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The Cenozoic shelf margin of the Amazon Mouth Basin is characterized by a thick prograding prism of siliciclastic sediments. This prism, composed mainly of Upper Miocene and younger sediments, overlies a Lower Tertiary carbonate shelf. Two tectonic–sedimentary models for the area were developed with the aid of new deep-reflection seismic data. Gravitational tectonics dominate the regional geological framework. Tensional stresses are created near the shelf margin, and compressional features dominate at the base of the slope. The morphology of this compressional zone is closely associated with the St. Paul Fracture Zone and the boundary between continental and oceanic crusts.
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Silva, S.R.P., Maciel, R.R. & Severino, M.C.G. Cenozoic tectonics of Amazon Mouth Basin. Geo-Marine Letters 18, 256–262 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670050077
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670050077