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AGS Luncheon

Date & Time: Dec. 13th, 11:30 am 1:00 pm

Program: The Brookian Foreland Basin of North Alaska: Technology Transfer Driven Renaissance

Speaker(s): Ed Duncan, President and CEO

Great Bear Petroleum Operating LLC

Place: BP Energy Center Reservations: Please make your reservation before noon Tuesday, Dec. 11th, 2012.

Cost: Seminar only, no meal: Free

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Or phone (907) 644-4429

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Ed Duncan President and CEO

Great Bear Petroleum Operating LLC

he Brookian Foreland Basin of North Alaska is one of the world's most prolific oil producing petroleum basins.

In common with many other great petroleum provinces, the basin holds a number of high quality oil prone source rock units that have delivered hydrocarbons to multiple conventional plays. Three regionally extensive source rock formations, the Triassic Shublik, Jurassic Kingak and Cretaceous Lower Hue/HRZ, have delivered more than one hundred billion barrels of oil in-place to conventional petroleum plays along the Barrow Arch of North Alaska. Though the source rock units within the Brookian basin vary in age and depositional environment, a common burial history has aided delineation of thermal maturity defined oil and liquids rich fairways that are the targets for current unconventional exploration tests.

Modern drilling and completion technologies allow these prolific source rocks units to be evaluated as unconventional liquids rich reservoir targets. All three source rock intervals, perhaps individually but certainly collectively, have certain geological attributes that could lead to development of a major, long lived, unconventional oil and natural gas liquids resource province. The Shublik formation, the proven dominant oil prone source rock in the basin and an early evaluation target, is a regionally extensive, organically rich, complex facies assemblage of black phosphatic and calcareous shales and carbonate members that are analogous to both the Cretaceous Eagle Ford formation of South Texas and Devonian Bakken formation of the Williston Basin, two basins that have set high standards for unconventional oil and natural gas liquids productivity. The Kingak and Lower Hue/HRZ are more typical deep marine condensed section basinal shales and siltstones.

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The Brookian Foreland Basin of North Alaska:

Technology Transfer Driven Renaissance

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Great Bear Petroleum s initial exploration drilling program, in partnership with Halliburton, has successfully penetrated all three source rock targets. Significant effort was put into data collection with extensive whole core recovered from all three units. Great Bear collected a modest proprietary 3-D survey in 2012 and has a large, regional program set for early 2013 covering the core of our leasehold position. These seismic data have proven instrumental to our pre and post well analysis of both the unconventional and conventional resource potential of our acreage.

Development of source rocks as unconventional reservoirs may be the concluding punctuation mark in the exploration and development history of a petroleum basin. Fortunately, the global unconventional resource base is vast and technology sourced value creation drivers remain in early stage development, offering promise for further improvement in efficiencies and commercialization of these world class resources

.About the Speaker: Ed began his career working North Alaska regional exploration plays 30 years ago.

Ed s career as a Petroleum Geoscientist and Business Development Manager has been global in scope and has provided opportunities to evaluate new business across many of the world s petroleum provinces. Ed has extensive experience in full cycle commercial evaluations and has managed new country entries, basin, plan, and prospect scale evaluations around the world.

Ed and his wife, Attorney Karen Bryant Duncan, co-founded Great Bear in 2010. Great Bear is a private company focused on the exploration for, and the sustainable development and production of, unconventional resources on the North Slope of Alaska, with particular focus on the shale based oil and natural gas liquids. Having secured approximately 500,000 acres, Great Bear has established a dominant position in the heart of the unconventional play fairway south of the Kuparuk and Prudhoe Bay fields.

Ed possesses undergraduate and post graduate degrees in geological sciences and business. He is an active member of the Geological Sciences Advisory Council at the University of Texas at Austin, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Exploration Geophysics, and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers.

From the President s Desk: It is that magical time of year. The length of the days (measured in hours) are just about the same as the current temperatures (measured in degrees Fahrenheit). Fortunately, the season between Halloween and the Presidents Day provides us with quite a few assorted kinds of Holidays to help us enjoy this brrrrrrr-eautiful, annual time of magic. With a little luck we ll all have some time when we re not on some sort of winter-related panic to enjoy the hoar frost, the stars and auroras to take in a little more Alaska-related geological activities. Our next several AGS presentations have both North Slope and glacial topics to maintain the wintery theme for our continued enjoyment.

Although we re still in 2012, it s never too early to consider next Spring s Technical Conference. So, please consider sharing some ideas about themes and papers or presentations for the Conference. In previous years, we ve held this at UAA and it proved to be quite successful. We need to explore this possibility again. Depending on the extent of participation, the Conference will likely include some field trips. Again, AGS is open to ideas, volunteers, and leaders for some field trips. Along these same lines, there s a call for Papers for the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (http://urtec2013.abstractcentral.com/). And there s a call for papers from the Central European Journal of Geosciences (http://versita.com/cejg) in case your interests are far afield.

Closer to home, Sue Karl once again will head up the Scholarship Committee. There s always room in case you re interested in having an up to date view of some Alaska-oriented research proposals and the people and institutions that are actively involved. Jana Lage leads the efforts to promote scientific learning for the Anchorage School District science fairs. She welcomes assistance.

Also AGS will also soon have an agreement with the AAPG Search and Discovery web site that will list the AGS publications for digital sales. In addition, our association to the AAPG gets the AGS a ¼ page add in the monthly Explorer publication. We typically use this to promote our Spring Tech Conference. So, AGS encourages members to consider joining AAPG as either an Active or Student member. We will soon include web links on the AGS site to AAPG, Pacific Section AAPG, GSA, UAA and UAF and USGS because they feature interesting presentations too. And please be sure to let me know if there are other important web site links we should include to assist in enriching our knowledge. Let s not get too physically or mentally complacent over the Holidays. Have a merry Christmas and happy everything else that s on your calendars.

Ed Duncan, President and CEO, Great Bear Petroleum Operating LLC

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Application Deadline February 1, 2013 NOTE: All required forms are due at this time.

Submit Form via Email: Email all documents by midnight February 1, 2013 to: Sue Karl

with the subject line 2013 AGS Scholarship

Scholarship awardees will be notified by March 15, 2013.

Contact Contact Sue Karl ph 907-786-7428 fax 907-786-7401 Email: skarl@usgs.gov

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1. Enrollment at an accredited institute of higher education.

2. Status as a BA, BS, MS, or PhD candidate in geoscience or equivalent degree program.

3. Project or thesis/dissertation topic focused on Alaskan geology or related geoscience topic.

4. Having received the AGS Scholarship no more than two (2) times previously. Previous awardees shall be additionally required to provide the Scholarship committee with a summary of how previous funds were used.

5. Applicants for Alaska Geological Society scholarships may not be related to any member or to any family member of the Scholarship Committee or Board of Directors of the Society.

Applications Should Include:

1. A cover letter describing your personal and educational career goals, your interest in the Earth Sciences, your financial need, and how you would use the scholarship funds. Examples of how to apply the funds include, but are not limited to, field work, research/lab fees, or tuition and books. Please include your contact information in this letter (address, phone number, and email address). If you are a past scholarship recipient, please include an update on how you used previous AGS funding.

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Students may apply for both the AGS and the Richter Memorial scholarships in the same calendar year. If a student wishes to apply for both scholarships, he/she must submit two separate cover letters addressed to the respective scholarship committees. Upon receipt of the two cover letters, all other application components will automatically be forwarded to both scholarship committees. AGS scholarship awards range from $500 to $2500.

The AGS Scholarship Committee will take into account all facets of the information received. Priority will be given to those individuals whose thesis work is intended towards publication of results. An abstract (not exceeding 350 words) summarizing your final results should be submitted to AGS for publication in our monthly newsletter within a year of the award.

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ALASKA FOSSILS OF THE MONTH

PERMIAN BOREAL (OR ARCTIC PERMIAN ) FAUNA FROM SOUTHERN ALASKA S TERRANES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THEIR ACCRETIONARY HISTORY WITH EMPHASIS ON THE BRACHIOPODS

by Robert B. Blodgett (Consulting Geologist, Anchorage, Alaska) and A. J. Boucot (Dept. of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon)

Most of Alaska (with the exception of part of east-central Alaska) has long been recognized to be comprised of accreted terranes which have swept together from other places by sea-floor spreading and long-distance strike-slip fault motions. Recent studies of older (Cambrian-Devonian) Paleozoic faunas indicate that terranes such as the Alexander, Farewell, Livengood are most similar to those from Siberia, suggesting they originated by Devonian rifting along the margin of the Siberian paleocontinent (Blodgett and others, 2002, 2010). However, the biogeographic affinities of southern Alaskan terranes such as the Farewell, Wrangellia, Alexander, Chulitna, and Peninsular terranes during Late Triassic time indicate that they were in warm equatorial setting, close to the western margin of cratonic North America at a paleolatitude similar to Nevada or further south (Blodgett and Frýda, 2001; Blodgett and others, 2001; Stanley and others, 2008)

see Figures 1 and 2 for location of the above-mentioned terranes. The questions of where these terranes were situated in Panthalassa (ancestral Pacific Ocean) during the later Paleozoic (Permo-Carboniferous) has not been thoroughly considered in any detail.

In this note we address the issue of the Permian biogeographic affinities of southern Alaskan terranes such as Wrangellia, Alexander, Chulitna, Farewell, and the Peninsular terranes. Paleobiogeographic studies of the Permian have long recognized the presence of a high-latitude cool-water Boreal Province (or Arctic Permian fauna) at both poles, with an intervening warm-water Tethyan Province at intervening equatorial and warm temperate paleolatitudes (Dutro, 1961; Rowett, 1972; Shi, 2006; Shi and Grunt, 2000; Shi and Waterhouse, 1990; Stehli, 1964, 1971, 1973; Stehli and Grant, 1971; Ustritskii, 1961, 1971, 1974, 1993; Waterhouse, 1967; Yancey, 1975, 1979). Figure 3 shows the location of the high-latitude Boreal Province and lower latitude, warm-water Tethyan faunas (commonly referred to the Tethyan Province) during the Permian as indicated by Stehli and Grant (1971). In this note we emphasize the character and nature of the Boreal brachiopod faunas. Permian Boreal Province brachiopod faunas are characterized by low-level generic diversity. Genera typical for this province in North America include Kuvelosia, Arctitreta, Camerisma (Callaiapsida), Septacamera, Horridonia (and other related genera), Lichaweria, Pterospirifer, and Odontospirifer. Genera that are common in but not restricted to the Boreal Province include Waagenoconcha, Kochiproductus, Liosotella, Cancrinella, Yakovlevia, Spiriferella, Permophricadothyris, and Bathymyonia. Various brachiopod genera mentioned above are illustrated at the end of this note. Permian brachiopod faunas of southern Alaska remain a choice item for future taxonomic study. An example that stands out is the silicified fauna of the Pybus Formation at Saginaw Bay on Kuiu Island in Southeast Alaska (belonging to the Alexander terrane). The brachiopods are well preserved by silicification and can be easily liberated from their enclosing calcareous matrix by use of dilute acids. Despite their taxonomic richness and superb preservation, only a few species

belonging to the taxa Septacamera and Camerisma (Callaiaspida) have been documented (Grant, 1971).

Yancey (1975, 1979) further subdivided the Permian biogeographic units (provinces) of western North America into three entities (see Figure 4): 1) a cool-water Boreal Province, 2.) an intermediate Cordilleran Province which was interpreted to represent temperate to subtropical conditions, and 3) the tropical Grandian Province which is a direct counterpart of the Tethyan Province of Eurasia (which differs in its lack of common waagenophyllid corals and verbeekinid fusulinids). He placed the southern Alaska accreted terrane faunas into what he termed Anomalous Biotas , failing to recognize their Boreal taxic character despite the record of the limited brachiopod evidence available at that time.

Several Boreal Province faunal groups have been either listed, described, or illustrated from various southern Alaskan terranes. These include brachiopods: Wrangellia (Blodgett, 2002; Busch, 1983; Grant, 1971; G.H. Girty in Moffit, 1938 and 1954; Richter and Dutro, 1975; Smith and MacKevett,1970); Alexander terrane (G.H. Girty in Buddington and Chapin, 1929; Grant, 1971; Loney 1964); Chulitna terrane (Blodgett and Clautice, 2000) ; and Peninsular terrane (Hanson, 1957; Blodgett, personal observation of a single collection containing the genus Spiriferella). Permian rugose corals are listed, described or illustrated from southern Alaskan terranes including: Wrangellia (Rowett, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975a, b; Stevens, 2008); Alexander terrane (Rowett, 1975a, b) and the Peninsular terrane (Hanson, 1957). Permian fusulinid occurrences in Boreal Province faunas of southern Alaska include: Wrangellia (Petocz, 1967, 1970; Richter and Dutro, 1975; Ross and Ross, 1983), and Alexander terrane (Douglass, 1974; Dunbar, 1946; Ross and Ross, 1983). Ammonoids, primarily referrable to the Boreal Province genus Uraloceras, are noted in Wrangellia (Richter and Dutro, 1975; Schiappa and others, 2005; Spinosa and Nassichuk, 1985; Spinosa and others, 1987, 1991a, b).

The only non-accreted portion of Alaska, that of east-central Alaska (east of the Kandik Basin), also has Boreal Province affinities, and publications providing documentation exist for the brachiopods (Brabb and Grant, 1971; G.H. Girty in Mertie, 1930, 1933, and 1937), rugose corals (Rowett, 1975a, b), and fusulinids (Skinner and Wilde, 1966).

It is noteworthy that Tethyan Province fusulinids have been reported from the McHugh Complex of the Chugach terrane on the Kenai Peninsula (Stevens and others, 1997) and the Uyak Complex on Kodiak Island (Connelly, 1978). Both of these latter occurrences are considered to represent Cretaceous emplacement of rocks derived from far to the south, and presumably accreted at a slightly later date than the Boreal Province occurrences in southern Alaska discussed here. Another warm-water element in the Uyak Complex Permian limestones are dasycladacean algae (Connelly, 1978). No large megafossils (i.e., brachiopods, rugose corals) have as yet been reported from the Permian age Tethyan Province limestone blocks of either the Uyak Complex (other than crinoid ossicles) or McHugh Complex.

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Wrangellia, a terrane established by Jones and others (1977), by far has had the most comprehensive study of any of the southern Alaskan terranes of its Permian megafauna, but its brachiopods have still had only cursory study (Grant, 1971). This terrane extends from south-central Alaska to Vancouver Island in southwestern British Columbia, and as originally envisioned was also suggested to possibly include rocks of the Wallowa Mountains in the Hells Canyon area of the Oregon-Idaho border. The latter area was subsequently separately designated as the Wallowa terrane, but the presence of strikingly similar Triassic stratigraphy and Triassic faunas otherwise endemic to Wrangellia argue for their inclusion within Wrangellia (Blodgett and Frýda, 2001; Blodgett and others, 2001). Permian brachiopods described by Yole (1963, 1965) from Wrangellia rocks on Vancouver Island have a distinctive Boreal aspect, similar to those found further north in the Alaskan portion of Wrangellia.

A diverse Permian brachiopod fauna was described by Cooper (1957) from the Coyote Butte Formation of the Grindstone terrane in east-central Oregon (Figure 2). This fauna includes a mixture of mostly Boreal (i.e. horridonid brachiopods) and lesser Tethyan (i.e. Leptodus) elements suggesting that it was situated in an intermediate area where mixing of both provinces occurred. Cooper (1957) noted that most of the species from the Coyote Butte Formation show a strong Eurasian (notably Russian) affinity. Leptodus is a typical Tethyan element unknown in Boreal faunas, but

previously reported from Cache Creek terrane Permian strata in British Columbia (Kindle, 1926), and by Dutro and Yochelson (1961) from the Phosphoria Formation of southwestern Montana and the Robinson Formation near Taylorsville, northern California. However, typically the genus is extremely common in the tropical warm-water faunas of the Permian of west Texas.

Combining what we presently know about the biogeographic affinities of the various terrane pieces making up the North American Cordillera suggests a very complex series of plate motions in the ancestral Pacific Ocean. The Cache Creek and equivalents appear to be the first to dock with respect to North America, being swept in from low northern Tethyan latitudes in the western Pacific. This was followed subsequently by plate(s) which then brought in Wrangellia, Alexander, Farewell, and Chulitna terranes, all the latter bearing cool-water Permian faunas, coming from the northwest Pacific and moving southward so that by the Late Triassic, all had warm, tropical biotas most similar to those found in low latitudes of North America (Nevada and southward) and South America. Subsequently they all reversed motion, moving northward and becoming dispersed along the western margin of America from northeastern Oregon to west-central Alaska. A final phase of accretion is recorded by Permian limestone blocks bearing Tethyan Permian fusulinids in the Chugach terrane of south-central Alaska, obviously swept far from the south where they were formed in the tropics.

Figure 1. Generalized map showing location of the Farewell, Chulitna, Alexander, Wrangellia terranes and the single known location of Permian rocks (shown by red X) in the Peninsular terrane on the northern Alaska Peninsula (modified from Blodgett and Frýda, 2001). In addition, Tethyan fusulinid localities reported from Permian limestone blocks in melange of the Chugach terrane are shown on Kodiak Island and the southern Kenai Peninsula (shown by blue X s).

Figure 2. Map showing position of the Wrangellia, Wallowa (considered here to be part of Wrangellia), and Grindstone terranes along the northwest margin of North America (modified from Blodgett and others, 2001, fig. 3)

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