An integrated quantitative basin study of the northern part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, northeastern Alaska

Conference · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States)

OSTI ID:7262326

Zhihuai, Yu; Lerche, I ^[1]

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1. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia (United States)

Using one- and two-dimensional basin modeling codes, the geological processes of sedimentary deposition, compaction, fluid flow, and paleoheat flux have been simulated in the NAWR, Alaska. To reconstruct the thermal history, the thrusting feature of the area has been allowed for and the thermal indicator (vitrinite reflectance) has been used in an inverse mode to estimate the impact of the thrust development. For the evolution of the coastal plain in the area, an inverse flexural plate model was applied to assess the subsidence of the postrift phase and the deformation and erosion events since Cretaceous. In this study, both well and seismic data were used, and the results were shown to be consistent with geologic data.

• OSTI ID: 7262326
• Report Number(s): CONF-910403-; CODEN: AABUD
• Journal Information: AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States), Vol. 75:3; Conference: Annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Dallas, TX (United States), 7-10 Apr 1991; ISSN 0149-1423
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

58 GEOSCIENCES
ALASKA
SEDIMENTARY BASINS
GEOLOGIC HISTORY
GEOLOGIC MODELS
COMPUTER CODES
DEPOSITION
FLUID FLOW
GEOLOGIC FAULTS
HEAT FLOW
MACERALS
PLATE TECTONICS
REFLECTIVITY
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
GEOLOGIC FRACTURES
GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES
NORTH AMERICA
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
SURFACE PROPERTIES
TECTONICS
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