Gulf of Mexico - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Apr 4, 2011 · The Gulf of Mexico refers to an economically important basin with a long history of hydrocarbon exploration. It is a region that has been the subject of debate due to limited data and proprietary industry information, but collaborative efforts between industry and academia are essential for understanding its formation.
Ocean acidification in the Gulf of Mexico: Drivers, impacts, and ...
Dec 1, 2022 · The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) contains a wide range of ecosystems that provide important services and play a critical role in supporting the Gulf coast, United States, and international economies. For example, according to NOAA Fisheries in 2019, GOM commercial seafood landings revenue in the United States was $1.4 billion and accounted for 15% of ...
Structure, age, and tectonic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico
Jan 1, 2022 · The Gulf of Mexico is an isolated oceanic basin whose nature, structure and age are not fully elucidated, mostly because seafloor spreading isochrons have not been identified in this basin so far. We compiled and processed all publicly available marine magnetic data to produce a new magnetic anomaly map of the Gulf of Mexico.
Opening of the Gulf of Mexico: What we know, what questions …
Jan 5, 2022 · The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin flanked by the continental United States to the north, Mexico to the west and south, and Cuba to the southeast. Tectonic initiation of the Gulf of Mexico began in the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic as continental rifting associated with the breakup of Pangea (Dickinson et al., 2010; Huerta and Harry, 2012 ...
3D mapping of intruding salt bodies in the subsurface of the Gulf …
Dec 1, 2020 · The most extensive salt tectonic study in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico has been Bouroullec et al. (2017 a, 2017 b), looking at salt geometries and spatial variation of salt distribution. Bouroullec et al. (2017 a) identified three provinces within the northeastern Gulf of Mexico using primarily 2D seismic data. Within the eastern province ...
Sequence stratigraphy of the Miocene section, southern Gulf of …
Sep 1, 2017 · The resultant Paleogene clastic sedimentation in the southern Gulf of Mexico, the Chiapas Massif still produced large volumes of sediments deposited in large depocenters, whereas in the Yucatan Block the deposition of shallow water carbonates continued (Padilla y Sánchez, 2007). In the study area, the Miocene succession is mainly sand-prone ...
Multiple evidence for methylotrophic methanogenesis as the …
Aug 15, 2016 · Similarly, hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis was also not detected in hydrogen-replete brine pools in the Gulf of Mexico (Joye et al., 2009), indicating that hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis might be limited by factors other than hydrogen concentrations or might generally be suppressed in hypersaline habitats (as previously suggested by Oren, 1999).
Mineralogy of deepwater Gulf of Mexico salt formations and …
Jun 1, 2007 · The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is the most active deepwater region in the world, with exploration rapidly advancing beyond the Sigsbee escarpment, in water depths ranging from 6000 to 10,000 ft (‘ultra-deepwater’).
Changes in Shrimping Effort in the Gulf of Mexico and the Impacts …
May 22, 2020 · Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) is one of the most important and controversial species fished in the United States and is at the nexus of three multimillion-dollar industries: directed recreational fisheries, directed commercial fisheries, and bycatch in commercial penaeid shrimp trawls (Gallaway et al., 2017).
The economic significance of the Gulf of Mexico related to …
Jan 1, 2004 · Mexico and Cuba are two other notable nations that utilize the fisheries resources of the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico and Cuba landed 259,156 and 51,400 mt in 2001, respectively, from the Western Atlantic region [9]. This region (FAO region 31) contains the Gulf of Mexico and the western, central Atlantic Ocean.