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An investigation of salt tectonic structural styles in the …

Structural style B, a linked salt tectonic system with landward regional normal faults and allochthonous salt sheets climbing seaward over Late Cretaceous and Paleogene strata, is shown to be a consequence of early aggradation followed by progradation. ... (Figure 10e and Animation S4). By 150 Ma the allochthonous salt …

Structural architecture and evolution of eastern Mississippi …

Miocene salt structures defined two provinces: a proximal domain characterized by counterregional feeders and basinward-flowing salt sheets; and a distal domain with vertical feeders and radially-spreading allochthonous salt. The boundary between the two marked the Miocene toe of slope.

(PDF) Three-dimensional visualization of salt walls and …

Autochthonous salt overlain by three allochthonous sheets. View from the southeast. These stacked salt flows would provide excellent multiple seals for hydrocarbons trapped in intervening reservoirs.

Deformation of Allochthonous Salt and Evolution of Related Salt …

By this time, the awesome implications of increased reservoirs below allochthonous salt sheets had stimulated a renaissance in salt tectonic research. Blossoming about 1989, the brittle era is actually rooted in the 1947 discovery that a diapir stops rising if its roof becomes too thick. Such a notion was heretical in the fluid era.

Base‐salt relief controls salt‐tectonic structural style, São …

[Abstract Base‐salt relief influences salt flow, producing three‐dimensionally complex strains and multiphase deformation within the salt and its overburden. Understanding how base‐salt relief influences salt‐related deformation is important to correctly interpret salt basin kinematics and distribution of structural domains, which have …

Cenozoic Structural Evolution and Tectono

By this time, the awesome implications of increased reservoirs below allochthonous salt sheets had stimulated a renaissance in salt tectonic research. Blossoming about 1989, the brittle era is actually rooted in the 1947 discovery that a diapir stops rising if its roof becomes too thick. Such a notion was heretical in the fluid era.

Closure of open wellbores in creeping salt sheets

Allochthonous salt occurs at stratigraphic levels above the autochthonous source layer and is emplaced as subhorizontal or moderately dipping, sheetlike salt diapirs. ... Adopting a wellbore section in a salt sheet at d = 4 km, ... Animation of in-salt wellbore closure under conditions specified in Fig. ...

Numerical modelling study of mechanisms of mid‐basin salt …

Abstract Salt canopies are present in many of the worldwide large salt basins and are key players in the basins' structural evolution as well as in the development of associated hydrocarbon systems. This study employs 2D finite‐element models which incorporate the dynamical interaction of viscous salt and frictional‐plastic sediments in a …

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The models shed light on (1) the origin and fate of large rafts or carapace blocks atop allochthonous salt, (2) cuspate margins of salt sheets and (3) interaction of thrusting, diapir pinch-off ...

The evolution of allochthonous salt systems, northern

In this study, interpretation of more than 10,000 km (6200 mi) of multifold seismic data, and sequential restoration of eleven profiles, were used to determine the …

(PDF) Halokinetic deformation adjacent to the deepwater

allochthonous salt (i.e., ramping salt sheets). It ha s been. postulatedthat the relative ratesof diapir rise(R) and sedi-ment accumula tion (A) contr ol CHS. geometry, such th at tabular CHS form.

The structure and evolution of sutures in allochthonous salt

Salt canopies, formed by the coalescence of salt sheets, are an integral part of the slope and deep-water areas of many passive margin salt basins. A suture separates the two coalesced salt sheets (allosuture) or two lobes from a single salt sheet (autosuture), including any trapped sediments. Autosutures can form in two ways.

Geology and tectonics of Neoproterozoic salt diapirs and salt sheets …

Abstract Allochthonous salt structures and associated primary and secondary minibasins are exposed in Neoproterozoic strata of the eastern Willouran Ranges, South Australia. Detailed geologic mapping using high‐quality airborne hyperspectral remote‐sensing data and satellite imagery, combined with a qualitative …

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Salt Glacier and Composite Sediment—Salt Glacier Models for the Emplacement and Early Burial of Allochthonous Salt Sheets Raymond C. Fletcher, Michael R. Hudec, and Ian A. Watson. Gulf of Mexico. Cenozoic Structural Evolution and Tectono—Stratigraphic Framework of the Northern Gulf Coast Continental Margin F. A. Diegel, J. F. Karlo, D. C ...

Structural styles and evolution of allochthonous salt, central

Salt structures in a 4000-km{sup 2} region of the continental slope, the northeast Green Canyon area, include stocks, massifs, remnant structures, and an allochthonous sheet. Salt-withdrawal basins include typical semicircular basins and an extensive linear trough that is largely salt-free.

Salt glacier and composite sediment-salt glacier models for …

Allochthonous salt sheets in the northern Gulf of Mexico were emplaced as extrusive {open_quotes}salt glaciers{close_quotes} at the sediment-water interface. Massive dissolution was suppressed by a thin carapace of pelagic sediments. During emplacement, several hundred meters of bathymetric relief restricted rapid sedimentation to outside the ...

An Overview of Allochthonous Salt Tectonics

Allochthonous salt is defined as a "subhorizontal or moderately dipping, sheetlike salt diapir emplaced at stratigraphic levels above the autochthonous source layer" (Hudec & Jackson, 2011).There is no hard cutoff for salt to qualify as allochthonous: an overhanging upper part of a diapir grades into a subhorizontal salt sheet, which is an …

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Animation of minibasin and weld . Mini Basin animation . In the first part of animation, the structure behaves like a simple mini basin. This get more complicated after that and We will discuss this later in the section under turtles. ... Rojos Allochthonous Salt sheets ...

Growth faults, salt, and deep structure of northern Gulf of …

The wide variety of structural styles is due to a combination of (1) original distribution of Jurassic and Mesozoic salt structures, (2) different slope depositional environments during the Cenozoic, and (3) varying degrees of salt withdrawal from allochthonous salt sheets.

Salt tectonics at the margins of young oceans

The paper is devoted to salt tectonics in marginal oceanic salt-dome basins and is based on a wide synthesis of the literature and the author's data. For the first time, the general pattern of global distribution of these basins has been illustrated by a map. Their localization and structure, tectonic position and evolution, and peculiar morphokinematic …

Advance of allochthonous salt sheets in passive margins and …

Allochthonous salt sheets advance in four ways: (1) extrusive advance, (2) open-toed advance, (3) thrust advance, and (4) salt-wing intrusion. These mechanisms …

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The diapirs and allochthonous salt sheets of the Flinders Ranges were also a key component of the basin framework in which strata containing Ediacaran fauna were deposited. View.

An Overview of Allochthonous Salt Tectonics

In this overview, the fundamentals of allochthonous salt tectonics are presented by posing several questions. First, why does allochthonous salt develop in …

Tectonic setting of the Flinders and Willouran ranges within …

The northern elongate body (Figure 1 2, location 3) is an allochthonous salt sheet that extends 6.6 km into the Bunyeroo Formation in a series of apparent flats and short ramps. The map and down ...

Structural Styles and Evolution of Allochthonous Salt, …

By this time, the awesome implications of increased reservoirs below allochthonous salt sheets had stimulated a renaissance in salt tectonic research. Blossoming about 1989, the brittle era is actually rooted in the 1947 discovery that a diapir stops rising if its roof becomes too thick. Such a notion was heretical in the fluid era.

Salt tectonics in deepwater settings

A roho system is a group of listric, basinward-dipping growth faults that sole out onto a salt sheet, salt canopy or allochthonous weld (Fig. 26, Fig. 27). Sediment wedges in the fault blocks dip and thicken landward but become younger seaward. In map view, rohos are bounded by complex zones of strike-slip deformation, separating …

Extensional diapirism overprinted by shortening | Applied …

The vergence of fault-bend folds (figure 10) determined the final direction of both the dip of the feeder (G) and the flow of overlying allochthonous salt sheets (C). The collapse of sand layers at the roof of the salt sheet produced depressions in the salt sheet (H, visualized by slicing the digital model along the gray horizontal plane).

Advance of allochthonous salt sheets in passive margins …

Allochthonous salt sheets advance in four ways: (1) extrusive advance, (2) open-toed advance, (3) thrust advance, and (4) salt-wing intrusion. These mechanisms are determined primarily by the geometry and thickness of the roof that overlies the advancing sheet. An extrusive sheet spreads without a roof or with a roof of negligible mechanical …

An investigation of salt tectonic structural styles in …

Structural style B (SSB) comprises a linked salt tectonic system (landward extension and seaward contraction/salt sheet formation are dynamically linked) with landward regional listric normal faults and …

3-D Visualization and Isochore Analysis of …

1095. here incorporate allochthonous salt sheets and the effects of regional compression. We suggest how overburden isochores (and isopachs) can record the former shape of …