Biostratigraphic Techniques for Locating the Position of Ancient Shelf Margins: Examples from the Neogene of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
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Published:December 01, 2013
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G.D. Jones, A.C. Gary, B. Kohl, R.H. Fillon, H.H. Roberts, B.J. O’Neill, R.J. Witmer, 2013. "Biostratigraphic Techniques for Locating the Position of Ancient Shelf Margins: Examples from the Neogene of the Northern Gulf of Mexico", Shelf Margin Deltas and Linked Down Slope Petroleum Systems–Global Significance and Future Exploration Potential, Harry H. Roberts, Norman C. Rosen, Richard H. Fillon, John B. Anderson
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Cenozoic infilling of the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin with siliciclastic sediments occurred in a broadly offlapping pattern as successively younger shelf margins prograded basinward. Ancient shelf margins divide the basin profile into shelf and slope realms, with each realm containing economically important sandy reservoir units of fundamentally different geometries and stratal architecture. In the northern Gulf of Mexico, salt tectonics, related growth faulting, and shale compaction severely hinder recognition of ancient shelf margins on dip-oriented seismic sections, often making prediction of potential reservoir sand distributions problematical.
We demonstrate that biostratigraphic signals derived from the quantitative analysis of benthic foraminifera...
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Shelf Margin Deltas and Linked Down Slope Petroleum Systems–Global Significance and Future Exploration Potential
