DGGS PIR 2008-1

Preliminary results of recent geologic field investigations in the Brooks Range Foothills and North Slope, Alaska

• Authors:

  Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., eds.

• Publication Date:

  Mar 2008

• Publisher:

  Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys 

• Total Price:

  $112.00

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• Quadrangle(s):

  Chandler Lake; Ikpikpuk River; Killik River; Philip Smith Mountains; Sagavanirktok

• Related project(s):

  Galbraith Lake, Northern Foothills

• Citation ID:

  16083

Bibliographic Reference

Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., eds., 2008, Preliminary results of recent geologic field investigations in the Brooks Range Foothills and North Slope, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2008-1, 206 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/16083

Publication Products

• Report Information

  • pir2008_001.pdf (21.0 M)

• Chapter information:

  • PIR 2008-1A
    Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., 2008, Overview of recent geologic field investigations, North Slope and Brooks Range foothills, Alaska, p. 1-10, 1 sheet.
  • PIR 2008-1B
    Wartes, M.A., 2008, Measured section and facies analysis of the Lower Cretaceous Fortress Mountain Formation, Atigun syncline, northern Alaska, p. 11-24, 1 sheet.
  • PIR 2008-1C
    Wartes, M.A., 2008, Evaluation of stratigraphic continuity between the Fortress Mountain and Nanushuk Formations in the central Brooks Range foothills--Are they partly correlative?, p. 25-39.
  • PIR 2008-1D
    LePain, D.L., Decker, P.L., and Wartes, M.A., 2008, Measured sections and preliminary interpretations of the Nanushuk Formation exposed along the Colville River near the confluences with the Awuna and Killik rivers, p. 41-45, 4 sheets.
  • PIR 2008-1E
    Decker, P.L., and Wartes, M.A., 2008, Geochemistry of the Aupuk gas seep along the Colville River--Evidence for a thermogenic origin, p. 47-54.
  • PIR 2008-1F
    Decker, P.L., Wartes, M.A., Wallace, W.K., Houseknecht, D.W., Schenk, C.J., Gillis, R.J., and Mongrain, J.R., 2008, Stratigraphic and structural investigations in the Ivishak River and Gilead Creek areas: Progress during 2007, p. 55-83, 1 sheet.
  • PIR 2008-1G
    LePain, D.L., Kirkham, R.A., Gillis, R.J., and Mongrain, J.R., 2008, Turonian-Campanian strata east of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline corridor, North Slope foothills, Alaska: Progress during the 2001-02 and 2007 field seasons, p. 85-134.

Keywords

Accomplishment Creek; Albian; Aptian; Atigun Gorge; Atigun River; Aupuk Creek; Barremian; Bentonite; Berriasian; Brookian; Brooks Range; Campanian; Canning Formation; Castle Mountain; Cenomanian; Cobblestone Creek; Cobblestone Member; Colville Basin; Colville River; Conglomerate; Coniacian; Cretaceous; Dalton Highway; Detrital Zircon; Early Cretaceous; Facies Analysis; Fan Delta; Fission Track; Fluvial; Foreland Basin; Fortress Mountain Formation; Galbraith Lake; Gilead Creek; Gilead Sandstone; Gunsight Mountain; Hauterivian; Hue Shale; Hydrocarbon; Ivishak River; Late Cretaceous; Lupine River; Maastrichtian; Marine; Measured Sections; Measured Stratigraphic Section; Nanushuk Formation; Nonmarine; North Slope; Okpikruak Formation; Paleocurrent; Paleogeography; Permian; Petroleum; Prince Creek Formation; Provenance; Regional; Rhizocoralliom; STATEMAP Project; Sagavanirktok River; Sandstone; Santonian; Schrader Bluff Formation; Seabee Formation; Section Creek; Sedimentology; Sequence Stratigraphy; Shale; Shelf; Shoreface; Siksikpuk River; Slope; Slope Mountain; Source Rock; Stratigraphy; Structural Geology; Tectonics; Thermal History; Thermal Maturity; Thrust Fault; Toolik Lake; Torok Formation; Transgressive; Tuff; Tuluvak Formation; Turbidites; Turonian; U-Pb; Valanginian

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