Abstract
The area of the present study is located in the Santa Adélia factory, in the municipality of Jaboticabal, in the Ribeirão Preto region, in the northeast of the State of São Paulo, which forms a part of the geomorphic province of Cuestas Basálticas (Basalt Hills), on the edge of the eastern São Paulo plateau. The region has gently rolling hills with an average altitude of 600 meters. The g…