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

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 951-973

  Alzaga Ruiz, Humberto ^a,b,c   Lopez, Michel ^b   Roure, François ^c,d   Séranne, Michel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chicontepec Basin; Gravity collapse; Gulf of Mexico; Laramide foreland Basin

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL PLAINS; CENOZOIC; CHICONTEPEC BASIN; CLASTICS; COASTAL PLAINS; COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL SLOPES; DEEP WATERS; DEPOCENTERS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; FAR-FIELD STRESS; FLEXURAL BASINS; GRAVITY COLLAPSE; GULF OF MEXICO; JURASSIC; LARAMIDE FORELAND BASIN; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATE EOCENE; LISTRIC FAULTS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; ME-XICO; MIOCENE; OCEANIC BASINS; OFFSHORE BASINS; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGENE; RESERVOIR DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA SHORES; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURES; SEDIMENTARY INFILL; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SEISMIC PROFILES; SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS; UPPER CRETACEOUS; VERACRUZ;

FORESTRY; GRAVITATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; REEFS; SEAWATER; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ABYSSAL PLAIN; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COASTAL PLAIN; DEFORMATION; EOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; HANGING WALL; INFILL; LARAMIDE OROGENY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OCEAN BASIN; OLIGOCENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE ORIENTAL; VERACRUZ;

EID: 67349252253     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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