Thin-skinned extensional salt tectonics, counterregional faults, and the Albian Gap of Brazil

MG Rowan, J Tilton, H Lebit, JC Fiduk - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Thin-skinned extension detached on salt is mostly well understood. Faults may dip
basinward or landward (counterregional) and intersect the top salt or equivalent weld at …

Deep-burial hydrothermal alteration of the Pre-Salt carbonate reservoirs from northern Campos Basin, offshore Brazil: Evidence from petrography, fluid inclusions, Sr …

BEM Lima, LR Tedeschi, ALS Pestilho… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Petrographic, mineralogical, elemental, isotopic and fluid inclusion analyses were integrated
to unravel the diagenetic evolution of Brazilian Pre-Salt lacustrine carbonate reservoirs of …

Environmental conditions of deposition of the Lower Cretaceous lacustrine carbonates of the Barra Velha Formation, Santos Basin (Brazil), based on stable carbon …

R Pietzsch, LR Tedeschi, DM Oliveira, CWD dos Anjos… - Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents new stable carbon and oxygen isotope data from Lower Cretaceous
lacustrine carbonate rock samples recovered from a well drilled in the Santos Basin …

Petrography, geochemistry and origin of South Atlantic evaporites: The Brazilian side

P Szatmari, CM de Lima, G Fontaneta… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
The discovery and production, by Petrobras, of over 50 billion barrels in place of pre-salt oil
in Brazil's offshore South Atlantic Santos and Campos basins has drawn worldwide attention …

Challenges for seismic velocity modelling of rafts and impacts for pre-salt depth estimations

GN Camargo, M González, F Borges, A Maul… - Petroleum …, 2023 - earthdoc.org
Seismic velocity models have significant importance in subsurface studies, notably when
applied in structurally challenging areas. In some parts of the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil …

Salt–magma interactions influence intrusion distribution and salt tectonics in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil

C Magee, LM Pichel, AL Madden‐Nadeau… - Basin …, 2021 - earthdoc.org
Many sedimentary basins host thick evaporite (salt) deposits. Some of these basins also
host extensive igneous intrusion networks. It thus seems inevitable that, in some locations …

Dynamo-thermal subsidence and sag–salt section deposition as magma-rich rifted margins move off plume centres along incipient lines of break-up

J Pindell, T Heyn - Journal of the Geological Society, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Magma-rich rifting generally occurs over mantle plumes or rising convection cells; magma-
poor rifting does not. Plumes produce up to 2 km dynamic elevation, outcompeting synrift …

New age and lake chemistry constraints on the Aptian pre-salt carbonates of the central South Atlantic

M Lawson, J Sitgreaves, T Rasbury, K Wooton… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Cretaceous lacustrine carbonates of the offshore Brazilian and West African presalt
basins represent some of the most extensive non-marine carbonates discovered in the …

Reconstructing the level of the central Red Sea evaporites at the end of the Miocene

NC Mitchell, W Shi, AY Izzeldin, ICF Stewart - Basin Research, 2021 - earthdoc.org
Reconstructing the original depositional level of the Mesozoic and older c 'salt giants' can
reveal if their basins became filled to global sea level, but is complicated by dissolution …

Base‐salt relief controls salt‐tectonic structural style, São Paulo Plateau, Santos Basin, Brazil

LM Pichel, CAL Jackson, F Peel, TP Dooley - Basin Research, 2020 - earthdoc.org
Base‐salt relief influences salt flow, producing three‐dimensionally complex strains and
multiphase deformation within the salt and its overburden. Understanding how base‐salt …