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Wyoming Geological Association
30th ANNUAL FIELD CONFERENCE
GUIDEBOOK
1978
Resources of the Wind River
Basin
Managing Editor - Richard G.
Boyd, Oil & Gas Editor - George M. Olson, Mineral
Editor - Walter W. Boberg
Casper, Wyoming - September, 1978
- WIND RIVER BASIN 1978
- 30TH FIELD CONFERENCE GUIDEBOOK
- WGA Members: $20.00 Non-Members:
$30.00
- (Plus Postage and Handling,
See Order Form)
EDITORS: Richard M. Boyd,
W.W. Boberg, and George M. Olson
414 pages, 37 papers, 3 road
log, 3 plates in pocket
This guidebook contains papers
on the stratigraphy, sedimentation, structural geology and
mineral resources of the Wind River Basin. There are oil and
gas papers on Grieve, Pavillion, West Poison Spider, Forgey,
Frenchie Draw, Fuller Reservoir, Madden, Emerald, and Burnt
Wagon fields. Stratigraphic papers cover the Flathead Sandstone,
the Nugget Sandstone, the Muddy Sandstone, the Mesaverde Formation,
and the Wind River Formation. Structural topics include the
Cocorp Wind River Thrust seismic line, the Rattlesnake Hills,
and the Badwater area. Other topics include petroleum potential
of the Emigrant Trail Thrust, oil seeps and tar sands, remote
sensing, archeology, and uranium resources.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
| Contents of Pocket...4 |
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WGA Officers and Field Conference
Committee...9 |
| Dedication...5 |
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Previous WGA Conferences...10 |
| Memoriams...6 |
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List of Publications...11 |
| Greetings from Chairman...8 |
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Stratigraphic Chart...12 |
| Editor's Comments...8 |
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GENERAL
DEEP DRILLING PRACTICES - WIND RIVER BASIN
OF WYOMING - Bradley D. Bilyeu...13
THE ARCHEOLOGY OF THE WIND RIVER BASIN -
George C. Frison...25
CATALOG OF PALEOZOIC, MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC
ROCK NAMES FOR THE WIND RIVER BASIN - Mark A. Gower...39
IC REMOTE SENSING IN THE WIND RIVER BASIN -
Ronald W. Marrs...47
THE DETECTION OF GASEOUS HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATIONS
BY SEISMIC INTERFERENCE PATTERNS AND LATERAL VELOCITY VARIATIONS -
M. A. Buskala...55
ANNOTATED PHOTOGRAPHS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF
OIL SEEPS, TAR SANDS, AND PIONEER DRILLING IN THE WIND RIVER
BASIN, CENTRAL WYOMING - J. D. Love...61
PETROLEUM POTENTIAL OF THE FOOTWALL OF THE
EMIGRANT TRAIL THRUST, SOUTHWEST WIND RIVER BASIN, WYOMING -
James D. Lowell...75
LATE MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT
AND ITS EFFECT ON PETROLEUM ACCUMULATION, SOUTHWEST ARM OF
THE WIND RIVER BASIN, WYOMING - Mitchell W. Reynolds...77
STRATIGRAPHY
AND SEDIMENTATION
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CAMBRIAN FLATHEAD SANDSTONE,
WIND RIVER BASIN, WYOMING - Lyndon H. Bell and Larry
T. Middleton...79
PERMIAN CARBONATE FACIES, WIND RIVER BASIN,
WYOMING - Dennis C. Ahlstrand and James A. Peterson...89
STRATIGRAPHY OF TRIASSIC ROCKS IN WEST-CENTRAL
WYOMING - M. Dane Picard...101
DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND DIAGENESIS OF
THE NUGGET SANDSTONE: SOUTH-CENTRAL WYOMING, NORTHEAST UTAH,
AND NORTHWEST COLORADO - Richard R. Knapp...131
EARLY CRETACEOUS MUDDY SANDSTONE DELTA OF
WESTERN WIND RIVER BASIN, WYOMING - William H. Curry
III...139
GRIEVE OIL FIELD: A LOWER CRETACEOUS ESTUARINE
DEPOSIT - Gary Mitchell...147
DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND
CORRELATION OF THE MESAVERDE FORMATION, WIND RIVER BASIN,
WYOMING - Soli S. Shapurji...167
SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE LOWER
EOCENE WIND RIVER FORMATION, CENTRAL WYOMING - David
Seeland...181
STRUCTURAL
GEOLOGY
KINEMATIC ANALYSES OF DRAPE FOLDS IN THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS FORELAND - SOME GEOLOGIC IMPLICATIONS - David
Weinberg and David Stearns...199
DEFORMATION OF NON-LAYERED MATERIALS THAT
AFFECT STRUCTURES IN LAYERED ROCKS - D. W. Stearns, Gary
Couples and M. T. Stearns...213
QUESTION OF THE WIND RIVER THRUST, WYOMING,
RESOLVED BY COCORP DEEP REFLECTION DATA AND BY GRAVITY DATA -
Scott B. Smithson, Jon Brewer, S. Kaufman, Jack Oliver and
Charles Hurich...227
CENOZOIC THRUST AND NORMAL FAULTING AND TECTONIC
HISTORY OF THE BADWATER AREA, NORTHEASTERN MARGIN OF WIND
RIVER BASIN, WYOMING - J.D. Love...235
STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY OF THE
RATTLESNAKE HILLS, WYOMING - Alfred H. Pekarek...239
PETROLEUM
PAVILLION GAS FIELD - T. K. Bjorklund...255
WEST POISON SPIDER FIELD, NATRONA COUNTY,
WYOMING - Charles Clark...261
FORGEY FIELD - Harold Kentta...273
FRENCHIE DRAW GAS FIELD - R. M. Normark...277
GEOLOGY OF THE FULLER RESERVOIR UNIT, FREMONT
COUNTY, WYOMING - C. F. Pirner...281
MADDEN DEEP UNIT - FREMONT AND NATRONA COUNTIES,
WYOMING - Steven G. Reid...289
EMERALD FIELD - NATRONA COUNTY, WYOMING -
R. P. Swirczynski...293
BURNT WAGON FIELD - R. P. Swirczynski...299
MINERALS
MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE WIND RIVER BASIN
AND ADJACENT PRECAMBRIAN UPLIFTS - W. Dan Hausel and
Gregory S. Holden...303
COPPER MOUNTAIN, WYOMING, URANIUM DEPOSIT
- REDISCOVERED - John A. Yellich, Ronald T. Kramer and
Robert G. Kendall...311
GAS HILLS URANIUM DISTRICT, WYOMING - A REVIEW
OF HISTORY AND PRODUCTION - Charles D. Snow...329
PETROLOGY AND URANIUM MOBILITY OF GRANITE
OF EARLY PRECAMBRIAN AGE FROM THE OWL CREEK MOUNTAINS, WYOMING -
I. T. Nkomo, J. S. Stuckless, R. E. Thaden and J. N. Rosholt...335
SOME SPECULATIONS OF THE GENETIC GEOCHEMISTRY
AND HYDROLOGY OF ROLL-TYPE URANIUM DEPOSITS - H. C. Granger
and C. G. Warren...349
UPDATE ON THE WIND RIVER COAL BASIN -
Gary B. Glass and Jay T. Roberts...363
A NEW LOOK AT THE ORIGIN AND VOLUME OF THE
DICKIE SPRINGS - OREGON GULCH PLACER GOLD AT THE SOUTH END
OF THE WIND RIVER MOUNTAINS - J. D. Love, J. C. Antweiler
and E. L. Mosier...379
NEPHRITE OCCURRENCES IN THE GRANITE MOUNTAINS
REGION OF WYOMING - Michael E. Madson...393
ROAD
LOGS...399
CONTENTS
OF POCKET
| A. H. Pekarek - Plate 1 |
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Soli S. Shapjurgi - Plate 3 |
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William H. Curry III - Exhibit 2 |
| W. Dan Hausel, Gregory S. Holden -
Plate 1 |
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Soli S. Shapjurgi - Plate 4 |
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William H. Curry III - Exhibit 3 & 4 |
| Soli S. Shapjurgi - Plate 1 |
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J. D. Love - Figure 2 |
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Dennis C. Ahlstrand and James A. Peterson
- Plate 1 |
| Soli S. Shapjurgi - Plate 2 |
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William H. Curry III- Exhibit 1 |
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