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Journal Article
Published: 15 September 2020
Environmental Geosciences (2020) 27 (3): 143–164.
... Inlet basin of southcentral Alaska as well as eight individual oil and gas fields (i.e., Swanson River, North Cook Inlet, Granite Point, Trading Bay, Middle Ground Shoal, Redoubt, Ninilchik, and Cosmopolitan fields) in the basin. The Hemlock Formation, similar to most formations in the Cook Inlet basin...
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Journal Article
Journal: Geosphere
Published: 22 November 2017
Geosphere (2018) 14 (1): 23–49.
...J. Rosenthal; P. Betka; E. Nadin; R. Gillis; J. Benowitz Abstract Regionally persistent vein sets cut Early Jurassic through late Paleogene(?) strata throughout a study area >2000 km 2 in the lower Cook Inlet forearc basin of Alaska. Using field, aerial, and GIS–based studies, we document vein...
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Series: AAPG Memoir
Published: 01 January 2014
DOI: 10.1306/13491873M1043620
EISBN: 9781629812687
... Figure 4. Exploration wells drilled in Cook Inlet Basin and southern Susitna Basin through 2011. The most intense exploration drilling has occurred in the north-central portion of upper Cook Inlet, both on-and offshore. Numerous plotted points on the Kenai Peninsula represent several wells due...
Series: AAPG Memoir
Published: 01 January 2014
DOI: 10.1306/13491874M1043621
EISBN: 9781629812687
... to the southwest ( Gillis et al., 2009 ). Capps Glacier Fault The Castle Mountain fault extends approximately 90 mi (145 km) northeastward from the northern end of the Bruin Bay fault system, across the north end of Cook Inlet Basin, and eastward along the north side of the Matanuska Valley to at least...
Series: AAPG Memoir
Published: 01 January 2014
DOI: 10.1306/13491875M1043622
EISBN: 9781629812687
... Abstract Seismic data have been collected since the 1950s in Cook Inlet Basin and have been instrumental in the discovery and production of oil and gas in the basin. This paper provides an overview of how seismic data have been and could be utilized for further exploration. It covers general...
Series: AAPG Memoir
Published: 01 January 2014
DOI: 10.1306/M1041349
EISBN: 9781629812687
Journal Article
Published: 01 September 2006
Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology (2006) 54 (3): 273–291.
...Charles E. Barker; Todd Dallegge Abstract Cuttings samples of sub-bituminous humic coals from the Oligocene to Pliocene Tyonek Formation, Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska show secondary gas emissions whose geochemistry is consistent with renewed microbial methanogenesis during canister desorption...
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Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 March 2006
GSA Bulletin (2006) 118 (3-4): 289–303.
...Ronald L. Bruhn; Peter J. Haeussler Abstract Late Neogene and younger deformation in Cook Inlet basin is caused by dextral transpression in the plate margin of south-central Alaska. Collision and subduction of the Yakutat microplate at the northeastern end of the Aleutian subduction zone is driving...
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Journal Article
Published: 06 October 2004
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (2004) 41 (10): 1159–1179.
... Basin. Meticulous sample preparation, multiple analyses, and statistical evaluation of the data were required for these low-K, plagioclase- and hornblende-bearing tephras. Dating of subsurface core material provides the first subsurface-to-outcrop tie in Cook Inlet between well 212-24 in the Beluga...
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Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 September 2000
GSA Bulletin (2000) 112 (9): 1414–1429.
...Peter J. Haeussler; Ronald L. Bruhn; Thomas L. Pratt Abstract The Cook Inlet basin is a northeast-trending forearc basin above the Aleutian subduction zone in southern Alaska. Folds in Cook Inlet are complex, discontinuous structures with variable shape and vergence that probably developed by right...
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Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1981
AAPG Bulletin (1981) 65 (6): 1043–1061.
... are used to develop a model for oil exploration in the Cook Inlet basin, Alaska. This model can be used to locate wells when explorationists understand the oil-forming processes — origin, migration, and accumulation — in the basin. The Cook Inlet basin can be divided into upper and lower Cook Inlet...
Series: AAPG Studies in Geology
Published: 01 January 1981
DOI: 10.1306/St12420C34
EISBN: 9781629811802
... Abstract Oil exploration commenced onshore adjacent to lower Cook Inlet on the Iniskin Peninsula in 1900, shifted with considerable success to upper Cook Inlet from 1957 through 1965, then returned to lower Cook Inlet in 1977 with the COST well and Federal OCS sale. Lower Cook Inlet COST 1 well...
Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 August 1980
AAPG Bulletin (1980) 64 (8): 1131–1139.
...George E. Claypool; Charles N. Threlkeld; Leslie B. Magoon Abstract Two types of natural gas occurrences are present in the Cook Inlet basin. The major reserves (1.8 × 10 11 m 3 ) occur in shallow (less than 2,300 m), nonassociated dry gas fields that contain methane with δ 13 C in the range of -63...
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Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 April 1972
AAPG Bulletin (1972) 56 (4): 739–754.
...Keith W. Calderwood; William C. Fackler ABSTRACT The Cook Inlet basin in south-central Alaska is approximately 200 mi long and 70 mi wide. It contains a thick section of predominantly nonmarine Tertiary sedimentary rocks with major reserves of oil and gas. Early geologists working in the area...
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Series: AAPG Memoir
Published: 01 January 1968
DOI: 10.1306/M9363C2
EISBN: 9781629812311
... be roughly correlative with the provincial stages on the basis of distribution, spatial occurrence of coal within the section, and degree of lithification, they were chosen arbitrarily. The Cook Inlet basin is an elongate, deep, moderately asymmetrical structural depression which overlies much...
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Thomas E. Kelly
Series: AAPG Memoir
Published: 01 January 1963
DOI: 10.1306/M2358.C25
EISBN: 9781629812359
... Abstract The Cook Inlet basin of south-central Alaska is an intermontane structural basin approximately 14,000 square miles in area, encompassing almost 80,000 cubic miles of sedimentary rocks ranging in age from Upper Triassic to Recent. The basin coincides with most of the northern part...
Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 February 1962
AAPG Bulletin (1962) 46 (2): 271.
...Harold M. Lian; Russel R. Simonsen ABSTRACT Exploratory objectives in the Cook Inlet Basin are confined largely to the Kenai Formation, a 15,000–20,000-foot series of non-marine, coal-bearing sediments of Eocene or younger Tertiary age, underlain by marine Mesozoic sediments. The Kenai Formation...
Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 March 1961
AAPG Bulletin (1961) 45 (3): 419.
...Thomas E. Kelly ABSTRACT The Cook Inlet basin of south-central Alaska is an intermontane structural basin approximately 14,000 square miles in area, encompassing almost 80,000 cubic miles of sedimentary rocks ranging in age from upper Triassic to Recent. The basin coincides with most...
Journal Article
Published: 30 October 2019
Seismological Research Letters (2020) 91 (1): 33–55.
...Kyle Smith; Carl Tape Abstract Cook Inlet fore‐arc basin in south‐central Alaska is a large, deep (7.6 km) sedimentary basin with the Anchorage metropolitan region on its margins. From 2015 to 2017, a set of 28 broadband seismic stations was deployed in the region as part of the Southern Alaska...
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Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 04 April 2024
GSA Bulletin (2024) 136 (9-10): 4353–4363.
... Formation, late Miocene Beluga Formation, and Pliocene Sterling Formation in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska, USA. When taken alone, our new geochemical data suggest solely intermediate igneous sediment sources to the basin. When paired with existing detrital zircon U-Pb data, however, significant mixing...
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