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Cantu-Chapa, A., 2009, Upper Jurassic stratigraphy (Oxfordian and Kimmeridgian) in petroleum wells of Campeche Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, in C. Bartolini and J. R. Roman Ramos, eds., Petroleum systems in the southern Gulf of Mexico: AAPG Memoir 90, p. 7991.

DOI:10.1306/13191079M902804

Copyright copy2009 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Upper Jurassic Stratigraphy (Oxfordian and Kimmeridgian) in Petroleum Wells of Campeche Shelf, Gulf of Mexico

Abelardo Cantu-Chapa

Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico, D. F., Mexico

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is grateful to Claudio Bartolini for guidance through the publication process of this volume. Thanks to Horacio Parent and Blanca Buitron for their detailed and asserted review of the manuscript. The author was generously assisted by Jaime Rios-Lopez and Rosalba Lima-Velasquez, who provided the material of this research.

ABSTRACT

The original definitions of the Upper Jurassic Akimpech Formation and Ek-Balam Group of Campeche Shelf (southern Gulf of Mexico) as proposed by Angeles-Aquino and Cantuacute-Chapa did not incorporate the gamma-ray log responses of these units. Studies of new material from petroleum wells from the southern Gulf of Mexico permit their redefinition as important stratigraphic units for petroleum exploration and production. Additionally, this chapter defines the middle Oxfordian Bacab Formation and its upper member, the Tson anhydrite member.

The middle Oxfordian ammonites Ochetoceras rioslopezi n. sp., Glochiceras sp., and Perisphinctidae ind. recovered from the oil wells of the southern region of the Gulf of Mexico are described.

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