DGGS publishes CI research findings

Alaska’s Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys has published the preliminary results of it 2006-07 research into the geology of the Homer and Kachemak Bay area of Alaska’s Cook Inlet. The primary purpose of the research, part of a multiyear Cook Inlet study that also involves scientists from Alaska’s Division of Oil and Gas, the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Purdue University, is to assemble information that will help explorers find the subtle stratigraphic traps where much of the remaining undiscovered natural gas in the Tertiary strata of Cook Inlet is thought to be located.

The research team carried out detailed mapping, measuring and sampling of Tertiary rocks that outcrop along the shore and in sea inlets, in and around Kachemak Bay, toward the southern end of the Kenai Peninsula. The report pulls together many of the results from this work and contains a wealth of maps, diagrams and photographs that illustrate the geology.

The U.S. Geological Survey is currently working in conjunction with DGGS to carry out a new resource evaluation of the Cook Inlet basin.

The DGGS report can be found in the publications section of the DGGS Web site at www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/pubs/pubs?reqtype=citation&ID=20161.

—Alan Bailey