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The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) [1] [2] underlies 1.4 million square kilometres (540,000 sq mi) of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia and the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories.

This chapter provides an overview of the structural framework and overall architecture of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB), on a regional scale, using reflection seismic sections, geological sections, isopach maps and observed subsidence profiles (burial history curves or plots), and on a more local scale, highlighting distinct ...

PDF Downloads for The Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary BasinChapterPDF [size]Chapter 1, Introduction to the Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

2010年4月13日 · The Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) was designed primarily as a reference volume documenting the subsurface geology of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. This GIS dataset is one of a collection of shapefiles representing part the Atlas, Coal Resources of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (Chapter 33, Figure ...

Regional map of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) with contours showing approximate thickness (km) of Phanerozoic rocks and Precambrian structural features (modified from Wendte et...

Location map of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) with provincial boundaries and locations of municipalities with populations >3k. The red line depicts the western margin of the...

Oil Resource Base The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB, senso lato including contiguous mainland Northwest Territories successions) hosts large proven and potential conventional and...

The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) is a vast sedimentary basin underlying 1,400,000 square kilometres (540,000 sq mi) of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia and the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories.

2022年12月8日 · Exploration in this basin has spanned for over a century. However, the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin has appreciable untapped zones, and new plays continue to develop. With advancements in multistage fractured horizontal wells, the unconventional plays that make up the WCSB have revived the area.