Depositional Basins, United States

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Basins General Information

• USGS Basin Studies
  

Anadarko Basin (OK)

• Anadarko Basin Province 58
  
• 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)
  
• Appalachian Basin Province 5067 (USGS)
  
  

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
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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
    
  • Upper Permian Geology
    
    
• 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