Resolving Presalt Sediment Source Terrains and Dispersal Pathways for the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin
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Published:December 01, 2016
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Bruce C. Frederick, Mike D. Blum, Chris M. Lowery, John W. Snedden, 2016. "Resolving Presalt Sediment Source Terrains and Dispersal Pathways for the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin", Mesozoic of the Gulf Rim and Beyond: New Progress in Science and Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico Basin, Christopher M. Lowery, John W. Snedden, Norman C. Rosen
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As part of a larger intercollegiate effort to reconstruct late Triassic, presalt sediment provenance and routing environments for the Gulf of Mexico sedimentary basin, an integrated geochronologic approach leveraging more traditional biostratigraphic, sedimentologic, and sequence stratigraphic provenance constraints from geologic cores, cuttings, and geophysical well logs was initiated. This paper presents the initial results of this ongoing study and details detrital zircon U-Pb extraction methodologies while Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry analyses are pending. Eagle Mills Formation sandstone samples were collected from well core and cuttings, at five sub-crop locations extending from Texas to South Carolina to the West...
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Mesozoic of the Gulf Rim and Beyond: New Progress in Science and Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico Basin

GeoRef
- Atlantic Ocean
- continental shelf
- cores
- cuttings
- De Soto Canyon
- Eagle Mills Formation
- fluvial environment
- Gondwana
- Gulf of Mexico
- Gulf of Mexico Basin
- ICP mass spectra
- igneous rocks
- magmatism
- mass spectra
- Mesozoic
- nesosilicates
- North Atlantic
- orthosilicates
- Ouachita Mountains
- petrography
- petroleum exploration
- provenance
- reconstruction
- reservoir rocks
- sedimentary structures
- silicates
- siliciclastics
- spectra
- thin sections
- Triassic
- U/Pb
- United States
- Upper Triassic
- well logs
- zircon
- zircon group