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Figure 8-Seismic profile from the shelf edge of Louisiana. Shelf margin sedimentation and associated listric growth faults collapsed the north end of a salt body to produce a weld (green) just south of a counter-regional salt feeder. The southern end of the salt body remains near the seafloor with shelf margin sediments onlapping and thinning onto the southern flank.