O Complexo Geoidal Leste Brasileiro: características geológicas e geofísicas

• Ano de defesa: 2003
• Autor(a) principal: Pessanha, Ivo Bruno Machado
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal Fluminense; Programa de Pós-graduação em Geologia e Geofísica Marinha; Geologia e Geofísica Marinha; BR; UFF
• Palavras-chave em Português: Anomalias Gravimétricas; Hotspot; Margem Continental Leste Brasileira; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::OCEANOGRAFIA::OCEANOGRAFIA GEOLOGICA::GEOFISICA MARINHA
• Link de acesso: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/17761

The Eastern Brazilian continental margin is a typical passive continental margin derived from a rifting process that has been modified by a set of features, here named Abrolhos Magmatic Province (AMP). Abrolhos continental shelf, Royal Charlotte bank, Bahia seamounts, and Vitória/Trindade ridge, along with isolated seamounts, and igneous bodies interbedded within the sedimentary sequences are the main components of such Province. This study is based on satellite altimetry derived bathymetric data as well as gravity and multichannel seismic data in order to investigate the spatial and temporal relationship between AMP and a group of gravity anomalies formerly designated as East Brazilian Geoidal Complex. Among these anomalies is the Geoid High of Abrolhos. The interpretation of seismic profiles and bathymetric, gravity, and isopach maps allowed to unravel distinct characteristics of the oceanic basement and sedimentary sequences so as related gravity anomalies along the different sectors of the Abrolhos Magmatic Province. Gravity anomalies could be primarily classified as shallow (crustal) and deeper ones. Deeper anomalies can be separated into a northern and a southern sector. Northern sector strikes NW-SE with a smaller geoid high, can be directly related to Bahia seamounts and extends southeasterly up to Bragation fracture zone. Contrarily southern sector is a prominent WSWENE striking geoid high, which is not related to any important topographic feature. So apparently these two anomalies are related to distinct mantle sources differing in age and in depth as suggested by amplitude and strike, respectively. Nevertheless it can not be discarded the hypothesis that these two anomalies come from different parts of a single plume that have been actives in different times; 80 Ma. for the northern sector while the southern sector can be considered still in activity nowadays. It has to be added that there existed yet weakness zones striking NW-SE and W-E in northern and southern regions, respectively. Evidences that the whole study area has been constantly influenced by magmatic events since the Tertiary suggest that it is of fundamental importance to take them into account while establishing geological models and in the application of such models either in academic research or in oil and gas industry no matter the origin of such events to be related to a single or multiple sources. Knowledge of the evolution of these thermal anomalies is important since it is considered their influence in the process of oil and gas origin and accumulation (structural changes) in the sedimentary basins of the region. It became evident in this work the need of continuing the study of these features in order to allow the development of geological and geophysical models capable to estimate the nature, origin, and effects of these thermal anomalies in depositional environments of the eastern Brazilian continental margin.