King Anticline

Location

T3S, R3E, Jefferson County (I-6)

References

Folk and Swann 1946

Description

King Oil Field was developed on this structure, which shows about 40 feet (12 m) of closure on the Aux Vases Sandstone (Mississippian). The anticline is irregular in outline and elongated northwest to southeast (fig. 31). Subsurface mapping of the Carthage Limestone Member of the Bond Formation (upper Pennsylvanian) reveals an anticline at that horizon also.

Figure(s)

Figure 31   Du Quoin Monocline and neighboring area, contoured on base of the Beech Creek ("Barlow") Limestone. Contour interval is 100 feet (30 m). Oil fields are shaded. After Nelson 1991 as modified from Bristol 1968.