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• Maps of hydrocarbon types: Gulf of Mexico example
  | [[Upper Cretaceous]] (centered on [[Turonian]], ~85-95 Ma) | [[Lower Cretaceous]] (centered on [[Aptian]], ~115-105 Ma)
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• Magnetotellurics case history: Precambrian overthrust (Northwestern Colorado)
  ...[Tertiary]] sediments. Beneath the thrust, a thick conductive section of [[Cretaceous]] sediments is observed. * Thinning of Cretaceous sediments to the south
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• Botucatu Formation
  The paleowind regimes show a monsoonal pattern during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, the main winds blew to the NE during the Southern Hemisphere winter and to
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• Using a tectonic history model for petroleum system analysis
  * During the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, thermal subsidence of the basin center and relatively high sea level forme ...mature Mesozoic [[source rock]]s upward into reservoir rocks of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Cenozoic age.
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• Mowry Shale, Powder River Basin, Wyoming
  ...s in thickness from 150 to 250 ft and is a significant source rock for the Cretaceous reservoirs in the Powder River Basin.
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• Basin outline: Gulf of Mexico example
  ...of the early deep-water Gulf of Mexico and its margins, Jurassic to middle Cretaceous (Comanchean)]: AAPG Bulletin, vol. 72, p. 318–346.</ref>]] ...oleum system]]s of the northern Gulf of Mexico is the interaction of the [[Cretaceous]]-[[Holocene]] [[Mississippi drainage basin]] and thick [[salt]] deposited
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• Surficial geochemical case history 2: stratigraphic trap
  ...hic trap]] located at approximately [[depth::5,600 ft]] (1.5 sec) in the [[Cretaceous]] Escondido Sandstone in La Salle County, Texas. ...[stratigraphic trap]] located at approximately 5,600 ft (1.5 sec) in the [[Cretaceous]] Escondido Sandstone in La Salle County, Texas. Modified. Copyright: Rice<
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• Tectonostratigraphic history
  ...s of cross sections representing the four phases of Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous evolution of the GOM basin. Modified from Buffler.<ref name=Buffler_1991>Bu ...c development of the Texas margin: a new integrated cross-section from the Cretaceous shelf edge to the Perdido fold belt: Selected Papers, Gulf Coast Section SE
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• Sediment thickness and field location maps: Gulf of Mexico example
  ...of the early deep-water Gulf of Mexico and its margins, Jurassic to middle Cretaceous (Comanchean)]: AAPG Bulletin, vol. 72, p. 318-346</ref> courtesy AAPG. ...e number|2}}Major sand influxes into the northern Gulf of Mexico from Late Cretaceous to Recent. After Winker.<ref name=ch04r114>Winker, D. C., Cenozoic shelf ma
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• Fluvial input through time: Gulf of Mexico example
  The [[Late Cretaceous]] to [[Holocene]] depositional history of the northern [[Gulf of Mexico]] ( ...e number|1}}Major sand influxes into the northern Gulf of Mexico from Late Cretaceous to Holocene. After Winker;<ref name=Winker1982>Winker, C. D., 1982, Cenozoi
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• Guará Formation
  ...nd facies architecture of eolian-fluvial strata of the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Guará Formation, Southern Brazil: Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 1323-1341.</ref ...l, it has discordant contacts with the overlying Botucatu Formation (Lower Cretaceous), and underlying Sanga do Cabral Formation (Lower Triassic; [[:file:Guara_0
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• Cuba: Geology and regional setting
  ...s (including remarkable [[Paleogene]] [[orbitoid]]s), the gigantic Upper [[Cretaceous]] [[rudistid]]s, the spectacular [[limestone]] Mogotes of Pinar del Rio, th ...[[plate]]s. As a consequence, Cuba exposes sequences of Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous nonvolcanic pelagic sediments that are rare, if not unique, in the Caribbea
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• Austin Chalk, onshore U.S. Gulf Coast
  ...ractured fault zones (these major fractures oriented parallel to the Lower Cretaceous shelf edge and are linked to underlying tectonic structures), such as the l ...dated the assessment on undiscovered, recoverable oil and gas in the Upper Cretaceous system of the Gulf Coast, including the Austin Chalk and the coequal Tokio
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• Oil correlation case history: Zala basin, Hungary
  ...ably overlain by a Middle and Upper Miocene section and underlain by Upper Cretaceous and Triassic rocks. ...on (left) of the Zala basin. The Nagylengyel oils are reservoired in Upper Cretaceous and underlying Upper Triassic rocks. A generalized west-to-east stratigraph
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• Siliceous microfossils
  ...rine environments. Marine diatoms range from [[Upper Jurassic]] or [[Lower Cretaceous]] to [[Holocene]] and are particularly useful for age and environmental det ...]; they commonly occur with diatoms. Silicoflagellates range in age from [[Cretaceous]] to [[Holocene]]. Although not as common as diatoms, they are useful time
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• Basin-centered gas systems: historical development and classification
  ...logic reports confirming this assumption. Nuclear detonations conducted in Cretaceous rocks in the San Juan and Piceance basins of New Mexico and Colorado were u ...n River basin-a developing giant gas supply from deep, overpressured Upper Cretaceous sandstones]: AAPG Bulletin, v. 65, p. 1078-1098.</ref> in the Great Divide
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• Mandal-Ekofisk(!) petroleum system
  ...Based on geochemical evidence, the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) to Lower Cretaceous source rock is the Mandal Formation. A positive oil-source rock correlation ...shows the vertical migration path from the active source rock through the Cretaceous rocks and horizontally along the basal Paleogene reservoir rocks until it [
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• Austin Chalk, Tokio, and Eutaw Formations, U.S. Onshore Gulf Coast (USGS)
  ...on of undiscovered conventional and continuous oil and gas resources—Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk, U.S. Gulf Coast: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigat ...t al., 2020, Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk and Tokio and Eutaw Formations, U.S. Gulf Coast, 2019: U.S. Ge
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• Molyneux:sandbox
  * [[Cretaceous]] * [[Lower Cretaceous]]
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• Mancos Shale Play in New Mexico
  ...re1MancosCommRept.jpg|300px|thumb|{{figure number|1}}Type logs through the Cretaceous section of the San Juan Basin, showing the principle stratigraphic units. N ...[[:file:Figure1MancosCommRept.jpg|Figure 1]] shows a type log through the Cretaceous section of the San Juan Basin.
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• Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Gulf Coast Basin, Louisiana and Mississippi
  The Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa marine shale (TMS) continues to be a minor and largely undevelop ...in Alabama; it thickens north to south and is thickest south of the Lower Cretaceous shelf margin (Rouse et al., 2018; Enomoto et al., 2017). Recent biostratig
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• Oil correlation case history: Brazilian offshore basins
  ...e basins, the product of rifting of Africa from South America in the Early Cretaceous, contain several source units representing depositional settings ranging fr ...ocks. In contrast, group IV oils occur in the northernmost basins in Upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary reservoirs.
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• Procedure for geometrical analysis
  ...Piombino, 1994, Giant proximal foreland basin non-marine wedge trap: Lower Cretaceous Cutbank Sandstone, Montana, in J. C. Dolson, M. L. Hendricks, and W. A. Wes ...example of calibrating unconformity evidence from cores to logs. The Lower Cretaceous Cutbank Sandstone unconformably overlies the Jurassic Swift Formation. A ma
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• Libya hydrocarbon provinces
  ...erable oil and 37 trillion cubic feet of gas. The [[Silurian]] and Upper [[Cretaceous]] sections, rich in [[type II kerogen]], form the [[source rock]]s for the ...ds. [[Reservoir rock]]s range in age from Precambrian to Eocene. The Upper Cretaceous Sirt [[Shale]] is the major source rock. It represents a thick sequence tha
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• Chronostratigraphy
  ...nd: #00CCFF" | [[Mesozoic]] || rowspan="2" style="background: #71BC78" | [[Cretaceous]] || style="background: #71BC78"| Upper
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• Basin-centered gas systems: global distribution
  | Colville basin, Alaska || High || [[Cretaceous]] || Direct ? || Popov et al.<ref name=Popovetal_2001>Popov, M. A., V. F. N | Alberta basin, Canada || High || Cretaceous || Direct || Masters<ref name=Masters_1979>Masters, J. A., 1979, [http://ar
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• Parana-Etendeka CBP
  ...ory. It's characterized by a fissural volcanism that occurred in the Early Cretaceous before the Gondwana rift and opening of South Atlantic Ocean. About 90% of ...e of the Paraná Flood Volcanism, rifting of Gondwanaland, and the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary: Science, v. 258, p. 975–979</ref> The duration of the main phas
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• Vaca Muerta, La Luna Shale, South America
  ...os Molles, the Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous Vaca Muerta, and the Early Cretaceous Agrio Formations ([[:file:EMD2020-VacaMuerta-Figure2.png|Figure 2]]). Whil ...hin multiple stacked petroleum systems from the Early Jurassic through the Cretaceous ([[:file:EMD2020-VacaMuerta-Figure2.png|Figure 2]]). Over the past 15 years
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• China Shale Gas & Liquids - Songliao and Junggar Basins
  ...rmation, Lucaogou Formation, and Wutonggou Formation), Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, and Quaternary from the bottom to the top<ref name=Kng2012 />. T
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• Tethys region
  ...the southeastern part of the Levantine Basin, the Mango well tested Lower Cretaceous sands (10,000 bo/d); these sands are likely charged from Jurassic source ro Although Jurassic and Cretaceous source rocks are very important for the Tethyan region, there are other reg
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• Basin-centered gas systems: elements and processes
  ...ontained in coal beds and carbonaceous shale in several coal-bearing Upper Cretaceous intervals. The relative contribution of gas to basin-centered gas accumulat ...An assessment of gas resources in low-permeability sandstones of the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, Piceance basin, Colorado]: U.S. Geological Survey Open-Fil
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• Iraq petroleum geology
  ...rocks of the Upper Cretaceous above the Mishrif Formation and in the Lower Cretaceous below the Zubair Formation. Smaller reserves occur in other Neogene and Pal ...ldbelt. Lesser amounts of oil and gas are derived from: 1) Upper and Lower Cretaceous oil-prone source rocks within the Zagros foldbelt; 2) Triassic oil-prone so
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• San Juan basin
  ...tion is largely the result of [[Laramide]] [[deformation]] in the latest [[Cretaceous]] to early [[Tertiary]].<ref name=Kelley_1951>Kelley, V. C., 1951, Tectonic
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• Basin-centered gas systems: gas resources
  ...y, 1996, An assessment of in-place gas resources in low-permeability Upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary sandstone reservoirs, Wind River basin, Wyoming: U.S. Ge
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• Paleontology
  ...Concretion22.jpg|thumb|400px|A broken concretion with fossils inside; Late Cretaceous Pierre shale, near Ekalaka, Montana. Photograph taken by Mark A. Wilson (De ...nic-walled_microfossils)#Spores_and_pollen|pollen]] is no older than Early Cretaceous. Megafossils, large benthic foraminifers, and calcareous algae can be found
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• Ellesmerian(!) petroleum system
  ...rocks. The passive margin converted to a foredeep during the Jurassic and Cretaceous when it collided with an ocean island arc. The foredeep began to fill with ...lso, note the large increase in the rate of sedimentation during the Early Cretaceous.
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• Basin-centered gas systems: development
  ...s of some typical western interior basins in non-marine Tertiary and Upper Cretaceous source rocks and the occurrence of oil and gas in the west central U.S.:Roc ...An assessment of gas resources in low-permeability sandstones of the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, Piceance basin, Colorado]: U.S. Geological Survey Open-Fil
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• Mapping unconformities
  ...olson, J. C., and D. S. Muller, 1994, Stratigraphic evolution of the Lower Cretaceous Dakota Group, Western Interior, USA, in M. V. Caputo, J. A. Peterson, and K The Lower Cretaceous Cutbank Sandstone is the largest valley-fill trap in the Rocky Mountains (1
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• Agglutinated microfossils
  ...Agglutinated foraminifera are the dominant and distinctive microfauna in [[Cretaceous]] and [[Tertiary]] [[flysch]] facies.
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• Example: mapping depocenters through time
  ...e number|1}}Major sand influxes into the northern Gulf of Mexico from Late Cretaceous to recently. After Winker;<ref name=Winker1982>Winker, C. D., Cenozoic shel ...c development of the Texas margin: a new integrated cross-section from the Cretaceous shelf edge to the Perdido fold belt: Selected Papers, Gulf Coast Section SE
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• Paleobathymetry
  ...g., Sliter & Baker;<ref name=ch17r81>Sliter, W. V., and R. A. Baker, 1972, Cretaceous bathymetric distribution of benthic foraminifers: Journal of Foraminiferal
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• Surficial geochemical case history 1: structural traps
  ...later drilled. Each prospect displays good four-way [[dip]] closure on a [[Cretaceous]] horizon, and each is located in a productive basin. Only one was associat
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• Making regional tectonic maps
  ...tructures is oldest in the onshore northern margin of the basin where Late Cretaceous and early [[Cenozoic]] [[Depocenter#Sediment_supply_rate_and_facies_pattern ...ively younger toward the south. However, there are Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous salt-cored structures along the Sigsbee Escarpment. Pliocene and Pleistocen
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• Third-order sequences
  ...tform of S. E. France], in J. A. Simo, R. W. Scott, and J. P. Masse, eds., Cretaceous Carbonate Platforms: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1188 AAPG Memoir
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• Basin-centered gas systems: examples
  ...genesis, and the formation of abnormally pressured gas compartments in the Cretaceous of the Greater Green River basin: A geochemical model, ''in'' B. Strook and ...ata/specpubs/mem67/ch12/ch12.htm Anomalously pressured gas compartments in Cretaceous rocks of the Laramide basins of Wyoming: A new class of hydrocarbon accumul
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• Palynomorphs (organic-walled microfossils)
  ...ellate cysts occur predominantly in marine rocks but also are present in [[Cretaceous]] and [[Cenozoic]] [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lacustrine la
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• Kingfisher field
  .... In this alternate scenario, some of the structures expressed at the Base Cretaceous unconformity (BCU) can be envisaged as being related to synrift [[fault]] g ...3, Genetic sequence stratigraphy for the North Sea Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous: Distribution and prediction of Kimmeridgian–Late Ryazanian reservoirs in
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• South Viking Graben
  ...the south and central parts of the Viking Graben and its flanks, at Base [[Cretaceous]] level, is shown in [[:file:M115CH02FG02.jpg|Figure 2]]. In addition, exte ...Viking Graben and southern part of the [[Central Viking Graben]] at Base [[Cretaceous level]], viewed from the southeast. Location of image shown in [[:file:M115
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• Jordan petroleum geology
  ...Ch07Fig1.jpg|Figure 1]], [[:file:M106Ch07Fig02.jpg|Figure 2]]) and the mid-Cretaceous sourced and reservoired Hamzeh oil field in central northern Jordan. ...north Oman: GeoArabia, v. 4, no. 2, p. 157–180.</ref> In Jordan, this mid-Cretaceous source rock level is thermally immature over large areas, except where deep
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• Israel petroleum systems
  | Late Cretaceous || 12 || Sadot || Yafo || 1977 || Judea || Shelf [[carbonate]] || Gas || St | Cretaceous || 10* || Yam West || Yam || 1994 || Gevaram Sand || Turbidite sandstone ||
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• The Neuquén Basin: Sequence Stratigraphy of Vaca Muerta Formation
  ...9.</ref> and Weaver<ref>Weaver, C., 1931, Paleontology of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of West Central Argentina: Memoir University of Washington 1, 469 p.</ref> File:2.png|{{figure number|2}}Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphy of the Neuquén Basin. Based on Spalletti & Veiga.<ref na
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• Stable isotope stratigraphy
  ...r and steep with respect to time (e.g., during the Permian, Jurassic, Late Cretaceous, and several intervals within the Late Eocene to [[Holocene]]), the stronti ...., 1985, Construction of the seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve for the Cenozoic and Cretaceous: supporting data: Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience Section), vol. 58, p
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• Coal
  ...0%), followed by the [[Tertiary]] (21%), the [[Jurassic]] (15%), and the [[Cretaceous]] (15%). Small deposits are known in the [[Devonian]] and the [[Triassic]].
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• Biostratigraphy in sequence stratigraphy
  ...anoxic anoxic] events<ref name=ch17r5>Arthur, M. A., and W. E. Dean, 1986, Cretaceous paleoceanography, in B. E. Tucholke, and P. R. Vogt, eds., Decade of North ...forms: an overview], in J. A. T. Simo, R. W. Scott, and J.-P. Masse, eds., Cretaceous Carbonate Platforms: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1188 AAPG Memoir
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• Thelma field
  file:M115CH11FG02.jpg|{{figure number|2}}Thelma area: Base Cretaceous-depth structure map. ...resents final abandonment of the fan system and, in conjunction with Lower Cretaceous shales, provides the ultimate top seal and principal [[source rock]]. Middl
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• Iran petroleum systems
  ...the Iranian waters, where oil, often heavy, and bitumen are found in Early Cretaceous and younger reservoirs. * The Early Cretaceous petroleum system: Source rocks deposited in the lower part of the Garau For
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• Parasequences (fourth- and fifth-order sequences)
  ...raphy of Foreland Basin Deposits: Outcrop and Subsurface Examples from the Cretaceous of North America: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=146 AAPG Memoir 64]
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• Llanos basin
  ...u, J. C. Ramon, and J. Underschultz, 1994, Flow of formation waters in the Cretaceous-Miocene succession of the Llanos Basin, Colombia: [http://http://archives.d ...t–northwest dipping [[monocline]]. Southward, the Macarena Range exposes [[Cretaceous]] sequence and separates the LBC of the [[Putumayo basin]], which is the so
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• Basin-centered gas systems: evaluation and exploration strategies
  ...lar manner, gas production from multiple sandstone reservoirs in the Upper Cretaceous Williams Fork Formation in the Piceance basin of western Colorado is commin ...ager log from a 1750 ft (533 m)-long horizontally drilled leg in the Upper Cretaceous Frontier Formation.<ref name=Krystinikandlorenz_2000>Krystinik, L. F., and
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• Hammerfest basin
  ...Anka, R. di Primio, and A. Bernal, 2012a, Identification of a large Upper Cretaceous polygonal fault network in the Hammerfest basin: Implications on the reacti ...-order faults that offset [[reservoir]] rocks but do not extend to the top Cretaceous, the polygonal faults, and the [[Paleocene]] to [[Eocene]] faults that do n
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• Braided fluvial reservoirs
  ...of reservoirs originating in low and high sinuosity channel systems, Lower Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation, east Texas, U.S.A., in C. P. North and D. J. Prosser ...ology and petroleum geology of fluvial and shoreline deposits of the Lower Cretaceous Sunburst Sandstone Member, Mannville Group, southern Alberta: Bulletin of C
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• Niobrara & Codell of the Denver-Julesburg Basin
  The Cretaceous Niobrara Formation and Codell Member of the Carlile Formation are the top p ...tion is limited to biogenic gas. In all three areas, zones deeper than the Cretaceous produce thermogenic oils and gases, but migration upwards into the Niobrara
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• Techniques for enhancing seismic facies analysis
  .... A 6.4-km, 32-m-deep valley network incised in the Muddy Formation (Lower Cretaceous) is difficult to see on the original data display. However, by compressing
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• Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS): examples of correlations
  ...from the Central Graben of the North Sea. The oil is reservoired in Upper Cretaceous rocks, whereas the [[source rock]] is from the Upper Jurassic. In this case
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• Prudhoe Bay field
  ...e Ivishak Formation is draped over the Barrow Arch, truncated by the Lower Cretaceous unconformity, and overlain by marine shales. Location is shown in Figure 1. ...Bay field lies along the crest of the Barrow Arch, an east-west-trending, Cretaceous anticline formed by the northward thrusting of the Brooks Range ([[:file:Mt
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• Basin modeling: identifying and quantifying significant uncertainties
  ...are three potential hydrocarbon source rocks, Upper [[Jurassic]], Lower [[Cretaceous]], and lower [[Miocene]]. The sources are modeled as uniformly distributed ...s example, uncertainties in the properties of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous source rocks have the most effect on the total oil yield. oTOC and oHI are
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• Paraná Basin
  ...chemical and volcaniclastic sediments, between the Neo-Ordovician and Late Cretaceous. Part of the accumulation time a was interspersed with depositional gaps t ..., Sequences and stratigraphic hierarchy of the Paraná Basin (Ordovician to Cretaceous), Southern Brazil: Boletim IG-USP, São Paulo Série Científica, 29 p. 125
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• Seal capacity of different rock types
  ...s of more than [[depth::1000 m]] (3,000 ft) (Krushin, 1993). Shales in the Cretaceous section of the Powder River basin have displacement pressures of 1000–400
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• Trap geometry: changes
  ...tural tilting. For example, [[Prudhoe Bay field]], charged during the Late Cretaceous and tilted during the late Eocene<ref name=ch11r1>Atkinson, C., McGowen, J.
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• Cuba: Geologic history
  ...s (including remarkable [[Paleogene]] [[orbitoids]]), the gigantic Upper [[Cretaceous]] [[rudistids]], the spectacular [[limestone]] Mogotes of Pinar del Rio, th ...Geomagnetic_reversals reversing polarity] to the southwest during the Late Cretaceous. Cuba's geology suggests that the subduction was continuously north dipping
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• Organic compounds: environmental indicators
  ...1988, Recognition of 18β(H)-oleanane in several crudes and Cainozoic-Upper Cretaceous sediments. Definition of a new maturity parameter: Organic Geochemistry, vo ...lant resins. Most resin-derived compounds are of Tertiary or possibly Late Cretaceous age.
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• Super basins
  ...ntracratonic tectonic settings. Most are [[Mesozoic]]-aged ([[Jurassic]]-[[Cretaceous]]), although there are [[Paleozoic-]]age examples.<ref name=Fryklundandstar ...sic inversion, (4) Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous subsidence, and (5) Late Cretaceous foreland ([[:file:GiacomoneEtAlFigure3.jpg|Figure 3]]).<ref name=Veigaetal_
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• Oil correlation case history: West Siberian basin
  ...s are reservoired throughout the section but are concentrated in the Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic.
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• Petrophysical analysis of lithofacies
  ...from [[sequence stratigraphy]] alone. Within channel systems of the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group (Alberta, Canada), fluids distributions may be complex. Hig
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• Top seal integrity: Central Graben example
  ...tral Graben, with Upper Jurassic reservoirs sealed by Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous shales. A seismic line across both traps is shown in the following figure.
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• Barmer basin
  ...y a poorly known earlier [[rift]] of probable [[Jurassic]] and certainly [[Cretaceous]] age (Bladon et al., 2015<ref name=Bladonetal2015a />, 2015<ref name=Blado ...n et al., 2015b<ref name=Bladonetal2015b />). The [[Jurassic]] Lathi and [[Cretaceous]] Ghaggar-Hakra formations are sand-dominated, prerift reservoirs that are
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• Other correlation features
  ...raphy of Foreland Basin Deposits: Outcrop and Subsurface Examples from the Cretaceous of North America: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=146 AAPG Memoir 64]
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• Covenant field
  | colspan = 4 | Source rocks: [[Carboniferous]]; migration: Cretaceous to early Tertiary
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• Petroleum basins of Turkey
  ...ation. The majority of production is made from Mesozoic reservoirs (mainly Cretaceous), and Paleozoic reservoirs have just started production. ...ce correlation is not certain yet. Three of them are dated as Middle, Late Cretaceous, and Paleozoic. These are described from older to younger units in the foll
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• Critical elements application: Niobrara example
  In the [[Fracture trap regime|fracture]]d Upper Cretaceous Niobrara play of the central Rocky Mountain region, specific [[Using analog
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• Seismic inversion
  ...annel zone. The area of interest is the Glauconitic Formation of the lower Cretaceous upper Mannville Group, which is characterized by rapidly changing lithologi
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• Deep-water marine reservoirs
  ...ny of these are Tertiary in age, although large reservoirs of Jurassic and Cretaceous age have also been found, particularly in the North Sea. ...annel-levee complex based on outcrops from the Cerro Toro Formation, Upper Cretaceous, southern Chile (from Beaubouef<ref name=BB2004 />). The lower section show
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• Oil correlation case history: Norwegian sector, North Sea
  ...fields are in the Central Graben of the North Sea, where the oils occur in Cretaceous and Jurassic reservoirs at 2800–3500 m true vertical depth. The source is
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• Flow units and containers
  ...in the Hartzog Draw field of Wyoming. The producing formation is the Upper Cretaceous Shannon Sandstone, composed of fine- to medium-grained clayey and glauconit
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• Silurian Qusaiba shales
  ...tal2014 />). The reservoirs extend from the Middle [[Jurassic]] to Upper [[Cretaceous]] [[carbonate]]s (the major reservoir being the [[Arab Formation]]). Region ...152 Ma (Late [[Jurassic]]) and peak gas expulsion at about 140 Ma (Early [[Cretaceous]]) ([[:file:M114CHh01FG04.jpg|Figure 4]]).
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• Wattenberg field
  ...in 1970 by Amoco Production Company with initial production from the Lower Cretaceous Muddy (J) Sandstone. Wattenberg straddles the Denver Basin synclinal axis a ...sin. The mineral belt is a northeast trending zone across Colorado of Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary mineralization. The mineralization is associated with hig
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• China Shale Gas & Liquids - Sichuan Basin
  After the maximum burial in the Jurassic-Cretaceous stage, the Wufeng-Longmaxi shale has experienced multiple tectonic uplifts,
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• East Breaks source rock
  ...c development of the Texas margin: a new integrated cross-section from the Cretaceous shelf edge to the Perdido fold belt: Selected Papers, Gulf Coast Section SE
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• Organic facies
  ...nic matter to this quality. Examples include the marine Mowry Formation of Cretaceous age in Wyoming and prodelta muds from many deltaic and lacustrine deposits. ...er that has been eroded one or more times from sediments. An example is in Cretaceous sediments lying on the Atlantic shelf of North America.
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• Quartz
  [[file:M109CH01Monocrystalline.jpg|center|400px|thumb|Lower Cretaceous Travis Peak Formation, Eastland County, Texas, monocrystalline quartz grain
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• Dolomite and dolomitization: Implications for reservoir characterization
  ...ering (coarse crystalline dolomite), as reported by Vinci et al. (2017) in Cretaceous carbonates of Southern Apennines (southern Italy) (Fig. 10a). Nodular dolom ...ail|Figure 10a: Sedimentary features related to dolomites. (a) Layering in Cretaceous carbonates due to variations in crystal size of dolomites. Cdol for coarse
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• Carbonate reservoir
  ...ng grainstone margin from the Albian of northern Mexico: Outcrop model for Cretaceous carbonate reservoirs], in G. M. Grammer, P. M. Harris, and G. P. Eberli, ed ...ref> These are the Silurian to Late Permian, the Late Jurassic, the middle Cretaceous, and the Miocene. Late Middle–Late Devonian reef reservoirs are particula
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• Borehole imaging devices
  ...ion MicroScanner images showing dipping unconformity at contact (arrow) of Cretaceous clastic rocks with Mississippian carbonates.
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• East Breaks hydrocarbon migration model
  Hanor and Sassen<ref name=ch04r42 /> present data from Cretaceous and Tertiary strata in southern Louisiana for aqueous fluid flow from deep,
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• Fractured reservoir evaluation
  .../0221.htm Origin and distribution of fractures in Lower Tertiary and Upper Cretaceous rocks, Piceance basin, Colorado, and their relation to the occurrence of hy .../a066/a066/0001/0100/0111.htm Potential basin-centered gas accumulation in Cretaceous Trinidad Sandstone, Raton Basin, Colorado] in C. W. Spencer, and R. F. Mast
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• Structural exploration: thrust belt example
  ...s. From Schwartz<ref name=Schwartz_1982>Schwartz, R. T., 1982 Broken early cretaceous foreland basin in SW Montana: Sedimentation related to tectonism, ''in'' R.
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• Biostratigraphic correlation and age determination
  ...ol, P. Van Even, J. Thierry, and Z. Huang, 1995, A Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous time scale, in W. A. Berggren, D. V. Kent, M.-P. Aubry, and J. Hardenbol, e
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• Petroleum source rocks
  ...0064/0012/2050/2051.htm Paleoenvironment and petroleum potential of Middle Cretaceous black shales in Atlantic Basins]: American Association Petroleum Geologists
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• Strain partitioning
  ...lumbia are interpreted as a transpressive orogen which formed during the [[Cretaceous]].<ref name=CPCTect>Chardon, Dominique; Andronicos, Christopher; Hollister,
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• Phanerozoic Tethys region
  ...mass extinctions (e.g., [[Late Ordovician]], Permian-Triassic boundary, [[Cretaceous]]-Cenozoic boundary). Paleogeographic maps have been compiled from literatu ...l settings in the southern margin of the Tethys (below) at the time of the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary (about 65.5 Ma).]]
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