Neogene tectonic, stratigraphic, and play framework of the southern Laguna Madre–Tuxpan continental shelf, Gulf of Mexico

Ambrose, William A.; Wawrzyniec, Tim F.; Fouad, Khaled; Sakurai, S.; Jennette, David C.; Brown, L. F.; Guevara, Edgar H.; Dunlap, Dallas; Talukdar, Suhas C.; García, Mario; Romano, Ulises Hernández; Vega, Juan Alvarado; Zamora, Eduardo Macías; Ruiz, Hector Ruiz; Hernández, Ramón Cárdenas

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“…Large erosion may have occurred in this emerged domain before the Eocene, as attested by the occurrence of meteoric karst (Enos, 1977(Enos, , 1985(Enos, , 1988Ambrose et al, 2005 ; Fig. 12).…”

Section: Geodynamic and Tectonic Controls On Sedimentationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Interactions between the Laramide Foreland and the passive margin of the Gulf of Mexico: Tectonics and sedimentation in the Golden Lane area, Veracruz State, Mexico

Alzaga-Ruiz

López

Roure

et al. 2009

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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Section: Geodynamic and Tectonic Controls On Sedimentationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Interactions between the Laramide Foreland and the passive margin of the Gulf of Mexico: Tectonics and sedimentation in the Golden Lane area, Veracruz State, Mexico

Alzaga-Ruiz

López

Roure

et al. 2009

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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“…Several examples were reported worldwide, mostly but not exclusively on passive margins, such as in the Bight Basin, Australia 4 , Niger Delta 5 – 7 , West African margins 8 – 10 , Gulf of Mexico 11 – 13 , Brazil 14 , Antarctic Peninsula 15 , and Brunei 16 . European examples (see Canals, et al .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Crotone Megalandslide, southern Italy: Architecture, timing and tectonic control

Zecchin

Accaino

Ceramicola

et al. 2018

Sci Rep

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Large-scale submarine gravitational land movements involving even more than 1,000 m thick sedimentary successions are known as megalandslides. We prove the existence of large-scale gravitational phenomena off the Crotone Basin, a forearc basin located on the Ionian side of Calabria (southern Italy), by seismic, morpho-bathymetric and well data. Our study reveals that the Crotone Megalandslide started moving between Late Zanclean and Early Piacenzian and was triggered by a contractional tectonic event leading to the basin inversion. Seaward gliding of the megalandslide continued until roughly Late Gelasian, and then resumed since Middle Pleistocene with a modest rate. Interestingly, the onshore part of the basin does not show a gravity-driven deformation comparable to that observed in the marine area, and this peculiar evidence allows some speculations on the origin of the megalandslide.

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“…This margin failure system detached along Paleogene shales was deposited during a time when most coarse siliciclastic input was sequestered in onshore foreland acco`\mmodation (Alzaga-Ruiz et al, 2009). The QEP shows growth faulting and the capture of large volumes of sediment in nearshore extensional accommodation beginning in the mid to late Miocene and continuing into the modern (Ambrose et al, 2005). Similarly, late Miocene to recent stratigraphy shows thickening into MRFTB synclines and thinning over anticlinal structures (Yarbuh et al, 2018).…”

Section: Western Marginmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Yellow arrows are approximate modern plate vectors modified from DeMets et al (1990). Circum-Gulf extensional and intra-Gulf compressional faults are modified from Ewing (1990), Jones and Freed (1996), Ambrose et al (2003Ambrose et al ( , 2005, Padilla y Sánchez (2013) and Kenning and Mann (2020). Blue <30 Ma uplift modified from Gray et al (2001).…”

Section: Eocene To Early Neogene Postorogenic Evolutionmentioning

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Neogene to recent evolution of the Southern Gulf of Mexico basin: Tectonic controls on deep‐water sediment dispersal systems

Sickmann

Snedden

2020

Basin Research

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Newly available two-dimensional (2D) and limited three-dimensional (3D) reflection seismic data coupled with publicly available well and core data were used to generate the first comprehensive regional basin evolution model for the deep-water Neogene to recent southern Gulf of Mexico (GoM). This evolution is presented in the context of contemporaneous onshore tectonic drivers and predecessor basin tectonic history. Dynamic uplift to the west in North America, transpression to the south and tectonically influenced salt tectonics to the east served to collapse the margins of the southern Gulf of Mexico Basin throughout the late Neogene and into the modern. This collapse and salt inflation served to shut off efficient sediment transport into the axial deep basin. Newly developed nearshore extensional accommodation along both the western margin of the basin and salt-rooted orogenic structures to the south and east appear to have baffled coarser-caliber sediment input from southern (Mexican) sediment sources into the deep Gulf of Mexico Basin beginning in the late Miocene. This sequence is recorded in the southern GoM basin by a transition from large early-mid Miocene submarine channel belts to late Miocene-recent sediment wave fields and mass transport deposits. Improved resolution of new 2D and 3D subsurface seismic reflection data shows that sediment waves of the southern Gulf of Mexico are supercritical bedforms, long wavelength antidunes and cyclic steps, not contourites. These supercritical bedforms are among the most spatially expansive and morphologically largest documented globally. The location and evolution of these bedforms appears closely tied to the tectonically driven history of margin collapse, salt inflation and the starving of the deep basin of coarse-grained sediment. Cumulatively, the tectonic drivers that intuitively should have increased sediment flux into the deep southern Gulf of Mexico acted to 'pinch off' the basin, starving it of sediment supplied from southern sediment sources. Highlights

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Neogene tectonic, stratigraphic, and play framework of the southern Laguna Madre–Tuxpan continental shelf, Gulf of Mexico

Cited by 40 publications

References 14 publications

Interactions between the Laramide Foreland and the passive margin of the Gulf of Mexico: Tectonics and sedimentation in the Golden Lane area, Veracruz State, Mexico

Interactions between the Laramide Foreland and the passive margin of the Gulf of Mexico: Tectonics and sedimentation in the Golden Lane area, Veracruz State, Mexico

The Crotone Megalandslide, southern Italy: Architecture, timing and tectonic control

Neogene to recent evolution of the Southern Gulf of Mexico basin: Tectonic controls on deep‐water sediment dispersal systems

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