12 Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Energy Resource Potential of the Northern Cordillera

Tuesday, 12 May 2015
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 117

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  DEEP WATER CANYONS IN THE SNUG HARBOR SILTSTONE AND POMEROY ARKOSE MEMBERS, NAKNEK FORMATION, ALASKA—NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE LATE JURASSIC COOK INLET FOREARC BASIN
  Trystan Herriott, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK and Marwan Wartes, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK and Paul L. Decker, Alaska Division of Oil and Gas, Anchorage, AK
  255023 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  DEFORMATIONAL HISTORY AND FRACTURE INTENSITY OF THE INISKIN PENINSULA, COOK INLET, ALASKA
  Jacob Rosenthal, Syracuse, NY and Paul M. Betka, Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK and Elisabeth Nadin, University of Alaska Fairbanks Geosciences, Fairbanks, AK and Robert Gillis, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys., Fairbanks, AK
  254900 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  SECULAR CHANGES IN CENOZOIC ARC MAGMATISM AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON FOREARC BASIN SANDSTONE COMPOSITION AND RESERVOIR QUALITY IN COOK INLET BASIN, SOUTHERN ALASKA
  Marwan Wartes, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS), Fairbanks, AK and Kenneth P. Helmold, Alaska Division of Oil & Gas, Anchorage, AK and Robert Gillis, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys., Fairbanks, AK and David L. LePain, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS), Fairbanks, AK and Trystan Herriott, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS), Fairbanks, AK and Richard G. Stanley, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Emily Finzel, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and James Jones, Vancouver, BC
  255128 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  INTERPRETATION OF SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA PROVIDES NEW INSIGHTS INTO STRUCTURE OF SUSITNA BASIN
  Kristen A. Lewis, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Christopher Potter, U.S. Geological Survey, Piscataway, NJ and Anjana Shah, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Richard G. Stanley, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Peter J. Haeussler, U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK and Richard W. Saltus, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  255020 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  EXTENSIONAL UNROOFING OF THE BROOKS RANGE REVEALED BY U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON SUITES FROM YUKON-KOYUKUK BASIN STRATA
  Tim OBrien, Stanford University Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA and Elizabeth Miller, Stanford University, Stanford, CA and Jeremy Hourigan, University California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Victoria Pease, Stockholm University, Stockholm
  255150 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  PETROGRAPHIC AND MICROFACIES ANALYSIS OF THE SHUBLIK FORMATION, NORTHERN ALASKA: IMPLICATIONS FOR AN UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCE SYSTEM
  April Rae Knox, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Michael T. Whalen, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
  254946 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  THE SCHRADER BLUFF–PRINCE CREEK FORMATION TRANSITION AT SHIVUGAK BLUFFS: A PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OF A MUDDY, POLAR DELTAIC SYSTEM FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF ARCTIC ALASKA
  Dolores van der Kolk, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Peter P. Flaig, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Stephen Hasiotis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  254942 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  HETEROGENEITIES IN STRATA OF THE CRETACEOUS PRINCE CREEK FORMATION DRIVEN BY PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON THE COASTAL PLAIN OF ARCTIC ALASKA: EFFECTS ON RESERVOIR QUALITY AND GEOMETRIES
  Peter P. Flaig, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Paul McCarthy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Dolores van der Kolk, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Anthony R. Fiorillo, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, TX and Stephen Hasiotis, Univ KansasDept Geology, 116 Lindley Hall, Lawrence, KS
  255066 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  ENTRAINED HYDROCARBONS PERIPHERAL TO THE AVAK IMPACT STRUCTURE, AND SOME SPECULATIONS ON OIL AND GAS MIGRATION IN THE BARROW AREA, NORTHERN ALASKA
  Arthur C. Banet, Free Range Geologist, Anchorage, AK
  255174 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  MESOZOIC EVOLUTION OF THE DINKUM GRABEN, ALASKA BEAUFORT SHELF, AND PETROLEUM SYSTEMS IMPLICATIONS
  David W. Houseknecht, Reston, VA and Christopher Connors, Washington & Lee Dept. of Geology, Lexington, VA
  255031 (Theme Sessions)