Petrology and hydrocarbon potential of carbonate beds within Ferry Lake Anhydrite, Caddo-Pine Island field, Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Conference · Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA)

OSTI ID:5111575

Kimball, C E ^[1]; Young, L M; Anderson, E G ^[2]; Sartin, A A ^[3]

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1. Applied Earth Sciences, Houston, TX (USA)
2. Northeast Louisiana Univ., Monroe (USA)
3. Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport (USA)

The Ferry Lake Anhydrite was deposited within a stratopycnal free-flow exchange basin, which functioned as a broad lagoon behind the Stuart City Reef. Alternating restriction and circulation with open marine waters led to the deposition of cyclical gypsum and carbonate beds. Freshwater clastic influx led to the deposition of siliciclastic shale beds also found within the formations. Increased circulation of normal salinity waters into the lagoon may have been facilitated by a rising sea level, autoclastic destruction of the reef from storms, or destruction of the reef framework from the hypersaline lagoonal water. Hydrocarbon production has been established in Caddo-Pine Island field from a thin carbonate bed. Haygood limestone, found near the base of the Ferry Lake Anhydrite. The Haygood limestone is an intraclastic/bioclastic grainstone-packstone that was deposited as an intertidal shoal during a period of increased circulation of open marine water. Two additional carbonate beds that are separated from the Haygood limestone by thin anhydrite beds also were cored during the development of the field. These two beds, the A member and the B member, were deposited as peritidal carbonate facies within subtidal to supratidal settings. Facies relationships in the B member record deposition from storm activity.

• OSTI ID: 5111575
• Report Number(s): CONF-8910221-; CODEN: AABUD
• Journal Information: AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA), Vol. 73:9; Conference: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies and Gulf Coast Section of SEPM meeting, Corpus Christi, TX (USA), 25-27 Oct 1989; ISSN 0149-1423
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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