Geology and oil resources of the western Puente Hills area, Southern California

Journal Article · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1972 · Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap. (U.S.); (United States)

OSTI ID:5071627

Yerkes, R F

The W. Puente Hills area extends from about 12 to 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, in the NE. part of the Los Angeles Basin. The N.-dipping Whittier fault zone trends about N. 65/sup 0/ W. across the NE. quarter of the area. The Puente Hills are underlain by an aggregate of about 16,600 ft of Cenozoic rocks which overlie a Mesozoic basement of granitoid plutonic rocks that contain a large pendant of foliated greenschist. The exposed section of the hills consists of about 13,000 ft of marine clastic sedimentary rocks. Structural relief at the basement surface across the Whittier fault zone is about 12,000 ft. Oil has been produced from fields along the Whittier fault zone since 1880, when the Puente Hills field, in the E. part of the map area, was discovered on the basis of oil seeps. Most of the oil from the mapped area comes from stratigraphic or structural traps in the downthrown block of the Whittier fault zone and along the Coyote Hills trend; at the end of 1967, fields in the mapped area had a cumulative production of 1,183 million bbl. (66 refs.)

• OSTI ID: 5071627
• Journal Information: Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap. (U.S.); (United States), Vol. 420-C
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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