Cretaceous and Tertiary compressional tectonics as cause of Sabine arch, eastern Texas and northwestern Louisiana

Conference · Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988 · AAPG (Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.) Bull.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6025441

Jackson, M L.W.; Laubach, S E

The Sabine arch is a large (12,000 mi/sup 2/ or 31,080 km/sup 2/) low-amplitude anticline centered on the Texas-Louisiana border. A basement-cored feature formed in the Jurassic, the arch has been interpreted as (1) a Jurassic horst that persisted throughout the Cretaceous as a topographic relict of rifting, (2) a dome caused by deep-seated Cretaceous plutonism, and (3) a fold caused by regional tectonism. Using regional maps and cross sections derived from 811 well logs, they tested models of the Sabine arch origin by establishing arch movement history. Their results show that the horst and plutonic dome models do not adequately explain the cause of the Sabine arch.

• Research Organization: Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6025441
• Report Number(s): CONF-8810362-
• Journal Information: AAPG (Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.) Bull.; (United States), Vol. 72:9; Conference: Gulf Coast Association of the Geological Society and Gulf Coast Section of SEPM meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 19 Oct 1988
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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