Correlation of Cenozoic sediments of Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf. Part I. Galveston area offshore Texas through Vermilion area offshore Louisiana
The Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) regional office, Minerals Management Service (MMS), US Department of the Interior, will publish an atlas in early 1987 entitled Correlation of the Cenozoic Sediments of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf: Part I: Galveston Area Offshore Texas through Vermilion Area Offshore Louisiana. Part II, extending west-southwestward from Part I, and Part III, extending eastward from Part I, will be published at later dates. The Resource Evaluation office, MMS, is conducting detailed geological, geophysical, and paleontological investigations of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico OCS. The subsurface structure and stratigraphy of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico OCS for Galveston area through Vermilion area, from the Miocene through the Pleistocene production trends, are discussed in the report of Part I. This presentation includes the interpretation of over 12,000 mi of geophysical data, 1500 electric logs, and 1000 paleontological reports. Analysis of this data is presented on 19 cross sections. These cross sections contain information from 247 well data summaries, 175 paleontological reports, and 152 well velocity summaries. Examples of each of these will be available. The geophysical and companion electric log cross sections illustrate a detailed stratigraphic study of 26 horizons. These horizons are included on a stratigraphic chart, copies of which will be available. the marine depth-related environments will be displayed and copies of that chart will also be available. This atlas can be used for evaluation of petroleum exploration and exploitation as well as scientific investigations in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico.
- Research Organization:
- Dept. of the Interior, New Orleans, LA
- OSTI ID:
- 5992776
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-870606-
- Journal Information:
- AAPG (Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.) Bull.; (United States), Journal Name: AAPG (Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.) Bull.; (United States) Vol. 71:5; ISSN AABUD
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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