Role of subaerial volcanic rocks and mantle plumes in creation of South Atlantic margins: Implications for salt tectonics and source rocks

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 477-498

  Jackson, Martin P A ^a   Cramez, Carlos ^b   Fonck, Jean Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Flood basalt; Passive margin; Seaward dipping reflector

Indexed keywords

MANTLE PLUMES; SOURCE ROCKS;

BASALT; GEOMAGNETISM; PETROLOGY; POTASH; SALT DEPOSITS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

FLOOD BASALT; PASSIVE MARGIN; SALT TECTONICS; SOURCE ROCK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034053677     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(00)00006-4     Document Type: Article

References (93)

1. Abreu, V. S. (1998). Geologic evolution of conjugate volcanic passive margins: Walvis (Africa) and Pelotas (South America) Basins. Ph.D. dissertation, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
2. Abreu V.S., Condi F.J., Bally A.W., Sawyer D.S., Droxler A.W. Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of a volcanic rifted margin - offshore Namibia. EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, November 12. 825:1996.
3. Anderson R.N., McKenzie D.P., Sclater J.G. Gravity, bathymetry, and convection in the Earth. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 18:1973;391-407.
4. Austin J.A., Jr., Uchupi E. Continental-oceanic crustal transition off Southwest Africa. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 66:1982;1328-1347.
5. Barton A.J., White R.S. Volcanism on the Rockall continental margin. J. Geol. Soc. London. 154:1997;531-536.
6. Belmonte Y., Hirtz P., Wenger R. The salt basins of Gabon and the Congo (Brazzaville), a tentative paleographic interpretation. Salt basins around Africa. 1965;55-78 Elsevier, Amsterdam.
7. Benson R.N. Chronology of continental flood basalts and seaward-dipping reflectors of the North American Atlantic continental margin. EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union. S318:1999.
8. Borchert H., Muir R.O. Salt deposits: the origin, metamorphism and deformation of evaporites. 1964;338 Van Nostrand, London.
9. Bown J.W., White R.S. Variation with spreading rate of oceanic crustal thickness and geochemistry. Earth Plan. Sci. Lett. 121:1994;435-449.
10. Brice, S. E., Cochran M. D., Pardo, G. Edwards, A. D. (1982). Tectonics and sedimentation of the south Atlantic rift sequence: Cabinda, Angola. In: Watkins, J. S., Drake, C. L., (Eds.) Studies in Continental Margin Geology: Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Memoir, 34, 5-18.
11. Brognon G. The geology of the Angola coast and continental margin.The geology of the east Atlantic continental margin, 4. Africa Rept. Natural Environment Res. Council, Inst. Geol. Sci. 70:1971;143-152.
12. Burke K., Dewey J.F. Plume-generated triple junctions: key indicators in applying plate tectonics to old rocks. J. Geology. 81:1973;406-433.
13. Cainelli, C., Mohriak, W. U. (1998). Geology of Atlantic Eastern Brazilian Basins: Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. International Conference and Exhibition, Rio de Janeiro, Short Course on Brazilian Geology, Part II.
14. Coffin, M. F., Eldholm, O. (1992). Volcanism and continental break-up: a global compilation of large igneous provinces. In: Storey, B. C., Alabaster, T., Pankhurst, R. J., Magmatism and the Causes of Continental Break-Up (Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ). 68, 21-34.
15. Coffin M.F., Eldholm O. Large igneous provinces: crustal structure, dimensions, and external consequences. Reviews Geophysics. 32:1994;1-36.
16. Condi, F. J., Abreu, V. S., Bally, A. W., Sawyer, D. S. Evolution of a volcanic rifted margin: case study from Pelotas Basin, Brazil. EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, Washington, DC, November 12. 825, 1996.
17. st, Curitiba. 1967;207-231.
18. Crossley R., Watkins C., Raven M., Cripps D., Carnell A., Williams D. The sedimentary evolution of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. J.Petrol. Geol. 15:1992;157-172.
19. Dam G., Larsen M., Sønderholm M. Sedimentary response to mantle plumes: implications from Paleocene onshore successions, West and East Greenland. Geology. 26:1998;207-210.
20. Davison I., et al. Geological evolution of the southeastern Red Sea Rift margin, Republic of Yemen. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 106:1994;1474-1493.
21. Davison, I. (1999). Tectonics and hydrocarbon distribution along the Brazilian South Atlantic margin. In: Cameron, N. R., Bate, R. H., Clure, V. S., The oil and gas habitats of the South Atlantic (Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ.) 153, 133-151.
22. Dewey J.F. Plate tectonics and the evolution of the British Isles. J. Geol. Soc. London. 139:1982;371-412.
23. Dibner V.D., Mitin N.Y., Rozhdestvenskaya I.I., Seryakov M.M., Ustinova L.A. Geologic structure and halokinesis on the continental margin of Angola. International Geology Review. 28:1986;444-448.
24. Dingle, R. V. (1999). Walvis Ridge barrier: its influence on palaeoenvironments and source rock generation deduced from ostracod distributions in the early South Atlantic Ocean. In: Cameron, N. R., Bate, R. H., Clure, V. S., The oil and gas habitats of the South Atlantic (Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ.), 153, 293-302.
25. Duval B., Cramez C., Jackson M.P. A. Raft tectonics in the Kwanza Basin, Angola. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 9:1992;389-404.
26. Eldholm O., Grue K. North Atlantic volcanic margins: dimensions and production rates. J. Geophys. Res. B2. 99:1994;2955-2968.
27. Eldholm O., Skogseid J., Planke S., Gladczenko T.P. Volcanic margin concepts. Banda E., Torné M., Talwani M. Rifted ocean-continent boundaries. 1995;1-16 Kluwer, Dordrecht.
28. Emery K.O., Uchupi E., Phillips J., Bowin C., Mascle J. Continental margin off western Africa: Angola to Sierra Leone. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 59:1975;2209-2265.
29. Erlank, A. J., Marsh, J. S., Duncan, A. R., Miller, R. McG., Hawkesworth, C. J., Betton, P. J. Rex, D. C. (1984). Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of the Etendeka Volcanic Rocks from SWA/Namibia. (Geol. Soc. S. Africa Spec. Publ.), 13, 195-245.
30. Evans R. Origin and significance of evaporites in basins around Atlantic margin. Am.Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 62:1978;223-234.
31. Fonck J.-M., Cramez C., Jackson M.P. A. Role of subaerial volcanic rocks and major unconformities in the creation of South Atlantic margins. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. International Conference Extended Abstracts Volume, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November :1998;38-39.
32. Fontana R.L. SDR (Seaward-dipping reflectors) e a transiçao crustal na Bacia de Pelotas. 39th Brazilian Geological Congress 5 :1996;425-430.
33. Garland F.E., Thompson R.N., Hawkesworth C.J. Shifts in the source of Paraná basalts through time. Lithos. 37:1996;223-243.
34. Gerrard, I., Smith, G. C. (1982). Post-Paleozoic succession and structure of the Southwestern African continental margin. In: Watkins, J.S., Drake, C.L., Studies in Continental Margin Geology, Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Memoir, 34, 49-62.
35. Gladczenko T.P., Hinz K., Eldholm O., Meyer H., Neben S., Skogseid J. South Atlantic volcanic margins. J. Geol. Soc. London. 154:1997;465-470.
36. Glen J.M. G., Renne P.R., Milner S.C., Coe R.S. Magma flow inferred from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in the coastal Paraná-Etendeka igneous province: Evidence for rifting before flood volcanism. Geology. 25:1997;1131-1134.
37. Guardado, L. R., Gamboa, L. A. P., Lucchesi, C. F. (1989). Petroleum geology of the Campos Basin, a model for a producing Atlantic-type basin. In: Edwards, J. D. Santogrossi, P. A., Divergent/Passive Margin Basins, Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Memoir, 48, 3-79.
38. Gudmundsson A. Infrastructure and mechanics of volcanic systems in Iceland. Volcanolog. Geothermal Res. J. 64:1995;1-22.
39. Guiraud R., Maurin J. Early Cretaceous rifts of Western and Central Africa: An overview. Tectonophysics. 213:1992;153-168.
40. 2 brines by basalt-seawater interaction: Insights provided by some simple mass balance calculations. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 82:1983;205-213.
41. 2 brines in the origin of potash evaporites: An hypothesis. Amer. J. Science. 290:1990;43-106.
42. Hardie L.A. Secular variation in seawater chemistry: an explanation for the coupled secular variation in the mineralogies of marine limestones and potash evaporites over the past 600 m.y. Geology. 24:1996;279-283.
43. Harry D.L., Sawyer D.S. Basaltic volcanism, mantle plumes, and the mechanics of rifting: the Paraná flood basalt province of South America. Geology. 20:1992;207-210.
44. Henry, S. G., Abreu, V., (1998). Marine transgressions in the pre-salt of the South Atlantic: new models for rifting and continental breakup. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Annual Convention Abstracts CD.
45. Hinz K. A hypothesis on terrestrial catastrophes: wedges of very thick oceanward dipping layers beneath passive continental margins - their origin and paleoenvironmental significance. Geologische Jahrebuch, Reihe E, Geophysik. 22:1981;3-28.
46. Hinz K. The Argentine eastern continental margin: structure and geological development. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 74:1990;675-676.
47. Hinz K., Weber J. Zum geologischen Aufbau des Norwegischen Kontinentalrandes und der Barents-See nach reflexionsseismischen Messungen. Erdol und Kohle, Erdgas Petrochemie, Compendium. 57/76:1976;3-29. Leinfelden/Echterdingen.
48. Hinz, K., Mutter, J. C., Zehnder, C.M. & the NGT Study Group, (1987). Symmetric conjugation of continent-ocean boundary structures along the Norwegian and east Greenland margins. Mar. Petrol. Geol., 4, 166-187.
49. Karner G.D., Driscoll N.W. Tectonic setting of the Marnes-Noires/Falcao source rocks of the Congo and Angolan continental margins. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 82:1998.
50. Karner G.D., Driscoll N.W., McGinnis J.P., Brumbaugh W.D., Cameron N.R. Tectonic significance of syn-rift sediment packages across the Gabon-Cabinda continental margin. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 14:1997;973-1000.
51. Karner G.D., Watts A.B. On isostasy at Atlantic-type continental margins. J. Geophys. Res. 87,B4:1982;2923-2948.
52. Larsen, H. C., Jakobsdóttir, S. (1988). Distribution, crustal properties and significance of seawards-dipping sub-basement reflectors off E Greenland. In: Morton, A. C., Parson, L. M., Early Tertiary Volcanism and the Opening of the NE Atlantic (Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ.) 39, 95-114.
53. LeCheminant A.N., Heaman L.M. Mackenzie igneous events, Canada: middle Proterozoic hot spot magmatism associated with ocean opening. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 96:1989;38-48.
54. Lehner P., de Ruiter P.A. C. Structural history of Atlantic margin of Africa. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 61:1977;961-981.
55. Leinz V.Bartorelli, A., Isotta C.A. Contibuiçao ao estudo do magmatism basáltico Mesozóic da bacia do Paraná Ann. Acad. Bras. Ciênc. 40:1968;167-181.
56. Light, M. P. R., Maslanyj, M. P., Banks, N. L. (1992). New geophysical evidence for extensional tectonics on the divergent margin offshore Namibia. In: Storey, B. C., Alabaster, T. and Pankhurst, R. J., Magmatism and the causes of continental break-up (Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ.) 68, 257-270.
57. Lohmann, H. H., Hoffmann-Rolhe, J., Hinz, K., (1995). Argentine. In: Kulke, H. Regional petroleum geology of the world. Part II: Africa, America, Australia and Antarctica, Berlin, 549-577.
58. McKenzie D.P. Some remarks on the development of sedimentary basins. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 40:1978;25-32.
59. Manighetti I., Tapponnier P., Courtillot V., Gruszow S., Gillot P.-Y. Propagation of rifting along the Arabia-Somalia plate boundary: The Gulfs of Aden and Tadjoura. J. Geophys. Res. 102, B2:1997;2681-2710.
60. Maslanyj M.P., Light M.P. R., Greenwood R.J., Banks N.L. Extension tectonics offshore Namibia and evidence for passive rifting in the South Atlantic. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 9:1992;590-601.
61. Meyers J.B., Rosendahl B.R., Austin J.A. Jr. Deep-penetrating MCS imaging of the South Gabon Basin: Implications for rift tectonics and post-breakup salt remobilization. Basin Res. 8:1996;65-84.
62. Meyers J.B., Rosendahl B.R., Groschel-Becker H., Austin J.A. Jr, Rona P.A. Deep penetrating MCS imaging of the rift-to-drift transition, offshore Douala and North Gabon basins, West Africa. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 13:1996;791-835.
63. Milner S.C., Duncan A.R., Whittingham A.M., Ewart A. Trans-Atlantic correlation of eruptive sequences and individual silicic units within the Paraná-Etendeka igneous province. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 69:1995;137-157.
64. Mizusaki A.M. P., Petrini R., Bellieni G., Comin-Chiaramonti P., Dias J., Min A., Piccirillo E.M. Basalt magmatism along the passive continental margin of SE Brazil (Campos basin). Contrib. Mineral Petrol. 111:1992;143-160.
65. Mohriak W.U., Bassetto M., Vieira I.S. Crustal architecture and tectonic evolution of the Sergipe-Alagoas and Jacuípe basin, offshore northeastern Brazil. Tectonophysics. 288:1998;199-220.
66. Mohriak W.U., Rabelo J.H. L., Matos R.D., Barros M.C. Deep seismic reflection profiling of sedimentary basins offshore Brazil: Geological objectives and preliminary results in the Sergipe Basin. J. Geodynamics. 20:1995;515-539.
67. Morgan W.J. Hot spot tracks and the early rifting of the Atlantic. Tectonophysics. 94:1983;123-139.
68. Müller R.D., Royer J.-Y., Lawver L.A. Revised plate motions relative to the hot spots from combined Atlantic and Indian Ocean hot spot tracks. Geology. 21:1993;275-278.
69. Mutter J.C., Talwani M., Stoffa P.L. Origin of seaward-dipping reflectors in oceanic crust off the Norwegian margin by "subaerial sea-floor spreading" Geology. 10:1982;353-357.
70. Needham R.S. Giant-scale hydroplastic deformation structures formed by the loading of basalt onto water-saturated sand, Middle Proterozoic, Northern Territory, Australia. Sedimentology. 25:1978;285-295.
71. Nürnberg D., Müller R.D. The tectonic evolution of the South Atlantic from Late Jurassic to present. Tectonophysics. 191:1991;27-53.
72. O'Connor J.M., Duncan R.A. Evolution of the Walvis Ridge - Rio Grande Rise hot spot system: Implications for African and South American plate motions over plumes. J. Geophys, Res. 95:1990;17474-17502.
73. Ojeda H.A. O. Structural framework, stratigraphy, and evolution of Brazilian marginal basins. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 66:1982;732-749.
74. Pálmason G. A continuum model of crustal generation in Iceland; Kinematic aspects. J.Geophysics. 47:1980;7-18.
75. Peate, D. W. (1990). Stratigraphy and petrogenesis of the Paraná continental flood basalts, southern Brazil. Ph. D. thesis, The Open University, Milton Keynes.
76. Peate, D. W. (1997). The Paraná-Etendeka Province. In: Mahoney, J. J., Coffin, M. F. Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism, Geophysical Monograph 100, 217-245.
77. Peate D.W., Hawkesworth C.J., Mantovani M.S. M. Chemical stratigraphy of the Paraná lavas (South America): classification of magma types and their spatial distribution. Bull. Volcanol. 55:1992;119-139.
78. Peate D.W., Hawkesworth C.J., Mantovani M.S. M., Shukovsky W. Mantle plumes and flood basalt stratigraphy in the Paraná, South America. Geology. 18:1990;1223-1226.
79. Roberts, D. G., Backman, J., Morton, A. C. Murray, J. W., Keene, J. B. (1984a). Evolution of volcanic rifted margins: Synthesis of Leg 81 results on the west margin of Rockall Plateau. In: Blackman J., Init. Rep. DSDP 81, 883-911.
80. Roberts D.G., Schnitker. Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 81:1984;U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington.
81. Skogseid J., Eldholm O. Rifted continental margin off mid-Norway. Banda E., Torné M., Talwani M. Rifted ocean-continent boundaries. 1995;147-152 Kluwer, Dordrecht.
82. 39Ar geochronology in the Paraná flood basalt province. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 143:1996;95-110.
83. Szatmari P. Tectonic habitat of petroleum along the South Atlantic margins. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. International Conference Extended Abstracts Volume, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November :1998;362-363.
84. Teisserenc, P., Villemin J. (1989). Sedimentary basin of Gabon - Geology and oil systems. In: Edwards, J. D., Santogrossi P. A., Divergent/passive margin basins, Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Memoir, 48, 117-199.
85. Thompson R.N., Gibson S.A. Subcontinental mantle plumes, hot spots and pre-existing thinspots. J. Geol. Soc. London. 147:1991;973-977.
86. Tolan, T. L., Reidel, S. P., Beeson, M. H., Anderson, J. L., Fecht, K. R., Swanson, D. A. (1989). Revisions to the estimates of the areal extent and volume of the Columbia River Basalt Group. In: Reidel, S. P., Hooper, P. R., Volcanism and tectonism in the Columbia River Flood Basalt Province (Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec. Publ.) 239, 1-20.
87. 39Ar geochronology. Earth Plan. Sci. Let. 121:1994;333-348.
88. Wardlaw N.C. Unusual marine evaporites with salts of calcium and magnesium chloride in Cretaceous basins off Sergipe, Brazil. Econ. Geol. 67:1972;156-168.
89. White R.S. Igneous outbursts and mass extinctions. EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, Washington, D.C. 70:1989;1490-1491.
90. White R.S., McKenzie D. Magmatism at rift zones: The generation of volcanic continental margins and flood basalts. J.Geophys. Res. 94, B6:1989;7685-7729.
91. White R.S., McKenzie D.M. Mantle plumes and flood basalts. J. Geophys. Res. 100, B9:1995;17543-17585.
92. Withjack M.O., Schlische R.W., Olsen P.E. Relative timing of Eastern North America magmatism, rifting, drifting, and inversion. EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union. S319:1999.
93. Zalan, P. V., Wolf, S., Astolfi, M. A. M., Vieira, I. S., Conceiçao, J. C. J., Appi, V. T. T., Neto, E. V. S., Cerqueira, J. R., Marques, A. (1990). The Paraná Basin, Brazil. In: Leighton, M. W., Kolata, D. R., D. Oltz, S. and Eidel, J. J. Interior cratonic basins Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Memoir, 51, 681-701.