T41C:
Mesozoic to Recent Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin from Integrated Geologic and Geophysical Data Sets I Posters

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Session ID#: 13943

Session Description:
The Gulf of Mexico basin preserves a deeply buried, late Jurassic age spreading center, an adjacent area of oceanic crust, up to 4 km of salt, and an overlying passive margin section up to 12 km in thickness.  Advancing geophysical methods are now capable of addressing many questions of the basin’s longterm evolution that were previously stymied by its thick sedimentary fill. These questions include: 1) amount and style of continental stretching at its edges; 2) precise locations of its continent-ocean boundaries; 3) role of large-scale strike-slip faulting in the opening of the basin; 4) progradation and progressive infilling of the basin by its clastic and carbonate passive margins; and 5) evolving paleooceanography and circulation within the enclosed basin.  We invite multidisciplinary disciplinary contributions on these and other questions related to the evolution of the sedimentary fill, crust, and upper mantle of the Gulf of Mexico basin.
Primary Convener:  Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Gyorgy Marton, Dynamic Data Services, Houston, TX, United States
Chairs:  Gyorgy Marton, Dynamic Data Services, Houston, TX, United States and Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Index Terms:

8105 Continental margins: divergent [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8106 Continental margins: transform [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8109 Continental tectonics: extensional [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8169 Sedimentary basin processes [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Review of pre-rift continental fits and plate kinematic models for the Gulf of Mexico opening (192274)
Andrew Steier, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Regional Comparison of Detrital Zircon Populations in Syn-rift, Jurassic Rocks from the Northern Gulf of Mexico to Northern South America (198642)
Marie Kouassi, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
New Insight into the Lithosphere Structure of the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana (190123)
Harold Gurrola, Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, Jay Pulliam, Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, United States, Kevin Lee Mickus, Southwest Missouri State Univ, Springfield, MO, United States and G Randy Keller, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Shear Wave Structure Beneath Texas and Its Implication for the Opening of The Gulf of Mexico (183477)
Yao Yao, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Aibing Li, University of Houston, EAS, Houston, TX, United States
Locating the ocean-continent crustal boundary of the eastern Gulf of Mexico based on heat flow observations (162737)
Alden Netto and Seiichi Nagihara, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States
The Early Gulf of Mexico as a Subaerial Basin Below Sea Level (SABSEL) Basin. Evidence from Stratigraphy and Facies of Luanne salt, Norphlet sandstone and Smackover Brown Dense Formations. (190836)
Martin M Cassidy, University of Houston, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Mesozoic to Recent, regional tectonic controls on subsidence patterns in the Gulf of Mexico basin (178472)
Mohammad Almatrood1, Paul Mann2 and Muhammad Nawaz Bugti1, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Jurassic, slow-spreading ridge in the southeast Gulf of Mexico and its along-strike morpho-volcanic expression explained by a two-phase opening model (188302)
Pin Lin, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Geological 3D Velocity Model, Keathley Canyon and Walker Ridge, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico (149446)
Peter A Emmet, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Sharon Cornelius, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Science, Houston, TX, United States
Salt Interval Velocities vs Latitude in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Keathley Canyon and Walker Ridge Areas (135938)
Sharon Cornelius and John P Castagna, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Science, Houston, TX, United States
Distinctive styles of salt deformation formed by radial, convergent gliding into the sharp corners of the northeastern and northwestern Gulf of Mexico (198770)
Muhammad Nawaz Bugti, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Delineation of the Mesozoic “step-up fault” at the continent-ocean boundary in the US Gulf of Mexico and its Cenozoic role as a thrust-ramp for passive margin fold-belts (164857)
David Felipe Lankford-Bravo, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States and Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Mexican Ridges passive margin foldbelt of western Gulf of Mexico detached along the top of an extensive, Oligocene mass transport complex (182610)
Alex Fick, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Structure of the Western Gulf of Mexico Salt Canopy Surface Imaged by Regional 2D Multichannel Seismic Data (160003)
Vaughn Robla1, William W Sager2 and Peter A Emmet1, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States
New Insights into the Campeche Escarpment Post-Chicxulub Impact Using Multibeam Echo Sounder (MBES) Bathymetry and Backscatter Data (164746)
Jayme McBee, Fugro Marine GeoServices Inc, Houston, TX, United States, Garrett Alan Mitchell, Fugro USA Marine, Inc, Houston, TX, United States, Kelley Brumley, Fugro USA Marine, Inc., Houston, TX, United States, Jamshid Jim Gharib, Fugro Geoconsulting Inc., Houston, TX, United States and Charles K Paull, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Gravity-based model for regional flexure induced by crustal loading by the 14-km-thick Mississippi delta (169001)
Rasheed Ajala, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
GPS-derived ground deformation (2005–2014) within the Gulf of Mexico region referred to a stable Gulf of Mexico reference frame (160039)
Jiangbo Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Guoquan Wang, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Linqiang Yang, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States

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