The Cumulative Super Basin of the Rocky Mountains'Niobrara-Mowry Shale

摘要

The world's super basins have their roots in deep time and their fruits in long-standing, prolific oil and gas production. But that doesn't mean the industry understands them completely or knows where they all are. One potential super basin complex in the Rocky Mountains area of the United States isn't even officially named yet. Located mostly in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, bounded to the northeast by the older Williston Basin and to the west by the Sevier Thrust Belt, it contains numerous, present-day basins including the Powder River, Big Horn, Wind River, Green River, Uinta, Piceance and Denver basins.