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Allostratigraphy Of The Lower Colorado Group (Cretaceous) In South-West Alberta, Slavena Galic
Allostratigraphy Of The Lower Colorado Group (Cretaceous) In South-West Alberta, Slavena Galic
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Clastic, upper Albian-lower Cenomanian strata were deposited in a low-accommodation backbulge depozone of the Western Canada Foreland Basin in SW Alberta. These strata are lithologically very heterogeneous and encompass a spectrum of depositional environments along an alluvial to offshore transect. These rocks are assigned, in subsurface, to the Lower Colorado Group, and in outcrop to the upper Blairmore Group. Lithological heterogeneity, as a result of rapid lateral facies changes, resulted in diverse nomenclature that obscured genetic relationships between time-equivalent strata. The present study integrates wireline log, core, and outcrop data to establish a high-resolution allostratigraphic framework which allowed recognition of …
Allostratigraphy Of The Viking And Joli Fou Formations, The Lower Colorado Group (Upper Albian), Central Alberta And Saskatchewan, Western Canada Foreland Basin, Matea Drljepan
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Strata of the Late Albian Lower Colorado Group are widely distributed in subsurface and outcrop in the Western Canada Foreland Basin. The rocks represent depositional environments ranging from alluvial to offshore marine. The Lower Colorado Group comprises, in ascending stratigraphic order, the Joli Fou, Viking, Westgate, and Fish Scales formations. Mudrocks of the Joli Fou Formation record a time when the interior of North America was flooded by a shallow sea that led to the connection of the Polar Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Ensuing sea-level fall and regression led to deposition of Viking Formation sandstone across much of …
Integrating Petrophysics And Allostratigraphy To Find Sweet Spots In The Upper Cretaceous Belle Fourche And Second White Specks Alloformations, West-Central Alberta, Canada, Kienan P. Marion
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The Upper Cretaceous Second White Specks Formation – an organic-rich, calcareous mudrock succession within the lower Colorado Group – is a prolific self-sourcing tight oil reservoir in Alberta. Due to the low porosity and permeability of this interval, localized natural fracture networks have previously provided the only means for oil to flow at economic rates. This study, focused in west-central Alberta, used allostratigraphic methods to subdivide the Second White Specks Formation into allomembers that define hydraulic flow units. The petrophysical properties (porosity, organic content, clay volume, and brittleness) of each allomember were modelled using a basic suite of geophysical wireline …