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Houston Geological Society Bulletin
Abstract
Abstract: Deep Water Gulf of Mexico Subsalt Structural
Framework
Hess Corporation
Structural styles in the deep water Gulf of Mexico are largely a
function of the distribution of 
salt
, its interaction with sedimentary
depocenters, the specific Gulf of Mexico linked system involved, and
position in that linked system. Nearly basin-wide coverage of highquality
3D seismic data coupled with existing regional 2D data has
allowed interpretation of subsalt structural features and their assembly
into a broad regional framework. We identify and characterize the
following provinces and subsalt structural elements: 1) A deep salt
basin and frontal salt napppe; 2) Perdido Foldbelt and Alaminos
Canyon gravity minima; 3) Eocene and Miocene regional welds; 4) an
“egg crate” province of isolated primary depocenters separated by
older salt and younger mini-basins; 5) an area of amalgamated salt
and linked primary depocenters; 6) Mississippi Canyon/Atwater and
Spirit foldbelts; 7) Sigsbee salt
lobe and allochthonous carapace
basins; and 8) “ramps” between weld and canopy levels.
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