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A comparison of reservoir gas energy and composition with respect to initial oil production in the San Andres Formation of Shafter Lake Field, Andrews County, Texas
(2018-05-14)The oil-rich, Permian-age San Andres Formation in the Permian Basin of West Texas produces Wolfcampian-age oil from the dolomitic host rock in prolific amounts. The present study focuses on the Shafter Lake field and ... -
A Geomechanical Approach To Evaluate Brittleness Using Well Logs: Mississippian Limestone, Northern Oklahoma
Fracture density, or brittleness, of a rock is an important factor in understanding the characteristics of a reservoir and the reservoir's predisposition to fracturing. This becomes particularly critical when exploring ... -
A MEGABRECCIA WITH ASSOCIATED STRATIGRAPHY OF THE CHERRY CANYON AND BELL CANYON FORMATIONS TRANSITION (GUADALUPIAN, MIDDLE PERMIAN), SOUTHERN DELAWARE MOUNTAINS, WEST TEXAS
(2017-05-10)The Cherry Canyon and Bell Canyon Formations (Guadalupian, Middle Permian) are well exposed in the southern part of the Delaware Mountains, West Texas and are marked by the presence of several distinct and widespread debris ... -
Alluvial Fan Deposits of the Todos Santos Formation of Central Chiapas, Mexico
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 1981-07)The Todos Santos Formation at Jerico was deposited as an alluvial fan system by high gradient, short duration ephemeral streams which transported gravel, sand, and mud northeastward through a feeder canyon which opened out ... -
An Integrated Evaluation Of Potential Petroleum Systems Of The Southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
(2018-07-10)The Southern Carnarvon Basin is an elongate basin in Western Australia covering approximately 200,000km2. There are two main regions: a western platform (Gascoyne Platform) with a Cambrian to Lower Carboniferous succession ... -
ANALYSIS OF PARASEQUENCES WITH PALEO-GEOGRAPHICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MIOCENE RESERVOIRS OF THE MAIN PASS REGION IN THE GULF OF MEXICO
Reservoir sands in the Main Pass region of the Gulf of Mexico have proved to be highly productive, accounting for 56 million barrels of oil and 47 billion cubic feet of gas in just the 4 lease blocks covered in this study. ... -
An Atlas Of Cenozoic Climate Zones
(Geology, 2012-07-25)This atlas illustrates global climatic zones in five major turning points of Cenozoic climate history: the K/T, the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), the Eocene/Oligocene Transition (EOT), the Late Miocene (Messinian), ... -
Biomarkers: Review And Application To The Eagle Ford Shale Formation
(Geology, 2013-03-20)Biomarkers have become an integral part of oil exploration. Gas Chromatography (-Mass Spectrometry) was performed to an oil sample to acquire biomarkers from the sample.The presence, lack of, or abundance of a given compound ... -
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR A LATE TRIASSIC CLIMATE SIMULATION USING CESM1.2-SOM
(2022-08-16)Climate models have been widely adapted to reconstruct the environmental changes and associated mass extinction events across geologic times, such as the Younger Dryas (~12.9 Kyr), the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maxima (~55 ... -
Characterization Of Exogeous Particale Content: Of Canine Tissue Urban Vs. Rural Inhalation Exposures
(Geology, 2014-07-14)Exogenous zinc (Zn) is emerging as a serious contaminant in the environment. Yearly deposition of zinc particles line heavily traveled inner city roadways and less traveled rural roadways. Particle size for zinc ranges ... -
CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOPETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MANCOS “B”/ PRAIRIE CANYON MEMBER OF THE MANCOS SHALE, RIO BLANCO, COLORADO
(2017-12-04)Over the past decade hydrocarbon production from unconventional reservoirs has grown to become a significant source of North American domestic energy and will likely continue so for decades to come. However, production ... -
Characterization of the Constituent Mineral Components of North African Surface Dust Samples Utilizing Computer Controlled Scanning Electron Microscopy (CCSEM)
(2015-12-23)Analysis of the constituent mineral components of surface dusts/soils from Chad-Niger region, North Africa, was undertaken by computer controlled scanning electron microscopy (CCSEM) to determine if differences in ... -
Characterizing the nature of the sub-continental lithospheric mantle beneath Prindle volcano, Yukon-Tanana Upland, Alaska
(2019-05-08)Prindle Volcano, an isolated alkali-basaltic cone in eastern Alaska is the northernmost volcanic center within the northern Cordilleran volcanic province (NCVP), a volcanic region along the northwestern region of North ... -
Chemostratigraphy And Geochemical Constraints On The Deposition Of The Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, Eastern Montana And Western North Dakota
(Geology, 2014-03-10)The late Devonian-early Mississippian Bakken Formation was deposited in a structural-sedimentary intracratonic basin that extends across a large part of modern day North Dakota, eastern Montana, and the southern portion ... -
Chemostratigraphy And Paleoceanography Of The Mississippian Barnett Formation, Southern Fort Worth Basin, Texas, USA
(Geology, 2011-10-11)The Mississippian (Visean-Serpukhovian) Barnett Formation is a lithologic unit composed primarily of laminated siliceous mudstone and calcareous siliceous mudstone with significant phosphate and sulfide phases present. The ... -
Chemostratigraphy And Paleoenvironment Of The Haynesville Formation, Harrison County, Texas
(Geology, 2013-07-22)The Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Haynesville formation consist of post rift siliciclastics, carbonate, and evaporite deposits that accumulated in continental to deeper marine environments on an asymmetrical basin where ... -
Chemostratigraphy And Paleoenvironment Of The Smithwick Formation, Fort Worth Basin, San Saba County, Texas
(Geology, 2011-07-14)The Early Pennsylvanian-Age Smithwick Formation was deposited in the tectonically active Fort Worth Basin in North Central Texas during a time of well-documented global climatic instability during the Late Paleozoic ice ... -
Chemostratigraphy And Paleoenvironmental Significance Of The Pennsylvanian Smithwick Formation, Northern Llano Uplift Region, Texas
(Geology, 2013-03-20)The Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian-Moscovian) Smithwick Formation of Central Texas has been previously described as a marine transgressive, fairly homogeneous and fine-grained dark shale sequence with varying local ... -
Chemostratigraphy And The Paleoceanography Of The Bossier-Haynesville Formation, East Texas Basin, Texas and LA, USA
(Geology, 2012-04-11)The fine-grained, dark, organic, calcareous Haynesville shale (Kimmeridgian), and the overlying carbonate-poor Bossier shale (Tithonian) was deposited during the warmer Jurassic period in the tectonically formed East Texas ... -
Chemostratigraphy Of The Austin Chalk And Upper Eagle Ford Shale
(Environmental & Earth Science, 2014-07-14)A single drill core from La Salle, TX was analyzed for its chemical composition and percent concentration of both major and trace elements in order to understand depositional environments and local tectonic activity of the ...