Conclusions

• Much continental siliciclastic accumulation in the Council Grove results from biostabilization (plant and animal-induced) rather than by accommodation related to sea-level rise
• Continental siliciclastics of eolian origin built relief that reduced accommodation for marine carbonates at the updip field margins
• Continental siliciclastics are not a lateral seal for the Panoma Field even though the field margin is coincident with pinchout of marine carbonates
• There is a predictable succession of continental lithofacies controlled by the interaction of climate, glaciation/deglaciation and sea level

Acknowledgements

We are thankful for the support from partners in the Hugoton Asset Management Project (http://www.kgs.ku.edu/HAMP/personnel.html), an industry-Kansas Geological Survey study with modeling the Permian gas systems of the Hugoton and Panoma Fields in southwest Kansas and Oklahoma Panhandle as the primary objective. Members of the group include Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, BP America Production Company, ConocoPhillips Company, Cimarex Energy Company, E.O.G. Resources Inc., Medicine Bow Energy Corporation, Osborn Heirs Company, OXY USA, Inc., and Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. Much support from Kansas Geological Survey colleagues involved in the project, Alan Byrnes, Geoffrey Bohling, Saibal Bhattacharya, Timothy Carr, and John Doveton, was appreciated. Academic licenses for GeoPlus Petra and SBL's Petrel mapping and modeling applications were used in the construction of many of the figures.

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