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Under the Amazon Plume

By Claudio Paschoa s extensive exploration of shallow and deep- water oil and gas plays along Brazil’s Equato- rial Margin (EM) progresses, a large and unique

Areef system has been discovered among offshore exploration and production blocks. In a research article re- cently published in Science Advances, a group of researchers from Brazil and the U.S. described the unexpected discovery they made in offshore shallow waters off the mouth of the

Amazon River in northern Brazil. The international group of scientists, coordinated by Fabiano Thompson (UFRJ) and Carlos Rezende (UENF), which used research ships to study the offshore seabed, was immensely surprised when (Image: RSMAS) (Photo: Brazil Navy) confronted by a large reef system under muddy water off

North Brazil Current the Amazon River mouth during hydrographic studies in the

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