David Lynn Houseknecht

Apatite Fission-track Analysis of Twelve Outcrop Samples from the Chandler Lake and Killik River 1: 250,000-scale Quadrangles, South-central North Slope, Alaska: USGS Open-File Report 2000-220

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific organization created in 1879, and is part of the U.S. government. Their scientists explore our environment and ecosystems, to determine the natural dangers we are facing. The agency has over 10,000 employees that collect, monitor, and analyz...

Probability of encountering coalbed discontinuities during vertical and horizontal borehole drilling

Assessment of undiscovered petroleum resources of the Amerasia Basin Petroleum Province: USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5146

The Amerasia Basin Petroleum Province encompasses the Canada Basin and the sediment prisms along the Alaska and Canada margins, outboard from basinward margins (hingelines) of the rift shoulders that formed during extensional opening of the Canada Basin. The province includes the Mackenzie delta and...

Assessment of undiscovered petroleum resources of the Arctic Alaska Petroleum Province: USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5147

The Arctic Alaska Petroleum Province encompasses all lands and adjacent continental shelf areas north of the Brooks Range-Herald arch tectonic belts and south of the northern (outboard) margin of the Alaska rift shoulder. Even though only a small part is thoroughly explored, it is one of the most pr...

Constraining the Age and Magnitude of Uplift in the Northern National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (Npra)-Apatite Fission-Track Analysis of Samples Fro

A broad, post-mid-Cretaceous uplift is defined in the northern National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) by regional truncation of Cretaceous strata, thermal maturity patterns, and amounts of exhumation estimated from sonic logs. Apatite fission-track (AFT) analysis of samples from three wells (So...

Geologic Model for Oil and Gas Assessment of the Kemik-Thomson Play, Central North Slope, Alaska: Usgs Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5146

A geologic model was developed to assess undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Kemik-Thomson Play of the Central North Slope, Alaska. In this model, regional erosion during the Early Cretaceous produced an incised valley system on the flanks and crest of the Mikkelsen High and formed the Lower C...

Origin, Diagenesis, and Petrophysics of Clay Minerals in Sandstones (Special Publication (Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists))

Origin, Diagenesis, and Petrophysics of Clay Minerals in Sandstones (Special Publication (Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists))

ASSESSING THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF COMPACTION PROCESSES AND CEMENTATION TO REDUCTION OF POROSITY IN SANDSTONES (Pamphlet)

Origin, Diagenesis, and Petrophysics of Clay Minerals in Sandstones