Seabed Mapping - Marine Geology Cooperation
Roberto Ventura Santos Director of Geology and Mineral Resources (DGM)
Ivo Pessanha
Head of Marine Geology Division (DIGEOM)
High Level Meeting EU - Brazil Atlantic Ocean Research Cooperation
Rio de Janeiro, November, 2015
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Marine Geology Programme
• Mineral Potential Assessment of the Brazilian Continental Shelf (REMPLAC).
• Prospecting and Exploration of Mineral Resources of the International Area in the South and Equatorial Atlantic (PROAREA).
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Movement
DIVISION OF MARINE GEOLOGY 1.The Brazilian Shallow Platform 2.Jequitinhonha Project 3.Mid-Atlantic Ridge Project – PROCORDILHEIRA 4.Rio Grande Rise Project – PROERG
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Levantamento Regional:
60 km
200 km
• MBES/backscatter
• Water Column
• Gravimetry
• Magnetometry
• SBP (Sísmica rasa)
• CTD
• Water Samples
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Water Samples - Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Sub-sampling of the water samples were done as follows:
1) Aliquots were sampled in gas tight glass bulbs for CH4 analyses.
2) Aliquots were sampled into acid washed Nalgene bottles for Mn analyses.
3) Aliquots were sampled into Nalgene bottles for pH, CO2 and total alkalinity the one hand and for SiO2 analyses and
archiving.
Sampling for CH4 in glas bulbs
R/V Ocean Stalwart
Sampling in Nalgene - pH,CO2, SiO2
20
4 k
m
SEGMENTO 11
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Regional Survey
CTD/Rosette
Station
CTD/Rosette
Station
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ProCordilheira – Summary in numbers
2011 - 2013
• MBES/backscatter 90.000 km²
• SBP 12.000 km linear
• Gravimetry 15.000 km linear
• Magnetometry 12.000 km linear
• CTD 71 stations
• Water samples 1600
• Chemical analysis 3.500
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March 2013
COLMEIA COLd Mantle Exhumation and Intra-transform Accretion
March 2013
March 2013
March 2013
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PROJECTS OF THE DIVISION OF MARINE GEOLOGY 1.The Brazilian Shallow Platform 2.Jequitinhonha Project 3. Mid-Atlantic Ridge Project – PROCORDILHEIRA 4. Rio Grande Rise Project – PROERG
General Map - Rio Grande Rise - São Paulo Ridge
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Rio Grande Rise São Paulo Ridge
~1500km
• MBES/Backscatter • Gravimetry • Magnetometry • CDT • Dredging
Data on the Rio Grande Rise
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R/V Sirius 2009/2010 R/V Marion Dufresne 2011
R/V Fugro Gauss 2011/2012 R/V Yokuska 2013
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Dredging in the Rio Grande Rise
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Spot Sampler - TV GRAB
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Core Sampler - Jumbo Piston Core
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Rock Samples on Board Ship
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Bathymetric Map - Rio Grande Rise - Alpha Area
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Pockmaks
Width ~30km
Length ~400km
Probaly caused escape gas??
Area: ~50,000km²
Mud Volcano
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Backscattering survey
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3D View - Rio Grande Rise - Pockmarks
Sediment
Rock
Pockmarks
Width ~30km
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Cobalt-Rich
Ferromanganese Crusts
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Alpha
Bravo
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Biotite
gnaisse
Granite Pegmatite
ProERG - Summary in numbers
2009 - 2010 (Brazilian Navy Partnership)
• MBES/backscatter 46.220 km²
2011 - 2013
• MBES/backscatter 84.123 km²
• SBP 9.288 km linear
• Gravimetry 9.288 km linear
• Magnetometry 9.288 km linear
• CTD 31 stations
• Geological samples 137 drag profiles (15 tons)
• Seabed video record 15 profiles
• Jumbo piston core 4 with recovery of up to 50 m
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Submersible Shinkai 6500 and Deep Tow - On Board of the R/V YOKOSUKA
Second Plan for the Dives
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5 Dives Shinkai 1 Deep Tow
2 Dives Shinkai 1 Deep Tow
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3D View - São Paulo Ridge - SP 01
Sediment - Ripple Marks
Basalt- Carbonate
Nodules Crust
Nodules Crust - Breach - Volcanic Rocks Carbonate / Fe-Mn Crust
Planning Phase
Background
Information
Questions and
Concepts
ISBA
Recommendations
ISA, 2007
ISBA/19/LTC/8
Field Phase Survey I
Survey II
Environmental Baseline
Monitoring Plan
“Geophysical
Exploration"
Exploration with
Monitoring Phase
Geological Exploration
Monitoring Survey III
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ISA Work Plan – next 5 years
Next Steps
CTD/Rosette
Station
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Lowered ADCP AUV
ROV
HROV
Seafloor
Drill
ROV Drill
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Roberto Ventura Santos
Director of Geology and Mineral Resources (DGM)
Ivo Pessanha Head of Marine Geology Division (DIGEOM)
www.cprm.gov.br
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