The Cretaceous-Paleogene Mexican orogen: Structure, basin development, magmatism and tectonics

E Fitz-Díaz, TF Lawton, E Juárez-Arriaga… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Estimation of source area, river paleo-discharge, paleoslope, and sediment budgets of linked deep-time depositional systems and implications for hydrocarbon …

JP Bhattacharya, P Copeland, TF Lawton… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The source-to-sink (S2S) concept is focused on quantification of the various components of
siliciclastic sedimentary systems from initial source sediment production areas, through the …

History of Cenozoic North American drainage basin evolution, sediment yield, and accumulation in the Gulf of Mexico basin

WE Galloway, TL Whiteaker… - Geosphere, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Cenozoic fill of the Gulf of Mexico basin contains a continuous record of sediment
supply from the North American continental interior for the past 65 million years. Regional …

[图书][B] The Gulf of Mexico sedimentary basin: Depositional evolution and petroleum applications

JW Snedden, WE Galloway - 2019 - books.google.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Detrital-zircon records of Cenomanian, Paleocene, and Oligocene Gulf of Mexico drainage integration and sediment routing: Implications for scales of basin …

MD Blum, KT Milliken, MA Pecha… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This paper uses detrital zircon (DZ) provenance and geochronological data to reconstruct
paleodrainage areas and lengths for sediment-routing systems that fed the Cenomanian …

Mesozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of Mexico: An overview

E Centeno-García - Ore Geology Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Geological Framework of Mexico is formed by a mosaic of tectono-stratigraphic
terranes that were assembled during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic as the result of the …

The Gulf of Mexico is a Jurassic backarc basin

RJ Stern, WR Dickinson - Geosphere, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Any basin with seafloor spreading that forms over an active subduction zone is a backarc
basin (BAB). The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) opened behind the 232–150 Ma Nazas arc over an …

The Cretaceous-Eocene Mexican Magmatic Arc: Conceptual framework from geochemical and geochronological data of plutonic rocks

M Valencia-Moreno, M López-Martínez… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a study based on new and compiled geochronological and geochemical data to
assess the tectonomagmatic evolution of Mexico from the Late Cretaceous and Eocene …

U-Pb geochronology of the type Nazas Formation and superjacent strata, northeastern Durango, Mexico: Implications of a Jurassic age for continental-arc magmatism …

TF Lawton, RS Molina Garza - Bulletin, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
U-Pb ages of ignimbrites and detrital-zircon analyses from Middle Jurassic through
lowermost Cretaceous strata in northeastern Durango, Mexico, indicate the age of local …

Detrital zircon U-Pb ages of sandstones in continental red beds at Valle de Huizachal, Tamaulipas, NE Mexico: Record of Early-Middle Jurassic arc volcanism and …

II Rubio-Cisneros, TF Lawton - Geosphere, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Continental strata and volcanic rocks of the type Huizachal Group in Valle de Huizachal
record arc magmatism and subsequent crustal extension prior to seafloor spreading in the …