1978 - Wind River Basin

 

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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 WGA Officers and Field Conference Committee...9
Dedication...5 Previous WGA Conferences...10
Memoriams...6 List of Publications...11
Greetings from Chairman...8 Stratigraphic Chart...12
Editor's Comments...8

 

 

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 Soli S. Shapjurgi - Plate 3 William H. Curry III - Exhibit 2
W. Dan Hausel, Gregory S. Holden - Plate 1 Soli S. Shapjurgi - Plate 4 William H. Curry III - Exhibit 3 & 4
Soli S. Shapjurgi - Plate 1 J. D. Love - Figure 2 Dennis C. Ahlstrand and James A. Peterson - Plate 1
Soli S. Shapjurgi - Plate 2 William H. Curry III- Exhibit 1