T44A:
Mesozoic to Recent Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin from Integrated Geologic and Geophysical Data Sets II

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Session ID#: 16635

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:

The Links Between the Formation of the Gulf of Mexico and the Late Proterozoic to Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of Southern North America (157233)
G Randy Keller, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Kevin Lee Mickus, Southwest Missouri State Univ, Springfield, MO, United States, Harold Gurrola, Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, Dennis Lee Harry, Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Jay Pulliam, Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, United States
Quantitative restoration the Gulf of Mexico continental margins based on a newly-derived, basin-wide, crustal thickness map (170127)
Luan C. C. Nguyen, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Paul Mann, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Constraints on the Crustal Architecture of the Mesozoic Gulf of Mexico Basin (130357)
Robert P Pascoe and Peter Nutall, Dynamic Data Services, Houston, TX, United States
Structure and early evolution of the northern Gulf of Mexico: constraints from marine seismic refraction data (Invited) (123241)
Harm J Van Avendonk, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Gail Lynn Christeson, UTIG, Austin, United States, Ian O Norton, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States and Drew R Eddy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
A Kinematic Model for Opening of the Gulf of Mexico between 169-150 Ma (182046)
Dennis Lee Harry, Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Sumant Jha, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Early evolution of the Gulf of Mexico and the origin of the pervasive salt (161917)
Lawrence A Lawver, Ian O Norton and Lisa Gahagan, UT Austin, Inst. for Geophy., Jackson School of Geos., Austin, TX, United States
Mesozoic of the Gulf Mexico Basin: New Data, New Concepts, and New Plays in the Onshore and Offshore Gulf of Mexico (Invited) (128523)
John Snedden1, Hilary Clement Olson2, Ian O Norton3, Robert Cunningham4 and Jon Virdell2, (1)Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Chargesearch, LLC, Llano, TX, United States
Revisiting the Mesozoic opening of the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico (167738)
Gyorgy Marton and Robert P Pascoe, Dynamic Data Services, Houston, TX, United States

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