Integrated geological and geophysical studies applied to understanding the evolution of the Offshore Amazon Basin

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The Offshore Amazon Basin (known in Portuguese as Bacia da Foz do Amazon) is located in the far north of the Brazilian Equatorial Margin. This basin has attracted the attention of the scientific community for several decades due to its large-scale sedimentary processes related to the colossal sediment influx provided by the Amazon River. However, most of the investigations carried on the Offshore Amazon Basin were restricted to the uppermost Quaternary succession of the Amazon Deep-sea Fan and some pioneer works aiming deeper strata lacked a reliable chronostratigraphic control. In order to better understand the temporal and spatial evolution of the post-rift stratigraphic succession of the Offshore Amazon Basin, multidisciplinary studies supported by interpretations of seismic, well log, chronostratigraphic data and geophysical potential field models were carried out during this PhD thesis.

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