Downloaded from http://sp.lyellcollection.org/ by guest on September 23, 2021 The basins, orogens and evolution of the southern Gulf of Mexico and Northern Caribbean Ian Davison1*, James Pindell2,3 and Jonathan Hull4 1Earthmoves Ltd, 38–42 Upper Park Road, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 2EF, UK 2Tectonic Analysis Ltd, Chestnut House, Duncton, West Sussex GU28 0LH, UK 3Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77001, USA 4Ophir Energy plc, 123 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6DE, UK ID, 0000-0003-3703-707X Present Address: ERCE, Stephenson House, 2 Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, CR0 6BA, UK. *Correspondence:
[email protected] Our introduction to this volume highlights the most dating; Hernández-Vergara et al. 2020) and salt important aspects of the geology and evolution of depositional ages (using Sr isotope analysis, Pindell the southern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and the North- et al. 2019, 2020b, 2020c; Pulham et al. 2019; Sned- ern Caribbean. The onshore orogens of the Mexican den and Galloway 2019). Higher resolution satellite and Chiapas fold-and-thrust belts and the Northern altimeter-derived gravity (Sandwell et al. 2014) and Caribbean feature prominently in the book, along aeromagnetic data (Pindell et al. 2016, 2020c) have with a discussion of the tectonics of the Florida– been collected in the last decade, which have led to Bahamas peninsula (Fig. 1 and separate Enclosure a greater understanding of ocean–continent transition maps at the back of this volume, Steel and Davison zones, extinct and active mid-ocean ridges, transform (2020a, b), show the area covered). faults (Pindell et al.