Thermal history of the Rio Muni (West Africa)-NE Brazil margins during continental breakup

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 354-367

  Turner, Jonathan P ^a   Green, Paul F ^b   Holford, Simon P ^a,c   Lawrence, Stephen R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Unit 14   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d RPS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

apatite fission track analysis; Brazil; conjugate ocean margins; continental breakup; exhumation; heatflow; vitrinite reflectance; West Africa

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS; CONJUGATE OCEAN MARGINS; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; PALEOGEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

APATITE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FRACTURE ZONE; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION; UNCONFORMITY; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

AFRICA; BRAZIL; CENTRAL AFRICA; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; RIO MUNI; SOUTH AMERICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 44649096895     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Argent J.D., Stewart S.A., Green P.F., and Underhill J.R. Heterogeneous exhumation in the Inner Moray Firth, UK North Sea: Constraints from new AFTA and seismic data. J. Geol. Soc. 159 (2002) 715-729
2. Barbarand J., Carter A., Wood I., and Hurford A.J. Compositional and structural control of fission track annealing in apatite. Chem. Geol. 198 (2003) 107-137
3. Basile C., Mascle J., Benkhelil J., and Bouillin J.-P. Geodynamic evolution of the Cote D'Ivoire-Ghana transform margin: an overview of Leg 159 results. In: Mascle J., Lohmann G.P., and Moullade M. (Eds). Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program. Sci. Result. vol. 159 (1998) 101-110
4. Bradley C.A., and Fernandez M.N. Early Cretaceous paleogeography of Gabon/northeastern Brazil. A tectono-stratigraphic model based on propagating rifts. In: Curnelle R. (Ed). Geologie Africa in-Compte-rendu des colloques de geologie de Libreville (1992) 17-30 6-8 Mai 1991
5. Bray R., Green P.F., and Duddy I.R. Thermal history reconstruction in sedimentary basins using apatite fission track analysis and vitrinite reflectance: a case study from the east Midlands of England and the Southern North Sea. In: Hardman R.F.P. (Ed). Exploration Britain: Into the Next Decade. Special Publication vol. 67 (1992), Geological Society 3-25
6. Brown R., Gallagher K., Gleadow A.J.W., and Summerfield M.A. Morphotectonic evolution of the South Atlantic margins of Africa and South America. In: Summerfield M.A. (Ed). Geomorphology and Global Tectonics (2000), Wiley, Chichester 255-281
7. Burke K. The African Plate. S. Afr. J. Geol. 99 (1996) 341-409
8. Burnham A.K., and Sweeney J.J. A chemical kinetic model of vitrinite reflectance maturation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 53 (1989) 2649-2657
9. Carlson W.D., Donelick R.A., and Ketcham R.A. Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics: I. Experimental results. Am. Mineral. 84 (1999) 1213-1223
10. Cobbold P.R., Meisling K.E., and Mount V.S. Reactivation of an obliquely rifted margin, Campos and Santos basins, southeastern Brazil. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull. 85 (2001) 1925-1944
11. Crowhurst P.V., Green P.F., and Kamp P.J.J. Appraisal of (U-Th)/He apatite thermochronology as a thermal history tool for hydrocarbon exploration: An example from the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull. 86 (2002) 1801-1819
12. Dailly P. Tectonic and stratigraphic development of the Rio Muni Basin, Equatorial Guinea: The role of transform zones in Atlantic Basin evolution. In: Mohriak W.U., and Talwani M. (Eds). Atlantic Rifts and Continental Margins. Geophys. Monogr. vol. 115 (2000), American Geophysical Union 105-128
13. Darros de Matos R.M. History of the northeast Brazilian rift system: Kinetic implications for the break-up between Brazil and West Africa. In: Cameron N.R., Bate R.H., and Clure V.S. (Eds). Oil and Gas Habitats of the South Atlantic. Special Publication vol. 153 (1999), Geological Society, London 55-75
14. Davison I. Tectonics and hydrocarbon distribution along the Brazilian South Atlantic margin. In: Cameron N.R., Bate R.H., and Clure V.S. (Eds). Oil and Gas Habitats of the South Atlantic. Special Publication vol. 153 (1999), Geological Society, London 133-153
15. da Nobrega M.A., Sa J.M., Bezerra F.H.R., Hadler Neto J.C., Iunes P.J., Guedes S., Tello Saenz C.A., Hackspacher F.P., and Lima-Filho F.P. The use of apatite fission track thermochronology to constrain fault movements and sedimentary basin evolution in northeastern Brazil. Radiat. Meas. 39 (2005) 627-633
16. de Mets C., Gordon R.G., Argus D.F., and Stein S. Current plate motions. Geophys. J. Int. 101 (1990) 425-478
17. Dickson W.G., Fryklund R.E., Odegard M.E., and Green C.M. Constraints for plate reconstruction using gravity data - implications for source rock and reservoir distribution in Brazilian and West African margin basins. Mar. Pet. Geol. 20 (2003) 309-322
18. Doré A.G., Cartwright J.A., Stoker M.S., Turner J.P., and White N.J. Exhumation of the North Atlantic margin: introduction and background. In: Doré A.G., Cartwright J.A., Stoker M.S., Turner J.P., and White N.J. (Eds). Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms, and Implications for Petroleum Exploration. Special Publication vol. 196 (2002), Geological Society, London 1-12
19. Duval B., Cramez C., and Jackson M.P.A. Raft tectonics in the Kwanza Basin, Angola. Mar. Pet. Geol. 9 (1992) 389-404
20. Fairhead J.D., and Binks R.M. Differential opening of the central and South Atlantic oceans and the opening of the west African rift system. Tectonophysics 187 (1991) 191-203
21. Figueiredo Filho O.A., and Petta R.A. Posicionamento tectonico da bacia cretacia do Cabo-Pernambuco: Estagio pre-deriva do Atlantico Sul (abs). Proceedings of the 40th Brazilian Geological Congress (1998), Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia, Belo Horizonte 110
22. Galbraith R.F., and Laslett G.M. Statistical methods for mixed fission track ages. Nucl. Tracks 21 (1993) 459-470
23. Gallagher K. Evolving temperature histories from apatite fission-track data. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 136 (1995) 421-435
24. Gallagher K., and Brown R. The onshore record of passive margin evolution. J. Geol. Soc. (Lond.) 154 (1997) 451-457
25. Gallagher K., and Brown R. Denudation and uplift at passive margins: the record on the Atlantic Margin of Southern Africa. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 357 (1999) 835-859
26. Gallagher K., and Brown R. The Mesozoic denudation history of the Atlantic margins of southern Africa and southeast Brazil and the relationship to offshore sedimentation. In: Cameron N.R., Bate R.H., and Clure V.S. (Eds). The Oil and Gas Habitats of the South Atlantic. Special Publication vol. 153 (1999), Geological Society 41-53
27. Gallagher K., Brown R., and Johnson C. Fission track analysis and its application to geological problems. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26 (1998) 519-572
28. Gastil R.G., and Fenby S.S. Detachment faulting as a mechanism for tectonically filling the Gulf of California dilation. In: Dauphin J.P., and Simoneit B.R.T. (Eds). The Gulf and Peninsular Province of the Californias. AAPG Memoir vol. 47 (1991) 371-376
29. Gomes P.O., Gomes B.S., Jorge J.C., Jinno K., and de Souza J.M. Ocean-continent transition and tectonic framework of the oceanic crust at the continental margin off NE Brazil: results of LEPLAC Project. In: Mohriak W., and Talwani M. (Eds). Atlantic Rifts and Continental Margins. Geophysical Monograph vol. 115 (2000), American Geophysical Union 261-292
30. Green P.F. On the thermo-tectonic evolution of Northern England: evidence from fission track analysis. Geol. Mag. 123 (1986) 493-506
31. Green P.F., Duddy I.R., Gleadow A.J.W., Tingate P.R., and Laslett G.M. Thermal annealing of fission tracks in apatite. 1. A qualitative description. Chem. Geol., Isot. Geosci. Sect. 59 (1986) 237-253
32. Green P.F., Duddy I.R., Bray R.J., Duncan W.I., and Corcoran D.V. The influence of thermal history on hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Central Irish Sea Basin. In: Shannon P.M., Haughton P.D.W., and Corcoran D.V. (Eds). The Petroleum Exploration of Ireland's Offshore Basins. Special Publications vol. 188 (2001), Geological Society, London 171-188
33. Green P.F., Duddy I.R., and Hegarty K.A. Quantifying exhumation from apatite fission-track analysis and vitrinite reflectance data: Precision, accuracy and latest results from the Atlantic margin of NW Europe. In: Doré A.G., Cartwright J.A., Stoker M.S., Turner J.P., and White N.J. (Eds). Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms, and Implications for Petroleum Exploration. Special Publication vol. 196 (2002), Geological Society, London 331-354
34. Green P.F., Crowhurst P.V., and Duddy I.R. Integration of AFTA and (U-Th)/He thermochronology to enhance the resolution and precision of thermal history reconstruction in the Anglesea-1 well, Otway Basin, SE Australia. In: Boult P.J., Johns D.R., and Lang S.C. (Eds). Eastern Australian Basins Symposium II. Special Publication (2004), Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia 117-131
35. Green, P.F., Duddy, I.R., Hegarty, K.A., 2005. Comment on "Compositional and structural control of fission track annealing in apatite" by J. Barbarand, A. Carter, I. Wood, A.J. Hurford, Chem. Geol., 198 (2003) 107-137. Chem. Geol. 214, 351-358.
36. Guiraud R., and Bosworth W. Senonian basin inversion and rejuvenation of rifting in Africa and Arabia: Synthesis and implications to plate-scale tectonics. Tectonophysics 282 (1997) 39-83
37. Haq B.U., Hardenbol J., and Vail P.R. Chronology of fluctuating sea-levels since the Triassic. Science 235 (1987) 1153-1165
38. Harman R., Gallagher K., Brown R., Raza A., and Bizzi L. Acclerated denudation and tectonic/geomorphic reactivation of the cratons of northeastern Brazil during the Late Cretaceous. J. Geophys. Res. 103 B11 (1998) 27,091-27,105
39. Hurford A.J., and Green P.F. The zeta age calibration of fission-track dating. Chem. Geol. (Isotope Geosciences Section) 1 (1983) 285-317
40. Japsen P., Green P.F., and Chalmers J.A. Separation of Palaeogene and Neogene uplift on Nuussuauq, West Greenland. J. Geol. Soc. (Lond.) 162 (2005) 299-314
41. Japsen P., Green P.F., Nielsen L.H., Rasmussen E.S., and Bidstrup T. Mesozoic-Cenozoic exhumation events in the eastern North Sea basin: a multi-disciplinary study based on palaeothermal, palaeoburial, stratigraphic and seismic data. Basin Res. 19 (2007) 451-490
42. Kennett J.P., and Shackleton N.J. Oxygen isotopic evidence for the development of the psychrosphere 38 Myr ago. Nature 260 (1976) 513-515
43. Klitgord K.D., and Schouten H. Plate kinematics of the Central Atlantic. In: Tucholke B.E., and Vogt P.P. (Eds). The Geology of North America, Vol. M: the Western North Atlantic Region (1986), Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado 351-378
44. Koutoukos E.A.M., Mello M.R., de Azambujha Filho N.C., Hart M.B., and Maxwell J.R. The Upper Aptian-Albian succession of the Sergipe basin, Brazil. AAPG Bull. 75 (1991) 479-498
45. Lampe C., Person M., Noth S., and Ricken W. Episodic fluid flow within continental rift basins: Some insights from field data and mathematical models of the Rhinegraben. Geofluids 1 (2001) 42-52
46. Laslett G.M., Green P.F., Duddy I.R., and Gleadow A.J.W. Thermal annealing of fission tracks in apatite. 2. A quantitative analysis. Chem. Geol., Isot. Geosci. Sect. 65 (1987) 1-13
47. Lima Filho, M.F., 2001. A Bacia Costeira Pernambuco. Field Trip Guide, VIII National Symposium on Tectonic Studies, Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia/UFPE, Recife, Brazil, 5pp.
48. Long L.E., Sial A.N., Nekvasil H., and Borba G.S. Origin of granite at Cabo de Santo Agostinho, northeast Brazil. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 92 (1986) 341-350
49. Lorenzo J.M., and Vera E.E. Thermal uplift and erosion across the continent-ocean transform boundary of the southern Exmouth Plateau. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 108 (1992) 79-92
50. Lundin E.R. Thin-skinned extensional tectonics on a salt detachment, northern Kwanza Basin, Angola. Mar. Pet. Geol. 9 (1992) 405-411
51. Magnavita L.P., Davison I., and Kusznir N.J. Rifting, erosion and uplift history of the Reconcavo-Tucano-Jatoba Rift, northeast Brazil. Tectonics 13 (1994) 367-388
52. McGinnis J.P., Driscoll N.W., Karner G.D., Brumbaugh W.D., and Cameron N. Flexural response of passive margins to deep-sea erosion and slope retreat: Implications for relative sea-level change. Geology 21 (1993) 893-896
53. McKenzie D.P. Some remarks on the development of sedimentary basins. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 40 (1978) 25-32
54. Mohriak W.U., Bassetto M., and Vieira I.S. Tectonic evolution of the rift basins in the northeastern Brazilian region. In: Mohriak W., and Talwani M. (Eds). Atlantic Rifts and Continental Margins. Geophys. Monogr. vol. 115 (2000), American Geophysical Union 293-315
55. O'Connor J.M., and le Roex A.P. South Atlantic hot-spot plume systems: 1. Distribution of volcanism in time and space. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 113 (1992) 343-364
56. Parnell J., Carey P.F., Green P., and Duncan W. Hydrocarbon migration history, West of Shetland: integrated fluid inclusion and fission track studies. In: Fleet A.J., and Boldy S.A.R. (Eds). Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 5th Conference (1999), Geological Society of London 613-625
57. Praeg D., Stoker M.S., Shannon P.M., Ceramicola S., Hjelstun B., Laberg J.S., and Mathiesen A. Episodic Cenozoic tectonism and the development of the NW European 'passive' continental margin. Mar. Pet. Geol. 22 (2005) 977-1005
58. Rohrmann M., and van der Beek P. Cenozoic postrift domal uplift of North Atlantic margins: An asthenospheric diapirism model. Geology 24 (1996) 901-904
59. Rosendahl B.R., Mohriak W.U., Odegard M.E., Turner J.P., and Dickson W.G. West African and Brazilian conjugate margins: Crustal types, architecture, and plate configurations. In: Post P., Rosen N., Olson D., Palmes S.L., Lyons K.T., and Newton G.B. (Eds). Petroleum Systems of Divergent Margin Basins, GCSSEPM, 298, Bob F. Perkins Research Conference ISSN: 1544-2462: 25th, Houston (2005) 261-317
60. Szatmari P., and Milani E.J. Microplate rotation in northeast Brazil during South Atlantic rifting: Analogies with the Sinai microplate. Geology 27 (1999) 1115-1118
61. Teisserenc P., and Villemin J. Sedimentary basin of Gabon - geology and oil systems. In: Edwards J.D., and Santogrossi P.A. (Eds). Divergent/Passive Margin Basins. AAPG Memoir vol. 48 (1989) 117-200
62. Turner J.P. Gravity-driven structures and rift basin evolution: Rio Muni Basin, offshore equatorial West Africa. AAPG Bull. 79 (1995) 1138-1158
63. Turner J.P. Detachment faulting and petroleum prospectivity in the Rio Muni Basin, Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. In: Cameron N.R., Bate R.H., and Clure V.S. (Eds). Oil and Gas Habitats of the South Atlantic. Special Publication vol. 153 (1999), Geological Society, London 303-321
64. Turner J.P., Rosendahl B.R., and Wilson P.G. Structure of an obliquely sheared continental margin: Rio Muni, West Africa. Tectonophysics 374 (2003) 41-55
65. Walford H.L., White N.J., and Sydow J.C. Solid sediment load history of the Zambezi Delta. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 238 (2005) 49-63
66. Wannesson J., Icart J.-C., and Ravart J. Structure and evolution of adjoining segments of the West African margin determined from deep seismic profiling. In: Meissner R., Brown L., Durbaum H.J., Franke W., Fuchs K., and Seifert F. (Eds). Continental Lithosphere: Deep Seismic Reflections (1991), American Geophysical Union, Washington DC 275-289
67. White N., Thompson M., and Barwise T. Understanding the thermal evolution of deep-water continental margins. Nature 426 (2003) 334-343
68. Wilson P.G., Turner J.P., and Westbrook G.K. Structural architecture of the ocean-continent boundary at an oblique transform margin through deep-imaging seismic interpretation and gravity modelling: Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. Tectonophysics 374 (2003) 19-40