AAPG Memoir 75, Chapter 8: Tectonic
Evolution of the Ixtapa Graben, an Example of a Strike-slip Basin of Southeastern Mexico:
Implications for Regional Petroleum Systems, by Javier J. Meneses-Rocha, Pages 183 - 216
from:
AAPG Memoir 75: The Western Gulf of Mexico Basin: Tectonics, Sedimentary
Basins, and Petroleum Systems, Edited by Claudio Bartolini, Richard T. Buffler, and
Abelardo Cant
-Chapa
Copyright 
2001 by The American Association
of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.
Tectonic Evolution of the Ixtapa Graben, an Example of
a Strike-slip Basin of Southeastern Mexico: Implications for Regional Petroleum Systems
Javier J. Meneses-Rocha
PEMEX Exploraci
n y Produccin, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
ABSTRACT
The Ixtapa graben is located in the center of the Strike-slip Fault province of the
Sierra de Chiapas, Mexico. In this graben, rocks of middle Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian)
to Pleistocene age represent a section in which successively younger beds lie to the
southeast. This section is 15,365 m thick and represents marine, transitional, and
continental environments with numerous vertical and lateral facies changes through the
whole section and unconformities in the uppermost part. Along the flanks of the graben,
beds are upturned and form positive flower structures.
