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1 Department of Geological Sciences C1100, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712; galloway{at}mail.utexas.edu
2 Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, 4412 Spicewood Springs Rd., Bldg. 600, Austin, Texas 78759-8500
3 Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, 4412 Spicewood Springs Rd., Bldg. 600, Austin, Texas 78759-8500; current address: MapInfo Canada, Inc., 305 Milner Ave., Scarborough, Ontario, M1B 3V4, Canada
4 Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, 4412 Spicewood Springs Rd., Bldg. 600, Austin, Texas 78759-8500
William Galloway holds a B.S. degree from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in geological sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently the Morgan Davis Centennial Professor of Petroleum Geology, Department of Geological Sciences, and a senior research scientist, Institute for Geophysics, at the University of Texas at Austin. He has researched the Cenozoic depositional systems of the Gulf basin for the past 30 years.Patricia E. Ganey-Curry received a B.S. degree in marine biology from Texas A&M University and is the project coordinator/data manager for the Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin. She joined the Institute for Geophysics in 1978, where she has been industry liaison for numerous oil industry funded programs. She has served as project manager for the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis Project for the past five years.
Xiang Li received his Ph.D. from the China University of Geosciences, Beijing. His geological specialties include sedimentology and stratigraphy, and he is a geographic information system/ArcInfo specialist. He served as a research fellow at the Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, and is now employed by Corel Corporation in Ottawa, Canada.
Richard T. Buffler received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of California-Berkeley in 1967. He worked for Shell Oil Company and the University of Alaska before joining the University of Texas at Austin in 1975, where he is now a senior research scientist with the Institute for Geophysics and professor with the Department of Geological Sciences. His primary research focus for the past 25 years has been the geologic history of the Gulf of Mexico basin.
A Geographic Information System (GIS) database incorporating information from 241 publications, theses, and dissertations; well logs and paleontologic reports; and interpreted University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) deep-basin seismic lines was used to map and interpret 18 basinwide genetic stratigraphic sequences that form the Gulf of Mexico basin Cenozoic fill. Eight principal extrabasinal fluvial axes provided the bulk of the sediment infill in the basin. First-order temporal and spatial use of these axes reflects four continent-scale phases of crustal uplift. Abundant sediment supply has prograded the northern and northwestern basin margin 150 to 180 mi (240 to 290 km) from its inherited Cretaceous position. Margin outbuilding has been locally and briefly interrupted by hypersubsidence due to salt withdrawal and mass wasting. Three depositional systems tracts characterize Cenozoic genetic sequences: (1) fluvial -> delta -> delta-fed apron, (2) coastal plain -> shore zone -> shelf -> shelf-fed apron, and (3) delta flank -> submarine fan. One or more examples of the fluvial -> delta -> delta-fed apron systems tract occur in each of the major genetic sequences. Immense volumes of sand have bypassed the shelf margin to be deposited in slope and base-of-slope systems, primarily within fluvial -> delta -> delta-fed apron system tracts, during all major Paleogene and Neogene depositional episodes. Deposition and preservation of volumetrically significant coastal plain -> shore zone -> shelf -> shelf-fed apron tracts is typical of Paleogene through Miocene depositional episodes only. Fan system origin was commonly associated with major continental margin failures, but large submarine canyons occur mainly in Pleistocene sequences. Thick, potential reservoir sand bodies occur in offlapping delta-fed slope and subjacent basin floor aprons, in autochthonous slope aprons and related infills of slide scars and canyon cuts, and in submarine fans.
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