DGGS MP 161

Field trip guide: Sedimentology, reservoir quality, and tectonic setting of late Miocene-early Pliocene gas-bearing formations, upper Cook Inlet, Alaska.

• Authors:

  LePain, D.L., Helmold, K.P., Gillis, R.J., Reger, R.D., and Swenson, R.F.

• Publication Date:

  Mar 2017

• Publisher:

  Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys 

• Comments:

  This field trip provides an overview of the petroleum geology of Cook Inlet basin, with an emphasis on the sedimentology and reservoir quality of gas-bearing late Miocene and Pliocene strata of the Beluga and Sterling Formations. It was compiled for the June 2016, Association of American State Geologists, 108th Annual Meeting in Girdwood, Alaska.

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• Quadrangle(s):

  Anchorage; Kenai; Seldovia; Seward

• Related project(s):

  AASG Annual Meeting

• Citation ID:

  29713

Bibliographic Reference

LePain, D.L., Helmold, K.P., Gillis, R.J., Reger, R.D., and Swenson, R.F., 2017, Field trip guide: Sedimentology, reservoir quality, and tectonic setting of late Miocene-early Pliocene gas-bearing formations, upper Cook Inlet, Alaska.: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Miscellaneous Publication 161, 40 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/29713

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Keywords

Alluvial; Anchorage; Augustine; Basins; Bedrock; Beluga; Bluff; Campanian; Cenozoic; Channel; Chert; Clay; Coal; Coastal; Conglomerate; Contact; Correlation; Cretaceous; Diagenesis; Earthquake; Energy; Eocene; Erosion; Exhumation; Fan; Faults; Flood; Floodplain; Fluvial; Folding; Folds; Formations; Fossils; Fracturing; Gas; General; Generalized; Geologic; Geology; Girdwood; Gneiss; Granite; Homer; Hydrocarbon; Interpretation; Jurassic; Kachemak; Kaguyak; Kasilof; Kenai; Kodiak; Landslide; Maastrichtian; Marine; Matanuska; Megafossils; Mesozoic; Metamorphic; Methane; Mineralogy; Minerals; Miocene; Mudstone; Naknek; Neogene; Nikiski; Ninilchik; Nonmarine; Oligocene; Paleobotany; Paleocene; Paleoclimate; Paleogene; Palynology; Pebble; Permeability; Petrographic; Petroleum; Petrology; Phanerozoic; Plagioclase; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Plutonic; Porosity; Provenance; Quaternary; Regional; Reservoir; Resources; Rocks; Sand; Sandstone; Sediment; Sedimentary; Sedimentation; Sedimentology; Seldovia; Shale; Silt; Slope; Soldotna; Sorting; Sterling; Stratigraphy; Structure; Subbituminous; Subduction; Subsurface; Sulfur; Surface; Susitna; Talkeetna; Tectonics; Tephra; Terranes; Tertiary; Thrust Fault; Tides; Till; Tillites; Transgressive; Triassic; Tyonek; Unconformity; Uplift; Vegetation; Volcanic; Yakutat

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