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Volume: 55 (1971)

Issue: 5. (May)

First Page: 680

Last Page: 686

Title: Jurassic Salt, Central Gulf of Mexico, and Its Temporal Relation to Circum-Gulf Evaporites

Author(s): D. W. Kirkland (2), J. E. Gerhard (2)

Abstract:

A Middle or Late Jurassic palynomorph assemblage has been recovered from calcite caprock of Challenger Knoll in the central Gulf of Mexico. The assemblage is dominated by species of Exesipollenites, Spheripollenites, and Classopollis, and probably has been derived from underlying salt beds.

Four major circum-Gulf evaporite deposits--the Louann-Werner of the southeastern United States, the Minas Viejas and the Salina of Mexico, and the Punta Alegre of Cuba--are probably about the same age as the inferred Sigsbee salt.

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