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Title: Influence of pre-Mississippian paleogeology on Carboniferous Lisburne Group, Arctic National Wildlife refuge, northeastern Alaska

Abstract

The Carboniferous Lisburne Group of northern Alaska formed an extensive carbonate platform, which was later deformed as part of the Brooks Range fold and thrust belt. In the northeast, the Lisburne Group is parautochthonous and analogous to that at Prudhoe Bay. The Lisburne's paleogeography and facies relationships pertain to assessment of the petroleum potential of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The Franklinian paleogeology, unconformably underlying the Ellesmerian sequence, has influenced sedimentation patterns in the Lisburne Group. The transgressive Endicott Group (Kekiktuk Conglomerate and Kayak, Shale) and Lisburne Group thin northward over Franklinian basement highs. In the Sadlerochit Mountains, the Katakturuk Dolomite formed a paleotopographic high over which the Endicott Group inched out and the Lisburne Group thinned. Shallow-marine oolitic grainstone developed in the cyclic Pennsylvanian Wahoo Limestone.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5878243
Report Number(s):
CONF-880301-
Journal ID: CODEN: AABUD
Resource Type:
Conference
Journal Name:
AAPG Bull.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 72:2; Conference: Annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Houston, TX, USA, 20-23 Mar 1988
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; ALASKA; CARBONATE ROCKS; DEPOSITION; DOLOMITE; EXPLORATION; GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS; PENNSYLVANIAN PERIOD; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM CARBONATES; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBON COMPOUNDS; CARBONATE MINERALS; CARBONATES; FEDERAL REGION X; GEOLOGIC AGES; GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; MAGNESIUM CARBONATES; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MINERAL RESOURCES; MINERALS; NORTH AMERICA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PALEOZOIC ERA; RESOURCES; ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; USA; 020200* - Petroleum- Reserves, Geology, & Exploration

Citation Formats

Watts, K F, Carlson, R, Imm, T, Gruzlovic, P, and Hanks, C. Influence of pre-Mississippian paleogeology on Carboniferous Lisburne Group, Arctic National Wildlife refuge, northeastern Alaska. United States: N. p., 1988. Web.
Watts, K F, Carlson, R, Imm, T, Gruzlovic, P, & Hanks, C. Influence of pre-Mississippian paleogeology on Carboniferous Lisburne Group, Arctic National Wildlife refuge, northeastern Alaska. United States.
Watts, K F, Carlson, R, Imm, T, Gruzlovic, P, and Hanks, C. 1988. "Influence of pre-Mississippian paleogeology on Carboniferous Lisburne Group, Arctic National Wildlife refuge, northeastern Alaska". United States.
@article{osti_5878243,
title = {Influence of pre-Mississippian paleogeology on Carboniferous Lisburne Group, Arctic National Wildlife refuge, northeastern Alaska},
author = {Watts, K F and Carlson, R and Imm, T and Gruzlovic, P and Hanks, C},
abstractNote = {The Carboniferous Lisburne Group of northern Alaska formed an extensive carbonate platform, which was later deformed as part of the Brooks Range fold and thrust belt. In the northeast, the Lisburne Group is parautochthonous and analogous to that at Prudhoe Bay. The Lisburne's paleogeography and facies relationships pertain to assessment of the petroleum potential of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The Franklinian paleogeology, unconformably underlying the Ellesmerian sequence, has influenced sedimentation patterns in the Lisburne Group. The transgressive Endicott Group (Kekiktuk Conglomerate and Kayak, Shale) and Lisburne Group thin northward over Franklinian basement highs. In the Sadlerochit Mountains, the Katakturuk Dolomite formed a paleotopographic high over which the Endicott Group inched out and the Lisburne Group thinned. Shallow-marine oolitic grainstone developed in the cyclic Pennsylvanian Wahoo Limestone.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5878243}, journal = {AAPG Bull.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 72:2,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1988},
month = {Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1988}
}

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