Abstract This study deals with the main environmental impacts and possible mitigation measures for many pipeline tracks, due to the mining of different substances in areas of interference between mining activities and mineral research and those resulting from construction and gas pipeline operation. By monitoring the identified interferences/disturbances, it was determined that although punctual and small in number, the extraction of mineral resources in the proximity of the gas pipelines could represent risks for the security of the undertaking. In general the risks are consequence either of the use of explosives or of induced erosive processes that could lead to pipeline instability. It is necessary to block the mining activities on both sides of the pipeline tracks in order to minimize risks to the pipeline, to others, to society, and to the environment. Also, the establishment of "flexible" track limits could be adopted in areas adjacent to the pipelines for the exploration of some mineral deposits, thus prioritizing security preservation with a minimum of socio-environmental impacts.

Esse trabalho apresenta a caracterização petrográfica e diagenética de arenitos pertencentes ao Grupo Bauru, tendo como material de estudo testemunhos de sondagem extraídos de um poço-pesquisa de 250m de profundidade, perfurado no município de Pirapozinho, região sudoeste do Estado de São Paulo. O estudo envolveu a utilização de microscopia óptica e microscopia eletrônica de varredura. O arcabouço detrítico desses arenitos é constituído essencialmente por quartzo e feldspatos e, em menor quantidade, por fragmentos líticos e minerais acessórios. Os arenitos do Grupo Bauru apresentam evidências de processos eodiagenéticos. Os principais processos diagenéticos observados foram: dissolução de minerais pesados, fragmentos líticos e aluminossilicatos; cimentação por calcita microcristalina; formação de argilominerais; cimentação poiquilotópica de calcita; e cimentação por zeólitas.

This work presents a petrographic and diagenetic study of the Bauru Group sandstones. Core samples were collected from a 250m-deep well located in the City of Pirapozinho, southwestern region of State of São Paulo. Optical and scanning electron microscopy were applied to these studies. The detrital composition of these sandstones is constituted essentially by quartz and feldspars and in minor amounts by rock fragments and accessory minerals. The sandstones of Bauru Group underwent eodiagenesis. The main diagenetic processes identified are: dissolution of heavy minerals, rock fragments and aluminossilicate mineral; microcrystalline calcite cementation; formation of clay minerals; poikilotopic calcite cementation; and zeolite cementation.

As formações Rio Claro e Piraçununga recobrem extensas áreas da Depressão Periférica Paulista, sobretudo na região das cidades homônimas, sobrepondo-se às formações Corumbataí e Pirambóia, em contato discordante. Caracterizam-se por fácies de areias finas a médias, localmente apresentando estratificações plano-paralelas e cruzadas e delgadas intercalações de lamas e cascalhos. As areias foram datadas pelo método de termoluminescência e apresentaram idade do Pleistoceno. A idade mais antiga, de 745.000 anos AP, foi determinada em amostras da formação Rio Claro; as demais apresentaram resultados entre 400.000 e 145.000 anos AP, para ambas unidades. A idade mais recente, de 15.000 anos AP, foi obtida em amostra de depósito coluvionar sobreposto à formação Piraçununga, próximo ao limite Pleistoceno/Holoceno.

The Rio Claro and Piraçununga formations cover extensive areas of the Paulista Peripheral Depression, dominantly in the region of Rio Claro and Piraçununga cities. These units lie over the Corumbataí and Pirambóia formations, exhibiting discordant contacts. The Rio Claro and Piraçununga formations are composed of fine to medium sand facies, showing local cross-stratifications and parallel beddings with thin interbeddings of mud and gravel. These sands were dated by the Thermoluminescence Method, which indicated they were from the Pleistocene age. The oldest age (745,000 years BP) was found in deposits of the Rio Claro Formation; the other ages varied from 400,000 years BP to 145,000 years BP, for both formations. The youngest age (15,000 years BP - close to Pleistocene/Holocene limit) was found in colluvial deposits, which rest on the Piraçununga Formation.