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The salt-withdrawal synclines formed by sediment loading result in bathymetric lows that serve as sediment transport pathways down the slope.<ref name=ch04r22>Bouma, A., H., 1982, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/history2/data/a110/a110/0001/0550/0567.htm Intraslope basins in northwest Gulf of Mexico: a key to ancient submarine canyons and fans], in Watkins, J. S. and C. L. Drake, Studies in Continental Margin Geology: AAPG Memoir 34, p. 567–581.</ref> The presentday sea-floor bathymetry of the northern Gulf of Mexico slope reflects this transport-pathway lineation of salt-withdrawal synclines bordered by salt-cored anticlines (see [[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-41.png|Figure 1]]). The distribution of the sediment-thick synclines and salt-core anticlines persists through time, resulting in predictability of sediment transport avenues, depositional areas of potential reservoir sands, and conduits from deeply buried [[source rock]]s upward to the hydrocarbon traps (see [[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-54.png|Figures 2]] and [[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-55.png|3]]).

The salt-withdrawal synclines formed by sediment loading result in bathymetric lows that serve as sediment transport pathways down the slope.<ref name=ch04r22>Bouma, A., H., 1982, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/history2/data/a110/a110/0001/0550/0567.htm Intraslope basins in northwest Gulf of Mexico: a key to ancient submarine canyons and fans], in Watkins, J. S. and C. L. Drake, Studies in Continental Margin Geology: AAPG Memoir 34, p. 567–581.</ref> The presentday sea-floor bathymetry of the northern Gulf of Mexico slope reflects this transport-pathway lineation of salt-withdrawal synclines bordered by salt-cored anticlines (see [[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-41.png|Figure 1]]). The distribution of the sediment-thick synclines and salt-core anticlines persists through time, resulting in predictability of sediment transport avenues, depositional areas of potential reservoir sands, and conduits from deeply buried [[source rock]]s upward to the hydrocarbon traps (see [[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-54.png|Figures 2]] and [[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-55.png|3]]).

McGuinness and Hossack<ref name=ch04r66>McGuinness, D., B., Hossack, J., R., 1993, The development of allochthonous salt sheets as controlled by the rates of extension, sedimentation, and salt supply: Proceedings, Gulf Coast Section SEPM 14th Annual Research conference, p. 127–139.</ref> present an excellent discussion of palinspastic reconstruction of the stratigraphic record disrupted by salt tectonics. Jackson et al.<ref name=ch04r48>Jackson, M., P., A., Roberts, D., G., Snelson, J., S., eds., 1995, Salt Tectonics: AAPG Memoir 65, 454 p.</ref> and Simmons et al.<ref name=ch04r90>Simmons, G., R., Bryant, W., R., Lee, G., Fiduk, C., 1996, Regional distribution of salt and basin architecture in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, in Jones, J., O., Freed, R., L., eds., Structural Framework of the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological Societies Special Publication, p. 93–94.</ref> present a good discussion of salt distribution and tectonics.

McGuinness and Hossack<ref name=ch04r66>McGuinness, D., B., Hossack, J., R., 1993, The development of allochthonous salt sheets as controlled by the rates of extension, sedimentation, and salt supply: Proceedings, Gulf Coast Section SEPM 14th Annual Research conference, p. 127–139.</ref> present an excellent discussion of palinspastic reconstruction of the stratigraphic record disrupted by salt tectonics. Jackson et al.<ref name=ch04r48>Jackson, M., P., A., Roberts, D., G., Snelson, J., S., eds., 1995, Salt Tectonics: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=144 AAPG Memoir 65], 454 p.</ref> and Simmons et al.<ref name=ch04r90>Simmons, G., R., Bryant, W., R., Lee, G., Fiduk, C., 1996, Regional distribution of salt and basin architecture in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, in Jones, J., O., Freed, R., L., eds., Structural Framework of the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological Societies Special Publication, p. 93–94.</ref> present a good discussion of salt distribution and tectonics.

[[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-7.png|Figure 4]] salt structures in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and adjacent interior basins.

[[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-7.png|Figure 4]] salt structures in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and adjacent interior basins.