− | In the northern GOM basin, [[depocenter]]s [[Well_log_sequence_analysis#Parasequence_stacking_patterns|prograde]] ([[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-4.png|Figure 1]]) over the [[transitional crust]] ([[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-6.png|Figure 2]]) and [[Deformation|deform]] the underlying salt into a complex network of salt-cored anticlines and salt-withdrawal synclines ([[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-8.png|Figures 3]] and [[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-9.png|4]]). Late Neogene depocenters of the Mississippi River, the largest source of sediment to the northern Gulf of Mexico, developed during five time periods from the latest Miocene through Holocene (from Piggott;<ref name=ch04r75>Piggott, N., Pulham, A., 1993, Sedimentation rate as the control on hydrocarbon sourcing, generation, and [[migration]] in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Proceedings, Gulf Coast Section SEPM 14th Annual Research conference, p. 179–191.</ref> see also Goldthwaite.<ref name=ch04r38>Goldthwaite, D., 1991, Central Gulf Coast stratigraphy, in Goldthwaite, D., ed., An Introduction to Central Gulf Coast Geology: New Orleans Geological Society, p. 17–30.</ref>) Following are the five depocenter intervals and their time periods. | + | In the northern GOM basin, [[depocenter]]s [[Well_log_sequence_analysis#Parasequence_stacking_patterns|prograde]] ([[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-4.png|Figure 1]]) over the [[transitional crust]] ([[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-6.png|Figure 2]]) and [[Deformation|deform]] the underlying salt into a complex network of salt-cored anticlines and salt-withdrawal synclines ([[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-8.png|Figures 3]] and [[:file:sedimentary-basin-analysis_fig4-9.png|4]]). Late Neogene depocenters of the Mississippi River, the largest source of sediment to the northern Gulf of Mexico, developed during five time periods from the latest Miocene through [[Holocene]] (from Piggott;<ref name=ch04r75>Piggott, N., Pulham, A., 1993, Sedimentation rate as the control on hydrocarbon sourcing, generation, and [[migration]] in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Proceedings, Gulf Coast Section SEPM 14th Annual Research conference, p. 179–191.</ref> see also Goldthwaite.<ref name=ch04r38>Goldthwaite, D., 1991, Central Gulf Coast stratigraphy, in Goldthwaite, D., ed., An Introduction to Central Gulf Coast Geology: New Orleans Geological Society, p. 17–30.</ref>) Following are the five depocenter intervals and their time periods. |