What is it about?
The Late Miocene source terrane tectonic history of southern Gulf of Mexico Basin, as informed by detrital zircon data, supports a detailed regional reconstruction from palaeoshoreline to the deepwater Zama minibasin of the Sureste salt basin.
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Why is it important?
Well-documented example of source to sink processes
Perspectives
John Snedden, a research professor in the Institute for Geophysics and Daniel Stockli, a professor and the chair of the Jackson School’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, got permission by Talos, the oil company that found Zama — a 600 plusmillion barrels of oil equivalent discovery — to take these samples in 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were not allowed on campus at the time, so Stockli cleaned these samples in his home garage, and then spent 10 days alone in the UT Chron Lab separating and analyzing tiny, durable minerals called zircons from the other sediments in the samples — a task typically completed by undergraduate students.
Dr. John William Snedden
UT
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This page is a summary of: Reconstructing the Zama (Mexico) discovery source to sink palaeogeography, Part II: Sediment routing from the Late Miocene shelf‐margin to deepwater basin, Basin Research, January 2024, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/bre.12849.
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