Prospective Oil Fields at Upton, Weston County, Buck Creek, Niobrara County, Rattlesnake Mountains, Natrona County, La Barge, Lincoln County, Issue 5 |
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A. R. Shultz Adaville anticline Archean Aspen formation Barge Mountain BARGE OIL FIELD Bear River Benton black shales BUCK CREEK OIL Bull Carboniferous CREEK OIL FIELD Cretaceous Series Dakota outcrops drilled in Sec East of Old fault fossils Fox Hills Geologist GEOLOGIST'S OFFICE GEOLOGY Graneros Green River L. W. TRUMBULL Lincoln County line A-B Lusk Manville Mesa Verde Moorcroft field MOUNTANIS Mowry shales member Natrona County Niobrara County northwest-southeast oil bearing oil or water oil sand outcrop oil saturated sandstones oil seeps oil springs oil stratum Old Woman Creek original oil Paleozoic Pierre shales PLATE POSSIBLE OIL presence of oil Prospective Oil Fields RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAINS RATTLESNAKE OIL FIELD reach samples collected sandstone and limestone Sandstone member Section along line shallow hole Sholes show dips SPECIFIC GRAVITY surface Tertiary beds Tertiary contact Tertiary sandstone thickness of rocks tiary UPTON OIL FIELD water bearing Weston County WYOMING August 1913 Young Woman Creek
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Page 9 - Cretaceous ages lie against the granite core at an angle of about thirty degrees from the horizontal, while the rocks of Tertiary age abut against and overlap the edges of the Cretaceous. (See Section on Plate IV.) EVIDENCES OF OIL Along the outcrops of the Cretaceous rocks (from Dakota to Mesa Verde), deposits of asphaltum mark the location of former oil springs, and at many places oil saturated sandstones stand out in prominent ledges. What particular members of the Cretaceous series were the original...
Page 10 - Range 113 W., in Lincoln County, on the west side of Green River and to the north of La Barge Creek. The range of hills, of which La Barge Mountain is the highest peak, bounds it on the west. Oil was discovered seeping from the Tertiary sandstones on the flat east of La Barge Mountain in 1907. Since that time many oil locations have been made in the vicinity, and many prospect holes bored. No hole has been put —11— —12— down over a thousand feet, however, and oil in quantity has not been...