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Interpretação gravimétrica-magnética da zona de fratura dupla Bode Verde
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 1989-07-31) ARAÚJO, Tereza Cristina Medeiros de; BISCHOFF, Jürgen H.
In January 1980, the CENTRATLAN Project Bode Verde I was conducted by collecting geophysical and geological data at the central portion of the Middle Atlantic Ridge, south of Ascensão Island. This research was done within an agreement between the US-American and Brazilian Navy. With the objective to describe the geology of the Bode Verde fracture zone and to understand the origins of this feature on the ocean floor and continental margin, bathimetric, gravimetric and magnetic data were collected. The analysis of the bathimetric data allowed to describe this feature as a doubled fractured zone, marked by two continuous troughs, parallel to each other, separated by a high with its own rift-valley. The gravimetric anomalies confirm this double feature, with the two observed gravimetric minimum corresponding to the two troughs of the fracture zone. These troughs separate a crustal block of approximately 40 km width. Based on gravimetric data it was possible to construct nine crustal sections of the fracture zone. They permitted to observe a thinning of the crust-mantle interface beneath the fracture walls. The interface crust-mantle that usually has a depth of 8-9 km, is only 5.5-6.0 km deep beneath the fracture walls with a crust thickness of about 2.0 km. The crustal thinning is caused by the ascent of mantle material. The hidrothermal alteration in the central trough of the fracture can be responsible for the minor crustal thinning observed in this part of the fracture zone. For the interpretation of the magnetic data was used a time scale of magnetic polarity between the Lower Cretaceous and Cenozoic and a spreading rate of the ocean floor of about 2.0 cm/year. For interpretation a thickness of 0.5 km was estimated for the basalt layer, which is responsible for the observed magnetic anomalies. lts thickness decreases in the fracture walls, being interrupted at the central trough fracture.