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Interaction between diapirism and sediment loading at the shelf-slope boundary, northwest Gulf of Mexico

January 1, 1981

During the last low stand of sea level, rivers and streams drained across the present northwestern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf depositing sediments in several shallow-water deltas near the present shelf-slope boundary. The weight of these wedges of prograded sediments triggered or augmented both subsidence of local depositional basins and upward movement of diapiric material around the basin edges. A depositional basin off the southwestern Louisiana coast records migration of the basinal axis during late Pleistocene and Holocene time indicating relative growth of diapirs along the basin margin throughout the most recent geological record. ?? 1981 A.M. Dowden, Inc.

Publication Year 1981
Title Interaction between diapirism and sediment loading at the shelf-slope boundary, northwest Gulf of Mexico
DOI 10.1007/BF02463327
Authors A. R. Trippet
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Geo-Marine Letters
Index ID 70012030
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse