Interplay Between Salt Activities and Slope Instabilities, Bryant Canyon Area, Northwest Gulf of Mexico

Numerous sediment failures have contributed to the morphology of the flanks of the intraslope basins of the northwestern continental slope of Gulf of Mexico. The main cause of slope instabilities is the oversteepening of the flanks by halokinetic processes. High-resolution seismic information (3.5 kHz profiles and side-scan sonar imageries), long sediment cores, and high-resolution bathymetric maps, acquired from the Bryant Canyon area, northwest Gulf of Mexico, are presented in this paper. They provide an excellent example, and better insight into the morphology, generation, and evolution of slope instability processes in a complex deep-water environment.