USGS SIR 2014-5056

Influence of the Kingak Shale ultimate shelf margin on frontal structures of the Brooks Range in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

• Authors:

  Stier, N.E., Connors, C.D., and Houseknecht, D.W.

• Publication Date:

  2014

• Publisher:

  U.S. Geological Survey 

• Ordering Info:

  USGS Publications Warehouse

• Quadrangle(s):

  Chandler Lake; De Long Mountains; Howard Pass; Ikpikpuk River; Killik River; Lookout Ridge; Misheguk Mountain; Philip Smith Mountains; Point Lay; Sagavanirktok; Umiat; Utukok River

• Citation ID:

  29650

Bibliographic Reference

Stier, N.E., Connors, C.D., and Houseknecht, D.W., 2014, Influence of the Kingak Shale ultimate shelf margin on frontal structures of the Brooks Range in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5056, 11 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.

Publication Products

• Report Information

  • sir2014_5056.pdf (1.2 M)

• Maps & Other Oversized Sheets

  • Sheet 1, Interpreted seismic lines in southwestern National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska showing structures associated wiht the Carbon Creek fault zone and the Kingak Shale ultimate shelf margin, scale 1:63,360 (56.0 M)

Keywords

Brookian Sequence; Brooks Range; Cretaceous; Early Tertiary; Ellesmerian Sequence; Gamma Ray Zone; Jurassic; Kingak Shale; Lisburne Group; Nanushuk Formation; National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska; Pebble Shale; Sadlerochit Group; Shublik Formation; Stratigraphy; Structural Geology; Torok Formation

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