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The Laramide orogeny, which extended along the length of North America, had both direct and indirect impacts on the Gulf of Mexico basin. Along the western Gulf margin, compressional deformation created a series of uplands and foreland troughs. Gravity transport systems constructed sandy slope/basin aprons in the troughs. To the north, tectonic uplands of the Western Interior supplied sediment to several evolving continental river systems that flowed southeastward into the northern Gulf. There, large delta systems prograded the coastal plain, shore zone, shelf, and continental slope tens of kilometers beyond the inherited Cretaceous shelf margin. Four principal depositional episodes are recorded in the stratigraphy of the northern margin: the Paleocene Lower Wilcox and Middle Wilcox, the early Eocene Upper Wilcox, and the Middle Eocene Queen City and Sparta. Sediment supply and construction of basinal submarine fan systems peaked in the Paleocene, and then decreased as supply waned in the Early Eocene.
The Gulf of Mexico Basin is one of the most prolific hydrocarbon-producing basins in the world, with an estimated endowment of 200 billion barrels of oil equivalent. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the basin, spanning the US, Mexico and Cuba. Topics covered include conventional and unconventional reservoirs, source rocks and associated tectonics, basin evolution from the Mesozoic to Cenozoic Era, and different regions of the basin from mature onshore fields to deep-water subsalt plays. Cores, well logs and seismic lines are all discussed providing local, regional and basin-scale insights. The scientific implications of seminal events in the basin's history are also covered, including sedimentary effects of the Chicxulub Impact. Containing over 200 color illustrations and 50 stratigraphic cross-sections and paleogeographic maps, this is an invaluable resource for petroleum industry professionals, as well as graduate students and researchers interested in basin analysis, sedimentology, stratigraphy, tectonics and petroleum geology.
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