Stratigraphic framework and estuarine depositional environments of the Miocene Bear Lake Formation, Bristol Bay Basin, Alaska: Onshore equivalents to potential reservoir strata in a frontier gas-rich basin

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 379-405

  Finzel, Emily S ^a,b   Ridgway, Kenneth D ^a,b   Reifenstuhl, Rocky R ^c   Blodgett, Robert B ^d   White, James M ^e,f   Decker, Paul L ^g  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^g Alaska Division of Oil and Gas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ESTUARIES; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; WELL LOGGING;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; ESTUARINE SYSTEMS; LITHOFACIES ANALYSIS; MARINE INVERTEBRATES; POTENTIAL RESERVOIR; RESERVOIR POTENTIAL; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK;

LAKES;

BIOTURBATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL RECORD; FRONTIER REGION; LITHOFACIES; MIOCENE; PALYNOLOGY; PLIOCENE; RESERVOIR; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; TIDAL CHANNEL;

ALASKA; BEAR LAKE; BRISTOL BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 62749161105     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/10010808030     Document Type: Article

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