BEARDSLEY, RICHARD , Columbia Natural Resources,Inc., 900 Pennsylvania Avenue, Charleston, WV 25362-0070

Traps and hydrocarbon plays associated with the first bounding fault on the northwest side of the Rome Trough
The primary bounding fault on the northwest side of the Rome Trough, created during the Grenvillian orogeny is of significant interest for hydrocarbon exploration. Great potential exists for significant production in varied geologic settings associated with both active and passive basin margin configurations through the Paleozoic system. Significant drilling activity has not been accomplished to the extent necessary to test this complex deformational/depositional boundary.
Targets listed to be correlated with seismic are: Rome/Basal sand pinchouts, Cambrian delta front sequences, Cambrian shoaling, lower Ordovician unconformity traps, St. Peter sandstone, Ordovician mineralized fault zones, fractured Ordovician shales, upper Ordovician/lower Silurian distal turbidite sands, Silurian sand bars, Silurian McKenzie reefing, Silurian Newburg sand bars, Devonian Oriskany shoreline facies, Devonian Onondaga reefing, Devonian/Silurian unconformity surface, Devonian shale fracturing, Mississippian channels/bars/shoals development, Pennsylvanian Salt Sand deposition, and Pennsylvanian coal pinchouts.
Posters of seismic will be presented to illustrate the postulated presence of these various phenomena showing the fault configuration in Jackson County, WV and Boyd County, KY.

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