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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
  6 KB (850 words) - 17:56, 20 December 2023
• 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
  78 KB (7,926 words) - 16:25, 30 January 2017
• 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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