Seismic structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of South America and surrounding oceanic basins

GS Chulick, S Detweiler, WD Mooney - Journal of South American Earth …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a new set of contour maps of the seismic structure of South America and the
surrounding ocean basins. These maps include new data, helping to constrain crustal …

100 years of seismic research on the Moho

C Prodehl, B Kennett, IM Artemieva, H Thybo - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The detection of a seismic boundary, the “Moho”, between the outermost shell of the Earth,
the Earth's crust, and the Earth's mantle by A. Mohorovičić was the consequence of …

Three‐dimensional density model of the Nazca plate and the Andean continental margin

A Tassara, HJ Götze, S Schmidt… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We forward modeled the Bouguer anomaly in a region encompassing the Pacific Ocean
(85° W) and the Andean margin (60° W) between northern Peru (5° S) and Patagonia (45° …

Deep crustal framework of the Borborema Province, NE Brazil, derived from gravity and magnetic data

RG Oliveira, WE Medeiros - Precambrian Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Borborema Province BP (NE Brazil) consists of a complex rock mosaic
composed mainly by Proterozoic metasedimentary belts that amalgamate Archean-to …

Crustal thickness map of Brazil: Data compilation and main features

M Assumpção, M Bianchi, J Julià, FL Dias… - Journal of South …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a crustal thickness map of Brazil and adjacent areas based on a compilation of
data published in the literature as well as new measurements. We used crustal thicknesses …

Gravity inversion for crustal thickness investigation of the continental and oceanic crusts of Brazil incorporating a lithosphere thermal gravity anomaly correction

DPD de Lima, AC Carmelo, JEP Soares… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of potential field methods in regional geophysical studies with orbital data
has proven helpful in identifying, modeling, and dimensioning structural features and …

An updated crustal thickness map of central South America based on receiver function measurements in the region of the Chaco, Pantanal, and Paraná Basins …

C Rivadeneyra‐Vera, M Bianchi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Previous compilation of crustal structure in South America had large unsampled areas
including the thin crust in the Sub‐Andean lowlands, largely estimated by gravity data, and …

Seismic characteristics of central Brazil crust and upper mantle: a deep seismic refraction study

JE Soares, J Berrocal, RA Fuck… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A two‐dimensional model of the Brazilian central crust and upper mantle was obtained from
the traveltime interpretation of deep seismic refraction data from the Porangatu and …

Explaining the thick crust in Paraná basin, Brazil, with satellite GOCE gravity observations

P Mariani, C Braitenberg, N Ussami - Journal of South American Earth …, 2013 - Elsevier
Seismologic observations in the last decades have shown that the crustal thickness in
Paraná basin locally is over 40 km thick, which is a greater value than expected by the …

Deep crustal structure beneath large igneous provinces and the petrologic evolution of flood basalts

VA Ridley, MA Richards - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We present a review of seismological constraints on deep crustal structures underlying large
igneous provinces (LIPs), largely from wide‐angle seismic refraction surveys. The main …