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- Williston_Basin abstract "The Williston Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin in eastern Montana, western North Dakota, South Dakota, and southern Saskatchewan, that is known for its rich deposits of petroleum and potash. The basin is a geologic structural basin but not a topographic depression; it is transected by the Missouri River. The oval-shaped depression extends approximately 475 miles (764 km) north-south and 300 miles (480 km) east-west.The Williston Basin lies above an ancient Precambrian geologic basement feature, the Trans-Hudson Orogenic Belt that developed in this area about 1.8-1.9 billion years ago, and that created a weak zone that later led to sagging to produce the basin. The Precambrian basement rocks in the center of the basin beneath the city of Williston, North Dakota lie about 16,000 feet (4,900 m) below the surface.Deposition of sediments began in the Williston area during Cambrian time, but subsidence and basin filling were most intense during the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian Periods, when thick accumulations of limestone and dolomite, with lesser thicknesses of sandstones, siltsones, shales, and evaporites were laid down. Subsidence continued on a reduced scale into the Mississippian and was largely ended by Pennsylvanian time. Regional subsidence returned during the Mesozoic Era, although total sediment thicknesses were much less than during the Paleozoic. Near the end of the Cretaceous, tectonic activity during the Laramide Orogeny rejuvenated several basement structures in the Williston Basin to produce anticlines that serve as oil traps today.".
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- Williston_Basin wikiPageOutDegree "47".
- Williston_Basin wikiPageRevisionID "675972863".
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Bakken_Formation.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Basement_(geology).
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Basement_rock.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Cambrian.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geologic_provinces_of_the_United_States.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Montana.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_North_Dakota.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Saskatchewan.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sedimentary_basins_of_North_America.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Structural_basins_of_Canada.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Category:Structural_basins_of_the_United_States.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Cedar_Creek_Anticline.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Craton.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Devonian.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Directional_drilling.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Elm_Coulee_Oil_Field.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Evaporite.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Evaporites.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink File:WillistonStratCol.jpg.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink File:WillistonoilproductionDOE.jpg.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Union_Formation.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Horizontal_drilling.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Laramide_Orogeny.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Laramide_orogeny.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Mesozoic.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Mississippian_(geology).
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Mississippian_age.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Missouri_River.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Montana.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink North_Dakota.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Ordovician.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Paleogene.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Paleozoic.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvanian_(geology).
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Petroleum.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Petroleum_geology.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Potash.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Potash_Corporation_of_Saskatchewan.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Precambrian.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Saskatchewan.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Sedimentary.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Sedimentary_rock.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Silurian.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Source_rock.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink South_Dakota.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Structural_basin.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Topographic.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Topography.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Trans-Hudson_orogeny.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink Williston,_North_Dakota.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink File:North_america_with-Williston.jpg.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLink File:WillistonBasinLocation.jpg.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLinkText "Williston Basin".
- Williston_Basin wikiPageWikiLinkText "Williston basin".
- Williston_Basin hasPhotoCollection Williston_Basin.
- Williston_Basin wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Convert.
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- Williston_Basin subject Category:Geologic_provinces_of_the_United_States.
- Williston_Basin subject Category:Geology_of_Montana.
- Williston_Basin subject Category:Geology_of_North_Dakota.
- Williston_Basin subject Category:Geology_of_Saskatchewan.
- Williston_Basin subject Category:Sedimentary_basins_of_North_America.
- Williston_Basin subject Category:Structural_basins_of_Canada.
- Williston_Basin subject Category:Structural_basins_of_the_United_States.
- Williston_Basin hypernym Basin.
- Williston_Basin point "49.0 -104.0".
- Williston_Basin type NaturalPlace.
- Williston_Basin type SpatialThing.
- Williston_Basin comment "The Williston Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin in eastern Montana, western North Dakota, South Dakota, and southern Saskatchewan, that is known for its rich deposits of petroleum and potash. The basin is a geologic structural basin but not a topographic depression; it is transected by the Missouri River.".
- Williston_Basin label "Williston Basin".
- Williston_Basin sameAs m.03cxlnd.
- Williston_Basin sameAs Q8022146.
- Williston_Basin sameAs Q8022146.
- Williston_Basin lat "49.0".
- Williston_Basin long "-104.0".
- Williston_Basin wasDerivedFrom Williston_Basin?oldid=675972863.
- Williston_Basin depiction North_america_with-Williston.jpg.
- Williston_Basin isPrimaryTopicOf Williston_Basin.