The shallow stratigraphy of Ilha Comprida-SP was analised based on ground penetrating radar (GPR) profiles, that allowed to identify some important geological characteristics of southern São Paulo State coast. GPR is a very high resolution geophysical method applied in shallow investigations providing excellent results in several geologic environments. The interpretation of the data revealed the occurrence of three main stratigraphic units separated by strong electromagnetic reflectors. The two superior units can be correlated to the holocenic deposits, formed in transgressive and regressive events. The deeper unit is related to the sandy ridges formation, clearly identified in the registers. These deposits overlap, in erosive contact, the sediments associated with sea level changes in the Pleistocene. These results show an evident correlation between the stratigraphic units identified in the GPR sections and the sedimentary evolutive model, proposed by Suguio & Martin (In Rabassa, J. (Ed.) Quaternary of S. America and Antartica Peninsula, 1978), based in the sea level changes during the Quaternary, for the southern region of the Ilha Comprida.
GPR; Shallow stratigraphy; Shallow geophysics; Quaternary; Ilha Comprida
