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Stratigraphic and economic significance of Mississippian sequence at North Georgetown Canyon, Idaho

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin
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https://doi.org/10.1306/03B59562-16D1-11D7-8645000102C1865D

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Abstract

The Mississippian sequence exposed at North Georgetown Canyon, Idaho is newly recognised as a facies belt, which adds to knowledge of Mississippian stratigraphy and petroleum geology in the Overthrust belt of Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. In the newly recognized facies belt in the Aspen Range, the Madison Group is represented by the Lodgepole Limestone and Mission Canyon Limestone. The overlying beds of middle Osagean to middle Chesterian age are a unique combination of deep-basin shallowing upward to peritidal lithofacies (the Aspen Range Formation). An organic-rich phosphatic member at the base of this is a possible petroleum source rock. Westward thinning of the Mission Canyon Limestone suggests a pinch-out that may provide stratigraphic traps for petroleum.-from Authors

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Sando, W., Sandberg, C., Gutschick, R., 1981, Stratigraphic and economic significance of Mississippian sequence at North Georgetown Canyon, Idaho: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 65, no. 8, p. 1433-1443, https://doi.org/10.1306/03B59562-16D1-11D7-8645000102C1865D.

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Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Stratigraphic and economic significance of Mississippian sequence at North Georgetown Canyon, Idaho
Series title American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin
DOI 10.1306/03B59562-16D1-11D7-8645000102C1865D
Volume 65
Issue 8
Year Published 1981
Language English
Publisher American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Contributing office(s) Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
Description 11 p.
First page 1433
Last page 1443
Country United States
State Idaho
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