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1 Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Editorial Note to Reader About the Editors Map Acknowledgements Preface i ii iii iv v viii ix xx Introduction Richard D. Fritz Paleogeography of the Great American Carbonate Bank of Laurentia in the Earliest Ordovician (Early Tremadocian): The Stonehenge Transgression James R. Derby, Robert J. Raine, Anthony C. Runkel, and M. Paul Smith Biostratigraphy and Chronostratigraphy of the Cambrian Ordovician Great American Carbonate Bank John F. Taylor, John E. Repetski, James D. Loch, and Stephen A. Leslie Sequence Stratigraphy of the Great American Carbonate Bank William A. Morgan The Great Lower Ordovician Cavern System F. Jerry Lucia A Brief Overview of the Diversity and Patterns in Bioturbation Preserved in the Cambrian Ordovician Carbonate and Siliciclastic Deposits of Laurentia Stephen T. Hasiotis Petroleum Resources of the Great American Carbonate Bank Charles A. Sternbach Mississippi Valley-type Mineralization and Ore Deposits in the Cambrian Ordovician Great American Carbonate Bank Jay M. Gregg and Kevin L. Shelton xi

2 a Extended Abstract Biostratigraphy of Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Strata in the Llano Uplift, Central Texas James F. Miller, James D. Loch, and John F. Taylor a Extended Abstract The Geology of the Arbuckle Group in the Midcontinent: Sequence Stratigraphy, Reservoir Development, and the Potential for Hydrocarbon Exploration Richard D. Fritz, Patrick Medlock, Michael J. Kuykendall, and James Lee Wilson a Extended Abstract Ordovician of the Sauk Megasequence in the Ozark Region of Northern Arkansas and Parts of Missouri and Adjacent States Raymond L. Ethington, John E. Repetski, and James R. Derby a Extended Abstract Great American Carbonate Bank: Knox Group in the Black Warrior Basin Richard D. Fritz, Patrick Medlock, Michael Kuykendal, and James Lee Wilson a Extended Abstract The Middle Ordovician Knox Unconformity in the Black Warrior Basin Gary S. Dwyer and John E. Repetski a Extended Abstract Cambrian Lower Middle Ordovician Passive Carbonate Margin, Southern Appalachians J. Fred Read and John E. Repetski a Extended Abstract Sequential Development of Platform to Off-platform Facies of the Great American Carbonate Bank in the Central Appalachians David K. Brezinski, John F. Taylor, and John E. Repetski a Extended Abstract High-energy Shelf-margin Carbonate Facies: Microbial Sheet Reefs, Endolites, and Intraclast Grainstone Ledger Formation (Middle Cambrian), Pennsylvania Carol B. de Wet, Dave Hopkins, Michael Rahnis, Megan Murphy, and Rachel Dvoretsky a Extended Abstract The Great American Carbonate Bank in Eastern Laurentia: Its Births, Deaths, and Linkage to Paleooceanic Oxygenation (Early Cambrian Late Ordovician) Ed Landing a Historical Note The Great American Carbonate Bank in the Northern Appalachians: Cambrian Ordovician (Sauk), Albany Basin, New York Gerald M. Friedman a Extended Abstract The Great American Carbonate Bank in Eastern Canada: An Overview Denis Lavoie, André Desrochers, George Dix, Ian Knight, and Osman Salad Hersi xii

3 a Extended Abstract Regional Stratigraphic, Depositional, and Diagenetic Patterns of the Interior of St. Lawrence Platform: The Lower Ordovician Romaine Formation, Western Anticosti Basin, Quebec André Desrochers, Denis Lavoie, Patricia Brennan-Alpert, and Guoxiang Chi a Extended Abstract The Sauk-Tippecanoe Megasequence Boundary in an Interior Structural Corridor (Ottawa Embayment) of the Great American Carbonate Bank George R. Dix a Extended Abstract Biostratigraphic Constraints on Chronostratigraphic Intraformational Relationships within the Lower Middle Ordovician Beekmantown Group, Laurentian Margin: Eastern Ontario and Southwestern Quebec, Canada Osman Salad Hersi a Extended Abstract Sequence Stratigraphy of the Scottish Laurentian Margin and Recognition of the Sauk Megasequence Robert J. Raine and M. Paul Smith a Extended Abstract Development of the Lower Cambrian Middle Ordovician Carbonate Platform: North Atlantic Region Svend Stouge, William D. Boyce, David A. T. Harper, Jørgen L. Christiansen, and Ian Knight a Extended Abstract The Lower Cambrian to Lower Ordovician Carbonate Platform and Shelf Margin, Canadian Arctic Islands Keith Dewing and Godfrey Nowlan a Extended Abstract Cambrian Ordovician Sedimentary Rocks of Alaska Julie A. Dumoulin and Anita G. Harris a Extended Abstract Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Sauk Megasequence of Northwestern Canada, Northern Rocky Mountains to the Beaufort Sea Leanne J. Pyle a Extended Abstract Middle Cambrian Middle Ordovician Rocks of Western Canada, Latitude 49 to the Peace River B. S. Norford a Extended Abstract Overview of Lower Cambrian Mixed Carbonate-siliciclastic Deposition along the Western Laurentian Passive Margin Michael C. Pope, John Stewart Hollingsworth, and Kelly Dilliard a Extended Abstract Sauk Megasequence Deposition in Northeastern Washington, Northern Idaho, and Western Montana John H. Bush, Robert C. Thomas, and Michael C. Pope xiii

4 a Extended Abstract The Great American Carbonate Bank in the Miogeocline of Western Central Utah: Tectonic Influences on Sedimentation James F. Miller, Kevin R. Evans, and Benjamin F. Dattilo a Gamma-ray Cross Sections Correlation of Steptoean Strata in the Eastern Great Basin Using Outcrop Gamma-ray Profiles Kevin R. Evans a Well Study Sauk III-IV Interval in the American Quasar 16-21A Horse Heaven-State Well, Confusion Range, West-Central Utah Kevin R. Evans, James F. Miller, and Benjamin F. Dattilo Sauk Megasequence Supersequences, Southern Great Basin: Second-order Accommodation Events on the Southwestern Cordilleran Margin Platform Martin Keller, John D. Cooper, and Oliver Lehnert a Extended Abstract The Cambrian Ordovician Rocks of Sonora, Mexico, and Southern Arizona, Southwestern Margin of North America (Laurentia) William R. Page, Anita G. Harris, and John E. Repetski a Extended Abstract Digital Outcrop Model of Stratigraphy and Breccias of the Southern Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas Jerome A. Bellian, Charles Kerans, and John Repetski a Extended Abstract Facies Belts, Microfacies, and Karst Features of the Ellenburger Group, Kerr Basin, Texas: Observations Based on Cores Richard C. Geesaman and James Lee Wilson a Extended Abstract The Circum-Laurentian Carbonate Bank, the Western Ouachita-Cuyania Basin, and the Prodigal Llanoria Landmass Patricia Wood Dickerson a Extended Abstract The Argentine Precordillera: A Little American Carbonate Bank Martin Keller a Extended Abstract The Sauk Megasequence in the Cratonic Interior of North America: Interplay between a Fully Developed Inner Detrital Belt and the Central Great American Carbonate Bank Anthony C. Runkel, Robert M. McKay, Clinton A. Cowan, James F. Miller, and John F. Taylor a Extended Abstract The Sauk Megasequence from the Reelfoot Rift to Southwestern Missouri James Palmer, Thomas L. Thompson, Cheryl Seeger, James F. Miller, and Jay M. Gregg xiv

5 a Extended Abstract Arbuckle Group Platform Strata in Kansas: A Synthesis Evan K. Franseen and Alan P. Byrnes a Extended Abstract The Great American Bank in the Central Michigan Basin William B. Harrison III and G. Michael Grammer a Extended Abstract Evaluation of Knox Supergroup Dolostones as a Target for Carbon Dioxide Storage in Western Kentucky Michelle A. Pittenger, Charles T. Feazel, Govert J. Buijs, Ray R. Reid, and Paul W. Johnson a Extended Abstract Ordovician Knox Carbonates and Sandstones of the Eastern Midcontinent: Potential Geologic Carbon Storage Reservoirs and Seals Stephen F. Greb, J. Richard Bowersox, Michael P. Solis, David C. Harris, Ronald A. Riley, John A. Rupp, Mark Kelley, and Neeraj Gupta a Extended Abstract Unconformity, Karst, Hydrocarbons, Minerals, Environments, and Structures Present in the Cambrian Ordovician Knox Group in Kentucky: An Example from South-central Kentucky Patrick J. Gooding a Extended Abstract Upper Cambrian Gatesburg Formation of Central and Western Pennsylvania Christopher D. Laughrey and John A. Harper a Extended Abstract Great American Carbonate Bank Subsurface Stratigraphy in the Northern Appalachian Basin, New York State Langhorne B. Smith Jr. CD-ROM MATERIAL Chapter Introduction Richard D. Fritz Chapter Paleogeography of the Great American Carbonate Bank of Laurentia in the Earliest Ordovician (Early Tremadocian): The Stonehenge Transgression James R. Derby, Robert J. Raine, Anthony C. Runkel, and M. Paul Smith Chapter Biostratigraphy and Chronostratigraphy of the Cambrian Ordovician Great American Carbonate Bank John F. Taylor, John E. Repetski, James D. Loch, and Stephen A. Leslie Chapter Sequence Stratigraphy of the Great American Carbonate Bank William A. Morgan Chapter The Great Lower Ordovician Cavern System F. Jerry Lucia xv

6 Chapter A Brief Overview of the Diversity and Patterns in Bioturbation Preserved in the Cambrian Ordovician Carbonate and Siliciclastic Deposits of Laurentia Stephen T. Hasiotis Chapter Petroleum Resources of the Great American Carbonate Bank Charles A. Sternbach Chapter Mississippi Valley-type Mineralization and Ore Deposits in the Cambrian Ordovician Great American Carbonate Bank Jay M. Gregg and Kevin L. Shelton Chapter Biostratigraphy of Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Strata in the Llano Uplift, Central Texas James F. Miller, James D. Loch, and John F. Taylor Chapter The Geology of the Arbuckle Group in the Midcontinent: Sequence Stratigraphy, Reservoir Development, and the Potential for Hydrocarbon Exploration Richard D. Fritz, Patrick Medlock, Michael J. Kuykendall, and James L. Wilson Chapter Ordovician of the Sauk Megasequence in the Ozark Region of Northern Arkansas and Parts of Missouri and Adjacent States Raymond L. Ethington, John E. Repetski, and James R. Derby Chapter Great American Carbonate Bank: Knox Group in the Black Warrior Basin Richard D. Fritz, Patrick Medlock, Michael Kuykendal, and James Lee Wilson Chapter The Middle Ordovician Knox Unconformity in the Black Warrior Basin Gary S. Dwyer and John E. Repetski Chapter Cambrian Lower Middle Ordovician Passive Carbonate Margin, Southern Appalachians J. Fred Read and John E. Repetski Chapter Sequential Development of Platform to Off-platform Facies of the Great American Carbonate Bank in the Central Appalachians David K. Brezinski, John F. Taylor, and John E. Repetski Chapter High-energy Shelf-margin Carbonate Facies: Microbial Sheet Reefs, Endolites, and Intraclast Grainstone Ledger Formation (Middle Cambrian), Pennsylvania Carol B. de Wet, Dave Hopkins, Michael Rahnis, Megan Murphy, and Rachel Dvoretsky Chapter The Great American Carbonate Bank in Eastern Laurentia: Its Births, Deaths, and Linkage to Paleooceanic Oxygenation (Early Cambrian Late Ordovician) Ed Landing xvi

7 Chapter The Great American Carbonate Bank: Northern Appalachians Cambrian-Ordovician (Sauk) Albany Basin Setting, New York Friedman M. Gerald Chapter The Great American Carbonate Bank in Eastern Canada: An Overview Denis Lavoie, André Desrochers, George Dix, Ian Knight, and Osman Salad Hersi Chapter Regional Stratigraphic, Depositional, and Diagenetic Patterns of the Interior of St. Lawrence Platform: The Lower Ordovician Romaine Formation, Western Anticosti Basin, Quebec André Desrochers, Denis Lavoie, Patricia Brennan-Alpert, and Guoxiang Chi Chapter The Sauk-Tippecanoe Megasequence Boundary in an Interior Structural Corridor (Ottawa Embayment) of the Great American Carbonate Bank George R. Dix Chapter Biostratigraphic Constraints on Chronostratigraphic Intraformational Relationships within the Lower Middle Ordovician Beekmantown Group, Laurentian Margin: Eastern Ontario and Southwestern Quebec, Canada Osman Salad Hersi Chapter Sequence Stratigraphy of the Scottish Laurentian Margin and Recognition of the Sauk Megasequence Robert J. Raine and Paul Smith Chapter Development of the Lower Cambrian Middle Ordovician Carbonate Platform: North Atlantic Region Svend Stouge, William D. Boyce, David A. T. Harper, Jørgen L. Christiansen, and Ian Knight Chapter The Lower Cambrian to Lower Ordovician Carbonate Platform and Shelf Margin, Canadian Arctic Islands Keith Dewing and Godfrey Nowlan Chapter Cambrian Ordovician Sedimentary Rocks of Alaska Julie A. Dumoulin and Anita G. Harris Chapter Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Sauk Megasequence of Northwestern Canada, Northern Rocky Mountains to the Beaufort Sea Leanne J. Pyle Chapter Middle Cambrian Middle Ordovician Rocks of Western Canada, Latitude 49 to the Peace River B. S. Norford xvii

8 Chapter Overview of Lower Cambrian Mixed Carbonate-siliciclastic Deposition along the Western Laurentian Passive Margin Michael C. Pope, John Stewart Hollingsworth, and Kelly Dilliard Chapter Sauk Megasequence Deposition in Northeastern Washington, Northern Idaho, and Western Montana John H. Bush, Robert C. Thomas, and Michael C. Pope Chapter The Great American Carbonate Bank in the Miogeocline of Western Central Utah: Tectonic Influences on Sedimentation James F. Miller, Kevin R. Evans, and Benjamin F. Dattilo Chapter Gamma-ray Cross Sections Correlation of Steptoean Strata in the Eastern Great Basin Using Outcrop Gamma-ray Profiles Kevin R. Evans Chapter Well Study Sauk III-IV Interval in the American Quasar 16-21A Horse Heaven-State Well, Confusion Range, West-Central Utah Kevin R. Evans, James F. Miller, and Benjamin F. Dattilo Chapter Sauk Megasequence Supersequences, Southern Great Basin: Second-order Accommodation Events on the Southwestern Cordilleran Margin Platform Martin Keller, John D. Cooper, and Oliver Lehnert Chapter The Cambrian Ordovician Rocks of Sonora, Mexico, and Southern Arizona, Southwestern Margin of North America (Laurentia) William R. Page, Anita G. Harris, and John E. Repetski Chapter Digital Outcrop Model of Stratigraphy and Breccias of the Southern Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas Jerome A. Bellian, Charles Kerans, and John Repetski Chapter Facies Belts, Microfacies, and Karst Features of the Ellenburger Group, Kerr Basin, Texas: Observations Based on Cores Richard C. Geesaman and James Lee Wilson Chapter The Circum-Laurentian Carbonate Bank, the Western Ouachita-Cuyania Basin, and the Prodigal Llanoria Landmass Patricia Wood Dickerson Chapter The Argentine Precordillera: A Little American Carbonate Bank Martin Keller Chapter The Sauk Megasequence in the Cratonic Interior of North America: Interplay between a Fully Developed Inner Detrital Belt and the Central Great American Carbonate Bank Anthony C. Runkel, Robert M. McKay, Clinton A. Cowan, James F. Miller, and John F. Taylor xviii

9 Chapter The Sauk Megasequence from the Reelfoot Rift to Southwestern Missouri James Palmer, Thomas L. Thompson, Cheryl Seeger, James F. Miller, and Jay M. Gregg Chapter Arbuckle Group Platform Strata in Kansas: A Synthesis Evan K. Franseen and Alan P. Byrnes Chapter The Great American Bank in the Central Michigan Basin William B. Harrison III and G. Michael Grammer Chapter Evaluation of Knox Supergroup Dolostones as a Target for Carbon Dioxide Storage in Western Kentucky Michelle A. Pittenger, Charles T. Feazel, Govert J. Buijs, Ray R., and Paul W. Johnson Chapter Ordovician Knox Carbonates and Sandstones of the Eastern Midcontinent: Potential Geologic Carbon Storage Reservoirs and Seals Stephen F. Greb, Ronald A. Riley, Richard Bowersox, Michael P. Solis, John A. Rupp, Mark Kelley, David C. Harris, and Neeraj Gupta Chapter Unconformity, Karst, Hydrocarbons, Minerals, Environments, and Structures Present in the Cambrian Ordovician Knox Group in Kentucky: An Example from South-central Kentucky Patrick J. Gooding Chapter Upper Cambrian Gatesburg Formation of Central and Western Pennsylvania Christopher D. Laughrey and John A. Harper Chapter Great American Carbonate Bank Subsurface Stratigraphy in the Northern Appalachian Basin, New York State Langhorne B. Smith Jr. xix

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