Deep crustal sediment study: Widespread Precambrian layered rocks (Sedimentary ?) beneath the US midcontinent
Abstract
A thick sequence of layered rocks occurs beneath the Phanerozoic platform strata which blanket the US midcontinent. Observed on COCORP deep reflection data in southern Illinois and Indiana and in SW Oklahoma and adjacent Texas, this sequence is locally 1--3 times as thick as the overlying Paleozoic cover, but the origin of this sequence, its ultimate lateral extent, and resource potential are unknown. The objective of this project is to seek and reprocess seismic reflection data provided by industry from the US midcontinent and together with the COCORP deep reflection data and information from the scattered basement-penetrating drill holes, to begin to constrain the distribution, origin and evolution of this enigmatic layered sequence, particularly to evaluate if sedimentary material may be an important constituent (i.e., deep gas potential).
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 10149316
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/MC/28136-92/C0025; CONF-920584-19
ON: DE92014430
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG21-91MC28136
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: US Department of Energy contractor review meeting on natural gas research and development,Morgantown, WV (United States),5-6 May 1992; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 03 NATURAL GAS; 58 GEOSCIENCES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; ORIGIN; SEISMIC SURVEYS; REFLECTION; STRATIGRAPHY; PRECAMBRIAN ERA; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; 030200; 580000; RESERVES, GEOLOGY, AND EXPLORATION; GEOSCIENCES
Citation Formats
Hauser, E C. Deep crustal sediment study: Widespread Precambrian layered rocks (Sedimentary ?) beneath the US midcontinent. United States: N. p., 1992.
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Hauser, E C. Deep crustal sediment study: Widespread Precambrian layered rocks (Sedimentary ?) beneath the US midcontinent. United States.
Hauser, E C. 1992.
"Deep crustal sediment study: Widespread Precambrian layered rocks (Sedimentary ?) beneath the US midcontinent". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10149316.
@article{osti_10149316,
title = {Deep crustal sediment study: Widespread Precambrian layered rocks (Sedimentary ?) beneath the US midcontinent},
author = {Hauser, E C},
abstractNote = {A thick sequence of layered rocks occurs beneath the Phanerozoic platform strata which blanket the US midcontinent. Observed on COCORP deep reflection data in southern Illinois and Indiana and in SW Oklahoma and adjacent Texas, this sequence is locally 1--3 times as thick as the overlying Paleozoic cover, but the origin of this sequence, its ultimate lateral extent, and resource potential are unknown. The objective of this project is to seek and reprocess seismic reflection data provided by industry from the US midcontinent and together with the COCORP deep reflection data and information from the scattered basement-penetrating drill holes, to begin to constrain the distribution, origin and evolution of this enigmatic layered sequence, particularly to evaluate if sedimentary material may be an important constituent (i.e., deep gas potential).},
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year = {Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992},
month = {Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992}
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