DGGS PIR 2017-5

Discovery of a 35-meter-thick, oil-stained sandstone interval in outcrop of the Tonnie Siltstone Member, Chinitna Formation, lower Cook Inlet, south-central Alaska

• Authors:

  Herriott, T.M., and Wartes, M.A.

• Publication Date:

  Dec 2017

• Publisher:

  Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys 

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• Quadrangle(s):

  Kenai

• Related project(s):

  Cook Inlet geology and hydrocarbon potential, Tuxedni Bay

• Citation ID:

  29837

Bibliographic Reference

Herriott, T.M., and Wartes, M.A., 2017, Discovery of a 35-meter-thick, oil-stained sandstone interval in outcrop of the Tonnie Siltstone Member, Chinitna Formation, lower Cook Inlet, south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2017-5, 12 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/29837

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• Report Information

  • pir2017_005.pdf (11.0 M)

Keywords

Bowser Formation; Channel; Chinitna Formation; Conglomerate; Contact; Cook Inlet; Depositional Environment; Energy; Energy Resources; Exploration; Forearc Basin; Gas; Geologic; Geology; Highstand; Hydrocarbon; Interpretation; Jurassic; Lowstand; Marine; Naknek; Ninilchik; Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Basin; Petroleum; Regression; Regressive; Reservoir; Rocks; STATEMAP Project; Sand; Sandstone; Sediment; Sedimentary; Sedimentary Rocks; Sedimentation; Sedimentology; Sequence Stratigraphy; Shelf; Slope; Stratigraphy; Surface; Tonnie Siltstone Member; Transgressive; Turbidites; Turbidity; Tyonek; Unconformity

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