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Conference Paper December 2015

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2015AGUFallMeeting

GP31B03:BasementandBasinStructuresoftheNorthwestParan
Basin,Brazil:IlluminatedbyMatchedFilterAnalysisand2DModelingof
GravityandMagneticData(Invited)
ABSTRACT

Wednesday,16December2015
08:3008:45
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TheSouthAmericanPlatformincludestwomajorgeologicalcomponentswithcommonstructural
roots:theTransbrasilianoLineament(LTB)andtheParanBasin.Importantrelationshipsbetween
thetwocomponentsoccurwithinthenorthwestParanBasinandconcealedbeneathsedimentary
cover.Weintegratedallavailableairbornemagneticandgravitysurveysandgroundbasedgravity
datatoproduceconsistent,digitalmagneticandBougueranomalymaps.Dataprocessingand
modelingtechniquesthenwereusedinordertorevealprincipalcrustalcompartmentsandbasin
basementstructuresatvariousdepths.Threelargemagneticdiscontinuitiesdelineatecrustal
compartmentsintheareawithN30E,N60E,andN70Estrike,fromeasttowest,respectively.
Thesemagneticlineamentsboundregionswithdistinctgravityanomalycharacter.Robust
matchedfilteranalysisappliedtomagneticandgravitydatayieldedimportantdepthestimates:(i)
2.5kmtothetopoftheParanBasinNeoproterozoicbasement(ii)46kmtothetopofasecond
groupofbasementunits(iii)20km,possiblyassociatedwiththeupperlowercrustinterfaceand
(iv)3339and43kmrelatedtocrustalthicknesseswestandsoutheastofamajorN30Etrending
lineament,respectively.The2Djointmodelingofgravityandmagneticdatashedslightonthe
asymmetricgeometryofthebasementbeneaththeParanbasin,withatleastthreehalfgrabens
formedbyLTBreactivatedstructures.Thecentralregionofthestudyareaischaracterizedby
thinnercrustandhighercrustalweakness,whereimportantstructureshavedevelopedinthe
Mesozoic,includingNWtrendingreactivations,linkedtocrustalupliftandevolutionofsmallNE
alignedCretaceousbasins.Importantdepocentersoccurtothenorthandeastofthestudyarea,
withN70EandN30ENSstrike,respectively.

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Authors
JuliaCurto*
UNBUniversityofBrasilia

RichardBlakely
USGSWesternRegionalOffices
MenloPark

RobertaVidotti
UNBUniversityofBrasilia

ReinhardtFuck
UNBUniversityofBrasilia

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Session:IlluminatingCrustalStructure,Hazards,andResources:NewDevelopmentsin
PotentialFieldandElectromagneticMethodsII
Section/FocusGroup:GeomagnetismandPaleomagnetism
Day:Wednesday,16December2015

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