Evidências geofísicas e geológicas da CAMP nas bacias sedimentares do Pré-Cambriano e Fanerozoico do sul do Cráton Amazônico.

Abstract

The sedimentary basins in the Southwestern Tocantins and Southern Tapajós provinces were affected by the emplacement of large Triassic-Jurassic basaltic rocks volumes termed as Central atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP), result of the Pangea break up and opening of the Central Atlantic Ocean. Two basins, object of this study, were implanted over Tonian metamorphic rock of the Northern Paraguay Belt and Paleo to Mesoproterozoic rocks of the Amazonian Craton: 1) the Paleozoic Parecis Basin; and 2) the Late Cryogenian-Ordovician Intracratonic Basin or Araras-Paraguay Basin, afterwards inverted during the Ordovician. The mapped basalt exposed locally in these basins reach 5 % in volume, being the most ocurrences at the Chupinguaia and Tangará da Serra regions, states of Mato Grosso and Rondônia, respectively. These exposed basalts are not compatible with the great volume and magnitude related to the CAMP, which have motivated the research in subsurface of other occurrences. The reinterpretation of previous geophysical and geological methods combinated with a crustal modelling allowed a new interpretation to the gravity field related to the intracrustal density contrast or residual gravimetric field for this part of Amazonia Craton. The anomaly in this field allowed to identify higher density bodies within the Paleozoic Parecis and Araras-Paraguai basins, interpreted as continental tholeiitic flood basalts associated to the CAMP, reaching a volume 3 million of km3. The study of the residual gravimetric anomaly based on crustal modelling applied here can be effective to guide future works in the mapping in subsurface of highly density rocks associated to the basalts, allowing to obtain the probable distribuition in area and contributing for a better understanding about the magmatic events of the CAMP in sedimentary basins.