Title: GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF THE ARKOMA BASIN: WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW
1GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF THE ARKOMA BASIN WHAT WE
KNOW AND WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW
SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS ARKANSAS
CHAPTER DECEMBER 10, 2008
2DEALING WITH GEOLOGISTS
3STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE SOUTHERN MIDCONTINENT
(MURRAY, 1961)
4STRUCTURAL FEATURES ADJACENT TO OUACHITA
FOLDBELT, SOUTHERN MIDCONTINENT (VIELE, 1989)
5STRUCTURAL FEATURES ADJACENT TO OUACHITA
FOLDBELT, SOUTHERN MIDCONTINENT (DENISON, 1989)
6GEOLOGIC MAP OF ARKANSAS (HALEY AND OTHERS, 1976)
7TECTONIC 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
8STRUCTURAL SETTING, NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
9EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN OLISTHOLITHS, US 412
ROADCUTS, BENTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS
10EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN TECTONIC EVENT, US 71
ROADCUTS, MACDONALD COUNTY, MISSOURI
11PREVIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF
THE MEMBERS OF THE ATOKA FORMATION, SOUTHERN
OZARK REGION
12CRATONIC SEQUENCES, OROGENIC AND TECTONIC EVENTS
IN THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CRATON
(LEVIN, 1991)
13FIRST-FOURTH ORDER, LATE PALEOZOIC CRATONIC CYCLES
14CARBONIFEROUS LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY, NORTHERN
ARKANSAS
15LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS,
MISSISSIPPIAN-PENNSYLVANIAN BOUNDARY,
NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
16MORROWAN-ATOKAN BOUNDARY I-540 ROADCUTS
- TYPE 1 EROSIONAL UNCONFORMITY AT TOP OF KESSLER
LIMESTONE - WELDED CONTACT WITH CONCRETIONARY PEBBLES AND
MICROKARST
17SHELFTO- BASIN CORRELATION OF TRACE CREEK
INTERVAL
18CHESTERIAN/MORROWAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND
DEPOSITIONAL DYNAMICS, ARKANSAS AND OKLAHOMA
(SUTHERLAND, 1988)
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20ATOKAN SUBSURFACE NOMENCLATURE, ARKOMA BASIN,
ARKANSAS
21PRODUCING FIELDS SHALLOW GAS PROVINCE,
NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
McEntire, 1988
22PRODUCING FIELDS SHALLOW GAS PROVINCE,
NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
McEntire, 1988
23RELATIONSHIP OF SHALLOW GAS PROVINCE TO ARKOMA
BASIN, NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
Manger and Shelby, 2000
24- OUR IDEAS FIND HYDROCARBONS!!!
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