Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Systems of the Veracruz Basin, Mexico

Prost, Gary L.; Aranda, Mario

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“…In the Gulf of Mexico province, the tectonic setting has been dominated by the development of a passive margin (Marton & Buffler, ; Pindell, ; Ross & Scotese, ; Salvador, , ) overprinted by Laramide orogenic effects that occurred in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico from the Paleocene to Middle Eocene (Escalera‐Alcocer & Hernández‐Romano, ; Pindell & Kennan, ) and Chortis Block migration along the Pacific margin starting in the Eocene to reach the present‐day position (Pindell & Kennan, ; Rogers, Mann, & Emmet, ; Ross & Scotese, ). These main regional tectonic events along with local tectonic events (salt tectonics) had a great impact on the deformational events that occurred in the southern Gulf of Mexico, as explained by Ángeles‐Aquino, Núñez, Muñeton, and Meneses Rocha (); Prost and Aranda (); Robles‐Nolasco et al (); Gomez‐Cabrera and Jackson (); Salomon‐Mora, Aranda‐Garcia, and Roman‐Ramos, J.R. (); Cruz‐Mercado et al (). During the Middle Miocene occurred the maximum deformation that folded and trusted the rocks in the southern Gulf of Mexico (Chiapanecan Orogeny, Sanchez‐Montes de Oca, ).…”

Section: Regional Geological Settingmentioning

confidence: 97%

Miocene depositional environments, processes, and depositional elements in the southern Gulf of Mexico

2017

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Detailed stratigraphic and facies analyses were conducted and combined with seismic facies and 3D seismic‐derived plan view images to interpret the depositional environments, processes and depositional elements during the Miocene for an area located in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The results showed that deposition during the Miocene mainly occurred in a slope setting, with bathymetric changes associated with highs and mini‐basins related to salt features. From the sedimentological interpretation, 13 sedimentary facies were identified. The abundant lithofacies were structureless (massive) sandstone and massive mudstone. Ripple‐ , parallel and cross‐laminated sandstone and siltstone were found in minor proportions. The main depositional processes were related to turbidity currents, including high‐density and low‐density currents; debris flows (mud flows and grain flows) were of secondary importance, as was deposition from fallout of suspended hemipelagic mud particles. The vertical and lateral distributions of facies revealed seven facies associations linked to depositional environments. These facies associations were the building blocks that were used to characterize the depositional elements recognized on seismic data. The main depositional elements identified were mass‐transport complexes, submarine channels, and frontal splays. Finally, interpretations from different data sets enabled the conclusion that, during the Miocene in this area were submarine fans deposited on an irregular paleotopography, with topographic lows and highs controlled by salt tectonics.

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Miocene depositional environments, processes, and depositional elements in the southern Gulf of Mexico

2017

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“…The combination of restricted marine currents, low oxygenation of bottom waters, and fertilization by volcanic activity in rifted, arc-related, and foredeep basins resulted in common deposition of organic-rich, gray-to-black sediments (calcareous shales and argillaceous-to-silty carbonates). Variation in deposition depths, clay content, and oxygenation determined differences among Tithonian source rocks, but these Tithonian sediments gave rise to the main Jurassic hydrocarbon source rocks in Mexico, the GoM, and Cuba (Viniegra, 1981; Peterson, 1983; Santamaría-Orozco et al, 1995; Rodríguez-Viera et al, 1998; Ángeles-Aquino and Cantú-Chapa, 2001; Cole et al, 2001; Eguiluz de Antuñano, 2001; Guzmán-Vega et al, 2001; Magoon et al, 2001; Mancini et al, 2001; Prost and Aranda, 2001; Williams-Rojas and Hurley, 2001; Gaumet and Letouzey, 2002; Cantú-Chapa and Ortuño-Maldonado, 2003; Moretti, et al, 2003; Santamaría-Orozco and Horsfield, 2003; Padilla y Sánchez, 2007; Schenk, 2010; Muñoz-Cisneros et al, 2013). Paleogeographic interpretations of western areas related to active plate margins facing the Panthalassa Ocean are still unconclusive and controversial.…”

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New species of lower Tithonian macroconchiateHybonoticerasfrom Mexico and the co-occurrence ofMazapilitesandHybonoticerasin the Mexico-Caribbean area

Olóriz

Villaseñor

2018

J. Paleontol.

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The ammonite Hybonoticeras authariformis new species [M] is erected from the lower Tithonian of Mexico, adding a new example of endemism for the genus Hybonoticeras in records from epicontinental areas. The newly described species is the first evidence of unequivocal lowermost Tithonian macroconchiate hybonoticeratines reported from the Mexico-Caribbean area. Precise biostratigraphic control based on bed-by-bed sampling is first reported for the combined record of macroconchiate Hybonoticeras Breistroffer, 1947 with Mazapilites Burckhardt, 1919 in Mexico, indicating an early but not earliest Tithonian age. A preliminary revision of the type material of species assigned to the genus Mazapilites points to an inconclusive understanding of both intraspecies diversity and the real meaning of the nominal species formulated by Burckhardt, thus revealing defective knowledge about precise biostratigraphy at both the genus and species levels. Published hybonoticeratines and mazapilitines from Mexico and Cuba are revisited to update precise interpretation of their systematics, biostratigraphy, and correlation potential, and to investigate their combined occurrence. Previous information about Cuban hybonoticeratines and mazapilitines is too limited to be conclusively interpreted; their combined record cannot be demonstrated in Cuba. Special relevance is given to a potential occurrence of Mazapilites in uppermost Kimmeridgian horizons in Cuba. The obtained results update the biostratigraphic meaning and systematic interpretation of the investigated ammonites, and signal topics for future research of interest in their paleobiological and palebiogeographic interpretation.UUID: http://zoobank.org/References/78c89620-fa2e-4de5-985d-819421a858f9

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“…Similar structural observations were also made along the northeastern edge of the VSP platform near Aramberri [ Tardy et al ., ], along the west central margin of the same platform [ Aranda‐Gómez et al ., ], along the northeastern edge of the Cretaceous Córdoba platform in southeastern Mexico [ Mossman and Viniegra , ; Prost and Aranda , ; Roure et al ., ], along the western margin of the Cretaceous Guerrero‐Morelos platform where the Teloloapan thrust system [ Cerca et al ., ] follows the platform margin outlined by de Cserna et al . [], and along the margins of carbonate platforms in the Alps [e.g., Doglioni , , ; Ford and Stahel , ].…”

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Mechanical stability model of progradational carbonate platform margins under tectonic loads: Deformation of Cretaceous carbonate platforms in the Sierra Madre Oriental fold‐thrust belt (east central Mexico)

Contreras

Suter

2015

JGR Solid Earth

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Shortening in the Sierra Madre Oriental fold-thrust belt (east central Mexico) is localized along the margins of Cretaceous carbonate platforms and controlled by mechanical stratigraphy. The platform margins are deformed by imbricate series of thrust ramps, whereas the coeval basins and platform interiors are deformed by map-scale detachment folds. Here we present a finite element model to evaluate the influence of the boundary geometry and boundary conditions on the style of deformation observed at these basinward progradational platform margins. We calculate the stress distribution in a linearly elastic platform-basin transition zone under the action of horizontal tectonic stress, taking into account changes of rock mechanical properties across the platform margin, as well as their dependence on direction, and infer the resulting fracture patterns based on the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion. Stress concentrations are predicted at the contacts between the massive rocks of the platform margin and the well-layered rocks of both, the platform interior and the adjacent basin. Brittle failure of the platform border can be mostly attributed to three effects: mechanical coupling between the carbonate platform and a substratum of moderate to low viscosity, variations in layering and texture that governed the mechanical properties of the involved carbonates as well as their dependence on direction, and the development of sharp domain boundary corners associated with progradational facies changes. In contrast, the dip of the basement and a possible taper of the overlying Upper Cretaceous shale toward the basin appear to have little influence on the mechanical failure of the platform margin.

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Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Systems of the Veracruz Basin, Mexico

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Miocene depositional environments, processes, and depositional elements in the southern Gulf of Mexico

Miocene depositional environments, processes, and depositional elements in the southern Gulf of Mexico

New species of lower Tithonian macroconchiateHybonoticerasfrom Mexico and the co-occurrence ofMazapilitesandHybonoticerasin the Mexico-Caribbean area

Mechanical stability model of progradational carbonate platform margins under tectonic loads: Deformation of Cretaceous carbonate platforms in the Sierra Madre Oriental fold‐thrust belt (east central Mexico)

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