Caracterização dos Processos Sedimentares no cânion Almirante Câmara, Bacia de Campos

The Almirante Câmara canyon was first identify by Brehme (1984) and this is located on the slope at the northeast of the Campos Basin. This paper is a study of the main sedimentary processes identified on the Almirante Câmara canyon to contribute for a better understanding of its mechanisms of formation. The metodology apllied in the study of the canyon was: analysis of the local bathymetry, analysis of the 24 seismic profiles and correlations with the papers of Viana (1998) and the Site 515 of the Deep-Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). In this were identified five seismic units on the Campos slope. A major erosional unconformity was identified at the upper Mioceno, recognized as the Grey Marker of the basin.