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CONTENTS FEATURES

ASSOCIATION NEWS

6 RMAG Summit Sponsorship

2 RMAG Summit Sponsors

16 Lead Story: Uinta Enigma: The Duchesne Fault Zone and Its Impact on the Development of the Uinta Basin

4 RMAG On-The-Rocks Field Trips 11 RMAG Short Course: Python 13 MiT March 4 talk 15 MiT March 11 talk

DEPARTMENTS 10 RMAG February Board of Directors Meeting 12 President’s Letter 32 Online Lunch Talk: Ward Polzin 32 Outcrop Advertising Rates

27 Publish with The Mountain Geologist 31 RMAG Foundation Guidelines for Publication Charge Grant(s) 33 RMAG Sporting Clay Tounament 38 2021 RMAG Golf Tournament

COVER PHOTO A series of normal faults on the southern limb of the largest graben on the Duchesne fault zone.

Sandstone and limestone facies of the Eocene Green River Formation, near Cottonwood Creek, Uinta Basin, Utah.

Photo by Riley Brinkerhoff

34 Online Lunch Talk: Ali Jaffri, Ph.D. 36 In The Pipeline 36 Welcome New RMAG Members!

39 Advertiser Index 39 Calendar

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January 1, 2021 Ladies and gentlemen, RMAG could not exist without the very generous support of our Summit Sponsors, and we greatly appreciate all the companies that contributed as Summit Sponsors in 2020.

As you know last year was challenging for everyone. When the stay-at-home order was enacted in March the RMAG quickly pivoted to online events to meet both the needs of our members and the greater geoscience community as well as to honor our sponsors’ commitment to the RMAG. Over the course of the year we hosted over 100 virtual events which included short courses, symposia, workshops, Members in Transition (MiT) talks, monthly member online lunch talks, virtual trivia and networking nights, the Geohike Challenge virtual scavenger hunt, and two virtual field trips. These events earned us new members while expanding our reach not only throughout the US but also internationally to England, Egypt, and Brazil, and we could not have achieved that without your help.

With the assistance of the RMAG Foundation, we provided student scholarships and professional development reimbursements to assist our geologic community.

Your sponsorship dollars also support our excellent publications including the monthly Outcrop newsletter, the quarterly Mountain Geologist journal, and our special publications such as Subsurface Cross Sections of Southern Rocky Mountain Basins. We recognized your financial commitment with website and publication advertising as well as through social media and before each online event. With a LinkedIn group of over 2600 members, in addition to the virtual events, we made our sponsors visible to the geoscience community in the absence of in-person gatherings.

We are in the process of planning our continuing education calendar for 2021 and we need your help to continue our programs. We can’t wait to see you all in person again but until then we will not miss a beat!

At this time we are planning both virtual and in-person events that will continue to prominently feature our Summit Sponsors. We have booked our annual golf tournament at Arrowhead Golf Club for September this year and are looking at dates for our sporting clay tournament. We will also have our Geohike Challenge and hope to host Trivia and Networking Night live monthly sometime in 2021.

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We and the staff of RMAG wish you all a successful and prosperous 2021 and look forward to seeing you at our events.

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RMAG FEBRUARY BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

By Jessica Davey, Secretary jessica.davey@sproule.com

more information and a link to register! The Publications Committee is always on the lookout for more articles, so get writing! The On the Rocks Committee has an impressive slate of tentative field trips planned for the year; keep an eye on the RMAG website for updates as the trips are listed for registration. The Educational Outreach Committee is looking forward to the Teacher of the Year Award for 2021; applications will be due the second week of June.

As I sit writing this overview, the weather outside here in Denver is sunny and warm (a balmy 60 degrees F!), especially compared to last week when we had our multi-day deep freeze. I find myself looking forward to summer activities, so I started planning a road trip to Yellowstone.

My parents took my sisters and me there when I was about nine years old, and I think my daughter is old enough to appreciate the trip and remember it. There are some amazing articles online about the various sites to see in Yellowstone; we stumbled across an article by National Geographic that caught our attention.

I’m hoping to see a geyser egg when we visit.

My daughter is secretly hoping we can bring one home to hatch and have our own baby geyser!

Have you visited Yellowstone? What was your favorite “attraction?”

It’s hard to believe March is almost here; 2021 is already flying by! I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day and that you have been able to enjoy some nice rocks recently!

The 2021 RMAG Board of Directors met virtually at 4 pm on Wednesday, February 17. Everyone was present for the meeting. Treasurer Rebecca Johnson Scrable reported that the RMAG financials are still looking good for the start of the year. Debby and Kathy continue to manage the RMAG operations remotely from their homes.

The Continuing Education Committee is busy filling up the monthly luncheon talk schedule; I have my fingers crossed that we can have some in-person lunches before the end of the year.

The Membership Committee is planning a 2021 Geohike Challenge to be kicked off in conjunction with AAPG this coming May; stay tuned for

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Practical Python for Earth Scientists Date: March 4, 2021 Location: Catalyst Health Tech Center (3513 Brighton Blvd, Denver, CO 80216); in-person with social distancing measures

In-person class 12 student limit

Instructors: Matthew Bauer, P.G., Zane Jobe & Thomas Martin Registration: csmspace.com/events/ practicalpython/registration.cpes Please note: Registration will be handled by Colorado School of Mines’ Continuing Education & Professional Development Department. Contact Learn@mines.edu with questions.

Who is this course for?

This course is tailored for geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, petroleum engineers, production engineers, landmen, and anyone else that would like to gain skills in practical python programming, data mining, and machine learning.

While this course will use examples from the petroleum industry, any earth scientist will benefit from learning about geospatial and subsurface data analysis.

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Introduce the python programing language for the geoscientist.

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PRESIDENT’S LETTER

By Cat Campbell

That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

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nomenclature update to Mount Soule.

The landform known as Mount Evans received its current name in 1895 to recognize the second territorial governor of Colorado, John Evans, who led from 1862 to 1865 (4). John Evans is accused of creating the climate that led to the massacre of more than 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho people camping at Sand Creek in 1864. He resigned from his position as governor following the massacre (5).

Mount Evans is more than a mountain to geoscientists. The ~1.4 Ga Mount Evans batholith is composed of a “main phase of massive to conspicuously foliated monzogranite and granodiorite and undeformed aplite and pegmatite” (6). There is the Mount Evans quad and the Mount Evans Wilderness. Countless hours have been spent by researchers understanding this unique geologic landform. What happens to this body of work if/when the name is replaced by Mount Soule?

As Shakespeare’s Juliet proclaims, a rose with or without its name will still smell just as sweet. She is expressing the concept that a name is merely a label distinguishing one object from another. The incredible efforts put into understanding the ~1.4 Ga batholith, whether it is Mount Evans or Mount Soule, will still be just as important to the science of geology. Why not make it a name that does not honor the disgraced instigator of a massacre?

Name changes can be daunting. The tradition of women changing their last name to match their spouse’s can cause confusion. I still stumble sometimes looking up papers written by friends before

How important is a name as an identifier? Naming creates familiarity, which leads to emotions and connections. This can be an association with a place such as your field area for your thesis or your first 14er, with mentions of the place bringing up tales of adventure and excitement to be told over a beer. But what if the name evokes something much worse? What if the name represents an oppressor to your heritage? This topic truly made me pause and consider my personal position on this subject, which I am exploring and expressing here.

Governor Jared Polis established the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board through executive order in July of last year (1). The action was in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the growing outrage around localities named in honor of individuals with controversial histories, including ties to the genocide of Indigenous peoples and other minority groups. The Board evaluates proposals concerning names and then makes recommendations to the governor for further action with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which has the final say on the names of federal locations (2).

This 15-person panel, composed of representatives from History Colorado, the Colorado General Assembly, Colorado Geological Survey, and local governments and tourism boards to name a few, first met in September of last year. The list of names under consideration for change as of December 2020 includes seven summits, three streams, four reservoirs, and three valleys (3). The most recognizable name on the list, at least to this author, is Mount Evans, with a proposed

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PRESIDENT’S LETTER 1. https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/gov-jared-polis-names-advisory-board-on-geographical-names/article_7f8033b4-bca1-11ea-876f3bdebb483fbb.html 2. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f2pyHlYFEEE5TmaZrychEyWzO6SAAP3W/ view 3. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V9Nn6q3NSnfPCbFrdeQjlJgLSY9YHEKBoMryCYvavRo/ edit#gid=1031673191 4. https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/arp/recreation/?cid=stelprdb5369984#:~:text=In%20 1895%2C%20the%20mountain%20was,peak%20 about%20three%20miles%20southeast.

5. https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/ john-evans 6. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Mount-Evans-batholith-inthe-Colorado-Front-of-Aleinikoff-Reed/ fab286f2bb8ca5b084df67b1c39d398ad006cf90

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they were married. The nice thing is we live in a world full of easy access to information. A quick search on LinkedIn or Facebook and I can figure out answers to my questions. The same will be true via a search engine for finding the link between Mount Soule and Mount Evans.

The issue of where to draw the line still stands.

2020 was an historic year in countless ways, including the cultural shift in awareness of the inequalities faced by minorities. Statues of Confederate leaders were removed by local leadership and protestors, with wide (but far from universal) support.

On the other hand, the San Francisco school district has pledged to rename schools named for flawed but iconic American leaders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Is there a middle ground?

What do you think? How do we find balance with looking at imperfect characters from our history as teachable moments as we name monuments after them?

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UINTA ENIGMA

The Duchesne Fault Zone and Its Impact on the Development of the Uinta Basin

BY RILEY BRINKERHOFF Wasatch Energy Management, 3319 N University Ave, Suite 200, Provo, Utah 84604; rbrinkerhoff@wemenergy.com; Douglas A. Sprinkel, Aztec Geosolutions, 3260 N 1350 W, Pleasant View, Utah 84414, sprinkel@aztecageo.com

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t’s easy to believe that there is not much left to discover in geology, especially in the continental U.S., where so many aspects of geology have been studied many times over by many great geologists. That impression is usually reinforced by the constant influx of journal articles that focus on a particular facet of a much larger stratigraphic or structural story. It is further strengthened by the hundreds of citations of previous work by geologists that have re-examined the same geologic feature. But the truth is that the Earth is a massive place and has only been cursorily explored in most places. Utah is no different! Since the investigations by the early great surveys of the western U.S., thousands of geologists have crawled all over the West, researching everything from economic resources like mining, oil and gas, and hydrothermal prospects to regional stratigraphy and structural geology. Discoveries from these endeavors have been published in journals, government reports and maps. Moreover, Utah has an excellent state survey that

regularly publishes new research. Even with all these publications and surveys, there are many well-exposed geologic features left to be fully researched.

A great example is the Duchesne Fault Zone (DFZ). Located just south of the center of the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah, the surface exposure is a 40 mile long system of en-echelon grabens that cut through the middle of the Green River oil play (figures 1 and 2). The en-echelon pattern was formed early in the DFZ’s history through compressional and transpressional shear on individual faults being progressively transferred to the adjoining right-stepping faults within the system. Approximately 2,100 oil wells have been drilled within a mile of one of the surface strands of the fault zone, but little has been published concerning its structural history, kinematics, or effects on oil and gas production. Fortunately, it was not difficult to find the features that point to a long structural history that drove large syndepositional sedimentary trends of the Eocene Green River Formation within the ancient

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parallels most of the graben along the DFZ’s southern margin. Sandstone beds adjacent to the DFZ are commonly saturated with dead oil, and the easternmost traces of the DFZ are pervasively intruded with gilsonite. Springs and oil seeps are found along traces of the DFZ. Early oil and gas prospectors could not help but notice the hydrocarbon indicators along the fault zone, and a few small discoveries were made in the fractured rocks within the DFZ. Slickensides, fractures, and fault-plane data indicate a complex kinematic history along the DFZ (figure 3). Slickenside orientation ranges from horizontal and oblique, recording strike-slip compressional-transpressional movement, to the more prominent vertical dip-slip slickensides recording extensional movement. In a few places, the horizontal and oblique slickensides are overprinted by vertical slickensides, which strongly suggest that the stress regime that influenced fault motion changed

Lake Uinta, recorded the changes in stress regimes in the Uinta Basin. These factors are crucial in driving oil production trends in this area, as described in this article.

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

The DFZ is not a subtle feature. The grabens and related faults are clearly visible on aerial photographs and satellite imagery (figure 2). The DFZ is also unmistakable on the ground, as the grabens are bounded by topographical escarpments of up to 20 feet in some areas. The fault zone changes character along the length of its traces from west to east.

In the western part of the fault system, the grabens are wider and well-defined. The eastern part lacks the well-defined grabens and consists mostly of narrow, parallel vertical normal faults, surface parallel and oblique lineaments, and transpressional ridges.

A prominent asymmetrical footwall syncline closely

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is a 40-mile-long east-west-trending fault system. (B) The fault traces of the DFZ are marked in red. Note the en-echelon pattern. Some of the fault traces appear to be discontinuous because they are concealed by surficial deposits and modern agriculture. Also note the generally straight, east-west nature of the fault zone. This generally parallels the trend of the Uinta Mountain structure to the north. Individual oil well pads are visible as small, lightcolored dots on a grid pattern.

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FIGURE 3: Most of the slickensides preserved on fault planes in the DFZ record dip-slip movement as part of the

latest phase of fault relaxation during Neogene extension. However, slickensides preserved on fault planes at some locations have horizontal and oblique orientations that indicate an earlier phase of strike-slip and oblique-slip motion.

(A) Uninterpreted fault surface with slickensides. View is to the north. (A′) Interpretation of same fault surface showing nearly horizontal slickensides created from lateral slip. Slickensides are highlighted with blue lines, with arrow showing direction of motion. (B) Uninterpreted fault surface showing multiple set sets of slickensides. (B′) Interpretation of same fault surface highlighting the slickensides with blue lines to show different periods of motion.

One set show predominantly extensional dip-slip movement overprinted on transpressional oblique-slip movement.

Arrows show the direction of motion. We interpret the dextral-oblique slip as the older phase, which then rotates nearly 90° to slightly sinistral-oblique slip.

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over time. Similarly, Riedel shears appear to have been formed from lateral movements of the fault, even though many are now found adjacent to normal faults that formed under extension. Fault-plane data indicate the average strike is 267° whereas the average strike of conjugate faults and Riedel shears are about 40°. Average fault-plane dip is 69° with maximum and minimum dips of 89° and 14°, respectively.

Fault-plane geometry also changes from west to east.

Fault-plane attitudes in the western grabens exhibit classic graben or half graben geometries: the faults that form the south margin dip north and the faults on the north margin dip south. In contrast, the faults on both margins of the narrow grabens dip north in the eastern part of the DFZ. Previous work on the DFZ suggested that vertical offset in the fault zone dies out at a shallow depth based on two models discussed in Groeger and Bruhn (2001). Using their detachment fault model, Groeger and Bruhn (2001) estimated that the master fault becomes listric and dies out at about 3,000 feet into shaley beds of the Green River Formation. In contrast, using a planar master fault model, they estimated the depth that the fault dies out to be about 4,500 feet. However, we think the DFZ penetrated basement rocks at depths greater than 20,000 feet based on well data, stratigraphic thickness to basement, and anomalous spikes in helium and hydrogen oil-gas data across several fault traces in the DFZ (Jones and Pirkle, 1981; Sprinkel, 2018a). The relative movement across the fault zone was complex as the amount of slip within any single fault decreased along its length as shear strain was transferred to adjoining, right-stepping faults. This complex transcurrent movement created small sag basins, also called pull-apart basins (figure 4). Careful correlation of markers within the Green River Formation shows distinct zones of remarkable growth strata, usually with 50 to 100 feet of additional thickness over an area of one to two miles. These sag basins only occur in distinct zones within the lower Green River Formation, particularly within the Uteland Butte member, the Long Point Bed, and the Carbonate Marker member, which provides evidence of punctuated intervals of movement along the fault zone in early Eocene time.

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GEOLOGIC HISTORY The DFZ is likely an ancient structure, possibly originating as a weak point during the assembly of Proterozoic terrains in Utah. Structural offset has been observed in seismic data along the fault zone in Mississippian rocks (Madison Limestone) dating from the early movement of the Late Paleozoic ancestral Rocky Mountain orogeny. During the late Mesozoic to early Paleogene Sevier orogeny, the DFZ was active again, with structural offset visible in Cretaceous marine stratigraphy. However, the focus of our research is on the slip that occurred during the Paleogene to Oligocene Laramide orogeny and deposition of the Eocene Green River Formation.

At that time, the regional deformation was caused by an eastward push of a descending slab of oceanic crust under western North America (Smith and others, 2014). The North American continent did not respond to this compression evenly, with weak places getting thrust upwards as mountains while adjacent regions descended as foreland basins. The Uinta Mountains rose as the largest Laramide block in Utah, causing the crust south of the mountains to subside and form the Uinta Basin. Continental stress and mountain building eventually caused the ancient weak zone along the DFZ to rupture and begin to slip parallel to the rising east-west-trending Uinta Mountain block. We know from horizontal slickensides and offset channel deposits within the Eocene Uinta Formation, which overlies the Green River Formation, that the fault slipped in a dextral motion, meaning that the northern block moved to the east (figure 5).

INTERPRETATION The DFZ is an important structural feature that aids the interpretation of many phenomena within the Uinta basin. Tightly spaced contours on structure maps clearly show that there is a sharp increase in structural dips of Green River stratigraphy at the fault zone, perhaps most easily shown by calculating a first-derivative structure map (figure 6). We observed in seismic reflection data that there is a change in dip of the stratigraphic section across the DFZ with shallow-dipping beds south of the DFZ and

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steeper-dipping beds to the north. Our interpretation is that the DFZ acted as a hinge during basin development. The increase in dip within the stratigraphic section reinforces the concept that the fault zone penetrated basement rocks and accommodated extensive subsidence in the developing Uinta Basin. Today, the DFZ is the southern boundary for the deep, overpressured portion of the petroleum system in the basin. Since fault movement on the DFZ was syndepositional with the Green River Formation, it significantly influenced depositional trends.

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deposition south of the DFZ whereas hyperpycnites (lacustrine turbidites) and deeper lacustrine mudstones dominate north of it. The Sunnyside delta was the largest deltaic system during Green River time, grading into the open-lacustrine facies of the

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The laterally offset features, called “pin points” by structural geologist, allow us to measure fault offset. This fault offset the exhumed channel ~600 ft. The roads and cleared areas are oil well pads within the Greater Monument Butte field.

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(C) Interpretive gamma-ray well cross section (A-A’) demonstrate the DFZ’s influence on the greater structural and Structure map of the top of the Uteland depositional trends in the Uinta Basin.

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equivalents) isopach map and (B) isopach map overlain on first-derivative structure-contour map. The increased accommodation space created as the basin subsided more rapidly to the north of the DFZ allowed greater volumes of lacustrine sediments to accumulate near the fault zone. This is well illustrated by map A. Note that the unit thickens just to the north and along the fault zone. Map B is an overlay of A with contours from the first derivative of the Uteland Butte structure map (map B of figure 7) to show the correlation of steepest dips related to the DFZ and the greatest accumulation of sediments, strongly suggesting that movement was syndepositional.

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A tectonic-structure map of northeastern Utah northwestern Colorado. lies in the center of the Uinta Basin, paralleling the and general structure of the LaramideNote aged that Uintathe DFZ uplif.Basin, To theparalleling west lie normal some reac5va5ng Sevier aged thrust to lies in the centerMountain of the Uinta the faults, general structure of the Laramide agedfaults, Uintarelated Mountain Neogene Basin and Range extension. To the east of the DFZ are Laramide thrusts and uplifs that have uplift. To the west lie normal faults, some reactivating Sevier aged thrust faults, related to Neogene Basin not undergone extension. The Uinta Basin-Mountain Boundary Fault to the north of the DFZ shows the and Range extension.

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Douglas Creek Member. This unit reached its greatest thicknesses on the north side of the DFZ structural hinge (figure 7A). Accommodation developed rapidly on the north side of the DFZ hinge point, forcing rivers in the prograding system to drop their sedimentary loads. By overlaying the first-derivative structure contour map on an isopach of the Douglas Creek interval (figure 7B), it is apparent that the member is thickest where the structural dips are the highest.

Studying the DFZ is just one piece of the tectonic puzzle in understanding the regional structural history of the Uinta Basin and Uinta Mountains (figure 8). The change in stress fields from compression-transpression to extension occurs at about the center of the DFZ. The wide grabens that characterize the western part of the fault zone are within the extended part of the basin. The eastern part of the DFZ includes the narrow grabens transpressional ridges and anticlines, and the vertical to steeply dipping north faults that reflect the relict Laramide stress regime. The changing tectonic stress fields within the DFZ are a microcosm of the regional

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stress change that has affected the Uinta Basin and Uinta Mountains as a whole. The western part of the basin is currently undergoing Neogene extension-driven Basin and Range deformation; however, Neogene extension does affect the eastern Uinta Mountains (Sprinkel, 2014, 2018b). In the western part of the basin, many of the reverse and thrust faults from the Sevier and Laramide orogenies The Uinta Basin-Mountain boundary fault zone (UB-MBFZ), about 20 miles north of the DFZ (figure 8), is a great example of this changing stress field. The eastern part of the UB-MBFZ still exhibits a compressional thrust orientation, whereas the western side of the fault has experienced significant extension (Sprinkel, 2018a). Modern stress data, mostly from image log-derived borehole-breakout data, show this change in stress (figure 9). Maximum horizontal stress on the eastern side of the basin trends northwest to southeast, parallel to the relict Laramide stresses. On the west side of the basin, maximum horizontal stress runs directly north-south, like the adjacent Basin and Range province.

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economically difficult (figure 10). Vertical-well completions within the fault zone tended to initially produce at impressive rates (figure 10B), but oil production would rapidly fall off as gas production rose.

Careful mapping of faults in these oil fields show that reservoirs were tightly compartmentalized. Natural fracturing associated with the fault zone likely created better total reservoir permeability, leading to the impressive initial production. However, as the total reservoir boundaries are limited by the tightly spaced faults in the DFZ, individual reservoirs would rapidly deplete. As these reservoirs are small, even moderate production led to a rapid decline of reservoir pressure, making them reach the bubble point early. At the bubble point, natural gas that is dissolved in the oil comes out of solution, leading to rapidly rising gas production rates and sharply falling oil production. Newfield, the operator that drilled

» CONTINUED FROM PAGE 26 IMPLICATIONS FOR OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT The development of horizontal drilling allowed operators to target tight limestone reservoirs north of the DFZ within the central overpressured part of the Uinta Basin. Although the current unconventional oil development is north of the DFZ (figure 1) in the overpressured area, there is active conventional oil development south of and within the DFZ. The best production from conventional oil development is south of the DFZ within the deltaic reservoirs. Since deltaic sediments north of the DFZ are poorly organized and sand-poor, conventional drilling struggled to find significant reservoir beyond relatively minor turbidite flows. Unfortunately, vertical drilling within the DFZ itself has its own problems that have made oil and gas development

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The famous geologists of a century ago did great work, but they only scratched the surface of all the geology in the Rockies. Exploring the Duchesne Fault Zone ended up being a lot of fun, especially finding evidence for lateral motion, such as the offset paleochannels, that had not been documented before. The deeper we dive into the details of the amazing geology around us, the more firsts that we can find and document ourselves.

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many of the wells within this area, approved the development program based on the early-time, high initial production (IP) rates. Unfortunately, it only became clear after drilling 45 wells that the IPs were misleading, and the entire project became something of an economic disaster for the company.

CONCLUSIONS

After pulling together all the disparate information about the DFZ, we constructed a timeline for the structural history of the fault and summarized potential oil development.

The DFZ began as a weak point in deep basement rocks, possibly related to the accretion and assembly of Precambrian terrains in Utah.

The DFZ is reactivated when large-scale tectonic stresses are placed on northeastern Utah, particularly during uplift of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains, the Sevier and Laramide orogenies, and Neogene Basin and Range extension.

The DFZ was active during deposition of the Green River Formation. Shear stresses related to the Laramide uplift of the Uinta Mountain Block and coincidental subsidence of the Uinta Basin created dextral shearing on the DFZ. The DFZ responded by becoming a hinge point for differential shearing on the DFZ hinge point, which created a larger accommodation space, resulting in thicker lacustrine deposits.

Sag or pull-apart basins also formed adjacent to and within the fault zone.

Compressional-transpressional movement on the DFZ ceased at end of the Laramide orogeny.

Neogene Basin and Range extension resulted in dip-slip movement along faults within the DFZ, creating the graben and half-graben geometries, and the noticeable topographic escarpment, especially in the western part of the fault system.

The Uinta Basin horizontal oil play is rapidly developing across the DFZ. The previous vertical well development has shown that while reservoirs have not experienced large vertical offsets from the fault, they have been compartmentalized. Operators would

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Jones, V.T., and Pirkle, R.J., 1981, Helium and hydrogen soil gas anomalies associated with deep or active faults [abs.]: American Chemical Society, 181st National Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, p. 1–10, http://www.eti-geochemistry.com/ helium/.

Smith, M.E., Carroll, A.R., Jicha, B.R., Cassel, E.J., and Scott, J.J., 2014, Paleogeographic record of Eocene Farallon slab rollback beneath western North America: Geology, v. 42, no. 12, p.

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IN THE PIPELINE MARCH 3, 2021 RMAG Online Luncheon.

Speaker: Ward Polzin.

“Weathering the Storm: Our Fast- Changing Oil and Gas Environment.” Online via RingCentral Meetings.

MARCH 4, 2021 COGA 5th Annual Oil and Gas Day at the Capitol.

Virtual Event via Zoom. See coga,org to register.

RMAG Short Course.

“Practical Python for Earth Scientists.” Catalyst Tech Center, Denver, CO.

MiT Online Talk.

“Emerging Opportunities & Marketplace for CO2 Sequestration: University of North Dakota EERC Leading the Way on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage.” Online via RingCentral.

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

system of the offshore Gulf of Sirte, Cyrenaica, and Mediterranean region Salah S. El-Ekhfifi Virtual event via Zoom, 9:00 - 10:30AM MARCH 16, 2021

MiT Online Talk.

“Changing Regulations and Expected Impacts on the Oil and Gas Industry”

DWLS Webinar.

“Pressure-Dependent Permeability of Shale Reservoirs and Implications for Estimated Ultimate Recovery.”

Call Dominic Holmes at 303770-4235. Or register online.

MARCH 12, 2021

MARCH 17, 2021

Dips Presentation.

Spotlight on the petroleum

Denver Petroleum Club Networking Happy Hour.

MARCH 11, 2021

WELCOME NEW RMAG MEMBERS!

Derek Bammel

lives in Denver, Colorado.

Riley Brinkerhoff

is an Exploration Manager at Wasatch Energy and lives in Provo, Utah.

Jane Crouch

is Vice President and Landman at White Eagle Exploration, Inc. and lives in Golden, Colorado.

Hazel Gordon

lives in Longmont, Colorado.

Naveed Iqbal

is a Research student at University of Regina and lives in Calgary, Alberta.

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Cosmas Kujjo

is a VAP at Marquette University and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

Reza Nazarian

works at PetroVision Energy Services and lives in Crawley, West Sussex, UK.

Kyle Newman

is a Geologist at King Canyon Buffalo, Inc. / Earth Science Agency and lives in Denver, Colorado.

David Pollitt

is Director of Geoscience at C&C Reservoirs and lives in Silverton, Colorado.

Rasoul Sorkhabi

is a Professor at University of Utah.

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Austin Sorscher

is a Graduate Student at CU Boulder and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Jordan Toney

works at AARON SCOTT TONEY and lives in Gainesville, Florida.

Bruce Trudgill

is a professor at Colorado School of Mines and lives in Rollinsville, Colorado.

Zakory Ward

is a Geoscientist at WPX Energy and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Kenneth Watson

is a Grad Student at Colorado School of Mines and lives in Bellaire, Texas.

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S E P T E M B E R 15 2021

2021

RMAG GOLF

TOURNAMENT

1:30pm Shotgun at Arrowhead Golf Club

Registration includes entry, 18-holes of golf, cart, dinner, & entry to win great door prizes

Registration open!

Teams of 4 and Individuals are welcome to register.

Member Individual: $150 Non-Member Individual: $175

Member Team: $600 Non-Member Team: $700

email: staff@rmag.org

phone: 800.970.7624

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CALENDAR – MARCH 2021 SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

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WEDNESDAY

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3 RMAG Online Luncheon.

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THURSDAY

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16 DWLS Webinar.

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RMAG Short Course.

MiT Online Talk.

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DIPS Presentation.

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Denver Petroleum Club Networking Happy Hour.

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SATURDAY

COGA Oil and Gas Day

MiT Online Talk.

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FRIDAY

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