GOLFO DE MÉXICO

Presenta: Usama Ismael Yarbuh Lugo

UNIVERSIDAD Autónoma de Baja California FACUltad de Ciencias Marinas OCEANOGRAFÍA DE MARES DE MÉXICO

Fold development and Syn-tectonic sedimentation Patterns in the Gulf of Mexico

Deep-water passive margin foldbelts around the world

Location of deep-water passive margin foldbelts around the world. From Morley (2011).

DEEP-WATER FOLDING

Salt tectonics. From Fossen (2010)

Detachment folding. From Fossen (2010)

Detachment folds vs salt tectonic folds

DEEP-WATER FOLDING

Fault-propagation fold

Detachment fold

Fault-bend fold

Other types of folds

DEEP-WATER FOLDING

Hydrocarbon generation window. From https://infolupki.pgi.gov.pl/en/gas/thermal-maturity-organic-matter-and-gas-exploration)

Folds in the oil industry

DEEP-WATER Oil exploration

Cartoon showing a petroleum system. From Kundu (2023)

From Valls (2015)

Is a back-arc basin

THE GULF OF MEXICO

Abyssal plain

Veracruz shelf

Campeche scarpment

Sigsbee scarpment

Yucatan shelf

Florida shelf

Mississippi shelf

Fromhttps://atlascigom.cicese.mx/map_data/T000/ATLAS-TOMO-0.pdf

Bathymetry

General setting of the Gulf of Mexico

Fromhttps://atlascigom.cicese.mx/map_data/T000/ATLAS-TOMO-0.pdf

Physiographic provinces

General setting of the Gulf of Mexico

Gondwana

Laurasia

Pangea fragmentation (Upper Paleozoic-Lower Mesozoic).
Continental shale deposits during the Mesozoic.
Marine water invasion.
High evaporation.
High volumes of salt deposits during the Jurassic forming evaporites.
Carbonate sedimentation during from Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous.

From Naugen and Mann (2015).

Of the Golf of Mexico

TECTONIC EVOLUTION

Thermal subsidence during the Cretaceous.
Uplift of the Sierra Madre Oriental (Laramide Orogeny).

Clastic sedimentation from Paleogene filling the basin (hemipelagic and turbiditie systems).
Tectonic inversion
Foldbelt devolpment.

From Trudgill et al. (1999).

TECTONIC EVOLUTION

Foldbelt distribution in the Golf of Mexico

Kenning and Manning (2020).

TECTONIC EVOLUTION

Regional map showing the main structural features of the southwestern Gulf of Mexico basin. From Yarbuh et al. (2018) .

The Mexican Ridges foldbelt

Case study

The Mexican Ridges foldbelt

Case study

From Yarbuh and Contreras (2015)

Case study

From Yarbuh et al. (2018)

Case study

Structural parameters of a detachment fold. From Yarbuh and Contreras (2015).

Geometry of folds

Case study

Example for fold No. 7 of the MRFB. From Yarbuh and Contreras (2015).

The Area-Depth-Strain Analysis

Case study

Examples for folds No. 1 and 6. From Yarbuh and Contreras (2015).

The Area-Depth-Strain Analysis

Case study