AIPG-TX Webinar Announcement – April 18, 2023 – 7:00 PM
“USING ALTERATION AS A HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION TOOL: REMOTE SENSING AT LISBON VALLEY REVISITED” The Lisbon Valley, UT, area is one of the classical locations for the study of surface mineral alteration associated with the presence of an underlying hydrocarbon field. The Wingate sandstone at surface over the Lisbon Valley field is bleached and kaolinized. However, the geology at Lisbon Valley is complicated: hydrothermal copper and uranium deposits, and clay alteration occur along the Lisbon Valley Fault, and the Lisbon Valley field lies beneath several thousand feet of bedded evaporites, casting some doubt on the alteration being due to microseepage [...]