The Origin Of The Gulf Of Mexico, Its Sedimentary Basins And The Type And Abundance Of Its Hydrocarbon Deposits Were Mainly The Product Of The Evolution Of A Hotspot Since The Early Middle Jurassic Time

Jaime RUEDA-GAXIOLA

Volume : V, Issue : I, January - 2015

The Origin Of The Gulf Of Mexico, Its Sedimentary Basins And The Type And Abundance Of Its Hydrocarbon Deposits Were Mainly The Product Of The Evolution Of A Hotspot Since The Early Middle Jurassic Time

Jaime Rueda 45 Gaxiola

Abstract :

The origin of the Gulf of Mexico, based on the existence of a triple junction hot spot, allows us to understand the origin of the “Hispanic Corridor”, the oil and gas systems, and the hydrocarbon deposits found in the Texas–Louisiana subplate and in the Mexican Petroleum basins. This model was based on red beds, conglomerates and salt Palynostratigraphy and Inorganic Geochemistry data obtained from Mexican Oil productive and unproductive Basins. It has implications about the origin and evolution of the Texas–Louisiana Subplate, bounded by the Lewis–Clark and Texas–Boquillas–Sabinasmegashears, about its northwestward movement and 800 km displacement of the Ouachita System and its relation, since the Jurassic (during Cordilleran Orogeny), to tectonic phenomena in the Pacific subduction region such as Sevier and Laramideorogenies. Furthermore, the model can help explain the origin and evolution of the Western Region of Mexico, the Chiapas–Yucatán subplates and their Gulf oil and gas basins.