Although a remarkably accurate geological description of salt domes was published nearly 100 years ago in a paper on Galicia (Pošepný, 1871), it was not until the 1920s that a reasonably modern interpretation of the nature and origin of salt diapirs in the Gulf of Mexico basin was widely accepted.
Today, in the Gulf basin, more than 300 salt diapirs are known in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Nuevo León, Veracruz, Tabasco, and Cuba (Figs. 1, 2). Possibly an equal number exist beneath the continental shelves off Louisiana-Texas and Veracruz-Tabasco. In addition, M. Ewing et al....
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