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Title

The Great American carbonate bank : the geology and economic resources of the Cambrian-Ordovician sauk megasequence of Laurentia / edited by James Derby, Richard Fritz, Susan Longacre...[et. al.]

Publication

Tulsa, OK : American Association of Petroleum Geologists, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96033171
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006882
• Derby, James.
• Fritz, Richard.
• Longacre, Susan.

Description

xxi, 504 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.); 29 cm. +

Series Statement

AAPG memoir ; 98

Uniform Title

AAPG memoir ; 98.

Alternative Title

Geology and economic resources of the Cambrian-Ordovician sauk megasequence of Laurentia

Subjects

• Hydrocarbon reservoirs > Laurentia (Continent)
• Petroleum > Geology
• Sedimentation and deposition
• Carbonate reservoirs

Note

• Papers and extended abstracts are available on CD-ROM in .pdf format.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

• Paleogeography of the great American carbonate bank of laurentia in the earliest Ordovician (early Tremadocian): the stonehenge transgression / James R. Derby...[et al] -- Biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy of the Cambrian-Ordovician great American carbonate bank / John F. Taylor...[et al.] -- Sequence stratigraphy of the great American carbonate bank / William A. Morgan -- Great lower Ordovician cavern system / F. Jerry Lucia -- A brief overview of the diversity and patterns in bioturbation preserved in the Cambrian-Ordovician carbonate and siliciclastic deposits of Laurentia / Stephen T. Hasiotis -- Petroleum resources of the great American carbonate bank / Charles A. Sternbach -- Mississippi Valley-type mineralization and ore deposits in the Cambrian-Ordovician great American carbonate bank / Jay M. Gregg and Kevin L. Shelton.
• Extended abstracts : Biostratigraphy of Cambrian and lower Ordovician strata in the LLano Uplift, Central Texas / James F. Miller, James D. Loch, and John F. Taylor -- the Geology of the Arbuckle Group in the midcontinent: sequence stratigraphy, reservoir development, and the potential for hydrocarbon exploration / Richard D. Fritz,...[et al.] -- Ordovician of Sauk megasequence in the Ozard region of northern Arkansas and parts of Missouri and adjacent states / Raymond L. Ethington, John E. Repetski, and James R. Derby -- Great American carbonate bank : knox group in the Black Warrior Basin / Richard D. Fritz...[etal.] -- The middle Ordovician knox unconformity in the Black Warrior Basin / Gary S. Dwyer and John E. Repetski -- Cambrian-lower middle Ordovician passive carbonate margin, southern Appalachians / J. Fred Read and John E. Repetski -- Sequential development of platform to off-platform facies of the great American carbonate bank in the central Appalachians / David K. Brezinski, John F. Taylor, and John E. Repetski -- High-energy shelf-margin carbonate facies: microbial sheet reefs, endolites, and intraclast grainstone-Ledger formation (middle Cambrian), Pennsylvania / Carol B. deWet...[et al.] -- The great American carbonate bank in eastern Laurentia: its births, deaths, and linkage to Paleooceanic oxygenation (early Cambrian-late Ordovician) / Ed Landing -- Historical note: the great American carbonate bank in the northern Appalachians: Cambrian-Ordovician (Sauk), Albany basin, New York / Gerald M. Friedman -- The great American carbonate bank in eastern Canada : an overview / Denis Lavoie...[et al.] -- Regional stratigraphic, depositional, and diagenetic patterns of the interior of St. Lawrence platform: the lower Ordovician Romaine formation, western Anticosti Basin, Quebec / André Desrochers...[et al.] -- The Sauk-Tippecanoe megasequence boundary in an interior structural corridor (Ottawa Embayment) of the great American carbonate bank / George R. Dix -- Biostratigraphic constraints on chronostratigraphic intraformational relationships within the lower-middle Ordovician Beekmantown group, Laurentian margin : eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec, Canada / Osman Salad Hersi -- Sequence stratigraphy of the Scottish Laurentian margin and recognition of the Sauk megasequence / Robert J. Raine and M. Paul Smith -- Development of the lower Cambrian-middle Ordovician carbonate platform: North Atlantic region / Svend Stouge...[et al.] -- The lower Cambrian to lower Ordovician carbonate platform and shelf margin, Canadian Arctic Islands / Keith Dewing and Godfrey Nowlan -- Cambrian-Ordovician sedimentary rocks of Alaska / Julie AA. Dumoulin and Anita G. Harris -- Cambrian and lower Ordovician Sauk megasequence of Northwestern Canada, Northern Rocky Mountains to the Beaufort Sea / Leanne J. Pyle -- Middle Cambrian-middle Ordovician rocks of Western Canada, Latitude 49° to the Peace River / B.S. Norford -- Overview of lower Cambrian mixed carbonate-siliciclastic depositon along the western Laurentian passive margin / Michael C. Pope, John Stewart Hollingsworth, and Kelly Dilliard -- Sauk megasequence deposition in Northeastern Washington, Northern Idaho, and Western Montana / John H. Bush, Robert C. Thomas, and Michael C. Pope. -- Great American carbonate bank in the miogeocline of western central Utah: tectonic influences on sedimentation / James F. Miller, Kevin R. Evans, and Benjamin F. Dattilo.
• Gamma-ray cross sections-correlation of steptoean strata in the eastern great basin using outcrop gamma-ray profiles / Kevin R. Evans -- Well study-Sauk III-IV interval in the American quasar 16-21A Horse Heaven-State well, confusion range, west-central Utah / Kevin R. Evans, James F. Miller, and Benjamin F. Dattilo -- Sauk megasequence supersequences, southern great basin: second-order accommodation events on the southwestern cordilleran margin platform / Martin Keller, John D. Cooper, and Oliver Lehnert.
• Extended Abstracts : Cambrian-Ordovician rocks of Sonora, Mexico, and southern Arizona, southwestern margin of North America (Laurentia) / William R. Page, Anita G. Harris, and John E. Repetski -- Digital outcrop model of stratigraphy and breccias of the southern Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas / Jerome A. Bellian, Charles Kerans, and John Repetski -- Facies belts, microfacies, and karst features of the Ellenburger Group, Kerr Basin, Texas: observations based on cores / Richard C. Geesaman and James L. Wilson -- The circum-Laurentian carbonate bank, the Western Ouachita-Cuyania Basin, and the Prodigal Llanoria Landmass / Patricia Wood Dickerson -- The Argentine precordillera: a little American carbonate bank / Martin Keller -- The Sauk megasequence in the cratonic interior of North America: interplay between a fully developed inner detrital belt and the central great American carbonate bank / Anthony C. Runkel...[et al.] -- The Sauk megasequence from the Reelfoot Rift to southwestern Missouri / James Palmer...[et al.] -- Arbuckle group platform strata in Kansas: a synthesis / Evan K. Franseen and Alan P. Byrnes -- The great American bank in the central Michigan basin / William B. Harrison III and G. Michael Grammer -- Evaluation of Knox supergroup dolostones as a target for carbon dioxide storage in western Kentucky / Michelle A. Pittenger...[et al.] -- Ordovician Knox carbonates and sandstones of the eastern midcontinent: potential geologic carbon storage reservoirs and seals / Stephen F. Greb...[et al.] -- Unconformity, karst, hydrocarbons, minerals, environments, and structures present in the Cambrian-Ordovician knox group in Kentucky: an example from south-central Kentucky / Patrick J. Gooding -- Upper Cambrian Gatesburg Formation of central and western Pennsylvania / Christopher D. Laughrey and John A. Harper -- Great American carbonate bank subsurface stratigraphy in the northern Appalachian basin, New York state / Langhorne B. Smith, Jr.

ISBN

• 9780891813804
• 0891813802

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library