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GRAVITY TECTONICS AND PLATE MOTIONS

The western margin of the Gulf of Mexico Introduction

¹ Chaire de Géodynamique, Collège de France, Bât. Trocadéro, CEREGE-CNRS UMR6635., Europôle du Petit Arbois, BP 80, 13545, Aix-en-Provence cedex, France.
² U.N.A.M. – Centro de Geociencias, Campus de Juriquilla, Querétaro CP 76230, México.
³ PEMEX, Delegacion del Noreste, PEMEX exploración y producción, Poza Rica, Veracruz C.P. 93370, Mexico.

Correspondence: ^* Corresponding author: rangin{at}cdf.u-3mrs.fr

This is an introduction to the series of papers presented in this volume that concerns the Cenozoic tectonics of the western margin of the Gulf of Mexico, from Texas in the north to the Veracruz area into the south. These combined offshore-onshore structural studies investigate the links between surperficial gravity slidings and deep crustal flow within the complex geodynamic framework of Mexico, located at the junction between the North America, Carribean and Pacific plates (including the earlier Farallon plate).

Key Words: Cenozoic tectonic • Surperficial gravity slidings • Deep crustal flow • Gulf of Mexico