Talk:Gulf of Mexico

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Hope I am doing everything right. Still quite new to Wikipedia.

I hope many others will add to this article. My initial stab at it was just to give the most basic overview. I grew up on the Gulf Coast, by the way, and intend to live there again one day, thus my interest in this topic.

- Steve

[edit] Image of the "Watershed"

That's an image of just the Mississippi watershed. What about the others?

This EPA image shows the Gulf of Mexico watershed in the US, but omits Canada, Cuba and Mexico. I suspect we will not be able to find a free map that shows all of the watershed. Maybe someone can produce one for us. -- Donald Albury 23:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Impact origin?

Removed the following commentary from article. Was not peer reviewed and seems a speculative search for new ideas rather than a report on researched data.

In a December 2002 commentary published in the journal "Explorer" of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Dr. Michael Stanton, a retired Canadian geologist, proposed that the Gulf of Mexico was formed by an immense cosmic impact event (either an asteroid or comet) that was also the cause of the Permian mass extinctions. Stanton presented a strong case for the formation of the gulf and related impact features located as far away as Arkansas and Oklahoma USA.

The commentary is online at http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2002/12dec/gom_impact.pdf - for those interested. Removed from the article per WP:Undue weight for what looks like a speculative essay. Vsmith 23:33, 16 October 2007 (UTC)