Subsurface stratigraphic analysis, Cherokee group (Pennsylvanian), northeast Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Journal Article · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1975 · Shale Shaker; (United States)

OSTI ID:7049245

Albano, M A

The investigated area is in a zone of transition among 5 major tectonic elements: the Central Oklahoma Platform, the McClain County Fault Zone, the Oklahoma City Uplift (Nemaha Ridge), the Arkoma (McAlester) Basin, and the Anadarko Basin. A well-developed dendritic drainage pattern with low relief formed on the pre-Desmoinesian erosional surface. A drainage divide, extending approx. diagonally across the investigated area, separated the drainage into the Arkoma (McAlester) Basin to the south-southeast and into the Anadarko Basin toward the southwest. Compensatory thickening on the downthrown side of growth faults modified this dendritic pattern. The Cherokee Group consists of the oldest Pennsylvanian sediments in the investigated area, rocks of Springeran, Morrowan, and Atokan age being absent. The Cherokee Group represents an alternating sequence of transgressive and regressive lithologic units of shallow-water marine and deltaic origin deposited upon the pre-Pennsylvanian erosion surface. The Cherokee seas inundated this erosional surface from the direction of the Arkoma (McAlester) Basin to the southeast and the Anadarko Basin to the southwest. Red Fork and Prue sands were deposited in pro-gradating deltaic channels along a coastal plain of low relief. (22 refs.)

• OSTI ID: 7049245
• Journal Information: Shale Shaker; (United States), Journal Name: Shale Shaker; (United States) Vol. 25:7; ISSN SHSKA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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