AAPG Bulletin, V. 83 (1999), No. 1 (January 1999), P. 88-113.

The Perdido Fold Belt, Northwestern Deep Gulf of Mexico, Part 1: Structural Geometry, Evolution and Regional Implications¹

Bruce D. Trudgill,² Mark G. Rowan,² J. Carl Fiduk,² Paul Weimer,² Peter E. Gale,³ Bryant E. Korn,⁴ Ronald L. Phair,⁴ William T. Gafford,⁵ Geneva R. Roberts,⁵ and Steven W. Dobbs⁶
 

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¹Manuscript received March 26, 1997; revised manuscript received March 2, 1998; final acceptance March 24, 1998.
²Energy and Minerals Applied Research Center, Department of Geological Sciences, Campus Box 399, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-399; e-mail: [email protected]
³Shell Offshore, Inc., P.O. Box 61993, New Orleans, Louisiana 70160. Present address: British-Borneo Exploration, Inc., 1201 Louisiana, Suite 3500, Houston, Texas 77002.
⁴Texaco Exploration and Production, Inc., P.O. Box 60252, New Orleans, Louisiana 70160.
⁵Amoco Production Company, P.O. Box 3092, Houston, Texas 77253.
⁶Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S., Inc., P.O. Box 605232, Dallas, Texas 75265.
 

We thank Shell Offshore, Inc., Texaco Exploration and Production, Inc., Amoco Production Company, and Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S., Inc., for their financial support and permission to publish the results of this research. Additional seismic data were supplied by Western Geophysical and Richard Buffler at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG). Jon Blickwede and Tom Queffelec generously supplied unpublished accounts of their earlier work on the fold belt. We are grateful to Alan Herring at EDCON Inc. for allowing us to view and incorporate regional gravity data into our interpretations. We also thank Cogniseis Development Inc., Landmark Graphics Corporation, and Badleys for software support. Special thanks to David Knapp for maintaining the EMARC computer systems. 

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