| Title | The Devonian-Mississippian Besa River Group of Liard Basin, British Columbia: stratigraphy of a world-class shale gas resource |
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| Author | Ferri, F; Richards, B C; McMechan, M ; Kabanov, P; Mort, A; Thapa, P;
Leslie-Panek, J; Little, E |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Scientific Presentation 93, 2018, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/312448  Open Access |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Meeting | IGCP-652 Meeting "Reading time in Paleozoic sedimentary Rocks"; Bremen; DE; September 12-19, 2018 |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is related to The Devonian-Mississippian
Besa River Group of Liard Basin, Canada: stratigraphy of a world-class shale gas resource |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | British Columbia; Yukon |
| NTS | 94I/11; 94I/12; 94I/13; 94I/14; 94J/09; 94J/10; 94J/11; 94J/12; 94J/13; 94J/14; 94J/15; 94J/16; 94K/09; 94K/10; 94K/11; 94K/12; 94K/13; 94K/14; 94K/15; 94K/16; 94N; 94O; 94P/03; 94P/04; 94P/05; 94P/06;
94P/11; 94P/12; 94P/13; 94P/14; 95A/03; 95A/04; 95A/05; 95A/06; 95A/11; 95A/12; 95A/13; 95A/14; 95B; 95C; 95F/01; 95F/02; 95F/03; 95F/04; 95G/01; 95G/02; 95G/03; 95G/04; 95H/03; 95H/04 |
| Area | Liard River; Horn River |
| Lat/Long WENS | -126.0000 -121.0000 61.2500 58.5000 |
| Subjects | fossil fuels; stratigraphy; geophysics; paleontology; petroleum resources; hydrocarbon potential; hydrocarbons; gas; bedrock geology; lithology; sedimentary rocks; shales; carbonates; cherts; tectonic
history; deformation; exploration wells; geophysical logging; gamma ray logging; neutron well logging; density logging; porosity; resistivity logging; biostratigraphy; micropaleontology; microfossils; conodonts; fossil zones; thin section microscopy;
stratigraphic correlations; Western Canada Sedimentary Basin; Liard Basin; Horn River Basin; Besa River Group; Fort Simpson Formation; Exshaw Formation; Banff Formation; Prophet Formation; Mattson Formation; Kindle Formation; Dunedin Formation;
Cordova Embayment; Muskwa Formation; Phanerozoic; Paleozoic; Carboniferous; Mississippian; Devonian |
| Illustrations | flow diagrams; location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; cross-sections; photographs; photomicrographs; stratigraphic charts; well logs |
| Program | Geoscience for New Energy Supply (GNES) Shale Reservoir Characterization |
| Program | IGCP Project 652 - Reading Geologic Time in Paleozoic Sedimentary Rocks |
| Released | 2018 11 13 |
| Abstract | (unpublished)
Shale hydrocarbon plays are collectively an enormous resource of cleaner fossil energy in Canada. The Devonian-Mississippian Besa River Group of the Liard Basin is a distal,
shale-dominated succession with estimated resource of 6,196 bn cubic meters of marketable dry gas in its middle-upper parts correspondent to the Patry-Exshaw stratigraphic interval. This contribution showcases updates about stratigraphic framework of
the Besa River and its divisions. Of particular interest is the lower Exshaw interval recording a major spread of anoxic conditions across West Canadian Sedimentary Basin and containing the equivalent of the Hangenberg global anoxic event. The
initiation of the Liard Basin and its early history are linked to the interplay of the back-arc extension of the western margin of Laurentia, initiation of motion along Bovie Fault and grabens within the Peace River Embayment, and possible influence
of compressional events in the western Arctic Islands and the U.S. Cordillera. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Shale hydrocarbon plays are collectively an enormous resource of cleaner fossil energy in Canada. The Devonian-Mississippian Besa River Group of the
Liard Basin is a distal, shale-dominated succession with estimated resource of 6,196 bn cubic meters of marketable dry gas in its middle-upper parts correspondent to the Patry-Exshaw stratigraphic interval. This contribution showcases updates about
stratigraphic framework of the Besa River and its divisions. Of particular interest is the lower Exshaw interval recording a major spread of anoxic conditions across West Canadian Sedimentary Basin and containing the equivalent of the Hangenberg
global anoxic event. The initiation of the Liard Basin and its early history are linked to the interplay of the back-arc extension of the western margin of Laurentia, initiation of motion along Bovie Fault and grabens within the Peace River
Embayment, and possible influence of compressional events in the western Arctic Islands and the U.S. Cordillera. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 312448 |
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