The Mexican orogen is the expression in Mexico of the Cordilleran orogenic system. The
orogen extends the length of Mexico, a distance of 2000 km from the state of Sonora in the …

The Gulf of Mexico Basin is one of the most prolific hydrocarbon-producing basins in the
world, with an estimated endowment of 200 billion barrels of oil equivalent. This book …

This paper describes a 3D stratigraphic forward model, Dionisos, intended to reconstruct the
stratigraphic architecture of sedimentary basins at a regional scale. This model accounts for …

This chapter reviews a number of key advances in quantitative understanding of foreland
basins since the early 1990s, with a focus on the interplay between lithospheric flexure …

Abstract [Correction added after online publication 3 August 2010‐'prelate'has been
changed to 'pre‐late'throughout the text]. Using apatite fission track and (U‐Th‐Sm)/He …

We used illite Ar/Ar dating to obtain absolute ages of folds and shear zones formed within
the Mexican Fold–Thrust Belt (MFTB). The methodology takes advantage of illite dating in …

Basin modelling tools are now more efficient to reconstruct palinspastic structural cross
sections and compute the history of temperature, pore-fluid pressure and fluid flow …

Passive-margin salt basins tend to be much more deformed than their nonsalt equivalents,
but they are by no means all the same. We used seismic data to study the Salina del Bravo …

In orogenic systems, thrust faults play a major role in stacking different tectonic units and
may act as conduits for the expulsion of large amounts of fluid of different origins …

While several methods have been developed for assessing the magnitude of
postdepositional heating of sedimentary rocks, apatite fission track analysis (AFTA) can also …