Provenance and Mineralogy of Sediments from the Early Cretaceous Bluesky Formation, Peace River Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada ...
The provenance of sediment in the McMurray Formation of the Athabasca Oil Sands has been widely studied, while the Bluesky Formation of the Peace River Oil Sands which holds significant deposits of heavy oil, has not been studied to the same extent. Mineralogy of the Bluesky Formation is also relati...
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| Format: | Master Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Graduate Studies
2018
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/32927 https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/107751 |
| Summary: | The provenance of sediment in the McMurray Formation of the Athabasca Oil Sands has been widely studied, while the Bluesky Formation of the Peace River Oil Sands which holds significant deposits of heavy oil, has not been studied to the same extent. Mineralogy of the Bluesky Formation is also relatively poorly understood in the area and is important to evaluate due to steam-assisted gravity drainage methods used to optimize production. U-Pb geochronology ages from four samples were collected from the McMurray Formation and the Bluesky Formation. McMurray samples yielded similar results of sediment provenance determined in past studies, while the Bluesky Formation showed similarities and new date populations in comparison to previous data. The lower PR-1-Lagoon facies yielded age ranges of detrital zircons distributed from east-southeast-to-northwest and northwest-to-southeast drainage systems, while the lower secondary PR-1-Wave facies resulted in age ranges that changed to a more local ... |
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