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academic, industry, and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists.  The overall goal of \nthe study was to construct a subsurface transect of mid-Cretaceous strata that were \ndeposited in the U.S. Western Interior Seaway (WIS), ranging from pelagic, \norganic-carbon rich, marine hydrocarbon source rocks in Kansas and eastern Colorado to \nnearshore, coal-bearing units in western Colorado and Utah.  This transect of cores has \nprovided the basis for paleoenvironmental interpretation of organic-carbon burial in an \nepicontinental, foreland basin  setting.  In part, the objectives of our study were \nmotivated by the research emphases outlined by the Cretaceous Rhythms, Events and Resources (CRER) \nProject of the Global Sedimentary Geology Program.\n\nIn particular, the papers in this volume focus on the Graneros Shale, Greenhorn Formation, \nCarlile Shale, and Niobrara Formation and equivalents in cores from drillholes from western \nKansas, eastern Colorado, and eastern Utah.  This series of cores provides unweathered \nsamples and continuous, smooth exposures required for geochemical studies, mineralogical \ninvestigations, and biostratigraphic studies.  \n\nInformation for the eastern end of the transect was obtained from a hole that was drilled in\n1988 and continuously cored (with better than 90% recovery) by Amoco Production Company in \nwestern Kansas (Amoco Rebecca K. Bounds #1, Greeley County, Kansas).  A Core from the \nwestern end of the transect was obtained in 1991 when the USGS drilled and continuously \ncored (with better than 98% recovery) a hole in the Kaiparowits Basin near the town of \nEscalante in south central Utah (USGS Escalante #1)    A third hole (USGS Portland #1), \nwas drilled by the USGS and continuously cored (with essentially 100% recovery) in \nCretaceous strata in the Cañon City Basin near Florence, Colorado.  A fourth hole was \noriginally planned for the San Juan Basin in southwestern Colorado.  The need for this \nhole was eliminated when Mark Leckie and colleagues continuously trenched a section of the \nMancos Shale at the northern border of Mesa Verde National Park between Durango and Cortez, \nColorado.  Other outcrop sections of Mancon Shale and age-equivalent strata also were \nsampled and studied by Leckie and colleagues, and their results are reported in the \nSEPM volume.  Other pre-existing cores that were used for parts of the study include \nPlains Resources Schock Errington #1, Sherman County, Kansas; Coquina Oil Corporation \nBerthoud State #3 and #4, Larimer County, Colorado; and Princeton University PU79 near \nPueblo, Colorado.   All cores are presently archived in the USGS Core Research Center \n(USGS-CRC) in Denver.\n\nAmoco Bounds Core\n\n\tThe Amoco Production Company, Rebecca K. Bounds #1 well was drilled in March of 1988 \nin Section 17, T18S, R42W, Greeley County, Kansas, to a total depth (TD) of 2645 feet \n(806 meters).  Ground level elevation was 3824 feet (1166 meters).  The hole was \ncontinuously cored from a depth of 522 feet (159 meters) to TD using Amoco's slim-hole \nhigh-speed advanced drilling system (SHADS) also known as stratigraphic high-speed \nadvanced drilling system.  Coring began in the middle of the Smoky Hill Member (Santonian) \nof the Niobrara Formation and bottomed in the Mississippian.  In January, 1992, the \nCretaceous part of the Bounds core (522 -1495 feet; 159-456 meters) was released by \nAmoco and shipped to the USGS-CRC in Denver.  The core was slabbed at the USGS-CRC, \nand a 2-cm-thick slab of the core is archived there.  \n\nUSGS Escalante Core\n\n\tThe USGS Escalante #1 well was drilled by the USGS in June of 1991 in Section 36, \nT35S, R2W, Garfield County, Utah, to a total depth (TD) of 910 feet (277 meters).   \nGround level elevation was 6000 feet (1829 meters).  The hole was continuously cored and \nlogged to TD.  Coring recovered all of the Cenomanian/Turonian Tropic Shale, the bottom \nof the overlying Tibbet Canyon Member of the Straight Cliffs Formation, and the top of the \nunderlying Dakota Group.\n\nUSGS Portland Core\n\n\tThe USGS Portland #1 well was drilled by the USGS in June and July of 1992  on the \nquarry property of Ideal Cement (Holnam Corp.) in Section 2, T19S, R68W, near the town of \nFlorence in Fremont County, Colorado, to a total depth (TD) of 700 feet (213 meters).  \nGround level elevation was 5200 feet (1585 meters).  The hole was continuously cored and \nlogged to TD.  Coring began in the middle of the Smoky Hill Member of the Niobrara Formation\nand bottomed in the top of the Dakota Group.\n\nCoquina Oil Berthoud State Cores\n\n\tThe Coquina Oil Corporation Berthoud State #3 and #4 wells in the Berthoud oil field \nnorth of Fort Collins, Colorado, also are not formally part of the Western Interior Seaway \nDrilling Project, but geochemical data on samples of the Niobrara and Greenhorn Formations \nfrom cores from these wells are presented by Dean and Arthur.  The wells are located in \nSection 16, T9N, R69W, Larimer County, Colorado.  Total depth (TD) was 3500 feet \n(1067 meters).  Ground level elevation was 5019 feet (1530 meters).\n\nPrinceton University PU79 Core\n\n\tA core of the Greenhorn Formation was collected by Al Fischer, then at Princeton \nUniversity near the Pueblo Reservoir, Pueblo County, Colorado.  Geochemical data on samples \nfrom this core are presented by Dean and Arthur.  \n\nLeckie  Outcrop Data\n\n\tData are presented by Leckie et al. on abundances of planktic and benthic foraminifera,\nand percentages of clay minerals in samples of Mancos Shale and the age-equivalent Bridge Creek\nLimestone Member of the Greenhorn Formation from outcrop sections at Lohali Point, northeastern\nArizona, Mesa Verde National Park, southwestern Colorado, and Rock Canyon near Pueblo, \nsoutheastern Colorado.  ","version":"1.0","xmlId":"2495"}