Abstract The Gulf of Mexico is a small ocean basin lying between the North American plate
and the Yucatan block. Following initiation in the Middle Jurassic, sea-floor spreading …

Salt tectonics at passive margins is currently interpreted as a gravity-driven process but
according to two different types of models: i) pure spreading only driven by differential …

Many passive margins have deep-water, contractional fold belts that formed above salt or
shale. Margin failure, accommodated by proximal extension and distal shortening, is caused …

Salt-related faults and fault welds in the northern Gulf of Mexico are classified based on the
three-dimensional geometry of the faults or welds, deformed strata, and associated salt …

Strata adjacent to exposed diapirs in La Popa basin, northeastern Mexico, comprise stacked
halokinetic sequences consisting of unconformity-bounded packages of thinned and rotated …

Allochthonous salt sheets advance in four ways:(1) extrusive advance,(2) open-toed
advance,(3) thrust advance, and (4) salt-wing intrusion. These mechanisms are determined …

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Cross-section restoration typically assumes plane-strain deformation and area conservation,
constraints that are usually invalid for salt because of its characteristic three-dimensional …

In the northern Gulf of Mexico slope province, complex structural relationships resulting from
dynamic adjustments between large volumes of sediments and salt provide numerous …

Structural and sequence stratigraphic interpretations of two-dimensional seismic and well
data from northern Green Canyon and Ewing Bank were integrated to evaluate how salt …