Analysis of oil-bearing Cretaceous sandstone hydrocarbon reservoirs, exclusive ofthe Dakota Sandstone, on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, New Mexico

摘要

This is the Phase One contract report to the United States Department of Energy,United State Geological Survey and the Jicarilla Apache Indian Tribe on the project entitled 'Outcrop Analysis of the Cretaceous Mesaverde Group: Jicarilla Apache Reservation, New Mexico.' Field work for this project was conducted during July and August 1998, at which time fourteen measured sections were described and correlated on or adjacent to Jicarilla Apache Reservation lands. A fifteen section, described east of the main field area, is included in this report, although its distant location precluded use in the correlation's and cross-sections presented herein. Ground-based photo mosaics were shot for much of the exposed Mesaverde outcrop belt and were used to assist in correlation. Outcrop gamma-ray surveys at six of the fifteen measured sections using a GAD-6 scintillometer was conducted. The raw gamma-ray data are included in this report, however, analysis of those data is part of the ongoing Phase Two of this project.