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A multidisciplinary approach to research studies of sedimentary rocks and their constituents and the evolution of sedimentary basins, both ancient and modern U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1866 EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS ANADARKO BASIN DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL, Secretary U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Dallas L Peck, Director Any use of trade, product, industry, or firm names in this publication is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1989 For sale by the Books and Open-File Reports Section U.S. Geological Survey Federal Center Box 25425 Denver, CO 80225 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perry, William J., Jr. Tectonic evolution of the Anadarko basin region, Oklahoma. U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1866-A) "A multidisciplinary approach to research studies of sedimentary rocks and their constituents and the evolution of sedimentary basins, both ancient and modern." Bibliography: p. Supt. of Docs, no.: I 19.3:1866-A 1. Geology, Structural. 2. Geology Anadarko Basin. I. Title. II. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1866-A 557.3 s [551.8'09766] 88-607943 [QE601] CONTENTS Abstract Al Introduction Al Precambrian structural events A2 Character of the southern Oklahoma aulacogen A2 Subsidence of the southern Oklahoma trough A6 Late Paleozoic tectonism A7 Age of the Wichita-Criner uplift A8 Harrisburg trough and related features A8 Arbuckle anticline and associated structures All Wrench-fault(?) tectonism A13 Summary of conclusions A15 References cited A17 FIGURES 1-4. Maps showing: 1. Location of foreland basins and uplifts associated with Ouachita fold belt in southern midcontinent region of North America A2 2. Inferred location and limits of southern Oklahoma aulacogen and generalized basement structure of Anadarko basin A3 3. Isopachs of Cambrian Timbered Hills and Upper Cambrian through Lower Ordovician Arbuckle Groups, Oklahoma and western Texas A4 4. Generalized Late Proterozoic and early Paleozoic paleotectonic rifts and continental margin, southeastern United States AS 5. Generalized cross section showing geology and Bouguer gravity, southern Oklahoma aulacogen and adjacent Anadarko basin A6 6. Diagrams showing development of southern Oklahoma aulacogen, southern Oklahoma trough, and Andarko basin A8 7. Correlation chart for Upper Mississippian and Lower Pennsylvanian rocks of Oklahoma A9 8. Map showing oil and gas fields and selected structural features in southeastern Anadarko basin region A10 9. Cross sections showing Paleozoic structural features in southern Oklahoma A12 10. Geologic map of northeastern Arbuckle anticline A14 11. Sketch showing contraction faults and kink folds in imbricate zone on northeast limb of Arbuckle anticline A15 12. Generalized tectonic map of northeastern Arbuckle anticline A16 Contents III CONVERSION FACTORS FOR SOME SI METRIC AND U.S. UNITS OF MEASURE To convert from To Multiply by_____ Feet (ft) Meters (m) 0.3048 Miles (mi) Kilometers (km) 1.609 Pounds (Ib) Kilograms (kg) 0.4536 Degrees Fahrenheit (°F) Degrees Celsius (°C) Temp "C = (temp °F-32)/1.8 IV Contents EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS-ANADARKO BASIN Tectonic Evolution of the Anadarko Basin Region, Oklahoma By William J. Perry, Jr. Abstract the Anadarko basin was seldom a topographic basin. The Anadarko basin is structurally deepest along its southern The Anadarko basin occupies the northern flank of the late Proterozoic(?) to early Paleozoic southern Oklahoma margin and is fault separated to the south and southeast aulacogen. The basin began to form as an independent from Cambrian igneous rocks exposed in the Wichita structural feature in Late Mississippian time, when the Texas Mountains (Ham and others, 1964). It is one of the promontory of the southern continental margin of Paleozoic principal oil- and gas-producing basins within the North North America first reacted to early stages of plate collision American craton. with Gondwana or an intervening microplate. Late Mississip­ pian to Early Pennsylvanian structural inversion of the core of The Anadarko basin region has a long and complex the southern Oklahoma aulacogen into the Wichita thrust- structural history that can be divided into four periods: bounded uplift involved thrust loading of the region to the (1) Precambrian crustal consolidation, (2) late Precam- north, which became the Anadarko basin. Late Pennsylva­ brian (?) to Middle Cambrian aulacogen development, nian transpression, oblique to the preexisting structural grain, (3) Cambrian through Early Mississippian development modified the basin and formed numerous thrust-cored, en of the southern Oklahoma trough, and (4) late Paleozoic echelon anticlines within the southeastern part of the Ana­ darko basin. Many of these structures are erosionally tectonism associated with development of the Anadarko beheaded, flanked by synorogenic sedimentary rocks, and basin on the northwestern flank of the trough. unconformably overlain by undeformed Permian rocks. The present report focuses on structural events Latest Pennsylvanian strike-slip faulting in the Arbuckle related to the late Paleozoic Anadarko basin. I attempt to Mountains is enigmatic and apparently not of great develop a broad overview of these structural events, magnitude. The basin continued to subside in Middle Per­ mian time, probably in response to compaction of older based both on numerous published detailed subsurface rocks, and has been essentially dormant since late Paleozoic studies and my own field investigations along the south­ time. eastern margin of the Anadarko basin, and to develop a sequence of deformation based on these structural investi­ gations. In these efforts, I have found myself continually INTRODUCTION in debt to the extraordinarily astute observations and findings of W.E. Ham,