Abstract: Structural and Stratigraphic Implications of the North

Bounding Fault of the Rome Trough in Northeast Kentucky and

Western West Virginia

BEARDSLEY, RICHARD

Traps and hydrocarbon plays associated with the first bounding fault

on the northwest side of the Rome Trough

The primary bounding fault on the northwest side of the Rome Trough,

created during the Grenvillian orogeny is of significant interest for

hydrocarbon exploration. Great potential exists for significant

production in varied geologic settings associated with both active and

passive basin margin configurations through the Paleozoic system.

Significant drilling activity has not been accomplished to the extent

necessary to test this complex deformational/depositional boundary.

Targets listed to be correlated with seismic are: Rome/Basal sand

pinchouts, Cambrian delta front sequences, Cambrian shoaling, lower

Ordovician unconformity traps, St. Peter sandstone, Ordovician

mineralized fault zones, fractured Ordovician shales, upper

Ordovician/lower Silurian distal turbidite sands, Silurian sand bars,

Silurian McKenzie reefing, Silurian Newburg sand bars, Devonian

Oriskany shoreline facies, Devonian Onondaga reefing,

Devonian/Silurian unconformity surface, Devonian shale fracturing,

Mississippian channels/bars/shoals development, Pennsylvanian Salt

Sand deposition, and Pennsylvanian coal pinchouts.

Posters of seismic will be presented to illustrate the postulated

presence of these various phenomena showing the fault configuration

in Jackson County, WV and Boyd County, KY.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90939©1997 AAPG Eastern Section and TSOP, Lexington, Kentucky