Geologic framework of upper Miocene and Pliocene gas plays of the Macuspana Basin, southeastern Mexico

Ambrose, William A.; Wawrzyniec, Tim F.; Fouad, Khaled; Talukdar, Suhas C.; Jones, Rebecca H.; Jennette, David C.; Holtz, Mark H.; Sakurai, S.; Dutton, Shirley P.; Dunlap, Dallas; Guevara, Edgar H.; Meneses-Rocha, Javier J.; Lugo, Jorge E.; Aguilera, Leonardo; Berlanga, Jose; Miranda, Lino; Morales, José Ruiz; Rojas, R.G.; Solís, Héctor Antonio Soriano

doi:10.1306/04140302022

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“…The middle‐late Miocene is also a period of rapid exhumation across south Mexico and the Guatemala‐Honduras [ Ratschbacher et al , 2009]. Middle‐late Miocene compressive deformation has been observed in the Peten Basin, Campeche, the Veracruz Basin, the Tabasco area and the Mexican Ridge [ Jennette et al , 2003; Ambrose et al , 2003; Mitra et al , 2005; Le Roy et al , 2008; Rangin et al , 2008; Alzaga‐Ruiz et al , 2009; Witt et al , 2012]. Although deformation mechanisms observed in these areas may differ, the middle‐late Miocene appears as one of the most prominent periods of deformation across southern Mexico.…”

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New constraints on the origin of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas (south Mexico) from sediment provenance and apatite thermochronometry

Witt¹,

Brichau²,

Carter³

2012

Tectonics

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[1] The timing and source of deformation responsible for formation of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas (south Mexico) are unclear. To address this, apatite fission track and U-Th-He thermochronometry, combined with zircon U-Pb dating, were performed on bedrock and sedimentary samples of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas to discern timing of exhumation and identify sediment source areas. The U-Pb results show that Paleocene-Eocene terrigenous units outcropping at the northern section of the Sierra were mostly derived from Grenville ($1 Ga) basement whereas the internal sections of the chain yield mainly Permian to Triassic ages (circa 270-230 Ma) typical of the Chiapas massif complex. Grenville-sourced sediments are most probably sourced by the Oaxacan block or the Guichicovi complex and were deposited to the north of the Sierra in a foreland setting related to a Laramide deformation front. Other possibly source areas may be related to metasedimentary units widely documented at the south Maya block such as the Baldi unit. The apatite fission track and U-Th-He data combined with previously published results record three main stages in exhumation history: (1) slow exhumation between 35 and 25 Ma affecting mainly the Chiapas massif complex; (2) fast exhumation between 16 and 9 Ma related to the onset of major strike-slip deformation affecting both the Chiapas massif complex and Chiapas fold-and-thrust belt; and (3) a 6 to 5 Ma period of rapid cooling that affected the Chiapas fold-and-thrust belt, coincident with the landward migration of the Caribbean-North America plate boundaries. These data suggest that most of the topographic growth of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas took place in the middle to late Miocene. The new thermochronological evidence combined with stratigraphic and kinematic information suggests that the left-lateral strike-slip faults bounding the Chiapas fold-and-thrust belt to the west may have accommodated most of the displacement between the North American and Caribbean plates during the last 6-5 Ma.Citation: Witt, C., S. Brichau, and A. Carter (2012), New constraints on the origin of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas (south Mexico) from sediment provenance and apatite thermochronometry, Tectonics, 31, TC6001,

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New constraints on the origin of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas (south Mexico) from sediment provenance and apatite thermochronometry

Witt¹,

Brichau²,

Carter³

2012

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“…The internal subsurface configuration of the province is characterized by very deep and fragmented basement affected by different tectonic deformational events. At depth the Sureste province is divided into four subprovinces: Salina del Istmo, Comalcalco, Reforma-Akal and Macuspana [40,44,45]. The basement of the province consists of crystalline rocks of Precambrian and Paleozoic age [30,49] most of which are covered by Mesozoic rock units composed of red beds, marine evaporites and carbonates of basin and platform marine facies [53].…”

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Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage in Mexico: A First Approximation

Jimenez¹,

Dávila²,

Arévalo³

et al. 2011

Earth and Environmental Sciences

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“…This horst is bordered by regional-scale listric normal faults, to the West by the Comalcalco Fault and to the East by the Frontera Fault. Ambrose et al (2003) argued that the major deep-seated normal faults in the Macuspana basin are primary fluid migration pathways to the Tertiary traps. In the Reforma-Akal horst, Mesozoic carbonate rocks (Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous) contain most of the oil fields; only few are located in the Cenozoic siliciclastic sedimentary column.…”

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Petroleum accumulation and leakage in a deeply buried carbonate reservoir, Níspero field (Mexico)

Bourdet

Pironon

Levresse³

et al. 2010

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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Geologic framework of upper Miocene and Pliocene gas plays of the Macuspana Basin, southeastern Mexico

Cited by 33 publications

References 9 publications

New constraints on the origin of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas (south Mexico) from sediment provenance and apatite thermochronometry

New constraints on the origin of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas (south Mexico) from sediment provenance and apatite thermochronometry

Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage in Mexico: A First Approximation

Petroleum accumulation and leakage in a deeply buried carbonate reservoir, Níspero field (Mexico)

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