The Origin of the Gulf of Mexico Basin and its Petroleum Subbasins in Mexico, Based on Red Bed and Salt Palynostratigraphy

Rueda-Gaxiola, Jaime

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“…Late Triassic continental red beds were deposited over tectonic depressions during the breakup of western Equatorial Pangea (Davison et al, 2020). This sequence is represented in the area by the Guacamaya (Early Permian), Huizachal (Late Triassic-Early Jurassic), Huayacocotla (Early Jurassic), and Cahuasas (Middle Jurassic) formations (Carrillo-Bravo, 1965;Rueda-Gaxiola, 2003). The Early Permian Guacamaya Formation consists of thin to medium thick-ness strata of black shales wich alternates with sandstones and conglomerates, and limestones horizons have been reported in some localities (Buitrón-Sánchez et al, 2017).…”

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“…The Early Permian Guacamaya Formation consists of thin to medium thick-ness strata of black shales wich alternates with sandstones and conglomerates, and limestones horizons have been reported in some localities (Buitrón-Sánchez et al, 2017). Huizachal Formation, known as a redbeds succession, consists of shales, sandstone and conglomerate of Late Triassic to Early Jurassic Age (Carrillo-Bravo, 1965;Rueda-Gaxiola, 2003;Barboza-Gudiño et al, 2010). Early Jurassic conglomerates covered by sandstones and shales are grouped in the Huayacocotla Formation (Carrillo-Bravo, 1965;Rueda-Gaxiola, 2003).…”

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“…Huizachal Formation, known as a redbeds succession, consists of shales, sandstone and conglomerate of Late Triassic to Early Jurassic Age (Carrillo-Bravo, 1965;Rueda-Gaxiola, 2003;Barboza-Gudiño et al, 2010). Early Jurassic conglomerates covered by sandstones and shales are grouped in the Huayacocotla Formation (Carrillo-Bravo, 1965;Rueda-Gaxiola, 2003). The Middle Jurassic Cahuasas Formation also consists of red sandstones, conglomerate and shale (Carrillo-Bravo, 1965).…”

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“…The study area is located in the physiographic province of the northern Gulf Coastal Plain. It comprises part of the Tampico-Misantla Basin, a productive hydrocarbon basin since the earliest 1900s (Rueda-Gaxiola, 2003;Juárez-Arriaga et al, 2019a), in the vicinity with the Mexican Fold and Trust Belt (MFTB) (Fitz-Díaz et al, 2018) to the west, and with the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt to the south-southwest (Figure 1). The Tampico-Misantla Basin is a foreland basin that belongs to a major system named the Mexican Foreland Basin (MFB) (Juárez-Arriaga et al, 2019a), developed along the eastern front of the MFTB, and extends from Chihuahua city in northern Mexico, to Jesus Carranza, in Veracruz, south of the present map area, reaching an extension of c. 1700 km (Davison et al, 2020).…”

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Geological map of the distribution of igneous Cenozoic rocks in central Tampico-Misantla Basin

Loza-Aguirre

Solís-Orduña²,

Sierra-Rojas³

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We present a geological map that shows the distribution of Cenozoic igneous rocks in the central portion of the Tampico-Misantla Basin in eastern Mexico at 1:500,000 scale. This map covers an area of ~25000 km2, including part of the States of Veracruz, Hidalgo, and Puebla. It was made as background information for the geophysical exploration of the CONACYT Fronteras de la Ciencia project 1787 “Un acercamiento a los Yacimientos no Convencionales a partir de Métodos Electromagnéticos de exploración”. This map resulted from the compilation of cartographic and geochronological (28 K-Ar isotopic ages) information from available literature, complemented and improved with photogeology and regional reconnaissance tours along several roads that cross the region. Main Cenozoic units were recognized during fieldwork. Particular emphasis was placed on identifying igneous rocks, especially intrusive bodies, as this was one of the main goals of the CONACYT Project, by using geophysical methods, and characterizing the geometry of the basin. The map is now available to the community interested in the Cenozoic evolution of east-central Mexico. Besides that, it will be the basis of the research that the group is carrying out in the Eastern Mexican Alkaline Province and the eastern Sierra Madre Oriental Cenozoic magmatism.

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Geological map of the distribution of igneous Cenozoic rocks in central Tampico-Misantla Basin

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Solís-Orduña²,

Sierra-Rojas³

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“…A review of the Triple Junction Model for the origin of the Gulf of Mexico and its oil bearing sub-basins is presented (Rueda-Gaxiola, 2003). We summarize several models to explain the origin of the Gulf of Mexico (Rueda-Gaxiola, 1998).…”

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A triple junction in the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for deep petroleum exploration

Rueda-Gaxiola¹

2004

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Las secuencias mesozoicas de lechos rojos y sal representan el basamento economico de las subcuencas petroleras mexicanas del Golfo de Mexico, asf como el inicio de Ia transgresion marina tethisiana que formo los sistemas petroleras. Los analisis palinoestratigraficos (1969-1993) de estas secuencias permitieron obtener datos lito-, bio- y cronoestratigraficos del Alogrupo Los San Pedros y del Grupo Huayacocotla (edad Raetho-Liasica en Ia Cuenca Huayacocotla-El Alamar), de las formaciones del Jurasico Medio La Joya (subcuenca Chihuahua-Sabinas-Burgos), Rosario, Cahuasas (Subcuenca Tampico-Misantla) y Todos Santos (subcuencas de Veracruz y Sureste). Estos datos y los obtenidos del "caprock" del Challenger KnollJ:lelGolfo de Mexico, por Kirkland y Gerhardt, han permitido entender el origen y Ia evolucion tectonica del Golfo de Mexico. De estos datos se deduce la existencia de una discordancia entre las rocas metamorficas e fgneas del basamento y los lechos rojos del Jurasico Medio en las subcuencas del Golfo de Mexico y que se continua sobre las rocas fluvio-lacustres-marinas liasicas de las cuencas de Huayacocotla El Alamm:, Tlaxiaco y Huamuxtitlan. El modelo tect6nico de la Union Triple incluye tres periodos: (1) la formaci on de la Cuenca Rhaeto-liasica Huayacocotla-El Alamar, (2) el origen de la subcuenca Tampico-Misantla durante el Liasico Tardfo y (3) el origen del Golfo de Mexico y de sus subcuencas de Chihuahua-Sabinas, Veracruz y Sureste, durante el Jurasico Medio Temprano. Esta Triple Union permitio el desplazarniento hacia el NW del Bloque Texas-Luisiana y de Ia parte occidental de Mexico por medio de las megacizallas Vancouver-Bahamas, Texas-Sabinas y Pico de Orizaba-Laguna Inferior, al permanecerunido el Bloque Chiapas Yucatan a Suramerica. Este modelo y los datos geoqufmicos permiten delimitar nuevas provincias potencialmente productoras de gas y petroleo hacia el centro del Golfo de Mexico. Se trata de las rampas de las subcuencas de Chihuahua-Sabinas-Burgos, Tampico-Misantla y Sureste, ya que estuvieron muy proximas a Ia union triple durante Ia subsidencia de sus bordes y fueron las primeras en recibir las aguas oceanicas tethisianas, donde el fitoplancton marino se desarrollo en condiciones ffsico-qufmicas ideales. Ademas, sus rocas ricas en materia organic a fueron las primeras en alcanzar la temperatura de generacion de petrol eo y gas y estos los primeros en migrar hacia las partes altas de las rampas.doi: sin doi

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The Origin of the Gulf of Mexico Basin and its Petroleum Subbasins in Mexico, Based on Red Bed and Salt Palynostratigraphy

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Geological map of the distribution of igneous Cenozoic rocks in central Tampico-Misantla Basin

Geological map of the distribution of igneous Cenozoic rocks in central Tampico-Misantla Basin

A triple junction in the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for deep petroleum exploration

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