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Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions
Vol. 21 (1971), Pages 139-158

Petroleum Potential of the Black Warrior Basin

L. F. Boland (1), E. D. Minihan (2)

ABSTRACT

The Black Warrior Basin of Mississippi and Alabama is a potentially large oil and gas province with numerous possible reservoir units. This study excludes the rocks of the Ouachita folded belt in central Mississippi.

All the Paleozoic Systems except the Permian are present in the study area and only the Cambrian does not crop out on the surface. There are at least 77,725 cubic miles of sediments, predominantly carbonates, in the Basin.

Oil and gas has been or is presently productive from the Cambro-Ordovician, Ordovician, Mississippian and Pennsylvanian in the Black Warrior Basin. Analysis of the depositional and structural configuration of the area shows new trends that offer tremendous potential for a future major oil and gas province. It is considered a portion of the Appalachian Geosyncline. For each system present in the Basin an attempt has been made to reproduce the tectonics affecting deposition and to depict the rocks as originally deposited. In this manner trends of high energy deposition can be postulated, shore lines can be reconstructed and potential stratigraphic traps delineated. When these relationships are analyzed the known oil and gas shows in the Black Warrior Basin become very significant.


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