This course is designed to give an overview of the Michigan Basin as it relates to petroleum geology. It will focus on the primary literature (journal articles and special publications). Buddy Wylie and/or I (Jackie Huntoon) will be prepared to lead most of the discussions, but in order for discussion to occur everyone must have read the material and taken time to think about it before class. To ensure that all the reading is done, a short quiz will be administered at the start of each class period. These quizzes will not be difficult. They are meant only to encourage everyone to read the articles. What do you discuss in a discussion? Things you don’t understand (maybe someone else does and you can learn from them), ways that the techniques or other information could be applied in addition to the ways described in the paper. What you learned from the paper. Just about anything can count as discussion. Your grade in the course will be based primarily on your contribution to the course. The quizzes will only count 25% toward your grade.

Monday: no required reading

Wednesday: Reszka, C.R., Jr., 1991, The Michigan basin: in, Gluskoter, H.J., Rice, D.D., and Taylor, R.B., eds., Economic Geology, U.S.: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. P-2, p. 287-300.

Monday: Catacosinos, P.A., Daniels, P.A., Jr., and Harrison, W.B., III, 1991, Structure, stratigraphy and petroleum geology of the Michigan basin, in Leighton, M.W., Kolata, D.R., Olitz, D.F., and Eidel, J., eds., Interior Cratonic Basins: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 51, p. 561-602.

Wednesday: Gutschick, R. C., and Sandberg, C. A., 1991, Upper Devonian biostratigraphy of Michigan Basin, in Catacosinos, P. A., and Daniels, P. A. Jr., eds., Early sedimentary evolution of the Michigan Basin: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 256, p. 155-179.

Monday: Nunn, J. A., and Sleep, N. H., 1984, Thermal contraction and flexure of intracratonic basins: a three-dimensional study of the Michigan Basin: Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 76, p. 587-635.

Wednesday: Howell, P. D., and van der Pluijm, B. A., 1999, Structural sequences and styles of subsidence in the Michigan Basin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, no. 7, p. 974-991.

Monday: Cercone, K.R., 1991, Thermal maturity of the Michigan basin, in, Catacosinos, P.A., and Daniels, P.A., Jr., eds., Early sedimentary evolution of the Michigan Basin: Geological Society of America Special Paper 256, p. 1-11.

Wednesday: Everham, W.D. and Huntoon, J.E., 1999, Thermal history of a deep well in the Michigan basin: Implications for a complex burial history, in, Forster, A. and Merriam, D.F., eds., Geothermics in Basin Analysis: New York, NY, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, p. 177-202.

Monday: TWO PAPERS

1) Fisher, J. H., Barratt, M. W., Droste, J. B., and others, 1988, Michigan Basin, in Sloss, L. L., ed., Sedimentary Cover - North American Craton U.S.: Boulder, CO, The Geology of North America, p. 361-382.

2) Hinze, W. J., and Merritt, D. W., 1969, Basement rocks of the southern peninsula of Michigan , in Stonehouse, H. B., ed., Studies of the Precambrian of the Michigan Basin: Michigan Basin Geological Society Annual Field Excursion, p. 28-59.

Wednesday: Catacosinos, P. A., 1973, Cambrian lithostratigraphy of Michigan Basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 57, no. 12, p. 2404-2418.

Monday: TWO PAPERS

1) Fisher, J. H., and Barratt, M. W., 1985, Exploration in Ordovician of central Michigan Basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 69, no. 12, p. 2065-2076.

2) Barnes, D. A., Harrison, W. B. III, and Shaw, T. H., 1996, Lower-Middle Ordovician lithofacies and interregional correlation, Michigan Basin, U.S.A., in Witzke, B. J., Ludvigson, G. A., and Day, J., eds., Paleozoic Sequence Stratigraphy: Views from the North American Craton: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 306, p. 35-54.

Wednesday: TWO PAPERS

1) Budai, J. M., and Wilson, J. L., 1991, Diagenetic history of the Trenton and Black River Formations in the Michigan Basin, in Catacosinos, P. A., and Daniels, P. A. Jr., eds., Early sedimentary evolution of the Michigan Basin: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 256, p. 73-88.

2) Hurley, N. F., and Budros, R., 1990, Albion-Scipio and Stoney Point Fields - U.S.A. Michigan Basin, in Beaumont, E. A., and Foster, N. H., eds., Stratigraphic Traps I: Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Treatise of Petroleum Geology Atlas of Oil ad Gas Fields, p. 1-32.

Monday: TWO PAPERS

1) Shaver, R. H., 1996, Silurian sequence stratigraphy in the North American craton, Great Lakes area, in Witzke, B. J., Ludvigson, G. A., and Day, J., eds., Paleozoic Sequence Stratigraphy: Views from the North American Craton: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special paper 306, p. 193-202.

2) Friedman, G. M., and Kopaska-Merkel, D. C., 1991, Late Silurian pinnacle reefs of the Michigan Basin, in Catacosinos, P. A., and Daniels, P. A. Jr., eds., Early sedimentary evolution of the Michigan Basin: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 256, p. 89-100.

Wednesday: TWO PAPERS

1) Sonnenfeld, P., and Al-Aasm, I., 1991, The Salina evaporites in the Michigan Basin, in Catacosinos, P. A., and Daniels, P. A. Jr., eds., Early sedimentary evolution of the Michigan Basin: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 256, p. 139-153.

2) Caughlin, W. G., Lucia, F. J., and McIver, N. L., 1976, The detection and development of Silurian reefs in northern Michigan: Geophysics, v. 41, no. 4, p. 646-658.

Monday: Gardner, W. C., 1974, Middle Devonian stratigraphy and depositional environmnents in the Michigan Basin: Michigan Basin Geological Society Special Paper No. 1, 138 p.

Wednesday: Gutschick, R. C., and Sandberg, C. A., 1991, Late Devonian history of Michigan Basin, in Catacosinos, P. A., and Daniels, P. A. Jr., eds., Early sedimentary evolution of the Michigan Basin: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 256, p. 181-202.

Monday: Harrell, J. A., Hatfield, C. B., and Gunn, G. R., 1991, Mississippian System of the Michigan Basin; Stratigraphy sedimentology, and economic geology, in Catacosinos, P. A., and Daniels, P. A. Jr., eds., Early sedimentary evolution of the Michigan Basin: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 256, p. 203-219.

Wednesday: Vugrinovich, R., 1984, Lithostratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Pennsylvanian Rocks and the Bayport Formation of the Michigan Basin: Lansing, MI, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Geological Survey Division Report of Investigation 27, 33 p.