Abstract The Gulf of Mexico is a small ocean basin lying between the North American plate
and the Yucatan block. Following initiation in the Middle Jurassic, sea-floor spreading …

We present an updated synthesis of the widely accepted 'single-arc Pacific-origin'and
'Yucatán-rotation'models for Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico evolution, respectively. Fourteen …

We present a new hypothesis for the Jurassic plate-tectonic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico
basin and discuss how this evolution influenced Jurassic salt tectonics. Four interpretations …

Passive‐margin salt basins are classified as prerift, syn‐stretching, syn‐thinning, and syn‐
exhumation. Prerift salt, such as the Triassic Keuper in the Western Pyrenees, undergoes …

Abstract The Gulf of Mexico is an economically important basin with more than a century-
long history of hydrocarbon exploration. However, the opening of the basin remains debated …

Any basin with seafloor spreading that forms over an active subduction zone is a backarc
basin (BAB). The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) opened behind the 232–150 Ma Nazas arc over an …

The supercontinent of Pangea formed through the diachronous collision of Laurussia and
Gondwana during the late Paleozoic. While magmatism associated with its formation is well …

The Isthmian salt basin in the southern Gulf of Mexico can be divided into the Yucatán and
Campeche subbasins, separated by a base-salt high near the nose of the Yucatán platform …

Abstract The South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico conjugate-margin salt basins display similar
relationships between crustal architecture and presalt and salt sequences. 3D and 2D depth …

Magma-rich rifting generally occurs over mantle plumes or rising convection cells; magma-
poor rifting does not. Plumes produce up to 2 km dynamic elevation, outcompeting synrift …