Evidence for extension of Lake Basin Fault Zone from coal bed correlations in south-central Montana and implications for hydrocarbon exploration
Conference
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· Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5131919
The Lake Basin fault zone is a structural lineament that extends west-northwest across central Montana. The lineament consists mainly of en echelon northeast-striking normal faults that are surface expressions of left-lateral movement along a basement wrench fault. Information gathered from the recent field mapping of coal beds and from shallow, closely spaced drill holes in the northwest part of the Powder River basin, Montana, permit detailed coal bed correlations, which revealed another linear zone of en echelon faulting directly on the extended trend of the Lake Basin fault zone. The faulted area, herein named the Sarpy Creek area, is located 48 km (30 mi) east of Hardin, Montana. It is about 13 km (8 mi) long and 10 km (6 mi) wide and contains 20 en echelon normal faults that have an average strike of N65/sup 0/E. The Lake Basin fault zone is therefore extended 32 km (20 mi) farther southeast than previously mapped to include the Sarpy Creek area. The Lake Basin oil field, Montana, and the Ash Creek oil field, Montana and Wyoming, produce from faulted anticlinal structures that have been interpreted to be genetically related to primary wrench-fault systems-the Lake Basin fault zone and Nye-Bowler fault zone, respectively. Therefore, the faulted area of Sarpy Creek (as yet unexplored), and areas southeastward from there along the trend of the Lake Basin fault zone are possible sites for hydrocarbon accumulation.
- Research Organization:
- Geological Surveys, Denver, CO
- OSTI ID:
- 5131919
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8506201-
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States) Journal Volume: 69:5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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