Cratonic basin

The host rocks to Morila are regionally equivalent to the Mesoproterozoic Birrimian basin and belt sequences exposed across the West African craton in Senegal, Mali, Cote d Ivoire, Ghana and Burkina (Feybesse et al. 2006). 

Several large basins began to form during the Neo-Proterozoic on the Amazon Craton including the Rondonia Basin and Dos Parecis Basin. The Dos Parecis Basin is located on the southeast portion of the Amazon Craton, and is made up of magmatic and metamorphic rocks and by a Proterozoic to Cenozoic sedimentary and volcanic cover (Almeida etal. 1977). 

Pedreira, A.J. Bahia R.B.C. 2000. Sedimentary Basins of Rondonia State, Brazil Response to The Geotectonic Evolution of the Amazonic Craton. In RevIsta Braslleira de Geoclenclas. 

Altermann W. and Nelson D. R. (1998) Sedimentation rates, basin analysis and regional correlations of three Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic sub-basins of the Kaapvaal craton as inferred from precise U-Pb zircon ages from volcanoclastic sediments. Sedim. Geol. 120, 225-256. 

Figure 13 The importance of activation energies for each kerogen type is further exemplified by Hunt (1996), who showed oil generation curves for different kerogen types in a pull apart basin and a cratonic basin with geothermal gradients of 45 °Ckm and 25 °C km , respectively (Hunt, 1996) (reproduced by permission of Freeman from...

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