Depositional Environments, Reservoir Trends, and Diagenesis of the Red Fork Sandstone in Grant and Eastern Kay Counties, Oklahoma

Abstract

This thesis concerns the depositional environments, reservoir trends, and diagenetic sequences of the Desmoinesian Red Fork sandstone. Electric .logs and gamma-ray logs were used to construct stratigraphic cross-sections, structural geologic maps, log maps, and an isopach map. Analyses of cores, cross-sections, isopach and log maps were used to interpret depositional enviornments and trends of reservoirs. Study of thin sections and scanning-electron photomicrographs of selected samples permitted interpretation of the diagenetic history.