Exploration Opportunities in the Pernambuco and Alagoas Basins

AGE OF CARBONATES OVER THE PERNAMBUCO SEAMOUNTS S Ascension Fracture Zone Pernambuku Seamounts 10°. Pernambuco Plateau 15°- 20°- Bahia Mountains Bode Verde Fracture Zone Victoria-Trindade Ridge 38° 33° 28° 23° W "Dredging operations made it possible to collect samples of volcanic rocks and limestone. Highly lithified limestone, recrystallized and occasionally. phosphatized, contains. an admixture of volcanic material and foraminifer chambers with the age estimated at the Campanian Maastrichtian and the Turonian - Santonian" - From Skolotnev et al., 2012

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