Timing and mechanisms for the generation and modification of the anomalous topography of the Borborema Province, northeastern Brazil

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1070-1086

  Morais Neto, J M ^a   Hegarty, K A ^b   Karner, G D ^c   Alkmim, F F ^d  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company ^*  (Australia)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apatite fission track analysis; Borborema Province; Brazilian Equatorial Margin; Denudation; Landscape evolution; Northeastern Brazil; Post rift uplift

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION-TRACK ANALYSIS; BORBOREMA PROVINCE; BRAZILIAN EQUATORIAL MARGIN; DENUDATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; POST-RIFT UPLIFT;

APATITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FISSION REACTIONS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; REGIONAL PLANNING; STRATIGRAPHY;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

ALBIAN; APATITE; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COOLING; CRUSTAL THINNING; DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GNEISS; GRANITE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ARARIPE BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BORBOREMA; BRAZIL; IBERIAN MARGIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 67349227882     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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