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The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database

Williston Basin Symposium

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NDGS/SKGS-AAPG

Second Williston Basin Symposium, April 23, 1958

Pages 17 - 19

PRECAMBRIAN OF THE CANADIAN WILLISTON BASIN

K. S. Meek, Jr. Regina, Saskatchewan

ABSTRACT

Precambrian structure and basement rock identifications in conjunction with Paleozoic samples, iso~ pachs, and facies maps have been used to assess the significance of the Precambrian in petroleum exploration in the Canadian Williston Basin. Petrographic provinces are delineated in the subsurface and compared to those already described on the Shield and in the subsurface of Alberta. There seems to be a relationship between basement lithology and Precambrian paleotopography. Some of the recognized faults in overlying sediments may originate in the basememt

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