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Popcorn Crackerjack Klondike Burger No. 1 Diamond Stratigraphic Key tectonic U.S. CHUKCHI SEA Basin Basin
Age Name events
Sequence Megacycle Mega Age CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY BETWEEN
P
EXPLORATORY WELLS
M
Neog. Arctic Platform
Legend Neogene Uplift
Basin 25 25 Conglomerate
O
R North Chukchi North Sandstone TEu
E Sagavanirktok Silt/Shale/Clay R Post-KPu
Upper Brookian megacycle Brookian Upper Azolla Event Transgressive Package Paleogene Paleogene 50 50 Carbonate
? PETM Paleocene Depocenter Transtensional Pc
Central Paleogene Paleogene Central Spiculitic Mudstone R R Event (60 Ma.) M
Late Cretaceous High TOC Rocks 75 Eroded from Transpressional 75 Cp Brookian Popcorn Event (70 Ma.) Volcanic Rocks S Anticline KPu Cn megacycle
Middle Brookian Middle Metamorphic & Igneous Rocks
T ECu R Tuluvak Bonarelli R Cm Eroded on Central Seabee Flexure – HALIP Meta-sedimentary Rock 100 Chukchi 100 ? Pulse 2?
Coal Al R R Anticlinorium R Nanushuk
Colville Colville Basin Interpreted Reef Facies
Cretaceous Cretaceous
megacycle R Faulted Boundary
Lower Brookian Lower Torok Ap R BTu HALIP Pulse 1?
Upper Kalubik 125 Selli Distal Kalubik Wedge North Chukchi 125 Mass Transport Complex Late Post- R Bm B4 Lower Kalubik Rift Basin High Contraction Hydrocarbon Source Rock (? where inferred) H Kuparuk C Equivalent Kuparuk C Im- Brookian Thrusting V mediate R R Kuparuk A Kalubik Gamma Ray Marker Neocomian Post- B3 Alpine C & Foreland Flexure Spreading Bs Rift Basin JKu
Peaks of Oceanic Anoxic Events R LCu 150 Alpine A 150 L R Burger Sub-Basin Nuiqsut Gas Pay B2 Popcorn R
Basins Nechelik Proven reservoir
- Rifting & Oil Pay
Trough
Volcanism Rift ClimaxRift M Sub Gas Show
Remnant Burger-Klondike MJu Simpson? R Potential reservoir
Beaufortian 175 ? Salt? Arch 175 Oil Show
Jurassic Jurassic MJu Valanginian boundaries Simpson? Thermal Bulging E R B1 B1-B4 Beaufortian T-R sequences Sherwood Basin Barrow Basin Rifting Canada (south of section) PPu Pre-Pliocene unconformity 200 R ? 200 Sherwood Basin Sherwood Sag River
? R ? TEu Terminal Eocene unconformity
KPu Cretaceous-Paleocene unconformity L Crackerjack BBcc Passive Margin Shublik Fault Subsidence ECu Intra-Early Cenomanian unconformity
225 225 Triassic Triassic BTu Base Torok unconformity
LCu Lower-Cretaceous unconformity M R Ivishak Kavik JKu Jurassic-Cretaceous unconformity
E 250 R 250 Sadlerochit L R R Echooka MJu Middle Jurassic unconformity Proto-Arctic Crackerjack PEu
Platform Uplift BBcc Base Beaufortian correlative conformity
M Ridge Hanna Sag Basin Permian PEu Pre-Echooka unconformity 275 transitional 275
R sequence PLu Pre-Lisburne unconformity
Permian Permian
E Bu Basement unconformity Hanna Sag Sag Basin Hanna Ellesmerian R HALIP High Arctic Large Igneous Province 300 300 Lisburne
P Line Of Section
Hanna Sag Basin Passive Margin R R Subsidence Popcorn 325 ? 325
M Carboniferous Carboniferous R
PLu Kayak
350 equiv. 350
R Crackerjack
R R
Hanna Trough
Hanna Trough Endicott Ellesmerian
L Popcorn R ? Kekiktuk Diamond High Orogenic Collapse 375 Farther south on the Crackerjack & Rifting 375 Burger Ridge, parts of this section display Bu
karst fabric beneath the MJu. Arctic Devonian Devonian Platform Ellesmerian
M Orogenesis
- R R 400 Pearyan- 400
50 mi/80.5 km E Franklinian Klondike Pearya Terrane Franklinian Mega –Sequence on Laurentian Basement
Pearyan Basement Unconformity Depth
Franklinian Franklinian