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GEOREF RECORD

Lone Tree Prospect area, Railroad Valley, Nevada

Scott L. Montgomery
Lone Tree Prospect area, Railroad Valley, Nevada
AAPG Bulletin (February 1997) 81 (2): 175-186

Abstract

Continued exploration in the Basin and Range of Nevada has resulted in a number of small field discoveries that confirm widespread oil generation and suggest potential in local prospect settings. One such setting, the Lone Tree Prospect area, lies approximately 6.5 mi (10.4 km) southwest of Grant Canyon Field in Railroad Valley. Discovered in 1983, this field had produced nearly 20 million bbl of oil by June 1996, mostly from two wells. Oil is entrapped in a slide block of fractured Paleozoic strata juxtaposed against Mississippian source rocks along a detachment fault of probable early Tertiary age. Subsequent exploration has focused on attempts to identify such blocks elsewhere in east-central Nevada, particularly in Railroad and Pine valleys. Well, gravity, and two-dimensional seismic data suggested the existence of such a block in the Lone Tree area. These data were used as a basis for a three-dimensional seismic survey. Information from this survey identified a prospect at the structural culmination of the interpreted block. The resulting well, the 13-14 Timber Mountain, was commercially unsuccessful but yielded important new data, suggesting a need to revise existing stratigraphy and structural history. In addition, a second prospect, located farther updip, was indicated.


ISSN: 0149-1423
EISSN: 1558-9153
Coden: AABUD2
Serial Title: AAPG Bulletin
Serial Volume: 81
Serial Issue: 2
Title: Lone Tree Prospect area, Railroad Valley, Nevada
Affiliation: 1511 18th Avenue East, Seattle, WA, United States
Pages: 175-186
Published: 199702
Text Language: English
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, OK, United States
References: 17
Accession Number: 1997-019455
Categories: Economic geology, geology of energy sources
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. chart, sects., sketch maps
N38°00'00" - N39°00'00", W116°30'00" - W115°30'00"
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data supplied by American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, OK, United States
Update Code: 199707
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