“…Based on previous studies (Rabinowitz and LaBrecque, 1979;Light et al, 1992;Clemson et al, 1997) Meisling et al (2001) suggested that seafloor spreading started in the Cape Basin in the middle Hauterivian (anomaly M9; w130 Ma), in the Walvis Basin (conjugate to the Pelotas Basin) in the early Aptian (w120 Ma) and in the Namibia Basin (conjugate to the southern Santos Basin) in the late Aptian (w113 Ma). Salt deposition was widespread in the Santos and Campos basins and was apparently restricted to a short time span in the late Aptian (Davison, 2007;Karner and Gambôa, 2007;Mohriak et al, 2008;Torsvik et al, 2009).…”