Evolution of the Southwestern Angolan Margin: episodic burial and exhumation is more realistic than long-term denudation

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dc.contributor.authorda Silva, Bruno Venancio [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorHackspacher, Peter Christian [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Marli Carina Siqueira [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorGlasmacher, Ulrich Anton
dc.contributor.authorGonçalves, Antonio Olimpio
dc.contributor.authorDoranti-Tiritan, Carolina [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorde Godoy, Daniel Françoso [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorConstantino, Renata Regina [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributor.institutionHeidelberg University
dc.contributor.institutionAgostinho Neto University
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-11T17:38:11Z
dc.date.available2018-12-11T17:38:11Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-01
dc.description.abstractThere are two main points of view regarding how continental margins evolve. The first one argues that the present-day margins have been developed by long-term denudation since a major exhumation episode, probably driven by rifting or another relevant tectonic event. The second one argues that continental margins underwent alternating burial and exhumation episodes related to crustal tectonic and surface uplift and subsidence. To demonstrate that the proximal domain of the southwestern Angolan margin has evolved in a polycyclic pattern, we present a review of geological and thermochronological information and integrate it with new combined apatite fission-track and (U-Th)/He data from Early Cretaceous volcanic and Precambrian basement samples. We also provide hypotheses on the possible mechanisms able to support the vertical crustal movements of this margin segment, which are also discussed based on some modern rifting models proposed for Central South Atlantic. The central apatite fission-track ages range from 120.6 ± 8.9 to 272.9 ± 21.6 Ma, with the mean track lengths of approximately 12 µm. The single-grain apatite (U-Th)/He ages vary between 52.2 ± 1 and 177.2 ± 2.6 Ma. The integration of the thermochronological data set with published geological constraints supports the following time-temperature evolution: (1) heating since the Carboniferous–Permian, (2) cooling onset in the Early Jurassic, (3) heating onset in the Early Cretaceous, (4) cooling onset in the Mid- to Late Cretaceous, (5) heating onset in the Late Cretaceous, and (6) cooling onset in the Oligocene–Miocene. The thermochronological data and the geological constraints, support that the proximal domain of the southwestern Angolan margin was covered in the past by pre-, syn-, and post-rift sediments, which were eroded during succeeding exhumation events. For this margin segment, we show that a development based on long-term denudation is less realistic than one based on burial and exhumation episodes during the last 130 Myr.en
dc.description.affiliationInstitute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences UNESP - São Paulo State University
dc.description.affiliationInstitute of Earth Sciences Heidelberg University
dc.description.affiliationFaculty of Natural Sciences Agostinho Neto University
dc.description.affiliationUnespInstitute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences UNESP - São Paulo State University
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-018-1644-4
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Earth Sciences.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00531-018-1644-4
dc.identifier.file2-s2.0-85051659530.pdf
dc.identifier.issn1437-3262
dc.identifier.issn1437-3254
dc.identifier.lattes1040135935908734
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0003-2125-3050
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85051659530
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/180105
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Earth Sciences
dc.relation.ispartofsjr1,125
dc.relation.ispartofsjr1,125
dc.rights.accessRightsAcesso aberto
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subject(U-Th)/He
dc.subjectApatite fission track
dc.subjectNamibe Basin
dc.subjectPassive margin
dc.subjectThermal modeling
dc.subjectThermochronology
dc.titleEvolution of the Southwestern Angolan Margin: episodic burial and exhumation is more realistic than long-term denudationen
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.author.lattes1040135935908734[2]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0002-7796-5674[1]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0003-2125-3050[2]

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