{"id":1166,"date":"2018-04-19T00:40:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/?page_id=1166"},"modified":"2022-09-25T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T16:28:26","slug":"cruse-formation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/?page_id=1166","title":{"rendered":"Cruse Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author of name: MACREADY (G. A.) (1921). Petroleum In\u00acdustry of Trinidad. Trans. Amer. Inst. Min. Eng., vol. 65, p. 64.
\nType locality: Boreholes in the Cruse oilfield at Guapo, 2 1\/2 miles south of Pitch Lake.
\nThickness: Up to 2 500 feet.
\nMACREADY recognises a 40 foot sand (Cruse oil zone) over\u2014 lain by 600 feet of Cruse shale with occasional lenses of sand. Above the Cruse shale follow 500 feet of alternating sands and shales called Stollmeyer oil zone separated from the overlying Forest clay by an unconformity. The entire group of beds is given an Eocene or Oligocene age. The 40 foot Cruse sand is claimed to rest on Naparima clay which is known to be a persistant horizon over a large area and to occur 1 000 to 1 200 feet below the top of the Stollmeyer Oil Zone. Although the term Cruse has been retained, its stratigraphic meaning has changed over the years.
\nWARING (1926, pp. 59 and 62) considers his Cruse shale, to be a silty clay and sand facies of his Green Clay of the Naparima area. The top of the Cruse clay is represented by the E-Sand (40 foot Cruse sand of MACREADY) and the bottom by the 4 G-Sand. The total thickness of Cruse is 1 000 feet in the Forest Reserve area. The Cruse clay is covered by the Forest (Lot One) clay and sands which WARING correlates with his Red weathering Clay) and include MACREADY\u2019S Cruse Clay, Stollmeyer Oil Zone) and Forest Clay.
\nLIDDLE (1928, p. 471) attributes a thickness of 350 feet to the Cruse oil zone (Sand G) and places it at the base of the Forest formation.
\nSUTER\u2019s (1951, p. 208) summary represents the accepted present usage of the term Cruse Formation: The thickness varies and may exceed 2500 feet. The lower boundary is transitional to Lengua (Green Clay of WARING), while the upper boundary is locally strongly unconformable to Forest. The Lower Cruse is dominantly cIayey, the middle and upper parts are sandy. Individual sand layers may be over 100 feet thick The Lower Cruse clays can now be identified on the basis of foraminifera all over South Trinidad. Characteristic foraminifera are: Discamminoides tobleri<\/em>, Guppyella miocenica<\/em> and Alveovalvulina suter<\/em>i BRONNIMANN, 1951). H G. KUGLER).<\/p>\n

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Map showing the Upper and Lower Cruse outcrops in onshore Trinidad<\/p>\n

References<\/h2>\n

WARING (G. A.) (1926); LIDDLE (R. A.) (1928); BRONNIMANN (P.) (1951); SUTER HH (1951).<\/p>\n

Hudson D., Keens-Dumas, Lakhan, Goberdahn, Deokie & Archie, C., 1993, Applied sequence stratigraphic analysis of well logs, Cruse Formation, Palo Seco Field: A technique for detailed reservoir delineation. Trans. 11th Technical Conference and exposition of the SPE, Trinidad and Tobago Section, Trinidad.<\/p>\n

Archie, Curtis, 2002, Field Trip Guide To (a) The Upper Cruse Formation At Anglais Point, Palo Seco, (b) The Palo Seco And Anglais Point Mud Volcanoes. Geological Society Of Trinidad And Tobago Field Guide, 25 p.<\/a><\/p>\n

Archie, C., 2004 , The identification of the depositional environments of the Cruse, Forest and Morne L’Enfer Formations in the southern half of the Gulf of Paria, Trinidad, West Indies, Abstracts AAPG annual meeting, Dallas, TX<\/p>\n

Wach, G & Archie, C., 2006, Reservoir Distribution and Production in Mobile Shale Basins Examples from the Cruse Formation of Southern Trinidad. Hedberg Research Conference \u2013 Hydrocarbon Systems In Mobile Shale Basins.<\/a><\/p>\n

Archie, C. & Persad, K., \u00a0 2017, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Exploration of South West Peninsula Mud Volcanoes, Cedros Oilfield & Galfa Point, Field Guide 20th Caribbean Geological conference<\/p>\n

Archie, C., Lakhan, C. & Gallai, N. 2016, Use of biostratigraphy and 3D seismic data to reinterpret depositional environments of the Lower cruse in the Southern Basin of Trinidad<\/a><\/p>\n

Archie, C., 2019, Field trip to examine outcrops of the Cruse Formation between Palmiste Point and the Quinam Beach Facility<\/p>\n

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Foraminiferal assemblages used to identify the Morne L\u2019Enfer, Forest and Cruse Formations and their bathymetries.<\/p><\/div>\n

OUTCROP LOCALITIES<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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  1. \u00a0Morne Diablo Bay,\u00a0 Eastern coastline<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
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    \u00a0Morne Diablo Bay, 3.5 km mark<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n

    \u00a0Anglais Point ,<\/a>Palo Seco,<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n

    Eastern part of Palo Seco bay<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n

    Roja Point<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  6. \n

    Cruse Formation – Eastern side of Quinam Bay<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  7. \n

    Cruse Formation – Western side of Quinam Bay<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  8. \n

    Bunsee Trace<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  9. \n

    Galpha Point<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  10. \n

    South Quarry<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  11. Palo Seco bay<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
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    Chagonaray Point<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
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    Roqueta Point<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  14. \n

    Quinam Bay<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  15. \n

    Palmiste Point<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  16. \n

    Papelon Point<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  17. \n

    Guayabel Point<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  18. \n

    Majagual Point<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Author of name: MACREADY (G. A.) (1921). Petroleum In\u00acdustry of Trinidad. Trans. Amer. Inst. Min. Eng., vol. 65, p. 64. Type locality: Boreholes in the Cruse oilfield at Guapo, 2 1\/2 miles south of Pitch Lake. Thickness: Up to 2 500 feet. MACREADY recognises a 40 foot sand (Cruse oil zone) over\u2014 lain by 600 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":577,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166\/revisions\/4697"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curtisarchie.com\/wpmocha\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}