Kenner Anticline (New Name)

Old Name: Kenner Dome

Location

Southwestern Clay and northwestern Wayne Counties (H-6)

References

Easton 1944, Lowenstam 1951

Description

Easton (1944) named the Kenner Dome and defined it based on subsurface mapping of the Herrin Coal (Pennsylvanian). Lowenstam (1951) mapped the Kenner Dome as a small oval high located mainly in the southwest corner of T3N, R5E, Clay County. Lowenstam's (1952) map shows closure of about 50 feet (15 m) on the Kenner Dome as contoured on the Herrin Coal Member.

Recent structure maps contoured on the Mississippian Beech Creek ("Barlow") Limestone and Karnak Limestone Member (ISGS open files) indicated the Kenner Dome, as defined above, to be part of a larger anticline having a sinuous northeast-trending axis. The name Kenner Anticline is introduced for the larger structure, and the name Kenner Dome discarded.

The anticline extends on the Beech Creek from Section 28, T2N, R5E, Wayne County, to Section 19, T3N, R6E, Clay County. Closure is 60 to 80 feet (18-24 m) at this horizon. The Kenner Oil Field was developed in structural traps produced by the anticline in multiple Mississippian and Devonian pay zones. A satellite dome, centered in Section 23, T3N, R5E, contains the Kenner West Oil Field. Both structures lie along a terrace on a southeast-facing homocline.