Boyd Anticline (New)

Location

T1S, R1 and 2E, Jefferson County (I-5)

References

None

Description

The Boyd structure was listed by Treworgy (1981) as a "significant unnamed structure." The Boyd Anticline is hereby named after the Boyd Oil Field, which is developed in a structural trap on the anticline. As mapped on the Beech Creek ("Barlow") Limestone (ISGS open files), the Boyd Anticline is about 4 miles (6.5 km) long by 2 miles (3 km) wide, and has 40 feet (12 m) of closure. The axis trends north-northwest. The Boyd Anticline lies west of the south end of the much larger Salem Anticline and is separated from the latter by a plunging syncline.