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Figure 4. Generic paleogeography of a typical Cenozoic Gulf of Mexico deposode. Thirty-two depositional systems and facies associations are differentiated in regional GBDS mapping.
Continental platform: fluvial, coastal plain, delta, shore-zone, and shelf systems.
Continental slope: delta-fed apron, shelf-fed apron, retrogradational apron, alluvial fan-fed apron, carbonate ramp, submarine canyon, and carbonate ramp systems.
Abyssal plain: submarine fan, basin-floor apron, mass-transport complex, carbonate debris flow, contourite drift, muddy, carbonate, and heterolithic basin floor, and starved basin.