Gravitational collapse and Neogene sediment transfer across the western margin of the Gulf of Mexico: Insights from numerical models

Tectonophysics

Volumn 470, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 21-41

  Alzaga Ruiz, Humberto ^a,b,c   Granjeon, Didier ^b   Lopez, Michel ^c   Seranne, Michel ^c   Roure, François ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO   (Mexico)

^b IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deep Sea Drilling Project; DSDP, Deep Sea Drilling Project; JOIDES, 1968; Joint Oceanographic Institution for Deep Earth Sampling

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIONAL; DEBRIS FLOWS; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; DSDP, DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; EXPLORATION STRATEGIES; FORWARD KINEMATIC; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; GRAVITATIONAL SYSTEMS; GULF OF MEXICO; JOIDES, 1968; JOINT OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION FOR DEEP EARTH SAMPLING; KEY PARAMETERS; LISTRIC FAULTS; ME-XICO; MESOZOIC CARBONATES; NEAR SHORES; NEO GENES; NORMAL FAULTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OLIGOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSFERS; SEISMIC PROFILES; SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS; SLOPE PROFILES; STRATIGRAPHIC MODELLING; VERACRUZ;

CLAY MINERALS; DEBRIS; GRAVITATION; HORIZONTAL WELLS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; WELL DRILLING; WELLS;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GRAVITY; NEOGENE; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 67349207090     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.06.017     Document Type: Article

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