Early Cretaceous sedimentary basins on the South Atlantic continental margins of South
America and Africa are closely related with the Gondwana break-up, and record coeval …

Abstract Intraplate Continental Margins comprise fully rifted areas of continents and cratons
recording the tectonic events associated with plate breakup and subsequent continental …

Petrographic, mineralogical, elemental, isotopic and fluid inclusion analyses were integrated
to unravel the diagenetic evolution of Brazilian Pre-Salt lacustrine carbonate reservoirs of …

Abstract During the Aptian (Cretaceous), in what is now the South Atlantic, the largest
chemogenic (abiotic) carbonate factory so far identified in the Phanerozoic geological record …

Abstract The Borborema and Benin–Nigeria Provinces are composed of a complex network
of Neoproterozoic mobile belts, and large-scale shear zones. The evolution of the South …

Halokinetic deformations synchronous with salt deposition are processes already suggested
in several salt giants including the Lower Cretaceous salt deposits of the Santos Basin in …

Layered evaporite sequences (LESs) comprise interbedded weak layers (halite and,
commonly, bittern salts) and strong layers (anhydrite and usually non-evaporite rocks such …

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 …

Abstract The Badejo and Linguado oil fields are hosted within non-conventional volcanic
reservoirs which produced commercial hydrocarbons from the Lower Cretaceous Cabiúnas …

Mantle convection is a fundamental planetary process. Its plate mode is established and
expressed by plate tectonics. Its plume mode also is established and expressed by …