Thermal maturity and organic geochemistry of the Kandik Basin region, east-central Alaska

Abstract

The Kandik basin region straddles the border between the United States and Canada in east-central Alaska. The Tintina fault, a prominent right-lateral northwest-trending fault, marks the southwest limit of the study area. Basinal strata are divided by the northeast-trending Glenn Creek fault system. Strata northwest of the fault zone (Kandik River block) are Permian to latest Early Cretaceous (Albian) in age, whereas the southeast block (Nation River block) contains a sequence that is Late Proterozoic through Triassic or Jurassic in age.