| Abstract: | A Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test (COST) well and six exploratory wells have been drilled in the south-east Georgia embayment. The oldest rocks penetrated are weakly metamorphosed Lower Ordovician quartz arenites and Silurian shales and argillites in the Transco 1005-1 well and Upper Devonian argillites in the COST GE-1 well. The Palaeozoic strata are unconformably overlain by interbedded non-marine Jurassic sandstones and shales and marginal marine Lower Cretaceous rocks. Together, these rocks are stratigraphically equivalent to the onshore Fort Pierce and Cotton Valley(?) Formations and rocks of the Lower Cretaceous Comanchean Provincial Series. The Upper Cretaceous part of the section is composed mainly of neritic calcareous shales and shaley limestones stratigraphically equivalent to the primarily marginal marine facies of the onshore Atkinson, Cape Fear and Middendorf Formations and Black Creek Group, and to limestones and shales of the Lawson Limestone and Peedee Formations. Cenozoic strata are also described. -from Authors |
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| ProdID: | 70019045 |
| Citation Author: | Poppe, L. J.; Popenoe, P.; Poag, C. W.; Swift, B. A. |
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| Citation Language: | English |
| Citation Larger Work Title: | Marine and Petroleum Geology |
| Citation LatN: | 32.1152 |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental summary of the south-east Georgia Embayment: a correlation of exploratory wells; 1995; Article; Journal; Marine and Petroleum Geology; Poppe, L. J.; Popenoe, P.; Poag, C. W.; Swift, B. A. |
| Citation Start Page: | 677 |
| Citation Volume: | 12 |
| Citation Year: | 1995 |
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| Text: | Stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental summary of the south-east Georgia Embayment: a correlation of exploratory wells; 1995; Article; Journal; Marine and Petroleum Geology; Poppe, L. J.; Popenoe, P.; Poag, C. W.; Swift, B. A. |
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| URL (DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0264-8172(95)98092-J |
| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
