In the Anadarko basin, economic deposits of oil and gas are found in strata which range in age from Cambrian-Ordovician through Permian. The reservoirs range in composition from siltstone to dolomite and represent environmental facies as diverse as alluvial-stream deposits and shallow-marine carbonate banks.

A progressive analysis--through time--of the depositional and structural events which formed and filled the basin demonstrate the major factors controlling the occurrence of hydrocarbon deposits and how these deposits relate both to regional geologic phenomena and to local environmental events.

Comparisons made with the Anadarko basin could help exploration and exploitation in similar basins throughout the world.

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