Abstract The northern South China Sea (SCS) margin developed on a thinning crust
comprising basement-involved structures inherited from the post-orogenic extension of the …

Abstract The South American Platform encompasses the São Francisco Craton (SFC) and
the Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system (AROS) located in the eastern Brazil. These geologic …

Abstract The Late Cretaceous (~ 78 Ma) Poços de Caldas massif is the largest alkaline
complex in Brazil and the second in the world by extension (> 800 km 2). It is considered the …

Despite their proximity, the Búzios and Itapu oil fields in the Santos Basin have different
structural configurations. The study of the deformation pattern of the area and the …

Passive margins form in response to rifting affecting a continental area. Rifting evolution is
dependent on structural and rheological inheritance, generally controlling differential …

Recent studies have demonstrated that the current tectonics activity plays an important role
also in intraplate setting, such as in the Brazilian territory as a whole. The Continental Rift of …

The basement of southeast Brazil is traditionally interpreted as the result of Neoproterozoic
and early Paleozoic orogenic cycles. Wide regions of the Atlantic Plateau (southeast Brazil) …

It is proposed a new model on the kinematics of strain partitioning for the breakup of the
Santos and Namibe conjugate basins. The model is based on observed strike-slip corridors …

Magma mixing is a common process that ranges from purely physical mingling to complete
hybridization of chemically distinct magmas. Some of the typical pieces of evidence for …

Stress states during the emplacement of the eastern Rio Ceará-Mirim dike swarm, Borborema
Province, northeastern Brazil Page 1 Keywords: Basalt-diabase dikes; Stress states; Morphology; …