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
Oklahoma City Geological Society
Abstract
Subsurface Geology of the Mississippian System of Western Kiowa County, Kansas
ABSTRACT
Western Kiowa County, Kansas is located on the west flank of the Pratt Anticline. The following units, in descending order comprise the subsurface section of the Mississippian rocks in western Kiowa County: St. Louis, Salem, Warsaw, Keokuk-Burlington, Fern Glen, Gilmore City Limestones, and the "Kinderhookian Shale." Major unconformities exist between the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian rocks, and Ordovician and Mississippian rocks. A minor unconformity is present in the Osagian Stage of the Mississippian System.
A combination of both structural and stratigraphic trapping mechanisms are responsible for most of the petroleum production in western Kiowa County, Kansas. Primarily carbonate and some clastic reservoirs of Meramecian, Osagian, and Kinderhook an rocks of Mississippian age have produced in excess of eleven million barrels of oil and 71 billion cubic feet of natural gas as of December 31, 1973. Exploration for hydrocarbons in unexplored areas is expected to continue.
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 |