Geologic Setting
Hugoton and Panoma Fields are situated in the Hugoton Embayment, the shallow shelf portion of the Anadarko basin, and asymmetric foreland basin associated with the Ouchita-Marathon Orogeny.
By Wolfcamp time the Pennsylvanian-aged Anadarko was nearly completely filled and slopes on the Kansas shelf were extremely low.
Glacially driven eustatic sea level changes resulted in fourth order marine-continental (carbonate-siliciclastic) sedimentary cycles on the Kansas shelf during Wolfcamp.
To determine the accommodation and stabilization mechanisms that led to a lateral transition between Permian marine-carbonate-dominated sequences and continental-siliciclastic-dominated sequences at the margin of a giant gas field.
Present Day Structure |
Wolfcamp Isopach
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