The Forest City Basin

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BACK

Wallace Lee, 1943

Kansas Geological Bulletin 51

Wallace Lee etal, 1946

USGS Oil and Gas Preliminary Map 48

7 Sheets

FUTURE ISSUES

BOUNDING STRUCTURES

DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS

RESERVOIRS

OIL SOURCE/TIMING

FIELD STRUCTURES

Marvin P. Carlson Nebraska Geological Survey

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

FUTURE ISSUES

BOUNDING STRUCTURES

DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS

RESERVOIRS

OIL SOURCE/TIMING

FIELD STRUCTURES

Marvin P. Carlson Nebraska Geological Survey

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Boundaries

Cross Section

Cross Section

FUTURE ISSUES

BOUNDING STRUCTURES

DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS

RESERVOIRS

OIL SOURCE/TIMING

FIELD STRUCTURES

Marvin P. Carlson Nebraska Geological Survey

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Cross Section

North-South Structural Cross-Section of Lower and

Middle Paleozoic Rocks in the Forest City Basin

FUTURE ISSUES

BOUNDING STRUCTURES

DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS

RESERVOIRS

OIL SOURCE/TIMING

FIELD STRUCTURES

Marvin P. Carlson Nebraska Geological Survey

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Richardson

Stratigraphy

North-South Structural Cross-Section of Lower and

Middle Paleozoic Rocks in the Forest City Basin

Shaffer 1 Sandrock - 2255

Rich Sil

2-2-16E, 3139

Shaffer 1 Sandrock - 2266

Richardson - 2554

Carter 10 Strahm - 2860

Richardson - 2935

Steele Graffel 1-A - 2542

Richardson - 2937

Viola and Maquoketa Oil and Gas

in Kansas and Nebraska

FUTURE ISSUES

BOUNDING STRUCTURES

DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS

RESERVOIRS

OIL SOURCE/TIMING

FIELD STRUCTURES

Marvin P. Carlson Nebraska Geological Survey

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

FUTURE ISSUES

BOUNDING STRUCTURES

DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS

RESERVOIRS

OIL SOURCE/TIMING

FIELD STRUCTURES

Marvin P. Carlson Nebraska Geological Survey

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Circle Thingy

John Creek Field

Morris County, KS

Viola Structure

Contour interval 10 feet

Kansas Geological Society

1960

Davis Ranch Field

Wabaunsee County,

KS

Viola Structure

Contour interval 10 feet

Kansas Geological Society

1960

Circle Thingy

CONSIDERATIONS

Lack of drilling below the upper Hunton

Expansion of Viola productive trends

Potential in Silurian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian

Regional facies – shale to limestone to dolomite

Orientation of field structure – folds and faults

Geophysical data is not submitted.

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The Forest City Basin

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Marvin P. Carlson rockdrmpc@hotmail.com

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