TRIASSIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGY, WESTERN CANADA BASIN AND NEIGHBORING YUKON-TERRITORY AND AMERICAN REGIONS - BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SUMMARY

In the Western Canada Basin, Triassic sedimentary rocks were deposited as a northeasterly-tapering wedge of sediment on the Triassic cratoni c Interior Platform and adjacent miogeoclinal areas and the rocks occu r within the present-day Interior Plains and Rocky Mountain Foothills and Front Ranges of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columb ia. These rocks contain substantial recoverable reserves of oil and ga s, 118.8 x 10(6) m3 oil within 10(8) oil fields and 263.6 x 10(9) m3 g as in 217 gas fields, most located in the Peace River Embayment of wes t-central Alberta and northeastern British Columbia. Continued drillin g activity and recent significant discoveries such as the Spirit River , Brassey, Ring-Pedigree (''Border''), Sukunka and Bullmoose West fiel ds, and new unnamed fields in the Brazion-Monkman area, confirm the pe troleum potential of Triassic rocks in this basin. This note provides a bibliography of 382 publications and a short text that summarizes th e regional setting, stratigraphy and petroleum geology of these Triass ic rocks. This note is designed to help explorationists or geological researchers become familiar with Western Canada Basin Triassic rocks a nd relevant literature. The bibliography is also supplemented with sel ected citations that describe Triassic bedrock geology, paleontology, structural geology and organic geochemistry of the Western Canada Basi n and also selected publications on the Triassic geology of the neighb ouring Yukon Territory and American Rocky Mountain regions.