Traditionally active rifts are thought to evolve in response to thermal upwelling of the
asthenosphere, whereas passive rifts develop in response to lithospheric extension driven …

Abstract The Neuquén Basin of Argentina and central Chile contains a near-continuous Late
Triassic-Early Cenozoic succession deposited on the eastern side of the evolving Andean …

The tectonic evolution of the Neuquén basin spans about 220 my of Mesozoic-Cenozoic
subsidence. Initial rifting in the Triassic was driven by extensional collapse of the Permian …

The late Paleozoic to Tertiary stratigraphic record of much of the African plate reflects the
effects of continental rifting and passive margin development. Several short-lived, but …

The formation of upper Paleozoic (Viséan to Sakmarian-Artinskian) Euramerican
cyclothems, which resulted from base-level fluctuations of up to 100 m, commonly are …

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

Gondwanaland lasted from the 650–500 Ma (late Neoproterozoic-Cambrian) amalgamation
of African and South American terranes to Antarctica–Australia–India through 320 Ma (mid …

From the earliest Jurassic to the Cenozoic, the Neuquén Basin (central Argentina and Chile)
evolved as an intra-arc and transarc–retroarc depression through the gradual development …

The world's 877 giant oil and gas fields are those with 500 million bbl of ultimately
recoverable oil or gas equivalent. Remarkably, almost all of these 877 giant fields, which by …

The South Atlantic Meso-Cenozoic continental margins are located in regions characterized
by a long-lived history of Proterozoic extension, structural inversion and compressional …