Geologic Cross Section
The Williston Basin is a large geologic feature of North America that covers more than 300,000 square miles. For more than 550 million years, the basin has accumulated nearly 16,000' of sedimentary rock near the center, in western North Dakota.
Organic material deposited in the shallow seas that repeatedly covered the area has been transformed into oil and gas. In more recent geologic time, the large swamps bordering rivers accumulated thick layers of vegitation that were buried by sediments and slowly converted to lignite coal.
PRINTABLE CROSS SECTION & TIMELINE
EERC Subsurface Activities
The EERC does research on the things that do stuff.
estimated oil currently being recovered
age of the Bakken oil, in millions of years
depth of recovered CarbonSAFE core
dinosaurs involved in oil or coal (they came much later)
