North Alaska petroleum system analysis: The regional map compilation
Open-File Report
2003-330
By: Richard W. Saltus and Kenneth J. Bird
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Abstract
The U.S. Geological Survey initiated an effort to model north Alaskan petroleum systems. The geographic and geologic basis for modeling systems is provided by a set of regional digital maps that allow evaluation of the widest possible extent of each system. Accordingly, we laid out a rectangular map grid 1300 km (800 miles) east-west and 600 km (375 miles) north-south. The resulting map area extends from the Yukon Territory of Canada on the east to the Russian-U.S. Chukchi Sea on the west and from the Brooks Range on the south to the Canada basin-Chukchi borderland on the north. Within this map region, we combined disparate types of publicly available data to produce structure contour maps. Data types range from seismic-based mapping as in the National Petroleum Reserve to well penetrations in areas of little or no seismic data where extrapolation was required. With these types of data, we produced structure contour maps on three horizons: top of pre-Mississippian (basement), top of Triassic (Ellesmerian sequence), and top of Neocomian (Beaufortian sequence). These horizons, when combined with present-day topography and bathymetry, provide the bounding structural/stratigraphic surfaces of the north Alaskan petroleum province that mark major defining moments of the region's geologic history and allow regional portrayal of preserved sediment accumulations.
Suggested Citation
Saltus, R.W., and Bird, K.J., 2003, North Alaska petroleum system analysis: The regional map compilation: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-330, 1 Plate: 93.75 x 37.50 inches, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr03330.
ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)
Study Area
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | North Alaska petroleum system analysis: The regional map compilation |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 2003-330 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr03330 |
| Year Published | 2003 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Reston, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Energy Resources Program |
| Description | 1 Plate: 93.75 x 37.50 inches |
| Country | Canada, United States |
| State | Alaska, Yukon |