Journal of Petroleum Geology, Vol.13, No.4, pp. 421-436, 1990

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THE VIKING (ALBIAN) RESERVOIR SANDSTONES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH-CENTRAL ALBERTA, CANADA
Part II. Lithofacies analysis, depositional environments and paleogeographic setting

L. C. Amajor* and J. F. Lerbekmo**

*Department of Geology, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcout, Rivers State, Nigeria.

**Department of Geology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Abstract

During Upper Albian times, the Haplophragmoides gigas and Inoceramus comancheanus sea occupied the interior of the North American continent. Deltas draining the Cordilleran mountains around Jasper and Long. 49° funnelled elastics into the Albertan sector of this sea, particularly during Viking time (early Late Albian). These Viking reservoir sands were distributed along the strandline and offshore environments during a relatively still-stand phase of the sea.