Abstract The Long Beach Unit comprises part of the giant Wilmington Oil Field, Los Angeles Basin. Total original oil in place for the Long Beach Unit has been estimated at 3.8 billion barrels of oil, of which 645 million barrels have been produced to date. Petroleum reservoirs occur within seven zones called the Tar, Ranger, Upper Terminal, Lower Terminal, Union Pacific, Ford, and 237 (top to bottom). The Ranger zone, which is the largest reservoir, is >1000 ft (305 m) thick in the Long Beach Unit. Six cores through the Ranger, totalling about 5000 ft (1524 m), have been examined to evaluate depositional environments, reservoir quality, and geologic controls on reservoir properties. Foraminiferal analyses indicate the Ranger zone comprises the Puente and Pico Formations of late Miocene to early Pliocene age. Water depths at the time of deposition ranged from lower middle to upper middle bathyal (1640-6560 ft; 500-2000 m) with a slight deepening-upward trend. Sedimentary features indicate the Ranger sediments were deposited by a variety of mass-gravity flow processes in a submarine fan setting. The three major lithologies are massive sand, graded sand, and shale. These are arranged into three facies, Thin-Bedded Sand, Thick-Bedded Sand, and Shale. Owing to the tremendous size of the M 10 -Pliocene submarine fan system in the Wilmington Field area relative to the size of the Long Beach Unit study area, it is not currently possible to interpret depositional subenvironments. The sands are first cycle arkoses to feldspathic litharenites, subjected to limited chemical weathering in the source terrain as well as limited transport to the depositional site, and derived mainly from plutonic rocks to the north and/or east. Ranger zone sands exhibit good reservoir porosities and permeabilities. Permeability appears to vary with facies, suggesting a lithologic control on reservoir quality. The Spontaneous Potential, Gamma Ray, and Compensated Neutron log are all sensitive to lithologic variability. The Compensated Neutron log can resolve beds down to 2 ft (0.6 m) thick. All three logs are useful for distinguishing thin-bedded and thick-bedded sands, and for estimating shaliness.

Abstract Unconformity-associated uranium deposits typically consist of uranium concentrations at the base of a Proterozoic sandstone sequence where it unconformably overlies pre- Middle Proterozoic metamorphic basement rocks, which commonly include graphitic pelitic units. The deposits are associated with faults or fracture zones. The principal commodity is uranium. It is commonly accompanied by other metals, particularly Ni, Co, and As, but none of these constitute significant recoverable byproducts at present. Examples of important deposits of this type in Canada are Cigar Lake, Key Lake, Rabbit Lake, McArthur River (also known as P2 North), and Eagle Point, all in Saskatchewan (Fig. 7-1). The most notable foreign examples are the Australian deposits Ranger I and III, and Jabiluka I and II in the Pine Creek Geosyncline, Northern Territory (Ruzicka, 1993).