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1 USA-Alaska Lithostratigraphy (selected; with suite on Shale-gas/oil basins) Data from AAPG's Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America (COSUNA, ) and DNAG volumes (1989). Compiled by Dr. James Ogg, Rebecca Bobick, Justin Wright, and Stephen Nielson. New England Eastern Maine Southern Maine Boston Area Atlantic Coast Lower Santee-Edisto Piedmont/Blue Ridge Great Smoky Mountains, South of and above Greenbriar Fault York- Lancaster Valley and Mine Ridge Area, Pennsylvania Northern Appalachians East-Central New York Northeast Valley and Ridge, West Virginia Southern Appalachians Cumberland Plateau and Adjacent Areas (Tennessee) Midwestern Basin Central Michigan Nashville Dome area (Central Tennessee) Texas-Oklahoma Tectonic Gulf Coast Southern Part of Chautauqua Platform Black Warrior Basin Oktibbeha County, Mississippi Sabine Uplift (NW Louisiana) Gulf of Mexico Column 22 of New England Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 18 of New England Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 24 of New England Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 37 of Atlantic Coastal Plain Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Robert R. Jordan and Richard V. Smith, Column 4 of Piedmont/ Blue Ridge Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Michael Higgins, Coordinator Column 10 of Piedmont/ Blue Ridge Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Michael Higgins, Coordinator Column 29 of Northern Appalachian Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Douglas G. Patchen, Katharine Lee Avary, and Robert B. Column 10 of Northern Appalachian Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Douglas G. Patchen, Katharine Lee Avary, and Robert B. Column 11 of Southern Appalachian Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Douglas G. Patchen, Katharine Lee Avary and Robert B. Column 4 of Midwestern Basin and Arches Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 27 of Midwestern Basin and Arches Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 2 of Texas-Oklahoma Tectonic Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Charles Mankin, Coordinator Column 18 of Texas-Oklahoma Tectonic Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Charles Mankin, Coordinator North America)- Paul Huddlestun, Jules Braunstein, And Ralph Biel, Mainly from (1) Salvador, A. & Quezada Muneton, J.M. (1989) Stratigraphic correlation chart Gulf of Mexico Basin, Vol. Journal of the Geology of North America, Geological Society of America, (2) Moran-Zenteno, D. (1984; translated 1994) Geology of the Mexican Republic. AAPG Studies in Geology #39, 160 pp., and (3) Mex. Geol. Map (on-line access; using legends of rock succession in different regions). However, none of these contain useful biostrat and facies diagrams summarizing the generalized stratigraphic column. S Louisiana - ("GoM -water standard") S Louisiana - ("GoM -water standard") Texas to Alabama Rio Grande (South Texas) DNAG Chart Column set 10 South Texas - South Texas - South Texas - San Marcos Arch - Central Texas DNAG Chart Column set 11 Central Texas - Central Texas - to Central Texas - to Central Texas - East Texas Basin DNAG Chart Column set 12 East Texas - East Texas - East Texas - "South Louisiana - offshore (14) would be the closest to water GOM, as the industry is still using lithostratigraphy for chronostratigraphy, which is of course absurd. But it is the common practice." (Chengjie Liu (ExxonMobil); 3Aug09 advice to J.Ogg)

2 Southeast Texas, Southwest Louisiana DNAG Chart Column set 13 & offshore Intermediate South Louisiana and offshore DNAG Chart Column set 14 South Arkansas, North Louisiana & West-central Mississippi Florida to Mississippi Southeast Mississippi, Southwest panhandle & offshore Southeast Alabama, Central Florida panhandle & Southwest Georgia S Louisiana - S Louisiana - ("GoM -water standard") Mississippi - Mississippi - Mississippi - panhandle - offshore panhandle - panhandle - DNAG Chart Column set 15 DNAG Chart Column set 16 DNAG Chart Column set 17 SE Alabama, Florida panhandle & SW Georgia - SE Alabama, Florida panhandle & SW Georgia - South Georgia & North Florida DNAG Chart Column set 18 Central and South Florida DNAG Chart Column set 19 S Florida - S Florida - S Florida - Mexico (preliminary) Yucatan Platform DNAG Chart Column set 1 Yucatan - Yucatan - Macuspana Basin - Gulf of Campeche DNAG Chart Column set 2 and Villahermosa uplift Macuspana and Campeche - Macuspana and Campeche - Sierra de Chiapas DNAG Chart Column set 3 Chiapas - Chiapas - to Chiapas - Chiapas - to Chipas - Comalcalco Basin & Isthmus Saline DNAG Chart Column set 4 Basin Comalcalco & Isthmus - general Veracruz Basin DNAG Chart Column set 5 Veracruz -

3 Veracruz - Tampico-Misantala Basin DNAG Chart Column set 6 Tampico - Tampico - Tampico - Sierra Madre Oriental DNAG Chart Column set 7 to to Burgos Basin DNAG Chart Column set 8 Burgos - Burgos - Sabinas Basin DNAG Chart Column set 9 Sabinas - Sabinas - Sabinas - Northern Mid-Continent Marquette District, Marquette County, Michigan Brown County, South Dakota Mid-Continent Marion County, Missouri (St. Louis Region) Ellis/ Trego Counties, Kansas Northern Rockies Missoula, Drummon - Helena Area, Central Western Montana Bottineau County, Northeast Basin, North Dakota Central and Southern Rockies Yellowstone San Juan Basin Southwest Delaware Basin Sonoita Area Northwest John Day, Central Oregon Northwest Olympic Peninsula Great Basin Death Valley Pocatello, Idaho North California Klamath - East of McCloud River Berkeley Central California Tejon Lost Hills South California Santa Maria Barstow Column 24 of Northern Mid-Continent Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- D.J. Bergstrom and G.B. Morey, Column 3 of Northern Mid-Continent Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- D.J. Bergstrom and G.B. Morey, Column 14 of Mid-Continent Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 16 of Mid-Continent Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 8 of Northen Rockies Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 20 of Northen Rockies Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 1 of Central and Southern Rockies Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 29 of Central and Southern Rockies Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 19 of Southwest Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units Column 3 of Southwest Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Frank J. Adler, Coordinator Column 25 of Northwest Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units Column 15 of Northwest Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units Column 10 of Great Basin Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 22 of Great Basin Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 3 of North California Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 18 of North California Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 25 of Central California Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 20 of Central California Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 2 of South California Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 27 of South California Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic

4 Alaska Arctic Alaska Major Arctic Petroleum Discoveries Beaufort Sea North Slope Chukchi Sea Bering Shelf Basins Hope Basin Norton Sound St. George Basin North Aleutian Basin Alaska's Pacific Margin Basins Shumagin Area Cook Inlet Kodiak Area Gulf of Alaska North Alaska West Charlie River South Alaska Northern Wrangell Mtns Mainly from Beaufort Sea Planning Area (Alaska)-Province Summary Strat column, lithologies, and calibrations as drawn in Figure 4 of MMS (2006): Exploring the Frontier-Alaska's Beaufort Sea, by Sherwood. Strat column, lithologies, and calibrations from The Oil and Gas Resource Potential of The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; USGS Fig. 3 Strat column, lithologies, and calibrations from MMS: Exploring the Frontier-Chukchi Sea and Hope Basin Strat column from Page 23 of the ChukchSea_Summary-2006_MMS.pdf (Based on Cape Espenberg 1 and Nimiuk Pt 1 Wells) -- by Sherwood. Strat column, lithologies, and calibrations from MMS: Exploring the Frontier-Alaska's Norton Sound Strat column, lithologies, and calibrations from St. George Basin Planning Area-Province Summary Strat Column, lithologies, calibrations, and oil potential from North Aleutian Basin Planning Area- Province Summary Strat Column, lithologies, and calibrations from Shumagin Planning Area-Province Summary Strat column, lithologies, calibrations, and hydrocarbon potential from MMS: Exploring the Frontier- Alaska's Cook Inlet Strat Column, lithologies, and calibrations from Kodiak Planning Area-Province Summary Strat Column from Gulf of Alaska Planning Area-Province Summary Column 25 of North Alaska Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Column 18 of South Alaska Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Regional Stratigraphic Sections hosting shale-gas and shale-oil Marcellus and Utica Shale (Appalachian Basin) Southwestern Pennsylvania Basin Center, West Virginia West-Central New York Northwest Pennsylvania East-Central New York Antrim Shale (Michigan Basin, in MI, IN, and OH) N. Michigan Central Michigan Haynesville-Bossier formations (found in AR, northwest LA, and east TX) East Texas Basin (East) left Sabine Uplift Northwest Louisiana East Texas (left) Sabine Uplift Northwest Louisiana East Texas (right) Eagle Ford Shale (South TX) Waco Uplift Portion of Ouachita Tectonic Belt Maverick Basin San Marcos Arch Barnett Shale (Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin Province through TX and OK) Fort Worth Basin Central Basin Platform Niobrara (Underlies the Great Plains) Column 17 of Northern Appalachian Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 2 of Northern Appalachian Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic units in North America)-Douglas G. Patchen, Katharine Lee Avary, and Robert B. Column 28 of Northern Appalachian Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 21 of Northern Appalachian Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 29 of Northern Appalachian Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 3 of Midwestern Basin and Arches Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 4 of Midwestern Basin and Arches Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 6 of Gulf Coast Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in Column 15 of Texas-Oklahoma Tectonic Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)-Charles J. Mankin, Coordinator Column 1 of Gulf Coast Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in Column 4 of Gulf Coast Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in Column 9 of Texas-Oklahoma Tectonic Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)-Charles J. Mankin, Coordinator Column 20 of Southwest/Southwest Mid-Continent Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- John M. Hills and Frank E. Kottlowski,

5 Western Denver Basin Eastern Denver Basin Laramie Mountains Bakken Formation (Williston Basin in MT, ND, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) Roosevelt County West Basin Williams County Nesson Anticline Monterey Formation (California) Central Santa Ynex Mountains Fillmore Column 20 of Central and Southern Rockies Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 21 of Central and Southern Rockies Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 10 of Central and Southern Rockies Region Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Column 15 of Northern Rockies/ Williston Basin Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- William W. Ballard, John P. Bluemle, and Lee. C. Gerhard, Column 18 of Northern Rockies/ Williston Basin Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- William W. Ballard, John P. Bluemle, and Lee C. Gerhard, Column 3 of Southern California Province Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Charles C. Bishop and James F. Davis, Column 4 of Southern California Province Correlation Chart of COSUNA (Correlation of Stratigraphic Units in North America)- Chares C. Bishop and James F. Davis,

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