GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF THE ARKOMA BASIN: WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW

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GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF THE ARKOMA BASIN WHAT WE
KNOW AND WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW
SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS ARKANSAS
CHAPTER DECEMBER 10, 2008
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STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE SOUTHERN MIDCONTINENT
(MURRAY, 1961)
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STRUCTURAL FEATURES ADJACENT TO OUACHITA
FOLDBELT, SOUTHERN MIDCONTINENT (VIELE, 1989)
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STRUCTURAL FEATURES ADJACENT TO OUACHITA
FOLDBELT, SOUTHERN MIDCONTINENT (DENISON, 1989)
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GEOLOGIC MAP OF ARKANSAS (HALEY AND OTHERS, 1976)
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TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE ARKOMA BASIN
(Houseknecht, 1983)

• A - Late Precambrian-Cambrian Tension Break-up
  of Rodinia
• B - Late Cambrian Early Mississippian
  (Kinderhookian Osagean) - Passive Margin
  Eustacy
• C Middle Mississippian (Meramecan) Middle
  Pennsylvanian (Early Atokan) Initiation of
  Active Margin Tectonics Island Arc
• D Middle Pennsylvanian (Early/ Middle Atokan)
  Compression Foreland Basin Formation
• E Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Atoka
  Desmoinesian) Collisional Tectonics
  Basin-fill

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STRUCTURAL SETTING, NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
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EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN OLISTHOLITHS, US 412
ROADCUTS, BENTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS
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EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN TECTONIC EVENT, US 71
ROADCUTS, MACDONALD COUNTY, MISSOURI
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PREVIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF
THE MEMBERS OF THE ATOKA FORMATION, SOUTHERN
OZARK REGION
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CRATONIC SEQUENCES, OROGENIC AND TECTONIC EVENTS
IN THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CRATON
(LEVIN, 1991)
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FIRST-FOURTH ORDER, LATE PALEOZOIC CRATONIC CYCLES
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CARBONIFEROUS LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY, NORTHERN
ARKANSAS
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LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS,
MISSISSIPPIAN-PENNSYLVANIAN BOUNDARY,
NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
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MORROWAN-ATOKAN BOUNDARY I-540 ROADCUTS

• TYPE 1 EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY AT TOP OF KESSLER
  LIMESTONE
• WELDED CONTACT WITH CONCRETIONARY PEBBLES AND
  MICROKARST

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SHELFTO- BASIN CORRELATION OF TRACE CREEK
INTERVAL
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CHESTERIAN/MORROWAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND
DEPOSITIONAL DYNAMICS, ARKANSAS AND OKLAHOMA
(SUTHERLAND, 1988)
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ATOKAN SUBSURFACE NOMENCLATURE, ARKOMA BASIN,
ARKANSAS
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PRODUCING FIELDS SHALLOW GAS PROVINCE,
NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
McEntire, 1988
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PRODUCING FIELDS SHALLOW GAS PROVINCE,
NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
McEntire, 1988
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RELATIONSHIP OF SHALLOW GAS PROVINCE TO ARKOMA
BASIN, NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS

Manger and Shelby, 2000
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