Influência do Complexo Vulcânico de Abrolhos na evolução tectono-sedimentar da porção centro-sul da bacia do Espírito Santo

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira Neto, Walter Dias
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/7098
• topic: Halocinesis; Espírito Santo basin; Abrolhos Volcanic Complex; Halocinese; Bacia do Espírito Santo; Complexo Vulcânico de Abrolhos; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS::GEOLOGIA::GEOTECTONICA

The search for new accumulations of hydrocarbons needs continuous exploratory efforts, in order to create new geological models and lessen the risks associated with exploratory activities. This work was motivated by the urge to understand the formation of traps, migration and reservoir properties, associated with halokinesis. The main goal of this work is the characterization and reporting of the halokinesis evolution in the south-central part of the Espirito Santo Basin. Seismic, gravity and well data incorporated in geological section reconstruction were used in the integrated geological interpretation, allowing a better understanding of the AVC (Abrolhos Volcanic Complex) in the tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the area. Intensive halokinesis activity was registered from Albian time, in response to an earlier stretching phase that resulted in subsidence of the basin and the opening to the South Atlantic ocean. During the Early Cretaceous, clastics of the Rio Doce were introduced in the basin provoking new haloknesis trigger, generating an increment of sedimentary rates in the sub-basins. In other regions, the progradation of the clastic wedge caused the migration of the mother salt layer to the distal portions of the basin, suppressing the supply of salt. The process created a collapse of some diapirs associated with a tectonic quiescence in the area. The main tectonic phase occurred in the Early Tertiary. The introduction of AVC occurred in this period, forming structural styles, typical of compressional tectonics, with thrust faults, pop-ups, folds, and salt canopies. This new tectonic configuration in the area has changed the axis of main sedimentary depocenter that became controlled by the high structures generated by the compressional tectonics, and by the associate low, that began to receive syntectonic sediments. The associations of these characteristics of tectonic and sedimentary remobilization formed a new compartmentalization in the basin, such as: a translation zone, b.Folded zone, c. Hangingwall thrust block zone. They are strongly connected to the emplacement of AVC. This new tectonic configuration has its formation directly related to the emplacement of AVC.