Maps Showing
Location, Tectonic Character and Structural Setting of the Sedimentary Basins
of the Arctic Region (65°-90°N. lat.)
Grantz, Arthur1,
Robert Scott2, Sergey Drachez3, Thomas E. Moore4,
James P. Howard5 (1) Consulting Geologist, Palo Alto, CA (2) CASP,
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England (3) Exxon Mobil Corperation,
Moscow, Russia (4) US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA (5) CASP, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
One hundred and four sedimentary
provinces in several types of basins, stable shelves or platforms, prograded sedimentary prisms, foreland basins and
continental ridge-top sedimentary sections have been identified in the Arctic
Region. More than half are known, or thought likely, to contain petroleum
accumulations. The outlines of the sedimentary provinces (“basins”), classified
by their first order tectonic character, are displayed on a bathymetric map of
the
The oceanic basins of the
AAPG Search and Discover Article #90063©2007 AAPG Annual Convention, Long Beach, California