AAPG Bulletin, V. 84, No. 8 (August 2000), P. 1185-1204.

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Middle Pennsylvanian Bartlesville Sandstone, Northeastern Oklahoma: A Case of an Underfilled Incised Valley¹

Liangmiao (Scott) Ye² and Dennis Kerr³

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¹Manuscript received April 20, 1998; revised manuscript received April 5, 1999; final acceptance January 15, 2000.
²ARCO Technology and Operations Services, 2300 W. Plano Pkwy., Plano, Texas 75075. Current address: BP Amoco Upstream Technology, 501 West Lake Park, Houston, Texas 77079; e-mail: [email protected]
³Department of Geosciences, University of Tulsa, 600 S. College Ave., Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104.
This work is part of a doctoral dissertation at the University of Tulsa by L. Ye; the dissertation was supervised by D. Kerr. We hereby express our sincere appreciation to the U.S. Department of Energy (Contract No. DE-FC22-93BC14951), Uplands Resources, Inc., and The University of Tulsa Student Research Program for funding this study. Uplands Resources, Inc., Amoco Technology Center in Tulsa, the Oklahoma Well Log Library, and the Bureau of Land Management office in Tulsa provided open access to data and facilities used in this study. Field assistance by Haiqiao Su and Kexian Yang will always be remembered. Helpful discussions extended by Allen Archer and Rodrick Tillman on the depositional environment interpretations are most appreciated. We also thank William A. Wescott, Krit Campion, and an anonymous reviewer for their critical reviews of an earlier version of this manuscript. Critical review of the manuscript by Creties Jenkins is noted with thanks.

ABSTRACT

The Middle Pennsylvanian Bartlesville sandstone, a prominent oil producer in Oklahoma over the past 90 yr, is evaluated in terms of its sequence stratigraphic architecture over its occurrence in northeastern Oklahoma. The Bartlesville sandstone is interpreted to be a fluvial-dominated incised-valley fill deposited mainly during rising stages of relative sea level.