Depositional Basins, United States

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Basins General Information

• USGS Basin Studies
  

Anadarko Basin (OK)

• Anadarko Basin Province
  
• Anadarko Basin Permian Panhandle and Hugoton Fields
  
  

Appalachian Basin (NY, NJ, OH, PA, TN, VA, WV)

• Adding Value to the Atlas of Major Appalachian Gas Plays
  
• Appalachian Basin Tight Gas Reservoirs Project (WVGS)
  
• Efficient Data Delivery System for Tight Gas Plays
  
• Huron Shale
  
• Marcellus Shale Depositional Setting
  
• Marcellus Shale General
  
• Trenton-Black River Appalachian Basin Exploration (DOE)
  
  

Ardmore Basin (OK)

• Ardmore Basin, Complex Structural Features
  
• Hunton Play in Oklahoma
  
• Sycamore and Lower Caney
  
  

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Arkoma Basin (AR, OK)

• Arkoma Basin Province
  
• Arkoma Basin Arkansas
  
• Barnett May Have Arkansas Cousin (AAPG)
  
• Woodford Shale General
  
  

Bighorn Basin (MT, WY)

• Bighorn Basin Air Photos
  
• Bighorn Basin Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas
  
• Bighorn Basin Coring Project Data (USGS)
  
• Bighorn Basin Province (USGS)
  
• Bighorn Basin Stratigraphy
  
  

Black Warrior Basin (AL, MS)

• Black Warrior Basin Petroleum Assessment of the Chattanooga Shale/Floyd Shale
  
• Black Warrior Basin USGS Fact Sheet CBM
  
• Floyd, Neal, and Chattanooga Shale Plays, Black Warrior Basin
  
• Floyd Shale Gas Potential
  
  

Cherokee Basin (KS, OK)

• Cherokee Basin Coalbed Methane and Shale Gas
  
• Cherokee Basin CBM Profile
  
• Cherokee Basin Unconventional Play
  
• Petroleum Reservoirs in the Greater Midcontinent (AAPG)
  
  

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Dalhart Basin (OK, TX)

• Dalhart Basin Challenges the Exploration Geologist
  
• Geologic History of Oklahoma
  
• Seismic Exploration in the Dalhart Basin
  
• Subsurface geology of the Dalhart Basin, Texas Panhandle
  
  

Delaware Basin (TX)

• Barnett Shale Delaware Basin, Pecos Co. West Texas
  
• Permian Reef Geology
  
• Stratigraphy
  
• Stratigraphy (SEPM)
  

Denver Julesburg Basin (CO, KS, NE, SD, WY)

• Denver Basin Assessment of Oil and Gas Resource
  
• Denver Basin Province
  
• Denver Basin Stratigraphy
  
• Wattenberg Field Geology
  
  

Eagle Basin (CO, UT)

• Geologic history of Piceance Creek-Eagle basins
  
• Uinta-Piceance Basin Province (USGS)
  
  
  

Eastern Shelf Permian Basin (TX)

• Permian Basin
  
• Permian Basin Geology
  
• Permian Basin Stratigraphy
  
  

East Texas Basin (LA, TX)

• Fault Tectonics
  
• Oil & Gas Play
  
• Sequence and Seismic Stratigraphy of the Bossier Play
  
• Tight Gas Sands (AAPG)
  
  

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Forest City Basin (IA, KS, MO, NE)

• Coalbed Methane in the Forest City Basin
  
• Forest City Basin Province (USGS)
  
• Forest City Basin Stratigraphy and Structural Development (KGS)
  
• Keys to Exploration
  
  

Fort Worth Basin (TX)

• Fort Worth Basin & Barnett Shale Gas Boom
  
• Fort Worth Basin Formations
  
• Fort Worth Basin Province (USGS)
  
• Fort Worth Geology/Characteristics
  
• Undiscovered Resources Fort Worth Basin
  
• Synsedimentary Tectonics with Stratigraphy in The development of The Fort Worth Basin
  
  

Fossil Basin (WY)

• Fossil Basin at Fossil Butte
  
• Fossil Basin Geologic History
  
• Fossil Basin Stratigraphy
  
  

Great Basin (CA, NV, OR, UT)

• Basin and Range Province (USGS)
  
• Great Basin (Wikipedia)
  
• Great Basin Geology (NASA)
  
• Western Cordillera
  
  

Great Divide (Red Desert) Basin (WY)

• Great Divide Basin: A Transient Split on the Continental Divide
  
• Great Divide Basin Stratigraphy
  
  

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Green River Basin (UT, WY)(Sub Basin of Greater Green River Basin)

• Greater Green River Basin Oil and Gas Fields (EIA)
  
• Green River Basin Geologic Summary
  
• Green River Basin Stratigraphy
  
• Stratigraphic Entrapment of Cretaceous Hydrocarbons, Green River Basin, Wyoming
  
  

Gulf Coast Basin (AR, MS,LA, TX)

• Assessing and Forecasting Natural Gas Reserve (DOE)
  
• General Facts about the Gulf of Mexico
  
• Gulf Coast (USGS)
  
• Gulf Coast Basin (Wikipedia)
  
• Ruston Field--U.S.A. Gulf Coast Basin, Louisiana
  
  

Hanna-Carbon Basin (WY)

• Hanna-Carbon Basin Structural Models for the Geology
  
• Hanna-Carbon Basin Stratigraphy
  
  

Hartford Basin (CT, MA)

• Triassic-Jurassic Boundary and Lowermost Jurassic Rocks, Hartford Basin
  
• Hartford Basin Geology
  
  

Hollis Hardeman (TX)

• Success Rates and Reserves in the Hardeman Basin of Texas
  
• Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin Province (USGS)
  
  

Illinois Basin

• Illinois Basin Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources , USGS 2007
  
• Illinois Basin Shale Gets Tech Focus (AAPG)
  
• Illinois Basin Geology
  
• Illinois Basin Paleozoic Stratigraphy with Production Targets
  
  

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Laramie Basin (WY)

• Laramie Basin Stratigraphy
  
  

Marfa Basin (TX)

• Marfa Basin
  
• Structure Marfa Basin
  
  

Maverick Basin (TX)

• Maverick Basin
  
• Maverick Basin Karst
  
• Maverick Basin (USGS)
  
  

Michigan Basin (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH)

• Michigan Basin Geology 1
  
• Michigan Basin Geology 2
  
• Michigan Basin (IGS)
  
• Michigan Basin Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration
  
• Michigan Basin Province (USGS)
  
  

Midland (TX)

• Geology of the Upper Permian - Permian Basin Introduction
  
• Stratigraphic Units and Type Logs
  
• Texas ‘Playgrounds’ Attract Action (AAPG)
  
  

Mississippi Salt Basin

• Louisiana-Mississippi Salt Basins Provinces, USGS 2002
  
  

Montata Thrust Belt

• Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of The Montana Thrust Belt (USGS)
  
• Geophysical Interpretations of The Libby Thrust Belt (USGS)
  
• Mesozoic Idaho-Wyoming Fold and Thrust Belt
  
  

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Newark Basins

• Newark Basin and Connecticut River Basin
  
• Newark Basins Coring Project
  
• Newark Basins (USGS)
  
• Newark Basins (Wikipedia)
  
• Geology of the Newark Rift Basin
  
  

North Park Basin(CO)

• Basement Structure Contour Map
  
• North Park Basin (Wikipedia)
  
• North Park Discovery in Niobrara Shale
  
• Stratigraphy and Source Rock Potential Mowry Shale
  
  

North Louisiana Salt Basin (LA)

• Deep Natural Gas Resource of the Onshore Salt Basins (DOE)
  
• Bossier-Haynesville Shale
  
• Hydrocarbon Generating Potential: Jurassic Cotton Valley-Bossier Group
  
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Oklahoma Basin (Ancestral Anadarko Basin)(OK)

• Oklahoma Basin (ICONS atlas: NAM)
  
• Cross Section, Central Oklahoma
  
  

Palo-Duro Basin(OK, NM, TX)

• Palo-Duro Basin Province
  
• Palo-Duro Gas Project
  
  

Paradox Basin (CO, UT)

• Magnetic and Gravity Anomalies, and Lineaments Northern Paradox (USGS)
  
• Moab salt-intruded anticline, east-central Utah
  
• Paradox Basin Geology
  
• Hermosa Group Shale Gas
  
• Paradox Basin Horizontal Drilling Targets (UGS)
  
• Paradox Basin Oil and Gas Potential
  
• Paradox Basin (USGS Basin Studies)
  
  

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Permian Basin (NM, TX)

• Permian Basin Assessment of Undiscovered Oil & Gas Resources
  
• Permian Basin Geology
  
• Permian Basin, McElroy Field: Development Geology
  
• Permian Basin Stratigraphy
  
• Permian Has Productive, Colorful Past (AAPG)
  
• Play Analysis and Digital Portfolio of Major Oil Reservoirs in the Permian Basin: New Mexico
  
  

Piceance Basin (CO)

• Controls on Gas and Water Distribution, Mesaverde Basin Center Gas Play
  
• Natural Gas Production Piceance Basin
  
• Oil Shale in the Piceance Basin (USGS)
  
• Piceance-Uinta Basin Province (USGS)
  
• Measaverde Total Petroleum System (USGS)
  
  

Powder River Basin (MT, WY)

• Powder River Basin Biostratigraphy
  
• Powder River Basin CBM (DOE)
  
• Powder River Basin Province (USGS)
  
• Powder River Basin Stratigraphy
  
  

Raton Basin (CO, NM)

• Natural Gas Potential of North-Central New Mexico:
  
• Online Guide to the Continental Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Raton Basin (USGS)
  
• Raton Basin (USGS)
  
  

Red Desert (Great Divide) Basin (WY)(Sub Basin of Greater Green River Basin)

• Red Desert (Wikipedia)
  
• Resources of The Red Desert
  
  

Rio Grande Embayment (TX)

• Geology of the Gulf Coast Aquifer, Texas
  
• Paleocene and early Eocene of the Rio Grande and Tampico embayments
  
• Regional Geologic Setting of South Texas Coal Deposits (USGS)
  
  

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Sacramento Basin (CA)

• Assessment of Undiscovered Natural Gas Resources of the Sacramento Basin Province (USGS)
  
• Origin of Eocene Depositional Sequences in the Sacramento Basin
  
• Sacramento Basin Province (USGS)
  
• Southern Sacramento Basin (CGS)
  
• Recognition of a Santonian submarine canyon, Great Valley Group
  
  

Salina Basin (KS, NE)

• Salina Basin Province (KGS)
  
• Salina Basin Province (USGS)
  
  
• Stratigraphy and Structural Development (KGS)
  
  

Sand Wash Basin (CO, WY)(Sub Basin of Greater Green River Basin)

• Sand Wash Basin Geology (EPA)
  
• Stratigraphy and Production of Tertiary in Sand Wash Basin (WGA)
  
  

San Joaquin Basin (CA)

• Elk Hills O&G (AAPG)
  
• San Joaquin Basin (UGSG)
  
  

San Luis Basin (CO)

• General geology of the Northern San Luis Valley
  
• Geologic Map of The San Luis Quad. (USGS)
  
• Geology South-Central Colorado
  
  

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San Juan Basin (CO, NM)

• San Juan Basin Assessment (USGS)
  
• San Juan Basin Basement Faults (USGS)
  
• San Juan Basin Data Recovery Project
  
• San Juan Basin Factsheet (DOE)
  
• San Juan Basin Geology
  
• San Juan Basin is NOT a Model for "Basin-Centered Gas"
  
• San Juan Water Basin Province (USGS)
  
• San Juan Water for Drilling
  
  

Shirley Basin (WY)

• Shirley Basin Stratigraphy
  
• Shirley Basin Uranium
  
  

South Florida Basin (FL)

• 1995 USGS O & G Play-Based Assessment of The South Florida Basin
  
• Assessment of Undiscovered O & G in The Onshore & State Waters Portion of The South Florida Basin (USGS)
  
• Florida Sunniland Trend well wows BreitBurn
  
• Maps Showing Hydrocarbon Plays of The FL Peninsula (USGS)
  
  

South Park Basin (CO)

• South Park Basin Encyclopedia
  
• Niobrara Shale in the Park Basins, CO
  
  

Tucumcari Basin (NM)

• Eastern New Mexico Lease Play (AAPG)
  
• Map of the Tucumcari Basin
  
• Petroleum geology of the Tucumcari Basin
  
• Tucumcari Basin Causing a Buzz (AAPG)
  
  

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Uinta Basin (UT)

• Depths to Selected Stratigraph Horizons in O & Gas Well for Upper Creataceous and Lower Tretiary (USGS)
  
• Measaverde Total Petroleum System (USGS)
  
• Uinta Basin-Piceance Province
  
• Utah Shale Gas
  
  

Valley and Ridge Province (AL, KY, NC, NY, PA, TN, VA, WV)

• Appalachian Valley and Ridge (USGS)
  
• Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (Wikipedia)
  
• Valley & Ridge Province
  
• The Valley & Ridge Province
  
  

Val Verde Basin (TX)

• Geothermal
  
• Ozona Sandstone
  
• Regional Map
  
• Val Verde Basin; thrusted Strawn (Pennsylvanian) carbonate reservoirs
  
  

Vermillion Basin (WY)

• Vermillion Basin Baxter Shale
  
  

Washakie Basin (WY)(Sub Basin of Greater Green River Basin)

• Washakie Basin Stratigraphy
  
• Washakie Basin Greater Wamsutter Field
  
  

Williston Basin (MT, ND, SD, SK, MB)

• Bakken Parshall Field
  
• Bibliography of Formations Williston Basin
  
• Overview Williston Basin Geology
  
• Stratigraphy
  
• Stratigraphy 2
  
• Williston/Bakken Assessment
  
• Williston/Bakken General
  
• Williston Basin Canada
  
  

Wind River Basin (WY)

• Wind River Basin Air Photos
  
• Wind River Basin Province
  
• Wind River Basin Stratigraphy
  
• Wind River Basin Two-Stage Structural Development & Fracturing
  

Yukon-Koyukuk Basin, Alaska (AK)

• Geologic Map
  

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Depositional Basins, Canada

Antigonish Basin (NS, Canada)

• Deformation of the Macumber Formation, Antigonish Basin
  

Athabasca Basin (AB, SK, Canada)

• Oil Sands Geology-Athabasca Deposit North (AGS)
  
• Athabasca Basin (Wikipedia)
  
• Geology of the Basement Beneath the Athabasca Basin in Alberta (AGS)
  
• Geologic History
  
  

Bonnet Plume Basin (YK, Canada)

• Bonnet Plume Basin, Yukon, Canada: A Previously Unrecognized Oil Play
  
  

Horn River Basin (BC, Canada)

• Horn River Activity
  
• Horn River Basin
  
• Horn River Geology
  
• Horn River News
  
  

Kennetcook (Windsor) Basin (NS, Canada)

• Gas Bubbling Out of Kennetcook
  
• Carbonate hosted Pb-Ba-Zn-Ag-Cu Deposits
  
  

Maritimes Basin (NB, NS, PEI Canada)

• Mississippian Source Rocks
  
• Stratigraphy of the Maritimes Basin
  
  

Minas Basin (NS Canada)

• Minas Basin (Wikipedia)
  
• Geological Formation of the Bay
  
• North Shore, Minas Basin
  
• Fundy’s Minas Basin
  
  

Thelon Basin (Nunavat, Canada)

• Proterozoic Thelon Basin, Paleoaquifers and Sedimentary-Hosted Mineral Deposits
  
• Uranium at North Thelon Basin Project
  
  

Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) (AB, BC, MB, SK)

• Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (AGS)
  
• Hydrocarbon generation and migration in the WCSB
  
• Jurassic Zone Pay Results
  
• Overview of The Devonian of The WCSB (Bibliography)
  
• WCSB Thickness of Sedimentary Strata Above Precambrian Basement
  
• WCSB (Wikipedia)
  

Williston Basin (MT, ND, SD, SK, MB)

• Bakken Parshall Field
  
• Williston/Bakken Assessment
  
• Williston/Bakken General
  
• Williston Basin Canada
  
  

Windsor (Kennetcook) Basin (NS)

• Carboniferous Basin
  
• Gas Bubbling Out of Kennetcook