Basins

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

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)

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)

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

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

Montana 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

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 & Middle Park Basins(CO)

• Basement Structure Contour Map
• Basin Evolution of the North Park – Middle Park Basin, Colorado
• Middle Park Basin
• 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

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)

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

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Raton Basin (Colorado, New Mexico)

• Potential for a Basin-Centered Gas Accumulation in the Raton Basin, Colorado and New Mexico (USGS)
• New Mexico’s Raton Basin coalbed methane play
• Raton Basin (Wikipedia)

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)

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

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)

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)

• GeothermalOzona 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

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Yukon-Koyukuk Basin, Alaska (AK)

• Geologic Map

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