Use of cross-section restoration to determine paleobathymetry and sea-floor paleotopography in the Gulf of Mexico basin

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 299-302

  Rowan, Mark G ^a   Villamil, Tomas ^a   Flemings, Peter B ^b   Weimer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; BATHYMETRY; CALCULATIONS;

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERS; CROSS-SECTION RESTORATIONS; DEPOSITION GEOMETRY; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; PALEOBATHYMETRY; REFLECTION SEISMIC; RESTORATION METHODS; RESTORATION TECHNIQUES; AIRY ISOSTASY; CROSS-SECTION RESTORATION; DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS; FACIES DEVELOPMENT; GULF OF MEXICO; SEA-FLOOR PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY;

RESTORATION; GEOLOGY;

AGGRADATION; BATHYMETRY; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOFACIES; CROSS SECTION; ISOSTASY; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PROGRADATION; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBSIDENCE; WATER DEPTH; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; AIRY ISOSTASY; CROSS SECTION RESTORATION; CROSS-SECTION RESTORATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; PALAEOBATHYMETRY; PALAEOTOPOGRAPHY; PALEO- SEA-FLOOR TEMPLATES; SALT TECTONICS;

EUGENE ISLAND; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; USA;

EID: 0029659210     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0299:UOCSRT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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