Seismic stratigraphy of the offshore basins of Argentina : characterization and modeling of the South Atlantic passive margin dynamics

• Main Author: Lovecchio, Juan Pablo
• Other Authors: IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), Sorbonne Université, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Philippe Joseph, Victor A. Ramos
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Rifting; Gondwana; Atlantic; Mésozoïque; Atlantique; Argentine; Modélisation; Colorado; Malvinas; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Afuera; Argentina; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03126562; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03126562/document; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03126562/file/2018SORUS506.pdf

This work is focused on basin formation and evolution in the Argentinean South Atlantic Margin and the Mesozoic breakup of SW Gondwana. Rifting evolution was studied in the Malvinas and Colorado/Salado basins. Three superimposed rifting events were identified in the latter. The first rifting event i...