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Chapter 17: Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico continental margins
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Published:January 01, 1989
The U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico continental margins are thickly sedimented passive margins that formed when Pangea split apart during Middle Jurassic time to create the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Keys to understanding the process of continental breakup and its relation to preexisting structure are found in the structure of the crust beneath the sediment-filled basins and adjacent platforms and embayments that outline the margins. Because of the great thickness of post-rift sedimentary rock in the basins and the presence of massive reef carbonates and salt layers and diapirs, the crustal structure beneath the basins in the...
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GSA Memoirs
Geophysical Framework of the Continental United States
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172
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© 1989 Geological Society of America
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9780813711720
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January 01, 1989