A Deterministic Evaluation of eismic Fidelity using Velocity Modeling ...
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northern Gulf margin provides insights into the local structures in areas such as Vinton<br />
Dome.<br />
Structures that developed in the stratigraphic interval from the Upper Jurassic through the<br />
Cenozoic formed resulting from sediment-driven gravity loading resulting from salt<br />
displacement and resulting from gravity spreading. Many <strong>of</strong> these structures have been<br />
imaged with 2-D s<strong>eismic</strong> and interpreted from well data to include listric normal downto-basin<br />
growth faults, roll over structures, en echelon faults, counter regional faults, and<br />
localized radial faults. Salt displacement has been modeled to be primarily driven by<br />
vertical sediment movement and is characterized by withdrawal and diapirism on the<br />
shelf and upper slope and by canopy emplacement and withdrawal on the middle to lower<br />
slope. Manifesting basinward gravity spreading is by large-scale updip growth faulting<br />
and downdip contraction (Peel, et al., 1995).<br />
Growth faults are listric normal faults that show an expansion or thickening <strong>of</strong> basin fill<br />
in their hanging walls as loading continues and the fault becomes displaced.<br />
Identification <strong>of</strong> the displacement resulting from growth faults in the northern Gulf <strong>of</strong><br />
Mexico Basin is by different contraction features at the base <strong>of</strong> the continental margin.<br />
Toe thrust-faults, fold belts, salt canopies, and salt deformations are the principal<br />
contraction features.<br />
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