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 [email protected]
Nebraska Geological Survey Emeritus