Constraining the timing of emplacement, duration and magma extrusion rates of large
igneous provinces is essential for evaluating their petrogenetic evolution and possible links …

The opening of the Equatorial and South Atlantic Oceans is still a matter of debate,
particularly as concerns the locations of the intraplate deformation. We propose here a …

The discovery of large oil accumulations in the rift and sag Pre-Salt sections of the Campos
and Santos Basins has revived interest in the exploration of the lacustrine carbonate …

Early during the twentieth Century, pioneering correlations between the Palaeozoic–
Mesozoic basins of South America and southern Africa were used by Alexander du Toit to …

The South Atlantic rift basin evolved as a branch of a large Jurassic–Cretaceous intraplate
rift zone between the African and South American plates during the final break-up of western …

The genesis and evolution of lacustrine pre-salt carbonate reservoirs, which contain giant
hydrocarbon accumulations along the South Atlantic margins, has attracted major research …

Stratigraphic data and 40 Ar-39Ar ages for the Early Cretaceous Paraná-Etendeka flood
basalts indicate that the main magmatic episode lasted for several my (129–134 Ma) and …

The South American Platform is defined as the stable continental portion of the South
American plate not affected by the Phanerozoic—Caribbean and Andean—orogenic zones …

After thirty years of plate-tectonic theory, the reasons why supercontinents disintegrate and
disperse to form smaller continental plates remain enigmatic. Possible causes range from …

We present a revised model for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean founded on a
remap** of the continent—ocean boundaries and Aptian salt basins, the chronology of …