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Title: Analysis of reservoir heterogeneities due to shallowing-upward cycles in carbonate rocks of the Pennsylvanian Wahoo Limestone of Northeastern Alaska. Annual report, September 1989--September 1990

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:10176113

This report presents the preliminary results of research accomplished by a team of specialists in carbonate petrology, biostratigraphy, and diagenesis during the 1989--1990 fiscal year. It includes a summary of some of the petrographic data which has been entered into a computerized database; a discussion of biostratigraphic data, particularly conodont biofacies analyses; an overview of diagenetic studies; and a section of the regional geological framework studies. The database is allowing us to test which parameters, such as ooids, can be used to recognize and understand the carbonate petrology of the shallowing-upward cycles. The cycles have been interpreted in terms of depositional environments and sea-level fluctuations and used to develop detailed facies models.

Research Organization:
Alaska Univ., Fairbanks, AK (United States). Geophysical Inst.
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC22-89BC14471
OSTI ID:
10176113
Report Number(s):
DOE/BC/14471-11; ON: DE92001064
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Sep 1992
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English