Richard D. LeFever

  Education

MS, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
AB, Occidental College


 

Research Interests

 

My primary research interests and activities focus on the subsurface geology of the Williston Basin, including petroleum geology, regional sedimentology and stratigraphy, and basin origin and evolution.

 


Selected Recent Publications

LeFever,R.D., 1998, Hydrodynamics of formation waters in the North Dakota Williston Basin

LeFever,R.D., 1996, Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Deadwood-Winnipeg interval (Cambro-Ordovician), Williston Basin

LeFever, R.D., and McCloskey, J.G., 1995, Depositional History of the Newcastle Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Williston Basin, North Dakota, South Dakota and Eastern Montana

LeFever, R.D., and Heck, T.J., 1995, Hydrocarbon Resources of the North Dakota Williston Basin

LeFever, J.A., and LeFever, R.D., 1995, Relationship of Salt Patterns to Hydrocarbon Accumulations, North Dakota Williston Basin

Ellingson, J.B., and LeFever, R.D., 1995, Depositional Environments and History of the Winnipeg Group (Ordovician), Williston Basin, North Dakota

 

 

Recent Graduate Theses Supervised

Tectonic history of Billings and southern McKenzie Counties, southwestern North Dakota.

The stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Sentinel Butte Formation (Paleocene) in south-central Williams County, North Dakota.

The Depositional Environment of the Kisbey Sandstone from the Madison Group (Mississippian), North-central North Dakota

Depositional environments and paleogeography of the Winnipeg Group (Ordovician), Williston Basin, North Dakota.

Depositional history, environments of deposition, and hydrocarbon potential of the Newcastle Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of eastern North Dakota.

Description and genesis of the western Cold Turkey Creek Field anomaly, Williston Basin, Bowman County, North Dakota

The stratigraphic characteristics of the Sentinel Butte Formation in and around Beicegel Creek in southeastern McKenzie County, North Dakota

Discontinuities in the Icebox Formation (Ordovician), Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana

 

 

Address:

     Department of Geology and Geological Engineering 

     University of North Dakota

     Grand Forks, ND  58202-8358

     Voice: 701-777-3014

     Fax: 701-777-4449

     e-mail: richard_lefever@und.edu

    

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