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The Late Miocene source terrane tectonic history in the southern Gulf of Mexico Basin, as informed by detrital zircon geothermochronology data, supports a detailed regional palaeogeographic reconstruction from palaeoshoreline to the deepwater Zama minibasin of the Sureste salt basin. Seismic mapping points to a trio of pathways that converge upon two entry points into the Zama minibasin, illuminating how sediment gravity flows transit a complex seascape defined by shallow salt bodies. Consideration of empirical scaling relationships within and between segments of this sediment dispersal system allows for testable predictions of Upper Miocene submarine fan‐runout lengths over basin exploration areas. Distances from the reconstructed shelf‐margin to the Zama wells vary around 100 km, an increase of 20% over a straight‐line distance as flows likely navigated around extant salt stocks, walls and sheets. This 100‐km fan length is about 40% of the reconstructed minimum palaeo‐river length, within predicted ranges for smaller source‐to‐sink systems in tectonically active areas (25 to 50%). The estimated fan‐runout distance can be extended even further basinwards, considering the contemporaneous passage of the mobile Chortis block along the Tonala shear zone, expanding the Palaeo‐Rio Grijalva drainage network during the Tortonian. These Late Miocene deepwater systems linked to the Palaeo‐Rio Grijalva differ substantially from onshore Mexico‐sourced turbidity flows feeding into the axis of the north‐trending Veracruz Trough. Textural data from wells here suggests these systems were less effective at larger grain transport and sorting. Local (intrabasinal) variations are also evident within the Zama minibasin, as well data (image logs and cores) indicate that axially oriented sediment gravity flows involved fewer high‐density turbidities, depositing lower net‐to‐gross sandstones and thicker shales than those flowing transverse to the basin axis from a southeastern basin entry point. These interpretations will guide both local exploitation of these economic resources and could also support future exploration for analogous salt‐influenced deepwater reservoir systems in the Sureste basin and globally.

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Three plausible pathways (white lines) to Zama Upper Miocene minibasin depocenter from interpreted shelf‐margin entry point. Upper Miocene well‐based net sandstone contours are superimposed on an Upper Miocene interval thickness map derived from seismic analysis. Reconstructed coeval shelf‐margin is shown by the red line. The blue line is the location inferred for Palaeo‐Rio Grijalva. Grey‐lined polygons denote present‐day locations of allochthonous salt bodies. Plausible pathways follow trends in interval and sandstone thicknesses.

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Reconstructing the Zama (Mexico) discovery source to sink palaeogeography, Part II: Sediment routing from the Late Miocene shelf‐margin to deepwater basin
Basin Research 36, e12849 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12849
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Keyword(s): deepwater; Mexico; palaeogeography; scaling relationships; source‐to‐sink

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