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Field Seminars

Fractures, Folds, and Faults in Thrusted Terrains: Sawtooth Range, Montana

INSTRUCTOR S :

William B. Hansen, Jireh Consulting Services, Great Falls, MT; Steve Boyer, Consultant, Tacoma, WA; Chuck Kluth, Kluth & Associates, Littleton, CO; Jim Sears, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

INSTRUCTOR LOOKUP

DATES:

July 19 - 24, 2010

LOCATION:

Begins and ends in Great Falls, Montana

TUITION:

$2,700.00 Sign Up Now
Goes up to $2800 after 6/21/2010. Includes lunches, transportation, guidebooks, admission to Glacier National Park, and some additional meals.
No refunds for cancellations after 6/21/2010.

LIMIT:

20 people

CONTENT:

4.2 CEU What is a CEU?

Who Should Attend

Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, log analysts, engineers, and exploration and development managers who want a thorough understanding of the geology and geophysics involved in exploration and production in thrust belts.

Objectives and Content

• Examine the mechanics of fracturing, folding, and faulting in thrust belt terrains.
• Review new ideas of the geometry and kinematics of the development of thrust belts with examples from the spectacular Sawtooth Range of northwest Montana.
• Compare seismic interpretation with outcrop examples and review drilling practices in a "frontier" (Montana) exploration thrust belt province.
• Review stratigraphic concepts which are essential in the exploration of thrust belt targets.

This field seminar is unique in that it offers the participant the opportunity to interact with a number of instructors who have several decades of experience working in thrust belts of the world. It focuses on the practical issues of exploration and production of hydrocarbons in thrust belts, with the Montana Thrust Belt as the backdrop. It will emphasize how these concepts can be applied worldwide, where overthrust terrains are increasingly important exploration targets.

The course will integrate concepts of exploration, including a review of fractured reservoir models, structural geology, stratigraphy, and hydrocarbon assessment. The spectacular geology of the Montana Sawtooth Range (an exhumed duplex) will serve as the backdrop for this field seminar. Time in the field will be bolstered by periodic classroom sessions on structural geology concepts, fractured reservoirs, and other issues the explorationist can expect to encounter in thrust belt exploration.

The seminar will involve traverses to examine multiple thrust sheets exposed in Sun River Canyon, the famous Teton Anticline, and an outstanding example of an exposed fractured reservoir along a fault-propagated fold in Mississippian carbonates at Swift Reservoir. Discussions will involve new ideas on the geometry and kinematics of thrust sheets and how they might influence exploration strategies in those settings.

Discussions will also include the varied undiscovered natural gas resource estimates for the Montana Disturbed Belt, and the methodology involved when estimating resources in frontier exploration provinces. The seminar will continue northward to Glacier National Park, with a cross-section view of the Lewis Thrust, the Chief Mountain klippe, discussions of drilling on the nearby Blackfeet Indian Reservation and the historical giant gas field production across the border in Alberta, and conclude with a geologic transect along the scenic Going-to-the-Sun Highway of Glacier National Park.