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Plio-Pleistocene depositional sequences of the southeastern Texas continental shelf and slope: geologic framework, sedimentary facies, and hydrocarbon distribution
Plio-Pleistocene depositional sequences of the southeastern Texas continental shelf and slope: geologic framework, sedimentary facies, and hydrocarbon distribution
Author
Morton, R.A., Sams, R.H., Jirik, L.A., Banta, N.J., Single, R.S.
Publication Year
1991
Keywords
Continental Shelf, Hydrocarbons, Slope
Series
Report of Investigations
Publisher
Bureau of Economic Geology
Abstract

Plio-Pleistocene strata of offshore Texas having hydrocarbon exploration potential are restricted to the southeastern continental shelf and upper continental slope. This thick wedge of nearshore and deep-marine sediments firms the west margin of a late Neogene and Quaternary depocenter.