Various stages of mid-Jurassic salt deformation resulted in post-salt extensional and contractional systems on the continental slope offshore Louisiana. Pre-mid-Cretaceous salt deformation resulted in salt massifs, small ...

The kinematic evolution of allochthonous salt sheets in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico proceeds in three stages. (1) Since its middle Jurassic deposition the Louann Salt was loaded by sediments causing episodic basinward ...