Northern Foothills

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1507

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  Northern Foothills

• Parent Project:

  North Slope

• Status:

  Ongoing

• Description:

  Industry funded program involving stratigraphic, structural, and petroleum related research in northern central Alaska, particular emphasis on the Nanushuk and Torok

• Project Date(s):

  2000 - present

• Primary Contact:

  LePain, David L.

• DGGS section:

  Admin

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Publications

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PIR 2022-1

LePain, D.L., Harun, N.T., and Kirkham, R.A., 2022, Measured stratigraphic section, lower Nanushuk Formation (Albian), Slope Mountain (Marmot syncline), Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2022-1, 21 p., 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/30871

RI 2021-4

LePain, D.L., and Helmold, K.P., eds., 2021, Sedimentology and reservoir quality of the Nanushuk Formation (Albian-Cenomanian) in cores from the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska and adjoining state lands to the south: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2021-4, 78 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30726

RI 2021-4A

LePain, D.L., and Helmold, K.P., 2021, Core descriptions, sedimentology and reservoir potential of the Nanushuk Formation (Albian-Cenomanian), eastern National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, in LePain, D.L., and Helmold, K.P., eds., Sedimentology and reservoir quality of the Nanushuk Formation (Albian-Cenomanian) in cores from the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska and adjoining state lands to the south: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2021-4A, 46 p., 6 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/30727

RI 2021-5D

Wildland, A.D., and Naibert, T.J., 2021, Structural geology of the Mount Fairplay-Ladue River area, in Twelker, Evan, ed., Geologic investigation of the Ladue River-Mount Fairplay area, eastern Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2021-5D, p. 50-62. https://doi.org/10.14509/30738

RDF 2020-1

Willingham, A.L., and Herriott, T.M., 2020, Photogrammetry-derived digital surface model and orthoimagery of Slope Mountain, North Slope, Alaska, June 2018: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2020-1, 9 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30419

MP 166

LePain, D.L., Decker, P.L., and Helmold, K.P., 2018, Brookian core workshop: Depositional setting, potential reservoir facies, and reservoir quality in the Nanushuk Formation (Albian-Cenomanian), North Slope, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Miscellaneous Publication 166, 58 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30137

RI 2016-3

LePain, D.L., 2016, Stratigraphic and reservoir quality studies of continuous core from the Wainwright #1 coalbed methane test well, Wainwright, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2016-3, 58 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/29652

RI 2016-3-1

Decker, P.L., and LePain, D.L., 2016, Subsurface relationships of Albian-Cenomanian shallow marine to nonmarine topsets of the Nanushuk Formation, northwestern NPRA, northern Alaska, in LePain, D.L., Stratigraphic and reservoir quality studies of continuous core from the Wainwright #1 coalbed methane test well, Wainwright, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2016-3-1, p. 1-3, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/29655

RI 2016-3-2

LePain, D.L., and Decker, P.L., 2016, Lithofacies analysis of the Wainwright #1 continuous core, western Arctic Slope, Alaska: Transition from lower to upper delta plain environments in the Albian-Cenomanian Nanushuk Formation, in LePain, D.L., Stratigraphic and reservoir quality studies of continuous core from the Wainwright #1 coalbed methane test well, Wainwright, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2016-3-2, p. 5-35, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/29656

RI 2009-1 v. 2

LePain, D.L., McCarthy, P.J., and Kirkham, R.A., 2009, Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the middle Albian-Cenomanian Nanushuk Formation in outcrop, central North Slope, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2009-1 v. 2, 76 p., 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/19761

PIR 2008-1

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

PIR 2008-1A

Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., 2008, Overview of recent geologic field investigations, North Slope and Brooks Range foothills, Alaska, in Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., eds., 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 2008-1A, p. 1-10, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/16085

PIR 2008-1B

Wartes, M.A., 2008, Measured section and facies analysis of the Lower Cretaceous Fortress Mountain Formation, Atigun syncline, northern Alaska, in Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., eds., 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 2008-1B, p. 11-24, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/16086

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?, in Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., eds., 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 2008-1C, p. 25-39. https://doi.org/10.14509/16087

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, in Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., eds., 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 2008-1D, p. 41-45, 4 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/16088

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, in Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., eds., 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 2008-1E, p. 47-54. https://doi.org/10.14509/16084

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, in Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., eds., 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 2008-1F, p. 55-83, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/16089

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, in Wartes, M.A., and Decker, P.L., eds., 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 2008-1G, p. 85-134. https://doi.org/10.14509/16090

Posters and Presentations

Helmold, K.P. and LePain, D.L., 2023

Helmold, K.P., and LePain, D.L., 2023, Controls on reservoir quality of the Nanushuk Formation (Albian-Cenomanian), North Slope, Alaska (poster): Alaska Geological Society Technical Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, April 22, 2023: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/31038

Herriott, T.M. and others, 2022

Herriott, T.M., Crowley, J.L., Wartes, M.A., LePain, D.L., and Schmitz, M.D., 2022, LA-ICPMS–CA-TIMS tandem dating of detrital zircon: Insights from n=1 MDAs of mid-Cretaceous Colville foreland basin strata, Slope Mountain, northern Alaska (presentation): Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 9-12, 2022: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 13 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30912

LePain, D.L. and others, 2017

LePain, D.L., Decker, P.L., Helmold, K.P., and Wartes, M.A., 2017, Depositional setting and potential reservoir facies in the Nanushuk formation (Albian-Cenomanian), Brookian topset play, North Slope, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/30165

Decker, P.L. and others, 2008

Decker, P.L., LePain, D.L., and Wartes, M.A., 2008, Surface - subsurface relationships, 2007-08 projects, Sagavanirktok River area, east-central North Slope (presentation): DNR Spring Technical Review Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, March 26-27, 2008: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 35 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/21822