pecora, W.T. and Barbosa, A.L.M., 1944. Jazidas de níquel e cobalto em São José do Tocantins, Goiás. Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral, Div. Fom. Prod. Mineral, Rio de Janeiro. Boletim. 64: 70p.
- Pecora, W.T., Barbosa, A.L.M., Switzer, C., Myers, A.T. 1950. Structure and mineralogy of the Golconda pegmatite. American Mineralogist, vol.35, nos 9 and 10.
- Pecora, W.T., Klepper, M.R., Larrabee, D.M. (Geological Survey) and Barbosa, A.L.M., and Fraya, R. (Divisão de Fomento , Brazil). 1950. Mica deposits in Minas Gerais, Brazil. United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 964-C, 305pp. + ill.
Sources
- A Escola de Minas:1876-1966(1966). Published in Portuguese by Escola de Minas Printing Offices.Ouro Preto,Minas Gerais, 512p. References on Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa: pages 105-106.
- A Escola de Minas:1876-1976(1976).Primeiro Centenário(Fist Centenary). Published in Portuguese by Escola de Minas Printing Offices.Ouro Preto,Minas Gerais,Volume I, 208p. References on Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa: pages 81.