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Volume: 25 (1941)

Issue: 1. (January)

First Page: 1

Last Page: 22

Title: Major Tectonic Provinces of Southern Oklahoma and Their Relation to Oil and Gas Fields

Author(s): E. A. Paschal (2)

Abstract:

Southern Oklahoma and adjoining areas are divided into five tectonic provinces. One is considered a part of the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon homogeneous mobile belt which extends across the continent. The other four are considered as having the features of a heterogeneous mobile belt. They are treated as two "uplifts" and two "geosynclines" and are compared with similar provinces in California.

Evidence is presented to show that one of the geosynclines has been compressed or squeezed between the two adjoining uplifts since the deposition of the Permian redbeds. The local structures within the geosynclines are considered as having been formed primarily by compression, whereas the local structures on the uplifts are considered as having been formed by "vertical uplift." The local structures on the two uplift provinces are considered as having possibilities of more prolific oil production, especially from Ordovician beds, than the local structures within the geosynclines.

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