The great American carbonate bank : the geology and economic resources of the Cambrian-Ordovician Sauk megasequence of Laurentia / edited by James Derby, Richard Fritz, Susan Longacre, William Morgan, and Charles Sternbach.

Folded section numbered 47 and 48.

"The print portion of the volume consists of the first eight papers and extended abstracts of the remaining 40 papers, as well as a locator map of all the papers. The accompanying DVD-ROM contains all 48 full-length papers, and the locator map in interactive PDF format."--Page iv.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 -- 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 -- Biostratigraphy of Cambrian and lower Ordovician strata in the LLano Uplift, Central Texas / James F. Miller, James D. Loch, and John F. Taylor -- 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 -- Ordovician of 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 -- Great American carbonate bank : Knox Group in the Black Warrior Basin / Richard D. Fritz, Patrick Medlock, MIchael Kuykendal, and James L. Wilson -- The middle Ordovician Knox unconformity in the Black Warrior Basin / Gary S. Dwyer and John E. Repetski -- Cambrian-lower middle Ordovician passive carbonate margin, southern Appalachians / J. Fred Read and John E. Repetski -- 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 -- High-energy shelf-margin carbonate facies : microbial sheet reefs, endolites, and intraclast grainstone-Ledger Formation (middle Cambrian), Pennsylvania / Carol B. deWet, Dave Hopkins, Michael Rahnis, Megan Murphy, and Rachel Dvoretsky -- The great American carbonate bank in eastern Laurentia : its births, deaths, and linkage to Paleooceanic oxygenation (early Cambrian-late Ordovician) / Ed Landing -- The great American carbonate bank in the northern Appalachians : Cambrian-Ordovician (Sauk), Albany basin, New York / Gerald M. Friedman -- The great American carbonate bank in eastern Canada : an overview / Denis Lavoie, André Desrochers, George Dix, Ian Knight, and Osman Salad Hersi -- 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 -- The Sauk-Tippecanoe megasequence boundary in an interior structural corridor (Ottawa Embayment) of the great American carbonate bank / George R. Dix -- Biostratigraphic constraints on chronostratigraphic intraformational relationships within the lower-middle Ordovician Beekmantown group, Laurentian margin : eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec, Canada / Osman Salad Hersi -- Sequence stratigraphy of the Scottish Laurentian margin and recognition of the Sauk megasequence / Robert J. Raine and M. Paul Smith -- 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 -- The lower Cambrian to lower Ordovician carbonate platform and shelf margin, Canadian Arctic Islands / Keith Dewing and Godfrey Nowlan -- Cambrian-Ordovician sedimentary rocks of Alaska / Julie A. Dumoulin and Anita G. Harris -- Cambrian and lower Ordovician Sauk megasequence of northwestern Canada, northern Rocky Mountains to the Beaufort Sea / Leanne J. Pyle -- Middle Cambrian-middle Ordovician rocks of western Canada, Latitude 49° to the Peace River / B.S. Norford -- Overview of lower Cambrian mixed carbonate-siliciclastic depositon along the western Laurentian passive margin / Michael C. Pope, John Stewart Hollingsworth, and Kelly Dilliard -- Sauk megasequence deposition in northeastern Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana / John H. Bush, Robert C. Thomas, and Michael C. Pope -- 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 --

Gamma-ray cross sections-correlation of Steptoean strata in the eastern Great Basin using outcrop gamma-ray profiles / Kevin R. Evans -- 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 -- 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 -- Digital outcrop model of stratigraphy and breccias of the southern Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas / Jerome A. Bellian, Charles Kerans, and John Repetski -- Facies belts, microfacies, and karst features of the Ellenburger Group, Kerr Basin, Texas : observations based on cores / Richard C. Geesaman and James L. Wilson -- The circum-Laurentian carbonate bank, the western Ouachita-Cuyania Basin, and the Prodigal Llanoria Landmass / Patricia Wood Dickerson -- The Argentine precordillera : a little American carbonate bank / Martin Keller -- 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 -- The Sauk megasequence from the Reelfoot Rift to southwestern Missouri / James Palmer, Thomas L. Thompson, Cheryl Seeger, James F. Miller, and Jay M. Gregg -- Arbuckle group platform strata in Kansas : a synthesis / Evan K. Franseen and Alan P. Byrnes -- The great American bank in the central Michigan Basin / William B. Harrison III and G. Michael Grammer -- Evaluation of Knox supergroup dolostones as a target for carbon dioxide storage in western Kentucky / Michelle A. Pittenger, Charles T. Feazel, Gover J. Buijs, Ray R. Reid, and Paul W. Johnson -- 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 -- Unconformity, karst, hydrocarbons, minerals, environments, and structures present in the Cambrian-Ordovician Knox group in from south-central Kentucky / Patrick J. Gooding -- Upper Cambrian Gatesburg Formation of central and western Pennsylvania / Christopher D. Laughrey and John A. Harper -- Great American carbonate bank subsurface stratigraphy in the northern Appalachian basin, New York state / Langhorne B. Smith, Jr.

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