| Title | Northeast British Columbia Liard Basin: a seismic stratigraphy study |
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| Author | Leslie-Panek, J ;
McMechan, M; Ferri, F |
| Source | Interpretation vol. 8, no. 3, 2020 p. T579-T588, https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2019-0187.1 |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20190533 |
| Publisher | Society of Exploration Geophysicists |
| Publisher | American Association of Petroleum Geologists |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf; html |
| Province | British Columbia; Northwest Territories; Yukon |
| NTS | 94J/11; 94J/12; 94J/13; 94J/14; 94K/07; 94K/08; 94K/09; 94K/10; 94K/15; 94K/16; 94N/01; 94N/02; 94N/07; 94N/08; 94N/09; 94N/10; 94N/15; 94N/16; 94O/03; 94O/04; 94O/05; 94O/06; 94O/11; 94O/12; 94O/13; 94O/14;
95B/03; 95B/04; 95C/01; 95C/02 |
| Area | Fort Liard; Liard River; Fort Nelson River; Fort Nelson |
| Lat/Long WENS | -124.7500 -123.0000 60.0833 58.5000 |
| Subjects | stratigraphy; structural geology; geophysics; fossil fuels; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; sedimentary basins; petroleum resources; hydrocarbon potential; hydrocarbons; gas; bedrock
geology; basement geology; lithology; sedimentary rocks; shales; carbonates; cherts; conglomerates; sandstones; siltstones; structural features; folds; anticlines; faults; geophysical interpretations; seismic interpretations; seismic data;
stratigraphic analyses; stratigraphic correlations; sedimentary wedges; Liard Basin; Western Canada Sedimentary Basin; Bovie Structure; Bovie Fault; Liard River Anticline; Golata Formation; Prophet Formation; Banff Formation; Exshaw Formation; Besa
River Group; Tetcho Formation; Fort Simpson Formation; Pseudi Fort Simpson Formation; Nahanni Formation; Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Triassic; Paleozoic; Permian; Carboniferous; Mississippian; Devonian; Precambrian; Proterozoic |
| Illustrations | location maps; geoscientific sketch maps; cross-sections; seismic profiles; 3-D images |
| Program | Geoscience for New Energy Supply (GNES) Program Coordination |
| Released | 2020 06 13 |
| Abstract | The Liard Basin is a highly prospective shale gas basin located in northeast British Columbia that is largely underrepresented in public literature. We used available-for-purchase 2D seismic data in the
area to create a high-level, regional stratigraphic interpretation of the basin, providing the first seismically controlled overview of the basin structure and stratigraphy. The basin is characterized by two distinct, opposing wedges of sediment in
the Mesozoic and Paleozoic sections: the Mesozoic with northeastward thinning and the Paleozoic with southwestward thinning. The wedging of the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian (Tournasian) section is dominated by multiple large packages of
clinoforms, which progress into the basin from northeast to southwest and are predominantly seen in the seismic sequence stratigraphy. These distinct packages of clinoforms indicate changing sediment sources over time. In contrast, there are no
clinoforms seen in the Mesozoic section, which may be a limitation of the orientation of the 2D seismic data that we used. Our result from the seismic interpretation is an updated interpretation of the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian stratigraphy
of the Liard Basin, including an updated stratigraphic cross section for the area. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
A seismic stratigraphic study of the Liard Basin, northeast BC. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 321805 |
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