Control of Arbuckle (Cambrian-Ordovician) production by block faulting

Conference · Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983 · Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6433314

Gagliardo, D

The Central Kansas uplift is a collapsed arch which was eroded to granite on both sides of a central graben during the post-Mississippian. Uplift and collapse produced a myriad of horst anad graben blocks affecting the Arbuckle Group below the so-called pre-Pennsylvanian unconformity. Arbuckle production comes from horst blocks, and about 75% of the Arbuckle production on the uplift comes from blocks within the central graben. Mapping Arbuckle structures as fault blocks rather than as erosional features allows a completely different use of subsurface data and can lead to many unsuspected field extension and wildcat prospects.

• OSTI ID: 6433314
• Report Number(s): CONF-8310309-
• Journal Information: Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States), Vol. 67:8; Conference: AAPG Mid-Continent Section meeting, Wichita, KS, USA, 16 Oct 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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