POST-APTIAN MAGMATISM AND VOLCANOSEDIMENTARY PALEOENRIVONMENT
IN CAMPOS BASIN, SE BRAZIL
Campos basin; vulcanosedimentary paleoenvironment; magmatism, post-aptian
The Campos Basin offshore SE Brazil originated as a rift basin during the Gondwana breakup in the Lower
Cretaceous and evolved to a passive margin sedimentary basin throughout the opening of the South Atlantic
ocean. Magmatic processes occurred coeval to the sedimentary and tectonic evolution of the basin as recorded
in its rift, post-rift and drift supersequences. The crustal structure of Campos Basin is well constrained on the
basis of 2D and 3D geophysical data. However, the lack of petrological data prevents the assessment of the
composition and structure of the mantle underneath the basin. Well data, petrographic and lithogeochemical
data were obtained for post-Aptian magmatic rocks drilled by two wells in an area of Campos where magmatic
structures are well discriminated by geophysical data. The wells include volcaniclastic, volcanic and intrusive
magmatic alkaline rocks. Magmatism in well A and well B are taken as a record the Santonian magmatic event
in the basin. Geochemical modeling showed that differentiation involved fractional crystallization, indicating
the presence of continental crust thick enough to sustain subvolcanic-volcanic linked structures or plumbing
systems. Binary modeling pointed to mixing between shallow-seated, depleted mantle source and the enriched,
SCLM site. It is proposed that the geodynamics at the Santonian-Coniacian in Campos Basin involved
continental lithosphere thinning that allowed the uprising of the depleted asthenosphere. heat conduction
would have been enough to melt the most fuse, volatile-rich portions of the local SCLM whose composition
is well represented by alkaline lamprophyres that occur in the continental area adjoining Campos and Santos
basins.