“…The South Atlantic margin inherited a NE-SW orientation from Late Proterozoic structures, and the syn-rift architecture resulted in an oblique orientation to the margin (Meisling et al, 2001). The NE-SW inheritance associated with a WSW-ENE rift extension created segmented faults with sinuous rombo-shaped and left-lateral en échelon patterns, as observed in the Jupiter rift shoulder (Plawiak et al, 2022) and in the East African Rift System (Zwaan and Schreurs, 2017), and also modeled in the Central Santos Basin (Pereira et al, 2021). Syn-rift structures have been reactivated at least three times in the South Atlantic Margin, in the Late Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene (Zalán and Oliveira, 2005;Fetter, 2009;Cobbold et al, 2010), with important consequences for hydrothermal vent formations (Magee et al, 2016).…”