This page contains publications that emphasize the Gulf of Mexico. Most major articles are accompanied by the abstract and a few key figures.

An in-depth discussion of the May, 2005 AAPG article by Brown et al. on the growth-faulted Frio of South Texas

The case for the regressive systems tract GCAGS 2002

Origin and significance of retrograde failed shelf margins Gulf Coast Basin GCAGS 2000

Differential subsidence and preservation potential of shallow water Tertiary sequences IAS 1995

Enhancing sandstone reservoir prediction by mapping erosion surfaces, Lower Miocene Deltas GCAGS 1994

Control of depositional environments, eustasy, ... on sandstones, unstable shelf edge delta, Eocene Yegua GCAGS 1991

Stratigraphic analysis and reservoir prediction in Eocene Yegua and Cook Mountain of Texas and Louisiana GCS-SEPM 1990

Exploration significance of erosional unconformities in the Downdip Yegua Northern Gulf Coast Basin HGS 1989

Sedimentary effects of differential subsidence in Frio shoreface-shelf sediments, Gulf Coast Tertiary HGS 1986

Depositional environment, Lower Wilcox sandstones of Valentine Field, Lavaca County, Texas Gulf Coast STGS 1986

Unstable progradational clastic shelf margins SEPM 1983

Wilcox Sandstone Reservoirs in the Deep Subsurface along the Texas Gulf Coast BEG 1982

Upper Wilcox Rosita delta system of South Texas: growth-faulted shelf-edge delta AAPG 1981

The Upper Wilcox Rosita delta system of South Texas CCGS 1980

The Live Oak delta complex, an unstable shelf-edge delta in the deep Wilcox trend of South Texas GCAGS 1980

Prospect areas for testing entrained methane resources (Wilcox) ..., Texas Gulf Coast GCGGEC 1980

Wilcox Group--potential for geopressured-geothermal energy GCGGEC 1980

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