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Geology
40 related topics
Natural resources
28 related topics
Overview
29 related topics
Impact craters
4 related topics
Key facts & relationships
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Overview
- Geological maps Geological map
- Intracratonic Craton
- Sedimentary basin
- Montana
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Saskatchewan
- Manitoba
- Petroleum
- Potash
- Structural basin
- Topographic
- Missouri River
- Precambrian
- Geologic basement Basement rock
- Trans-Hudson Orogenic Belt Trans-Hudson orogeny
- Williston, North Dakota
- Stratigraphic column
- Cambrian
- Ordovician
- Silurian
- Devonian
- Evaporites
- Mississippian Mississippian age
- Pennsylvanian Pennsylvanian (geology)
- Mesozoic
- Paleozoic
- Cretaceous
- Laramide Orogeny
Natural resources
- Source Source rock
- Reservoir rocks Petroleum geology
- Upper Cretaceous
- Sandstone
- Anticline
- Amerada Corporation
- Oil firms rushed Oil boom
- Horizontal drilling
- Bakken Formation
- Middle Devonian
- Prairie Formation
- Nutrien and Mosaic Nutrien and Mosaic?action=edit&redlink=1
- Fort Union Formation
- Paleogene
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Sims, North Dakota
- Northern Pacific Railway
- Lignite
- Minot, North Dakota
- Dickinson, North Dakota
- Strip-mining
- Helium
- Radioactive decay
- Uranium
- Thorium
- Granitic
- Basement Basement (geology)
- Shales Shale
Geology
- Upper Cambrian
- Deadwood Formation
- Transgressively Transgression (geology)
- Shallow marine
- Coastal plain
- Glauconite
- Subsiding Subsidence
- Strike-slip movement Strike-slip tectonics
- Faults Fault (geology)
- Unconformably
- Carbonate
- Red River Formation
- Anhydrite
- Salt
- Sedimentation
- Stony Mountain Formation
- Stonewall Formation
- Interlake Group
- Elk Point Group
- Manitoba Group
- Saskatchewan Group
- Organic-rich marine shale Organic-rich sedimentary rocks
- Lodgepole Limestone
- Mississippian Mississippian (geology)
- Madison Group
- Big Snowy Group
- Interbedded
- Siltstone
- Limestone
- Minnelusa Formation
Impact craters
- Impact craters Impact crater
- Viewfield Viewfield crater
- Red Wing Creek Red Wing crater
- Eagle Butte Eagle Butte crater
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Williston Basin
Nodes106
Edges105
Triples87
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018868
Components1
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Williston Basin
Top relations
related to Geology · 38
Williston Basin → Big Snowy Group, Conformably, Cretaceous, Deadwood, Devonian, During, Elk Point Basin, Elk Point Group, Formation, Hell Creek Formation, Late Devonian, Madison Group, Manitoba Group, Minnelusa Formation, Mississippian, Nesson Formation, Ordovician Stony Mountain Formation, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Precambrian
related to Coal · 15
Williston Basin → Clark Expedition, Dickinson, Fort Union Formation, However, Lewis, Mining, Minot, North Dakota, Northern Pacific Coal Company, Other, Paleogene, Sims, Strip-mining, The Northern Pacific Railway, The Williston Basin
related to Petroleum · 15
Williston Basin → After, Amerada Corporation, Amerada Hess Corporation Clarence, April, Cedar Creek Anticline, In, Iverson, Many, Nesson Anticline, North Dakota, Other, Royal Dutch Shell, The, Upper Cretaceous, Williston
related to Potash · 7
Williston Basin → Canada, Major, Middle Devonian Prairie Formation, Mosaic, Nutrien, Potash, The
has impact · 6
Williston Basin → Dumas, Eagle Butte, Hartney, Red Wing Creek, Several, Viewfield
is a · 1
Williston Basin → large intracratonic sedimentary basin in eastern Montana
related to External links · 1
Williston Basin → Discovery
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Important terminology
basin williston formation oil basement north dakota precambrian deposited devonian subsidence potash production followed river deposition began geologic area time
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williston Basin | is a | large intracratonic sedimentary basin in eastern Montana | 0.90 | text |
| Viewfield | instance of | Impact cratersSeveral confirmed impact craters are located in Williston Basin | 0.80 | text |
| Red Wing Creek | instance of | Impact cratersSeveral confirmed impact craters are located in Williston Basin | 0.80 | text |
| and Eagle Butte while the Dumas | instance of | Impact cratersSeveral confirmed impact craters are located in Williston Basin | 0.80 | text |
| Hartney craters are still unconfirmed | instance of | Impact cratersSeveral confirmed impact craters are located in Williston Basin | 0.80 | text |
| Williston Basin | has impact | Several | 0.60 | section |
| Williston Basin | has impact | Viewfield | 0.60 | section |
| Williston Basin | has impact | Red Wing Creek | 0.60 | section |
| Williston Basin | has impact | Eagle Butte | 0.60 | section |
| Williston Basin | has impact | Dumas | 0.60 | section |
| Williston Basin | has impact | Hartney | 0.60 | section |
| Williston Basin | related to Coal | The Williston Basin | 0.60 | section |
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