Examples of Deep-Water Salt Tectonics from West Africa: Are They Analogs to the Deep-Water Salt-Cored Fold Belts of the Gulf of Mexico?

Deep water structures at the basinward edge of African salt basins display very different geometries, some of which are directly comparable to the deep water Mississippi Fan and Perdido fold belts of the northern Gulf of Mexico. To conduct a comparative structural analysis, regional reflection seismic transects were constructed across the continental margins of Morocco, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Angola.