Paleotectonic investigations of the Permian system in the United States

McKee, Edwin D.; Oriel, Steven S.

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“…The presence of extensive eolian beds as well as widespread evaporite deposits of anhydrite, gypsum, halite, and potash in other facies (McKee et al, 1956(McKee et al, , 1959(McKee et al, , 1967 suggests a generally dry environment for the Western Interior although it was not necessarily extremely dry, or wet and dry periods may have alternated seasonally. The presence of rare animal tracks and bones as well as petrified logs and root impressions in some of the eolian beds demonstrates that sufficient moisture was available, at least locally, to support some animals and vegetation.…”

Section: Paleowindsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4). Scattered positive elements in the southern part of the region also were sources of clastic materials although generally not as coarse and certainly not as Voluminous as that shed from the Uncompahgre and Front Range highlands (McKee et al, 1967;Hunt, 1983;Kottlowski, 1985;Fly, 1986). A broad positive area named the Milk River uplift lay in Montana and adjacent parts of Canada and, through the Wyoming arch, connected with the Front Range highlands (E.K.…”

Section: Paleogeographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Paleogeographic studies by McKee et al (1967) show the Milk River uplift projecting southward across Montana and into Wyoming, with the western shoreline in the western parts of both states.…”

Section: Paleogeographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The mainland shoreline is difficult to identify in much of the southern part of the region where, apparently, it lay close to several positive areas such as the Pedernal uplift that extended southward across the middle of New Mexico (Mallory, 1972;Kottlowski, 1975;McKee et al, 1975;Siemers, 1983). The shoreline can be located fairly well in the north-central part of New Mexico where a deltaic complex has been identified by Kues and Kietzke (1976).…”

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Pennsylvanian to Jurassic eolian transportation systems in the western United States

Peterson

1988

Sedimentary Geology

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Pennsylvanian to Jurassic eolian transportation systems in the western United States

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1988

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“…In the early Paleozoic period, it was a carbonate shelf deposit in a shallow sea, gently inclining southeast and having multistage tectonic evolutions. This basin mainly consists of the Central Basin platform, the Delaware Basin, the Midland Basin, and the Val Verde Basin (McKee et al 1967;Hills 1984;Yang and Dorobek 1995). The Michigan Basin is located in the east of the North American platform.…”

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Formation and distribution characteristics of Proterozoic–Lower Paleozoic marine giant oil and gas fields worldwide

et al. 2017

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There are rich oil and gas resources in marine carbonate strata worldwide. Although most of the oil and gas reserves discovered so far are mainly distributed in Mesozoic, Cenozoic, and upper Paleozoic strata, oil and gas exploration in the Proterozoic-Lower Paleozoic (PLP) strata-the oldest marine strata-has been very limited. To more clearly understand the oil and gas formation conditions and distributions in the PLP marine carbonate strata, we analyzed and characterized the petroleum geological conditions, oil and gas reservoir types, and their distributions in thirteen giant oil and gas fields worldwide. This study reveals the main factors controlling their formation and distribution. Our analyses show that the source rocks for these giant oil and gas fields are mainly shale with a great abundance of type I-II organic matter and a high thermal evolution extent. The reservoirs are mainly gas reservoirs, and the reservoir rocks are dominated by dolomite. The reservoir types are mainly karst and reef-shoal bodies with well-developed dissolved pores and cavities, intercrystalline pores, and fractures. These reservoirs are highly heterogeneous. The burial depth of the reservoirs is highly variable and somewhat negatively correlated to the porosity. The cap rocks are mainly thick evaporites and shales, with the thickness of the cap rocks positively correlated to the oil and gas reserves. The development of high-quality evaporite cap rock is highly favorable for oil and gas preservation. We identified four hydrocarbon generation models, and that the major source rocks have undergone a long period of burial and thermal evolution and are characterized by early and long periods of hydrocarbon generation. These giant oil and gas fields have diverse types of reservoirs and are mainly distributed in paleo-uplifts, slope zones, and platform margin reef-shoal bodies. The main factors that control their formation and distribution were identified, enabling the prediction of new favorable areas for oil and gas exploration.

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The paleoclimatic and geochronologic utility of coring red beds and evaporites: a case study from the RKB core (Permian, Kansas, USA)

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Benison

Foster

et al. 2014

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Drill core is critical for robust and high-resolution reconstructions of Earth’s climate record, as well demonstrated from both marine successions and modern long-lived lake systems. Deep-time climate reconstructions increasingly require core-based data, but some facies, notably red beds and evaporites, have garnered less attention for both paleoclimatic and geochronologic analyses. Here, we highlight studies from the Rebecca K. Bounds (RKB) core, a nearly continuous, >1.6 km drill core extending from the Cretaceous to the Mississippian, recovered from the US Midcontinent by Amoco Production Company in 1988, and serendipitously made available for academic research. Recent research conducted on this core illustrates the potential to recover high-resolution data for geochronologic and climatic reconstructions from both the fine-grained red bed strata, which largely represent paleo-loess deposits, and associated evaporite strata. In this case, availability of core was instrumental for (1) accessing a continuous vertical section that establishes unambiguous superposition key to both magnetostratigraphic and paleoclimatic analyses, and (2) providing pristine sample material from friable, soluble, and/or lithofacies and mineralogical species otherwise poorly preserved in surface exposures. The potential for high-resolution paleoclimatic reconstruction from coring of deep-time loess strata in particular remains severely underutilized.

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Paleotectonic investigations of the Permian system in the United States

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Pennsylvanian to Jurassic eolian transportation systems in the western United States

Pennsylvanian to Jurassic eolian transportation systems in the western United States

Formation and distribution characteristics of Proterozoic–Lower Paleozoic marine giant oil and gas fields worldwide

The paleoclimatic and geochronologic utility of coring red beds and evaporites: a case study from the RKB core (Permian, Kansas, USA)

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