About This Item
- Full TextFull Text(subscription required)
- Pay-Per-View PurchasePay-Per-View
Purchase Options Explain
Share This Item
The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database
GCAGS Transactions
Abstract
Sedimentation and Structure of the Planulina-Abbeville Trend, South Louisiana
Hunter C. Goheen (*)
ABSTRACT
The term Erath member is proposed for the so-called deep water facies of the down-dip Anahuac formation, which is regarded as upper Oligocene or lower Miocene. The middle neritic Planulina and outer neritic to bathyal Abbeville are considered here as biostratigraphic zones within the Erath member. The Erath member consists mostly of shale, but the erratic sands occasionally found in it form a productive trend across South Louisiana from the Cameron Parish coastal area due east to St. James Parish. The particular economic significance of the Erath sands results from their having been deposited in deeper water than the sands of most other South Louisiana productive trends. A study of the depositional types of sand and their distribution, in relation to the tectonic history, aids in locating areas that are prospective for hydrocarbon accumulation.
Pay-Per-View Purchase Options
The article is available through a document delivery service. Explain these Purchase Options.
| Watermarked PDF Document: $14 | |
| Open PDF Document: $24 |