John W. Snedden, William E. Galloway

The Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1128g
• ISBN-13: 9781108419024
• ISBN-10: 110841902X
• Artikelnr.: 56714618

Autorenporträt

John W. Snedden is a senior research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas, Austin. He directs the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis project, an industry research consortium investigating the depositional history of the Gulf of Mexico. Previously, he worked in the oil industry for over twenty-five years.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: tectonic and stratigraphic framework
Part II. Mesozoic Depositional Evolution: 2. Post-orogenic successor basin-fill and rifting phase
3. Middle Mesozoic drift and cooling phase
4. Late Mesozoic local tectonic and crustal heating phase
Part III. Cenozoic Depositional Evolution: 5. Cenozoic depositional history 1: Paleogene laramide phase
6. Cenozoic depositional history 2: Middle Cenozoic geothermal phase
7. Cenozoic depositional history 3: Neogene tectono-climatic phase
8. Cenozoic depositional synthesis
Part IV. Petroleum Habitat: 9. Gulf of Mexico petroleum habitat
Glossary
References
Index.