After completing secondary studies in Panambi and Ijuí, he attended the School of Geology at the University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he began his research.
[4] Alongside fellow researchers Matthew T. Brown and Elton L. Dantas he published an article in 2019 titled Isotopic age constraints and geochemical results of disseminated ophiolitic assemblage from Neoproterozoic mélange, Central Brazil.
[5] The mélange's metamafic components exhibit Mid Ocean Ridge Basin characteristics, while associated garnet-mica schists indicate sedimentary deposition within the same tectonicsetting.
[5] This article published along with Nazaré A. Barbosa, Valmir Souza, Elton L Dantes, and Stélio Tavares gives insight into how one of the most significant ignimbrite eruption events in the world during the Palaeoproterozoic is represented by the Orocaima volcano-plutonism.
[6] To determine this Palaeoproterozoic SLIP, a method called the U-Pb analysis was carried out with the use of a Thermo Finnigan Neptune MulticollectorICP-MS mass spectrometer.
[6] This article, which was published alongside Luísa Diniz Vilela de Carvalho, Thomas Stachel, Robert W. Luth, Andrew J. Locock, Graham Pearson, Matthew Steele-MacInnis, Richard A. Stern, Fabrizio Nestola, Ricardo Scholz, and Tiago Jalowitzki, examines how diamonds form through interactions between carbon-rich fluids and mantle rocks.
[7] The geochemical signatures of the inclusions, such as hydrous Mg-silicates and olivine, suggest that the diamond originated from partially dehydrated peridotitic rocks in Earth's upper mantle.
[7] Isotopic analyses of carbon and nitrogen within the diamond revealed a mixture of crustal and mantle materials, supporting the idea of a combined source for diamond-forming fluids.
[7] This study provides a detailed account of the geological evolution of the São Francisco Craton, highlighting the complex interplay between magmatism, crustal reworking, and subduction.
da Costa, and Chris J. Hawkesworth, investigates the geological history of the São Francisco Craton and the Patos Shear System (PSS) in northeastern Brazil.
[8] It utilizes data from U-Pb, Lu-Hf, and Sm-Nd isotopic analyses to uncover the magmatic and metamorphic processes that shaped the basement rocks over billions of years.
[8] The study finds that the São Francisco Craton underwent significant high-grade metamorphism approximately 2.1–2.0 billion years ago, during a continental collision event.