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The Late Mesozoic Local Tectonic and Crustal Heating Phase follows the end of sea floor spreading and is marked by local tectonic uplifts, beginning with a major Early Cretaceous siliciclastic influx in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, likely from uplift of the Peninsular Arch, as indicated by detrital zircon geochronology of the Hosston Sandstone. The younger Tuscaloosa Sandstone marks the first major entry of siliciclastics into the central northern Gulf deepwater basin in the Ceno-Turonian. The Eagle Ford Shale, a world-class unconventional play, forms in restricted shelf basins in south Texas. A reduction of siliciclastic input, combined with globally high sea level results in pervasive deep marine sedimentation culminating in chalk deposition in the latest Cretaceous. The end of Mesozoic Chicxulub impact event generated mass transport deposits, breccia, and hybrid flows related to seismic shaking and catastrophic slope failures, greatly modifying the land- and seascape of the basin and paving the way for long-lived source-to-sink transport systems routing sediment from the Laramide orogenic belt into the deep Gulf basin.
The Gulf of Mexico Basin is one of the most prolific hydrocarbon-producing basins in the world, with an estimated endowment of 200 billion barrels of oil equivalent. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the basin, spanning the US, Mexico and Cuba. Topics covered include conventional and unconventional reservoirs, source rocks and associated tectonics, basin evolution from the Mesozoic to Cenozoic Era, and different regions of the basin from mature onshore fields to deep-water subsalt plays. Cores, well logs and seismic lines are all discussed providing local, regional and basin-scale insights. The scientific implications of seminal events in the basin's history are also covered, including sedimentary effects of the Chicxulub Impact. Containing over 200 color illustrations and 50 stratigraphic cross-sections and paleogeographic maps, this is an invaluable resource for petroleum industry professionals, as well as graduate students and researchers interested in basin analysis, sedimentology, stratigraphy, tectonics and petroleum geology.
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