A tectono-stratigraphic review of continental breakup on intraplate continental margins and its impact on resultant hydrocarbon systems

T Alves, M Fetter, C Busby, R Gontijo, TA Cunha… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Intraplate Continental Margins comprise fully rifted areas of continents and cratons
recording the tectonic events associated with plate breakup and subsequent continental …

Where does a continent prefer to break up? Some lessons from the South Atlantic margins

TM Will, HE Frimmel - Gondwana Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The localization of Gondwana rifting, break-up and subsequent opening of the South Atlantic
basin appears to have been primarily controlled by inherited zones of lithospheric …

The chronology and tectonic style of landscape evolution along the elevated Atlantic continental margin of South Africa resolved by joint apatite fission track and (U‐Th …

M Wildman, R Brown, R Beucher, C Persano… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Atlantic‐type continental margins have long been considered “passive” tectonic settings
throughout the entire postrift phase. Recent studies question the long‐term stability of these …

Relations between inherited basement fabric and fault nucleation in a continental setting: The Rio do Peixe Basin, NE Brazil

GV Ramos, DL Vasconcelos, FO Marques… - Marine and petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
The control of normal fault growth by preexisting basement structures is still a worldwide
matter of debate. The objectives of the present study are (i) to investigate where rift faults …

[HTML][HTML] Post break-up tectonic inversion across the southwestern cape of South Africa: New insights from apatite and zircon fission track thermochronometry

M Wildman, R Brown, R Watkins, A Carter, A Gleadow… - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
The south-west African margin is regarded as an example of a passive continental margin
formed by continental rifting following a phase of lithospheric extension and thinning. Recent …

Architectural rift geometry of the Rio do Peixe Basin (Brazil): implications for its tectonic evolution and Precambrian heritage

GV Ramos, DL de Castro, DL Vasconcelos… - Tectonophysics, 2024 - Elsevier
Preexisting shear zones in the basement may influence the formation of normal faults in rift
environments. However, the specific role and interaction between these preexisting shear …

Differential Phanerozoic evolution of cratonic and non-cratonic lithosphere from a thermochronological perspective: São Francisco Craton and marginal orogens …

ACL Fonseca, TA Novo, S Nachtergaele… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
The São Francisco Craton (SFC) and its marginal Araçuaí and Brasília orogens exhibit a
significant diversity in their lithospheric architecture. These orogens were shaped during the …

[HTML][HTML] New insights from low-temperature thermochronology into the tectonic and geomorphologic evolution of the south-eastern Brazilian highlands and passive …

G Van Ranst, AC Pedrosa-Soares, T Novo… - Geoscience …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The South Atlantic passive margin along the south-eastern Brazilian highlands
exhibits a complex landscape, including a northern inselberg area and a southern elevated …

Depicting past stress history at passive margins: A combination of calcite twinning and stylolite roughness paleopiezometry in supra-salt Sendji deep carbonates …

A Zeboudj, B Bah, O Lacombe, NE Beaudoin… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2023 - Elsevier
The paleostress history and associated deformation mechanisms affecting passive margins
are seldom studied, as access to offshore parts is rather limited. We analyze an offshore …

Correlation between tectonic stress regimes and methane seepage on the western Svalbard margin

A Plaza-Faverola, M Keiding - Solid earth, 2019 - se.copernicus.org
Methane seepage occurs across the western Svalbard margin at water depths ranging
from< 300 m, landward from the shelf break, to> 1000 m in regions just a few kilometres from …