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1 Pemex Exploración y Producción, Casa B Int. Campo Pemex, Col. Medias Lomas, Poza Rica, Veracruz, CP 93387, Mexico; jhernandezme{at}pep.pemex.com
2 Bureau of Economic Geology, John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78713-8924; michael.deangelo{at}beg.utexas.edu
3 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Northrop Hall, Room 141, MSC 03 2040, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001; tfw{at}unm.edu
4 Bureau of Economic Geology, John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78713-8924; tucker.hentz{at}beg.utexas.edu
J. Javier Hernández-Mendoza is a geoscientist, specializing in regional geology, for Pemex Exploración y Producción (PEP) in the Burgos Basin. He has worked for PEP since 1986, conducting subsurface and surface geological studies at the prospect and play levels in the Burgos Basin. He holds a geologist engineer title from Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero and an M.S. degree in geological sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.
Michael V. DeAngelo is a geophysicist specializing in seismic interpretation. He received an M.S. degree in geophysics from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1988. He joined the Bureau of Economic Geology in 1998 and has been working on a variety of onshore and offshore reservoir characterization projects.
Tim F. Wawrzyniec is a structural geologist specializing in kinematic analysis and geophysics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 1999 and worked for Vastar and the Bureau of Economic Geology. In 2003, he joined the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico.
Tucker F. Hentz is a research scientist associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, which he joined in 1982. Past and present research interests include regional sequence stratigraphy and reservoir geology of hydrocarbon-bearing successions in the Anadarko Basin, East Texas Basin, Rio Grande embayment, Fort Worth Basin, and northern Gulf Coast Basin. He graduated cum laude with a B.A. degree in geology from Franklin and Marshall College in 1977 and received his M.S. degree in geology from the University of Kansas in 1982.
ABSTRACT
Major Miocene structural elements of the Burgos Basin include a regionwide detachment system that connects extensional fault systems throughout the basin with an active diapir belt downdip, a regionwide pattern of downthrown extensional rollover folds, pervasive secondary faults, and salt and shale diapiric masses in the eastern part of the basin. An interpretation of two-dimensional seismic data suggests that the Burgos Basin Miocene section can be divided into four structural domains: expanded zone, Lamprea trend, Corsair-Wanda trend, and diapir belt. The westernmost unexpanded zone is the footwall of the expanded system part of the basin, which overlies a domain of Oligocene extension. Remaining trends represent an extensional accommodation related to the basinward migration of mobile salt and shale, which has produced a relatively uniform structural style in the Miocene section. The structural style observed in the Burgos Basin appears to define a transitional zone between gravitational collapse in the offshore Laguna Madre-Tuxpan shelf to the south and salt-related raft tectonics of the south Texas Gulf Coast.
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