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The Cook Inlet Basin is a northeast-trending collisional forearc basin that stretches from the Gulf of Alaska into South central Alaska, just east of the Matanuska Valley. It is located in the arc-trench gap between the Alaska-Aleutian Range batholith and contains roughly 80,000 cubic miles of sedimentary rocks. [1]
Oil Rig and Packraft on Cook Inlet. The Cook Inlet Basin contains large oil and gas deposits including several offshore fields. [17] As of 2005 there were 16 platforms in Cook Inlet, the oldest of which is the XTO A platform first installed by Shell in 1964, and newest of which is the Osprey platform installed by Forest Oil in 2000. Most of the ...
Cook Inlet with Knik and Turnagain arms. Turnagain extends in an east–west direction, and is between 40–45 miles (64–72 km) long. It forms part of the northern boundary of Kenai Peninsula, and reaches on the east to within 12 miles (19 km) of Passage Canal, a western branch of Prince William Sound.
Cook Inlet stratigraphic column. Kenai Group is a name given by Dall and Harris (1892) [1] to sedimentary rocks in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska. These rocks are instead called the Kenai Formation by several other authors. [2]
Kachemak Bay (Dena'ina: Tika Kaq’) is a 40-mi-long (64 km) arm of Cook Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula.The communities of Homer, Halibut Cove, Seldovia, Nanwalek, Port Graham, and Kachemak City are on the bay as well as three Old Believer settlements in the Fox River area, Voznesenka, Kachemak Selo, and Razdolna.
Basin size: 192 sq mi (500 km 2) [3] [4] ... to Eagle Bay on Cook Inlet. [5] Boating. Parts of the Eagle River are floatable in a variety of watercraft.
The Chuitna River, sometimes called the Chuit, [1] emerges from a broad expanse of forest and wetlands west of Anchorage and drains into Cook Inlet.The river and its tributaries support all five species of Pacific salmon, Dolly Varden and trout, [2] and the region is home to abundant wildlife, including moose, wolves, and bears.
Pacific Ocean drainage basin The Seal River is a river in Kenai Peninsula Borough in Alaska , United States. [ 1 ] It is part of the Pacific Ocean drainage basin , and is a tributary of Cook Inlet .