PETROLEUM GEOLOGY FOR NON-GEOLOGISTS

References, Resources, and Recommended Reading

Paul H. Pausé P. Geol., C.P.G.

Licensed Professional Geologist Texas #1226
Certified Petroleum Geologist
[email protected]

GENERAL GEOLOGY

Physical Geology

Essentials of Geology, 7th ed., 2022, by Stephen Marshak. W. W. Norton & Co., 720 pgs.

Exploring Geology, 6th Edition, 2022, by Stephen Reynolds and Julia Johnson. McGraw Hill,
704 pgs.

Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology, 13th ed., 2020, by Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick
Lutgens, Dennis G. Tasa, and Scott Linneman. Pearson Pub., 784 pgs.

Historical Geology

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters, 2021, by Andrew H. Knoll.
HarperCollins/CustomHouse Pub., 272 pgs.

The Evolving Earth, 2020. Donald R. Prothero. Oxford University Press, 540 pgs.

The Earth Through Time, 11th Edition, 2017. Harold L. Levin and David T. King, Jr.
John Wiley & Sons, 624 pgs.

Popular Essays of Geology

Stories in Geology: What We Know and How We Figured It Out, 3rd

ed., 2019, by Glenn Dolphin. Kendall-Hunt Publishing, E-book.

How to Read a Rock: Our Planet's Hidden Stories, 2022, by Jan

Zalasiewicz. Smithsonian Books, 224 pgs.

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, 2001,
by Simon Winchester. HarperCollins Publishers, 329 pgs.

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, 1997, Walter Alvarez. Princeton Univ. Press, 185 pgs.

How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America, 2021, by John
Dvorak. Pegasus Books, 464 pgs.

The Mountains of Saint Francis – Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth,
2009, by Walter Alvarez. W.W. Norton & Co., 304 pgs.

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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius
Who Discovered a New History of the Earth, 2002, by Alan Cutler. Dutton Pub., 218 pgs.

The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity, 2003, by
Jack Repcheck. Perseus Publishing, 256 pages.

James Hutton: The Founder of Modern Geology, 3rd ed., 2022, by Alan
McKirdy. National Museums Scotland Publishing Ltd., 168 pgs.

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy

Chapters, 2021, by Henry Gee. St. Martin's Press, 288 pages.

Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World,
2018, by Marcia Bjornerud. Princeton Univ. Press, 224 pgs.

The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth, 2016, Carol Hill, et al, eds. Kregel
Publications, 240 pgs.

The Rocks Don’t Lie: a Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, 2012, by David Montgomery.
Norton & Co. pub., 302 pgs.

Geologic Tours of the World - North America’s Natural Wonders, Vol. 1 & 2, 2020, by Gary
Prost. CRC Press, 433 pgs. & 375 pgs.
 Volume I focuses primarily on Western North America, including the Canadian
Rockies, the Southwest, Great Basin, and Tetons-Yellowstone Country.
 Volume II focuses primarily on Central and Eastern North America, including the
Appalachians, the Colorado Rockies, Austin-Big Bend Country, and the Sierra Madre.

Life in Deep Time: Darwin’s “Missing” Fossil Record, 2019, by J. William Schopf.
CRC Press Pub., 250 pgs.

The Abyss of Time: a Study in Geological Time and Earth History, 2016, by Paul Lyle.
Dunedin Academic Press, 204 pgs.

Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans: North America from Birth to Middle Age, 2009, by
John Wilson and Ron Clowes. Key Porter Books, 256 pgs.

Ancient Earth, Ancient Skies: The Age of Earth and Its Cosmic Surroundings, 2004, by
G. Brent Dalrymple. Stanford University Press, 264 pages.

The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution,
2015, by Donald R. Prothero. Columbia University Press, 408 pages.

Rocks of Ages - Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life, 1999, by Stephen Jay Gould.
Ballantine Books, 241 pgs.

Annals of the Former World, 1998, by John McPhee. Farrar Publishers, 696 pgs.

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TEXAS/NEW MEXICO GEOLOGY

Texas Through Time: Lone Star Geology, Landscapes, and Resources, 2016, by T. E. Ewing.
Bureau of Economic Geology, Univ. of Texas, 431 pgs.

Great Places to View Texas Geology, 2019, by M. W. Blount. The University of Texas at
Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 56 pgs.

Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas and New Mexico: Key excursions, 2017. Charles Kerans,
Chris Zahm, Beatriz Garcia-Fresca, and Paul (Mitch) Harris. AAPG Bulletin, v. 101, no. 4,
pgs. 465 – 474.

Guide to the Permian Reef Geology Trail, McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains National
Park, West Texas, 1993, by D. Bebout and C. Kerans, eds. The University of Texas at
Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Guidebook 26, 48 pgs.

Roadside Geology of Texas, 1991, by Darwin Spearing. Mountain Press Pub., 432 pgs.

Geologic Wonders of West Texas, 2004, by Donald P. McGookey. Published by Dr. Don
McGookey, 210 pgs. (Available through the West Texas Geological Society, Midland, Texas)

Roadside Geology of New Mexico, 1987, by Halka Chronic. Mountain Press Publishing
Company, 255 pgs.

The Geology of Southern New Mexico's Parks, Monuments, and Public Lands, 2020, by
Peter A. Scholle, et al, eds. New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, 404 pgs.

The Geology of Northern New Mexico's Parks, Monuments, and Public Lands, 2010 (reprinted
2020), by L. Greer Price, ed. New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, 380 pgs.

Lone Star Dinosaurs, 1995, by Louis Jacobs. Texas A&M University Press, 160 pgs.

A Field Guide to Fossils of Texas, 2nd ed., 1999, by Charles Finsley. Texas Monthly Field
Guide Series. Gulf Pub. Co., 224 pgs.

The Rockhound’s Guide to Texas, 1994, by Melinda Crow. Falcon Press Publishing Company,
166 pgs.

PERMIAN BASIN GEOLOGY/PETROLEUM

West Texas (Permian) Super Basin, United States: Tectonics, structural development,
sedimentation, petroleum systems, and hydrocarbon reserves, 2021, by Bill Fairhurst, Tom
Ewing, and Bob Lindsay. AAPG Bulletin, v. 105, no. 6, pgs. 1099–1147.

Anatomy of a Paleozoic Basin: The Permian Basin, USA (vol. 1), 2019, S. C. Ruppel, ed.
Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, 412 pgs.

Anatomy of a Paleozoic Basin: The Permian Basin, USA (vol. 2), 2020, S. C. Ruppel, ed.
Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, 538 pgs.

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 The Art of Finding High-Graded Drilling Targets. Exploitation Examples for Unconventional
and Conventional Projects in the Permian Basin, 2020, David Entzminger and Mohamed
Zobaa. WTGS Bulletin, Vol. 60, No. 1 (September—October 2020), pgs. 8 – 20.

Facies variability within a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic sea-floor fan (upper Wolfcamp

Formation, Permian, Delaware Basin, New Mexico), 2020, Erik P. Kvale, et al. AAPG Bull.,
v. 104, n. 3, p. 525–563.

Sediment delivery in fine-grained deep-water system, lower Permian Dean formation, Midland
Basin, 2022, by Li Liu and William A. Ambrose. AAPG Bulletin v. 106, n. 1, pgs. 119–144.

The prediction of organic-rich reservoir facies within the Late Pennsylvanian Cline shale (also
known as Wolfcamp D), Midland Basin, Texas, 2021, Stacy C. Atchley, Brian T. Crass, and
Kieron C. Prince. AAPG Bulletin, v. 105, no. 1, pgs. 29–52.

Play Analysis and Digital Portfolio of Major Oil Reservoirs in the Permian Basin, 2005, by
S. P. Dutton, et al. Bureau of Economic Geology, RI0271, 287 pgs., CD-ROM.

Geology of the Delaware Basin, Guadalupe, Apache, and Glass Mountains, New Mexico and
West Texas, 1996, by Carol Hill. Permian Basin Section SEPM Pub. 96-39, 480 pgs.

Wolfberry (Wolfcampian-Leonardian) Deep-Water Depositional Systems in the Midland

Basin: Stratigraphy, Lithofacies, Reservoirs, and Source Rocks, 2012, by H. S. Hamlin and R.
W. Baumgardner. Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations RI0277, 61 pgs.

The Permian Basin, 1991, B.M. Hanson, et al. The Geological Society of America, Decade of
North American Geology Project: The Geology of North America, Vol. P-2, Economic
Geology, Chapter 21, p. 339 - 356.

The Permian Basin Region, 1988, H.N. Frenzel, et al. The Geological Society of America,
Decade of North American Geology Project: The Geology of North America, Vol. D-2,
Sedimentary Cover - North American Craton: U.S, Chapter 11, p. 261 - 306.

Surface Mapping and Subsurface Structure; Application to the Permian Basin, West Texas,
1992, by G. R. Wessel. West Texas Geological Society Bulletin, v. 31, no. 7, p. 6.

Energy and Mineral Resources of New Mexico: Petroleum Geology, 2017, by Ronald
Broadhead. New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources and the New Mexico
Geological Society Memoir 50A, 104 p.

Oil and Gas in the New Mexico Part of the Permian Basin, 1993, Ronald F. Broadhead and
Stephen W. Speer. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 44th Field Conference,
Carlsbad Region, New Mexico and West Texas, p. 293 - 300.

GULF OF MEXICO

The northern Gulf of Mexico offshore super basin: Reservoirs, source rocks, seals, traps,
and successes, 2020, by J.W. Snedden, et al. AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 12, pgs. 2603–2642.

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 Origin, migration, and characterization of petroleum in the Perdido Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico
basin, 2020, Chen Wang, et al. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 195,
December 2020, 15 pgs.

The Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin - Depositional Evolution and Petroleum Applications,
2019, by John W. Snedden and William E. Galloway. Cambridge University Press, 344 pgs.

Petroleum Systems of the Northern Deep-water Gulf of Mexico, 2017, Paul Weimer and
Renaud Bouroullec, ed. AAPG Bulletin Special Issue, vol. 101, no. 7, pgs. 941 -1201.

Gulf of Mexico - A megaprovince, 2009, W. E. Galloway. Geo ExPro, v. 6, n. 3, pgs. 22-26.

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Elements of Petroleum Geology, 4th ed., 2022, by Richard Selley and Steve
Sonnenberg. Academic Press, 608 pgs.

Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling, and Production, 4th ed.,
2019, by Norman J. Hyne. PennWell Books, 506 pgs.

Introduction to Petroleum Exploration for Non-Geologists, 1995, by Robert Stoneley.

Oxford University Press, 119 pgs.

Super basin thinking: Methods to explore and revitalize the world’s greatest petroleum basins,
2020, by Charles A. Sternbach. AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 12, pgs. 2463–2506.

Petroleum Geology eTextbook, 2007, by Stephen Bend. AAPG Special Publication DSC11
on CD-ROM (Discovery Series 11).

Applied Three-Dimensional Subsurface Geological Mapping: With Structural Methods, 3 rd ed.,

2021, by D. Metzner, J. Brenneke, D. Tearpock, and R. Bischke. Pearson Pub., 992 pgs.

Petroleum Geoscience: From Sedimentary Environments to Rock Physics, 2nd ed., 2015, by
Knut Bjørlykke. Springer-Verlag, 662 pgs.

Fundamentals of Petroleum, 5th ed., 2011. Debby Denehy, ed. Petroleum Extension Service
(PETEX) of The University of Texas at Austin, 720 pgs.

Petroleum Geoscience, 2004, by J. Gluyas and R. Swarbrick. Blackwell Publishing, 359 pgs.

Geology and Geochemistry of Oil and Gas, 2005. Developments in Petroleum Science v. 52.
G.V. Chilingar, et al. Elsevier, 370 pgs.

The Value of Outcrop Studies in Reducing Subsurface Uncertainty and Risk in Hydrocarbon
Exploration and Production, 2016, M Bowman, et al, eds. Geol. Soc. London Special
Publication 436, 268 pgs.

Oil Field Production Geology, 2009, by Mike Shepherd. AAPG Memoir 91, 350 pgs.

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 Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, 2nd ed. Developments in Petroleum Science, v. 55,
2008. Frank Jahn, et al. Elsevier, 444 pgs.

Principles of Petroleum Development Geology, 1996, by R. Laudon. Prentice Hall, 267 pgs.

Development Geology Reference Manual. AAPG Methods in Exploration Series, No. 10,
1993. Diana Morton-Thompson and Arnold M. Woods, eds. AAPG, 548 pgs.

Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920, by Brian Frehner, 2011.
University of Nebraska Press, 248 pgs.

The Origin of Petroleum, 2006, in Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing, Volume 1,

Chapter 2, p. 79 – 101. C.S. Hsu and P.R. Robinson, eds., Springer, 411 pgs.

Key Issues in Petroleum Geology: Stratigraphy, 2008, by F. Gregory, et al. Geological

Society of London, 408 pgs.

3-D Structural Geology: A Practical Guide to Quantitative Surface and Subsurface Map
Interpretation, 2nd ed., 2006, by Richard H. Groshong Jr. Springer-Verlag, 400 pgs.

The Petroleum System from Source to Trap, 1994, Leslie B. Magoon and Wallace G. Dow,
eds. AAPG Memoir 60, 644 pgs.

Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps, 2000, E. Beaumont and N. Foster, eds. AAPG Treatise of
Petroleum Geology, Handbook of Petroleum Geology, 1150 pgs.

Money in the Ground: Insider’s Guide to Oil & Gas Deals, 4th ed. (4.5), 2006, by John Orban.
Meridian Press, 416 pgs.

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY OF SHALE AND TIGHT RESERVOIR PLAYS

Shale Oil & Gas Reservoirs: Criteria and Cutoffs, 2023, by Steven W. Hennings. PennWell
Books, 215 pgs.

Sediment delivery in fine-grained deep-water system, lower Permian Dean formation, Midland
Basin, 2022, Li Liu and William A. Ambrose. AAPG Bulletin, v. 106, no. 1, pgs. 119–144.

Applied Geoscience in Shale Exploration and Production, 2018, by Peter Bartok. PennWell
Books, 348 pgs.

Mudstone Diagenesis: Research Perspectives for Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Seals, and
Source Rocks, 2020, W. Camp, et al, eds. AAPG Memoir 120, 260 pgs.

Shale Reservoirs: Giant Resources for the 21st Century, 2012, J. A. Breyer, ed. AAPG
Memoir 97. 68 pages + 451 digital pages on CD.

Getting Started #20: Shales, 2010, compiled by Andrew C. Aplin and Joe H. S. Macquaker.
AAPG Datapages, Adobe PDF/CD-ROM.

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 Paying Attention to Mudrocks: Priceless!, 2015, Daniel Larsen, Sven O. Egenhoff, and Neil S.
Fishman, eds. Geol. Soc. America, 168 pgs.

Critical Assessment of Shale Resource Plays, 2014, Jean-Yves Chatellier and Daniel M. Jarvie,
eds. AAPG Memoir 103. 186 pages.

The Eagle Ford Shale: A Renaissance in U.S. Oil Production, 2016, John Breyer, ed. AAPG
Memoir 110, 389 pgs.

Barnett Shale, 2007, R. Hill and D. Jarvie, eds. AAPG Bulletin Special Issue, 2007, v. 91, no.
4, pp. 399 – 626.

Geology of the Haynesville Gas Shale in East Texas and West Louisiana, 2014, Ursula
Hammes and Julia Gale, eds. AAPG Memoir 105, 236 pgs.

Unconventional: the Development of Natural Gas from the Marcellus Shale, 2017, by Daniel
Soeder. Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 527, 143 pgs.

Imaging Unconventional Reservoir Pore Systems, 2017, Terri Olson, ed. AAPG Memoir 112,
231 pgs.

Pore Types in Unconventional Gas (and Oil) Shales, 2011, by Roger M. Slatt and Neal R.
O’Brien. West Texas Geol. Society Bulletin, Vol. 50, No. 7, pgs. 22-28.

SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY

Stratigraphic Reservoir Characterization for Petroleum Geologists, Geophysicists, and

Engineers, 2006, by Roger M. Slatt. Elsevier Science, Handbook of Petroleum Exploration
and Production, vol. 6, 492 pgs.

Deciphering Earth’s History: the Practice of Stratigraphy, 2022, by Angela Coe, ed. The
Geological Society, London, 342 pgs.

Hutton’s Great Unconformity at Siccar Point, Scotland: Where deep time was revealed and
uniformitarianism conceived, 2017, by S. Archer, et al. AAPG Bull., v. 101, no. 4, p. 571–577.

Sedimentary Geology – An Introduction to Sedimentary Rocks and Stratigraphy, 3rd ed., 2014,
by Donald Prothero and Fred Schwab. W. H. Freeman & Co., 500 pgs.

Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., 2012, by Sam Boggs.

Pearson Pub., 608 pgs.

The Sedimentary Record of Sea-Level Change, 2003, by Angela Coe, et al.

The Open University, Cambridge University Press, 288 pgs.

Carbonate Depositional Environments, 1983, P. Scholle, et al, eds. AAPG Memoir 33, 708 pgs.

Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy, 1993, Robert Loucks and J. Frederick Sarg, eds. American
Assoc. Pet. Geologists Memoir 57, 545 pgs.

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 Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy, 1993, Paul Weimer and Henry Posamentier, eds. American
Assoc. Pet. Geologists Memoir 58, 492 pgs.

Sandstone Depositional Environments, 1982, Peter A. Scholle and Darwin Spearing, eds.
American Assoc. Pet. Geologists Memoir 31, 410 pgs.

METHANE HYDRATES

AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, n. 9, September 2020. Special Issue: Gas Hydrates in the Gulf of
Mexico, pgs. 1843 - 2028.

Natural Gas Hydrates – Energy Resource Potential and Associated Geologic Hazards, 2009.
Collett, T., et al, eds. AAPG Memoir 89, 145 pgs.

Meazell, K., P. B. Flemings, M. Santra, and J. E. Johnson, 2020, Sedimentology and

stratigraphy of a deep-water gas hydrate reservoir in the northern Gulf of Mexico: AAPG
Bulletin, v. 104, no. 9, p. 1945–1969.

Mechanisms of Methane Hydrate Formation in Geological Systems, 2019. Kehua You, et al.
Reviews of Geophysics, v. 57, no. 4, pgs. 1146 – 1196.

OIL AND GAS FIELDS

Atlas of Major Texas Gas Reservoirs, 1989, Elisabeth Kosters, et al, eds. Bureau of Economic
Geology, 161 pgs.

Atlas of Major Texas Oil Reservoirs, 1983, W.E. Galloway, et al, eds. Bureau of Economic
Geology, 139 pgs.

Occurrence of Oil and Gas in West Texas, 1957, Frank Herald, ed. Bureau of Economic
Geology Pub. No. 5716, 442 pgs.

Oil & Gas Fields in West Texas, 1982, reprint of vol. I, II, and III, Charles Godfrey, ed.
West Texas Geological Society Pub. No. 82-75, 689 pgs.

Oil & Gas Fields in West Texas, vol. IV, 1987, William Johnson, et al, eds. WTGS Pub.
No. 87 83, 130 pgs.

Oil & Gas Fields in West Texas, vol. V, 1990, Amy Vanderhill, et al, eds. WTGS Pub.
No. 90-86, 208 pgs.

Oil & Gas Fields in West Texas, vol. VI, 1994, Paul H. Pausé, ed. WTGS Pub. No. 94-96,
325 pgs.

Oil & Gas Fields in West Texas, vol. VII, 1996, Dave Entzminger, ed. WTGS Pub.
No. 96-99, 275 pgs.

Selected Oil & Gas Fields of West Texas, vol. VIII with CD, 2005, Dave Entzminger, ed.
WTGS Pub. No. 05-114.

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 Symposium of Oil & Gas Fields of Southeastern New Mexico, seven volumes (1956, 1960,
1967, 1977, 1988, 1995, and 1999), published by the Roswell Geological Society.

OIL SANDS AND HEAVY OIL DEPOSITS

Athabasca oil sands: Megatrap restoration and charge timing, 2014, by R. Tozer, A. Choi,
J. Pietras, and D. Tanasichuk. AAPG Bulletin, V. 98, No. 3, pgs. 429–447.

Heavy-oil and Oil-sand Petroleum Systems in Alberta and Beyond, 2013. F. J. Hein, et al.
Can. Heavy Oil Assoc. and AAPG Energy Minerals Division, Studies in Geology 64, 131 pgs.

Petroleum Geology of the Cretaceous Mannville Group, Western Canada, 1997, Canadian
Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 18, 486 pages.

The Grosmont: The World’s Largest Unconventional Oil Reservoir Hosted in Carbonate
Rocks, 2012. H.G. Machel, et al. Geol. Society of London Special Paper, v. 370, p. 49-81.

The Devonian of Western Canada - Aspects of a Carbonate Petroleum System, 2001, John
Weissenberger and Ken Potma, eds. CSPG Publication S57, 265 pgs.

GEOPHYSICS, SEISMOLOGY

A Petroleum Geologist's Guide to Seismic Reflection, 2011, by William Ashcroft. Wiley-

Blackwell, 176 pages.

Introduction to Seismic Interpretation, 2011, by Bruce S. Hart. AAPG Discovery Series

No. 16, CD.

Interpretation of Three-Dimensional Seismic Data, AAPG Memoir 42, 7th ed., 2011, by
Alistair R. Brown. 646 pgs. + DVD.

Seismic Stratigraphy - Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration, 1977, Charles E. Payton ed.

AAPG Memoir 26. 516 pgs.

Seismic Stratigraphy II: An Integrated Approach to Hydrocarbon Exploration, 1985, by R.

Berg and D. Woolverton eds. AAPG Memoir 39. 276 pgs.

WIRELINE WELL LOGGING

Basic Well Log Analysis, 2nd ed., 2004, by George Asquith and Daniel
Krygowski. AAPG Methods in Exploration Series No. 16, 244 pgs.

Introduction to Well Logs and Subsurface Maps, 2nd ed., 2019, by J.

Evenick. PennWell Corp., 314 pgs.

Openhole Log Analysis and Formation Evaluation, 2nd ed., 2012, by Richard M. Bateman.
Society of Petroleum Engineers, 668 pgs.

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 Geological Well Logs: Their Use in Reservoir Modeling, 2001, by Stefan M. Luthi. Springer
Verlag, 385 pgs.

The Geological Interpretation of Well Logs, 3rd ed., 2011, by M.H. Rider and Martin Kennedy.
Rider-French Consulting Limited, 440 pgs.

A Practical Model for Organic Richness from Porosity and Resistivity Logs, 1990, by Q. R.
Passey, et al. AAPG Bulletin, vol. 74, pgs. 1777-1794.

Identification of Source Rocks from Wireline Logs, 1990, by A. E. Stocks and S. R. Lawrence,
in Geological Applications of Wireline Logs, Hurst, A. et al, eds., Geological Society London,
Special Publications, v. 48, pgs. 241-252.

INTERNET RESOURCES
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Bureau of Economic Geology

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Evolution of the Permian Basin

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The Permian Basin - A Brief Overview

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The Geology of Texas

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When Texas Was at the Bottom of the Sea

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The Geologic History of West Texas

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Basin History and Tectonics of the Permian Basin - Keys to the Super Basin
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Paleogeography of Greater Permian Basin

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Permian Basin Research Laboratory (PBRL). UT Dallas Permian Basin Lecture Series:
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Geology of the Permian Basin. Tectonic History, Pt. 1: The Big Picture
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Geology of the Permian Basin. Tectonic History, Part 2: Ancestral Rockies, Central Basin
Uplift, Marathon Fold Belt
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Geology of the Permian Basin. Middle & Upper Permian, Post Permian, Permian Basin
Petroleum System
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Geology of the Permian Basin. Lower Permian: Upper Wolfcamp and Leonardian (Spraberry
– Bone Spring)
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Geology of the Permian Basin. Pennsylvanian (including Wolfcamp D)

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Geology of the Permian Basin. Geologic Framework of Pennsylvanian – Early Permian of the
Permian Basin
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Geology of the Permian Basin. Tobosa Basin Stratigraphy (Mid. Ord. – Miss.)
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Basin_Tobosa-Basin-strat.pdf

Geology of the Permian Basin. Basement.

https://labs.utdallas.edu/permianbasinresearch/files/2021/09/Permian-Basin_Basement.pptx

Geology of the Permian Basin. Cambrian – Lower Ordovician (Bliss Ss – Ellenburger Group)
https://labs.utdallas.edu/permianbasinresearch/files/2021/10/Permian-Basin_Cambrian_Lower-
Ord.pptx

Reefs of the Permo-Penn Caribbean: The Horseshoe Atoll of the Midland Basin
https://bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/labs.utdallas.edu/dist/d/39/files/2021/06/Horseshoe-
Atoll_Endeavor_June-2021.pdf

Stratigraphic Framework of the Wolfcamp – Spraberry of the Midland Basin (2022)

https://bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/labs.utdallas.edu/dist/d/39/files/2022/11/Strat-
Framwork_WFMP-SPBY_Midland-Basin_Waite_Ovintiv.pdf

Facies and Stratigraphy of the San Andres Formation (Mid-Permian) Petroleum

Province, Northwest Shelf of the Permian Basin, West Texas: A Resurgent Play
https://bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/labs.utdallas.edu/dist/d/39/files/2020/05/SC-GSA-San-
Andres-presentation-PBRL-WEB-VERSION.pdf

Permian Basin Part 1

Wolfcamp, Bone Spring, Delaware Shale Plays of the Delaware Basin Geology review
https://www.eia.gov/maps/pdf/Permian-pI_Wolfcamp-Bonespring-Delaware.pdf

Permian Basin Part 2

Wolfcamp Shale Play of the Midland Basin Geology review August 2020
https://www.eia.gov/maps/pdf/Permian-pII_Wolfcamp-Midland.pdf
https://www.eia.gov/maps/pdf/Permian_Wolfcamp_Midland_EIA_reportII.pdf

Permian Basin Part 2

Wolfcamp and Spraberry Shale Plays of the Midland Basin March 2022
https://www.eia.gov/maps/pdf/EIA-Permian-Part-II.pdf

Permian Basin Wolfcamp and Bone Spring Shale Plays Geology review
https://www.eia.gov/maps/pdf/Wolfcamp_BoneSpring_EIA_Report_July2019.pdf

Geological Introduction for Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico
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product

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Overview

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Central Basin Platform

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USGS Permian Basin Province (044)

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The Midland Basin vs. the Delaware Basin – Understanding the Permian
Part 1: Evolution and Deposition
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Permian Basin Geology: The Midland Basin vs. the Delaware Basin
Part 2: Stratigraphy
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General Overview of Permian Strata of the Delaware Basin and NW Shelf

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nw-shelf/

The Permian Basin – Intracratonic Subsidence Triggered by ARM Compression, Making an

American “Superbasin,” 2017, by Thomas E. Ewing.
https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2017/10988ewing/ndx_ewing.pdf

Petroleum Systems in the Permian Basin: Targeting optimum oil production

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%2024%20January%202018%20wo%20background.pdf

Permeability of upper Wolfcamp lithofacies in the Delaware Basin: The role of stratigraphic
heterogeneity in the production of unconventional reservoirs
Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez, Athma R. Bhandari; Robert M. Reed; Peter B. Flemings
AAPG Bulletin (2024) 108 (2): 293–326.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/aapgbull/article/108/2/293/632925/Permeability-of-upper-
Wolfcamp-lithofacies-in-the

Conventional and Unconventional Petroleum Systems of the Delaware Basin

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Assessment of undiscovered continuous oil and gas resources in the Wolfcamp Shale and Bone
Spring Formation of the Delaware Basin, New Mexico and Texas, 2018
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Permian Basin Wolfcamp Shale Play Geology review November 2018

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Permian Basin Wolfcamp Shale Play Geology review October 2018

https://www.eia.gov/maps/pdf/PermianBasin_Wolfcamp_EIAReport_Oct2018.pdf

Assessment of undiscovered continuous oil resources in the Wolfcamp shale of the Midland
Basin, Permian Basin Province, Texas, 2016. Fact Sheet 2016-3092.
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/fs20163092

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Spraberry Formation of the Midland
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The Spraberry Trend and Wolfberry Play of the Midland Basin, West Texas
https://www.beg.utexas.edu/research/programs/starr/unconventional-resources/wolfberry-
spraberry

Back-Reef to Basin Depths - The Permian Reef Complex of New Mexico and west Texas
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Oil and gas in the New Mexico part of the Permian Basin
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Where are oil and gas produced in New Mexico?

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Play Analysis and Digital Portfolio of Major Oil Reservoirs in the Permian Basin
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Permian Perseveres
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Texas through Time

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Great Places to See Geology in Texas

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Explore Texas Geology – interactive geologic map of Texas

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Geologic Wonders of Texas

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Introduction to the Geology of the Permian Reef Complex, Guadalupe and Delaware
Mountains, New Mexico & West Texas
https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/tour/federal/parks/PermianReef/home.html

Virtual Geologic Field Trips to the Permian Reef Complex, Guadalupe and Delaware
Mountains, New Mexico & West Texas
https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/tour/federal/parks/PermianReef/fieldtrips/home.html

Permian Reefs and Carbonate Complexes, West Texas

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Guide to the Permian Reef Geology Trail, McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains
National Park, Texas
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Permian Carbonates of the Guadalupe Mountains, the Delaware and Central Basin
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Sequence Stratigraphy of Classic Carbonate Outcrops in West Texas and Southeast

New Mexico and Application to Subsurface Reservoirs
https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2013/50846saller/ndx_saller.pdf.html

Geologic Tour of New Mexico

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Introduction to Virtual Geological Field Trips (Big Bend area)

https://prism-redfern.org/bbvirtualtrip/bbvft.html

Big Bend National Park: A Texas Sized Geologic Wonder of the World
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/28/big-bend-national-park-texas-sized-
geologic-wonder-world

The Imperishable Permian Basin: Growing at 90

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Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Permian Basin Province of
West Texas and Southeast New Mexico, 2007
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2007/3115/pdf/FS07-3115_508.pdf

Assessment of Remaining Recoverable Oil in Selected Major Oil Fields of the Permian Basin,
Texas and New Mexico
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A synthesis of the Wolfcampian platform carbonate system in the Permian Basin Region
https://docplayer.net/35794993-A-synthesis-of-the-wolfcampian-platform-carbonate-system-in-
the-permian-basin-region.html

Geologic walking tour of Carlsbad Cavern

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Evolution and Development of the Wolfbone Play, Southern Delaware Basin, West Texas: an
Emerging Frontier, an Oil-Rich Unconventional Resource
https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2012/10411fairhurst/ndx_fairhurst.pdf

More on the spectacular rise in Texas oil production — maybe the most remarkable energy
success stories in US history
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the-most-remarkable-energy-success-stories-in-us-history/

Geology of the Marathon Uplift, West Texas

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267241589_Geology_of_the_Marathon_Uplift_west_Texas/links/
5514327c0cf283ee0834c930/Geology-of-the-Marathon-Uplift-west-Texas.pdf

Review of the Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group of the Permian Basin, West Texas
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E. Leonardian to Late Wolfcampian, Deep-Water Carbonate Systems in the Permian Basin

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%20slope.pdf

Middle Permian Basinal Siliciclastic Deposition in the Delaware Basin: the Delaware
Mountain Group (Guadalupian)
https://www.beg.utexas.edu/files/content/beg/research/pbSyn/writ_synth/delaware
%20mountain%20group.pdf

GULF OF MEXICO

The Prize Beneath the Salt

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Gulf of Mexico Geology and Petroleum System: Overview

https://netl.doe.gov/projects/files/GulfofMexicoGeologyandPetroleumSystemOverviewand
LiteratureReview_071615.pdf

Geologic Overview of the Gulf of Mexico

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welcome.html

Giant Fields North America - Gulf of Mexico

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PHYSICAL GEOLOGY
Beetle Bailey by Mort Walker
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How the ancient Greeks proved Earth was round over 2,000 years ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-greek-eratosthenes-calculated-earth-circumference-2016-6

Why some people believe the earth is flat

https://www.bbcearth.com/news/why-some-people-believe-the-earth-is-flat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVMFOvxaxW8&t=384s

The Relativity of Wrong, by Isaac Asimov – Earth not flat, but not spherical, either!
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How the ancient Greeks proved Earth was round over 2,000 years ago
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Physical Geology online 2nd ed., 2019, Steve Earle (an excellent, free, online text)
https://opentextbc.ca/physicalgeology2ed/

GEOSC 10 Geology of the National Parks Fall 2023

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EarthDate - Discover the natural wonders of Earth

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An Introduction to Geology (another excellent, free, online text)

https://opengeology.org/textbook/

Physical Geology - An Online Course in Physical Geology

https://www.geoclassroom.com/101online

Physical Geology Spring 2019 (GEOL 1170), University of Nebraska

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Physical Geology Online Fall 2017

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Physical Geology Laboratory: Interactive Diagrams and Questions

Elizabeth A. Johnson, CC-BY-SA
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Introductory Geology for Engineers Geology 3015

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GEO 281 (Geology for Engineers)

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Geology for Engineers

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GE 1150 - Geology For Engineers

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The Birth, Growth, and Death of Continents

https://eos.org/editors-vox/the-birth-growth-and-death-of-continents

An introduction to geology - a free online course

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overview

45 Best Geology Blogs and Websites

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Geology Online: 105 Websites that Rock

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Geology Page
https://www.geologypage.com/

Poetry and Geology: A Celebration

https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/geopoetry

Basics of Geology
https://www.thoughtco.com/geology-basics-4140422

How Old Is Earth?

https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/how-old-is-earth

Depositional Environments
https://commons.wvc.edu/rdawes/G101OCL/Basics/depoenvirons.html#intro

This Dynamic Planet Map

https://volcano.si.edu/resource_dynamicplanet.cfm

Web Geology
https://www.nbvm.no/index.html

Earth Revealed
https://www.learner.org/series/earth-revealed/

Dynamic Earth
https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-dynamic-earth/

Windows to the Universe – Geology

https://www.windows2universe.org/earth/geology/geology.html

Geoscience Concepts
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/geology-concepts.htm

American Geosciences Institute Video Series: Big Ideas in Geoscience

https://www.youtube.com/user/AGIeducation/videos

Earth 101
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/video/earth-101/

Geoscience: the Earth and its Resources

https://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/geoscience-earth-resources/

Dynamic Earth and Tectonics

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MapView – Geologic Maps of the Nation

https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/mapview/

GY 111: Physical Geology at University of South Alabama

https://www.southalabama.edu/geology/haywick/GY111/111notes.htm

Geology Dictionary
https://geology.com/geology-dictionary.shtml

Paleontology Glossary
http://palaeos.com/paleontology/glossary.html

OneGeology
https://www.onegeology.org

The Interior of the Earth

https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/interior/

HISTORICAL GEOLOGY
THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON

The History of Earth and Life, Spring 2023

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Historical Geology - Free Online Textbook for

College-Level Historical Geology Courses
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Geologic Time
https://opengeology.org/textbook/7-geologic-time/

Earth History
https://opengeology.org/textbook/8-earth-history/

Tour of Geologic Time

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A Brief History of Life ©1982 Chronicle Features 12- 15

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history-life.html

Ancient Earth: Breakup of Pangea. App for iPad/iPhone.

Explore Plate Tectonics and Earth History with a Touch of a Finger!
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Divisions of Geologic Time - Geologic Time Scale

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Deep Time

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Divisions of Geologic Time - Major Chronostratigraphic and Geochronologic Units

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Geology Wing at the University of California Museum of Paleontology

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Geological Time
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A Brief History of Geologic Time

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Geologic Time
https://opengeology.org/historicalgeology/geologic-time/

Siccar Point - the birthplace of modern geology

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The making of an angular unconformity: Hutton’s unconformity at Siccar Point

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unconformity-at-siccar-point/

Siccar Point: where the enormity of geologic time was first recognized
https://opengeology.org/historicalgeology/virtual-field-experiences-vfes/vfe-siccar-point-scotland/

History of Life (e-edition online textbook)

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A Geochemical History of Life on Earth

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Origins: Life on Earth

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Life: A Journey Through Time

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Paleogeography and Geologic Evolution of North America

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Historical Geology - An Online Course in Historical Geology

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Our Changing Continent

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Fundamental Geologic Principles

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The Evolution of the Earth

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Earth History and Plate Tectonics

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The Geological Evolution of the Earth

http://www.handprint.com/PS/GEO/geoevo.html

The Trail of Time at Grand Canyon - A Geology Exhibition

https://tot.unm.edu/

Geology of Grand Canyon

https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/geologicformations.htm

Geological time gets a new period - the Ediacaran

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Blast From the Past!

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Chicxulub Crater, Mexico

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Chicxulub asteroid impact: Stunning fossils record dinosaurs' demise

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Reliving the last day of the dinosaurs

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Devastation detectives try to solve dinosaur disappearance - Retracing the terrifying, mysterious
final days of the dinosaurs
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NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office

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PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Petroleum Geology at Western Oregon University Winter 2023

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About Petroleum Geology

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Basin to Basin: Plate Tectonics in Exploration

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Petroleum Geology: An Introduction

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Testing the Atlantic Mirror Theory

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thoughtleadership/testing-the-atlantic-mirror-theory

The Exploration Handbook: A Guide to Modern Exploration Techniques

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The Role of Geology in Frontier Hydrocarbon Exploration

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mike_Simmons3/publication/
349077067_The_Role_of_Geology_in_Frontier_Hydrocarbon_Exploration
/links/601ea28b458515893987146e/The-Role-of-Geology-in-Frontier-
Hydrocarbon-Exploration.pdf

Petroleum Geology AES 3820 at Delft University of Technology

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Introduction to Petroleum Reservoirs and Reservoir Engineering

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Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering - Basic Petroleum Geology

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/png301/node/8

Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering - Origin and Occurrence of Hydrocarbons
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/png301/node/6

Hydrocarbons, Geoscience & The Energy Transition

https://learninghub.rpsgroup.com/mod/resource/view.php?id=8367

The Wilson Cycle and Petroleum Plays

GeoExPro, 2020, vol. 17, no. 6, pgs. 60 – 63
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Shared geological structures across the Atlantic are leading to interesting prospects
https://www.oxfordbusinessgroup.com/analysis/shared-geological-structures-across-atlantic-are-
leading-interesting-prospects

Earth's physical resources: petroleum

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/nature-environment/environmental-studies/earths-physical-
resources-petroleum/content-section-0?intro=1#

Petroleum: a primer for Kansas (but an excellent overview of petroleum geology in general)
https://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Oil/index.html

Petroleum
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Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Geology

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Petroleum Geology at West Virginia University

https://web.archive.org/web/20210413043511/http://pages.geo.wvu.edu/~jtoro
/Petroleum/index.htm

Petroleum - Its Origin

https://dnr.louisiana.gov/assets/TAD/education/BGBB/3/origin.html

Transformation of kerogen into oil with burial and temperature increase

https://geologylearn.blogspot.com/2015/06/transformaton-of-kerogen-into-oil-with.html

The Origin of Oil

https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/documents/newsletter/NL04S/PDF/origin.pdf

The Origin of Petroleum

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226441668_The_Origin_of_Petroleum

Origin, migration, and accumulation of petroleum

https://www.treccani.it/export/sites/default/Portale/sito/altre_aree/Tecnologia_e_Scienze_
applicate/enciclopedia/inglese/inglese_vol_1/pag065-84ing3.pdf

Rich Petroleum Source Rocks

https://geoexpro.com/rich-petroleum-source-rocks/

Back to Source Rocks: Part I and II

https://geoexpro.com/back-to-source-rocks-part-i/
https://geoexpro.com/back-to-source-rocks-part-ii/

How Plant and Animal Remains Become Oil and Gas: A Geochemical Perspective
https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2011/40830dow/ndx_dow.pdf

Basic Petroleum Geochemistry for Source Rock Evaluation

https://www.slb.com/-/media/files/oilfield-review/basic-petroleum

Basic Petroleum Geology and Log Analysis – Halliburton manual

https://petroleumgeoscience1.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/basic_petroleum_geology_book
_by_halliburton.pdf

Hydrocarbon geology
https://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/geoscience-earth-resources/1-rocks-earth-plate-tectonics/
5-hydrocarbon-geology/

Welcome to webGeology - Oil and Gas

https://www.nbvm.no/en/oil-gas.html

Oil on My Shoes - the science of Petroleum Geology

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Following the Oil through Time

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Petroleum Systems
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Basin and Petroleum System Modeling

https://www.slb.com/-/media/files/oilfield-review/basin-petroleum

Petroleum Systems of the United States

https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1870/report.pdf

Oil: Crude and Petroleum Products Explained

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/

A Global Dataset of Onshore Gas and Oil Seeps: A New Tool For Hydrocarbon Exploration
https://www.cgg.com/geoscience/satellite-mapping/natural-seeps-seepage-detection

Exploration Geology & Exploration Targets in the United States and Canada
https://www.explorationgeology.com/basins/

Black Gold Beneath the Bayous

https://www.dnr.louisiana.gov/assets/TAD/education/BGBB/toc.html

OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

The World Keeps Not Running Out of Oil

https://peakoil.com/geology/the-world-keeps-not-running-out-of-oil

How the Oil Industry Saved the Whales

http://www.sjvgeology.org/history/whales.html

The Petroleum Industry Saved the Whales

https://mises.org/wire/petroleum-industry-saved-whales

Oil & Gas Journal's Annual Look at Reported Worldwide Oil Reserves
December 4, 2023, Volume 121, Issue 12, p. 20-24
https://digital.ogj.com/ogjournal/library/page/20231204/20/

Oil & Gas Journal Special Report Forecast & Review

January 2024, vol. 122.1, p. 10 - 21
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Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy June 2023

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BP Energy Outlook 2023

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energy-outlook/bp-energy-outlook-2023.pdf

BP Energy Outlook Country and regional insights – United States, 2023

https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/
energy-outlook/bp-energy-outlook-2023-country-insight-us.pdf

EIA U.S. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Proved Reserves, Year-end 2021
Release Date: December 30, 2022 | Next Release Date: February 2024
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Energy Information Administration (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2023

Release Date: March 16, 2023 | Next Release Date: 2025
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EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook

Release Date: Feb. 6, 2024 | Next Release Date: Mar. 12, 2024
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EIA International Energy Statistics Crude Oil Proved Reserves

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condensate-reserves

International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2023

https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2023

Oil 2021 - Analysis and forecast to 2026

https://www.iea.org/reports/oil-2021

IEA Key World Energy Statistics July 2023

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/world-energy-statistics

ExxonMobil Annual Energy Outlook

https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/Energy-and-environment/Energy-resources/Outlook-for-
Energy/Outlook-for-Energy-A-perspective-to-2040

ENI SpA World Energy Review for 2023

https://www.eni.com/en-IT/global-energy-scenarios/world-energy-review.html

SPE Petroleum Resources Management System Guide for Non-Technical Users

https://www.spe.org/industry/petroleum-resources-management-system-2018/
https://www.spe.org/industry/docs/PRMS-Guide-for-Non-Technical-Users-2007.pdf
https://www.spe.org/en/industry/reserves/

Potential Gas Committee U.S. Natural Gas Resource Base, October 19, 2021
https://potentialgas.org/press-release

Drilling Productivity Report

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Energy Resources Program Newsletter

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Energy Resources Program

https://www.usgs.gov/energy-and-minerals/energy-resources-program/science/assessments

USGS World Oil and Gas Resource Assessments

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/central-energy-resources-science-center/science/world-oil-and-gas-
resource-assessments

USGS Methodology for Assessing Continuous Petroleum Resources

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1167/OF11-1167.pdf

International Oil Scouts Association

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Railroad Commission of Texas

https://www.rrc.state.tx.us/

Oil Production in Texas

https://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/oil-production-in-texas/

New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department

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Texas Monthly Oil & Gas Production

https://www.rrc.texas.gov/oil-and-gas/research-and-statistics/production-data/monthly-crude-oil-
production-by-district-and-field/

EIA (Energy Information Administration) Energy Facts

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Texas Energy Fact Sheet – U.S. Energy Information Administration

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OPEC’s World Oil Outlook 2023

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National Petroleum Council Oil and Gas Geologic Endowment

https://www.npc.org/Prudent_Development-Topic_Papers/1-1_Oil_and_Gas_
Geologic_Endowment_Paper.pdf

Texas Energy Museum

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Crude – the Incredible Journey of Oil

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Geo ExPro
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SLB Energy Glossary

https://glossary.slb.com/en/

Energy Information Administration (EIA) Glossary

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About Oil and Natural Gas - American Petroleum Institute

https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas

Petroleum History Institute

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Drake Well Museum

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A Salute to the Oil Century – NPR

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Energy for Progress – America’s Natural Gas and Oil

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SHALE GAS AND SHALE OIL

The Origin of Shale Gases

GEOExPro, Vol. 16, No. 6, Dec. 2019, p. 76 – 78
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From Oil-Prone Source Rock to Gas-Producing Shale Reservoir – Geologic and Petrophysical
Characterization of Unconventional Shale-Gas Reservoirs
https://fffcarbon.co.za/articles/2012/SPE-131350-FINAL-Low_Passey-et-al_.pdf

Outlook for shale gas and tight oil development in the U.S.
https://www.eia.gov/pressroom/presentations/sieminski_05212013.pdf

My Source Rock is Now My Reservoir - Geologic and Petrophysical Characterization of

Shale-Gas Reservoirs
https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2012/80231passey/ndx_passey.pdf

Industry Players Still Have Much to Learn About Exploiting Shales

https://roxannaoil.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/0213-Roxanna-Oil-Company-Eprint.pdf

Horizontal Development of Wolfcamp Shale Oil of the Southern Midland Basin

https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2014/10605dally/ndx_dally.pdf
Assessment of Undiscovered Continuous Oil Resources in the Wolfcamp Shale of the Midland

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World Shale Resource Assessments

https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/worldshalegas/

Natural gas explained - Where our natural gas comes from

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/where-our-natural-gas-comes-from.php

Newark East Barnett - Shale’s Spindletop

https://geoexpro.com/newark-east-barnett-shales-spindletop/

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Eagle Ford Group and associated
Cenomanian–Turonian Strata, U.S. Gulf Coast, Texas, 2018
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/fs20183033

Assessment of Undiscovered Shale Gas and Shale Oil Resources in the Mississippian Barnett
Shale, Bend Arch–Fort Worth Basin Province, North-Central Texas, 2015
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2015/3078/fs20153078.pdf

A Workflow for Success in Shales, Geo ExPro June 2013, p. 72 – 78

https://geoexpro.com/a-workflow-for-success-in-shales/

Geologic units containing black shale – by State

https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/sgmc-lith.php?text=black+shale

Shale Plays by State

https://mineralwise.com/directory/shale-plays/

Origin and Classification of Pores in Mudstones from Shale-Gas Systems

https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2011/40855loucks/ndx_loucks.pdf

Assessing Undiscovered Resources of the Barnett-Paleozoic Total Petroleum System

https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/pollastro/index.htm

Assessment of Undiscovered Gas Resources in the Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale of the
Appalachian Basin Province, 2019
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2019/3050/fs20193050.pdf

QuickLook Determination of Oil-in-place in Oil Shale Resource plays

https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2011/40764downey/
ndx_downey.pdf.html

Petroleum Geology of the Williston Basin (and Bakken shale)

https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/Resources/

Bakken Shale Oil Field, North Dakota

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Direct Method for Determining Organic Shale Potential from Porosity and Resistivity Logs
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RESIDUAL OIL ZONES (ROZ)

Defining an Overlooked Domestic Oil Resource: A Four-County Appraisal of the San Andres
Residual Oil Zone (ROZ) “Fairway” of the Permian Basin
https://www.co2conference.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1-Kuuskraa-Keynote-ARI-ROZs-
Expanding-Potential-for-CCUS-12-8-15.pdf

Permian basin production proves ROZ viability

https://www.ogj.com/drilling-production/production-operations/article/17210282/permian-basin-
production-proves-roz-viability

Residual Oil Zones: The long-term future of enhanced oil recovery in the Permian Basin and
elsewhere
https://www.uwyo.edu/eori/_files/co2conference11/2011%20eori%20residual%20oil%20zones
%20and%20anthropogenic%20co2.pdf

Rethinking Commercial Reservoir Models and the Residual Oil Zone “Cookbook”
https://residualoilzones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Residual-Oil-Zones-Exploration-and-
Cookbook-Guide-final.pdf

San Andres on the Northwest Shelf: Things You May Not Know
https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2017/51400trentham/
ndx_trentham.pdf.html

FRACKING

Unlocking the Earth - A Short History of Hydraulic Fracturing

https://geoexpro.com/unlocking-the-earth-a-short-history-of-hydraulic-fracturing/

The Engines of Our Ingenuity Episode No. 2890: HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

https://engines.egr.uh.edu/episode/2890

Hydraulic Fracturing Primer

https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas/energy-primers/hydraulic-fracturing

Of Course Fracking is Safe, Stanford Prof Says

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2017/06/26/of-course-fracking-is-safe-stanford-prof-
says/

Fracking 101
https://www.energyindepth.org/fracking-101/

Fracking 101: Breaking down the most important part of today’s oil, gas drilling
https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/local/fracking-101-breaking-down-the-most-important-part-
of-todays-oil-gas-drilling/

How is Shale Gas Produced?

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Fracking: No need for all the fuss

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/geology/fracking-no-need-all-
the-fuss

The Process of Unconventional Natural Gas Production - Hydraulic Fracturing

https://www.epa.gov/uog/process-unconventional-natural-gas-production

Hydraulic Fracturing - Unlocking America's Natural Gas Resources

https://www.hydraulicfracturing.com

Induced Earthquakes
https://www.usgs.gov/natural-hazards/earthquake-hazards/induced-earthquakes

Nothing but hot air in 'Gasland'

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nothing-but-hot-air-in-gasland/article/38980

From Flaming Faucet to Flaming Hose: The Continuing Fraud of Gasland

https://www.energyindepth.org/gaslands-phony-flaming-water-claims/?149
https://www.energyindepth.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Debunking-Gasland.pdf
https://www.energyindepth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Debunking-Gasland-Part-II.pdf

Fiction Masquerading as News in the Oil and Gas Shale World

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2013/07/10/fiction-masquerading-as-news-in-the-oil-
and-gas-shale-world

Fact Checking Josh Fox - Gasland

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/07/02/1220728/-Fact-Checking-Josh-Fox-Gasland-1st-
Posting#comments
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/7/7/1221731/-Fact-Checking-Josh-Fox-Gasland-2-Oil-Gas-
Industry-NOT-Exempt-from-Clean-Air-Clean-Water-Acts

FrackNation (credible documentary about fracking for natural gas)

https://unreportedstorysociety.com/our-projects/fracknation/

PLATE TECTONICS

Plate Tectonics: The Mystery of Earth's Many Faces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHkcx4YkSYs

Plate Tectonics—The Unifying Theory of Geology

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/plate-tectonics-the-unifying-theory-of-geology.htm

Basin to Basin: Plate Tectonics in Exploration

https://www.slb.com/-/media/files/oilfield-review/3-basin-basin

Deconstructing Plate Tectonics - helping the oil and gas industry to model offshore basins

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Plate Tectonics and Petroleum basins

https://gsm.org.my/wp-content/uploads/gsm_file_2/702001-101026-PDF.pdf

New Deepwater Frontiers an Ocean Apart

https://geoexpro.com/new-deepwater-frontiers-an-ocean-apart/

A history of supercontinents on planet Earth

https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-history-of-supercontinents-on-planet-earth-5744636

Seismic Illumination - Pacific Rim Earthquakes as the Echo of a Planetary Process

https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2017/seismic-illumination/index.html

GEOL 3700 - Plate Tectonics

https://maps.unomaha.community/Maher/plate/syllabus.html

Continental Drift: The groundbreaking theory of moving continents

https://www.livescience.com/37529-continental-drift.html

Plate Tectonics Basics playlist – UT Dallas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wJBOk9xjto&list=PLzpHDPjNs-iHjUyX7jjV3zfup3gfmc34k

Plate Tectonics Home Page

https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/

The Dawning of Two Continents

https://geoexpro.com/the-dawning-of-two-continents/

Paleomap Project
http://www.scotese.com/

Introduction to Plate Tectonics

http://eqseis.geosc.psu.edu/~cammon/HTML/Classes/IntroQuakes/Notes/plate_tect01.html

The Validation of Continental Drift

https://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/creager/ess202/continental_drift.htm

Plate Tectonics & Our National Parks

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/plate-tectonics.htm

ROCKS AND MINERALS

Rocks and Minerals

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/rocks-and-minerals.htm
Minerals
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/minerals.htm

Mineralogy Database

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Fluorescent Minerals
https://geology.com/articles/fluorescent-minerals/

What is a Rock?
https://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc/lectures/geology.html

Every Rock is a Record of History: Historical Approaches to Lithology

https://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G102/lectures/102rock.html

Rocks
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/rocks.htm

Igneous Rocks
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/igneous.htm

Metamorphic Rocks
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/metamorphic.htm

Sedimentary Rocks
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/sedimentary.htm

The Geology of Sedimentary Rocks

http://www.intheplaygroundofgiants.com/geology-of-sedimentary-rocks/

Sediment and Sedimentary Rocks

https://www2.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens1110/sedrx.htm

Introduction to Petrology - Sedimentary Rocks

https://www.eos.ubc.ca/courses/eosc221/seds/EOSC221/Lecture_Notes.html

“Chert, Tripolite, Spiculite, Chat - What’s in a Name?”

https://www.kgslibrary.com/downloads/bulletins/2010/Jan-Feb%202010.pdf

Carbonate reservoir geology

https://petrowiki.org/Carbonate_reservoir_geology

SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY

Stratigraphy in the Oil Industry

https://www.chemostrat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2014-strat_in_the_OG_ind.pdf

Stratigraphy: Reading the Pages of Earth History

https://opengeology.org/historicalgeology/stratigraphy-reading-the-pages-of-earth-history
Searching for Stratigraphic Traps
https://geoexpro.com/searching-for-stratigraphic-traps/

Stratigraphic Tools: Basic Sequence Stratigraphy

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sequence-stratigraphy/

Exploring for Stratigraphic Traps

https://web.archive.org/web/20160910134353/https://www.slb.com/~/media/Files/resources/
oilfield_review/ors97/win97/traps.pdf

Sequence Stratigraphy – a Global Theory for Local Success

https://www.slb.com/-/media/files/oilfield-review/p51-62

Sedimentary Rocks: The Key to Past Environments

https://www.learner.org/series/earth-revealed/17-sedimentary-rocks-the-key-to-past-environments/

Sedimentology Home Page, University of Derby

https://www.virtual-geology.info/sedimentology/

STRATA - SEPM’s stratigraphy web site

http://sepmstrata.org/Page.aspx?pageid=1

Introduction to Clastic Sedimentology

https://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~rcheel/teaching/sedimentology/

Depositional setting and geometry of carbonate facies

http://www.sepmstrata.org/page.aspx?pageid=90

Introduction to Carbonate Environments, Facies, and Facies Tracts

https://www.beg.utexas.edu/lmod/_IOL-CM01/cm01-index.htm

Sedimentary Rocks I and II - Interpretation of sedimentary rocks:

https://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/geol100/lectures/13.html
https://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/geol100/lectures/14.html

Interpreting Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy from Well Logs

https://www.beg.utexas.edu/lmod/mod11/index.htm

An Online Guide to Sequence Stratigraphy

http://stratigrafia.org/sequence/index.html

Sequence Stratigraphy
http://sepmstrata.org/page.aspx?&pageid=229&3

Fundamentals of Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy

https://www.beg.utexas.edu/lmod/_IOL-CM05/cm05-index.html

Simplified Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy

https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/sedimentary/activities/14173.html

International Commission on Stratigraphy – the Geologic Time Scale 2023

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FOSSILS AND PALEONTOLOGY

Using Microfossils in Petroleum Exploration

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/ONeill.html

University of California Museum of Paleontology

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/online-exhibits/

The Fossil Record - Life's Epic

http://www.fossilmuseum.net/fossilrecord.htm

The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation - "The world's most

significant fossil discovery"
https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/

PALAEOS: The Trace of Life on Earth

http://palaeos.com/

The Paleontology Portal

http://paleoportal.org

Fossils, Rocks, and Time

https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils/

The Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track" Controversy

http://paleo.cc/paluxy.htm

Kuban’s Paleo Place

http://paleo.cc/kpaleo/kpaleo.htm

The KT-boundary impact

https://www.psi.edu/epo/ktimpact/ktimpact.html

The Anthropocene
http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/working-groups/anthropocene/

RADIOMETRIC DATING

Geologic Time and the Age of the Earth

https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/contents.html

Dating Rocks, University of Leeds

https://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/structure/dynamicearth/dating/index.htm
Radiometric Dating
https://www2.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens212/radiometric_dating.htm

Radiometric Dating, Geologic Time, and the Age of the Earth: A Reply To "Scientific"

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https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1986/0110/report.pdf

Setting the Second Hand on the Rock Clock

https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1997/0924/dating.html

How to determine the half-lives of long-lived nuclides in relatively short periods of time
https://asterism.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tut42RadioactiveHalfLife.pdf

How do we know that radioactive materials have a half-life of millions or billions of years?
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/7584/how-do-we-know-that-some-radioactive-
materials-have-a-half-life-of-millions-or-e

A Radiometric Dating Resource List

https://www.tim-thompson.com/radiometric.html

Radiometric Dating Does Work

https://ncse.ngo/radiometric-dating-does-work

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Structural Geology for Engineers

https://web.archive.org/web/20190908024203/http://pages.geo.wvu.edu/~jtoro/structure
/Structure_342.htm

Simple Structural Geology Lab

https://www.geoclassroom.com/structure/simplelab.shtml

Structural Geology at Cornell

http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/classes/geol326/326.html

The Three Elements of Structural Geology

https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2017/41849engelder/ndx_engelder.pdf.html

Thrust Faults
https://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/structure/faults/thrust/index.htm

Salt Tectonics – online short course

http://homepage.ufp.pt/biblioteca/SaltTectonics/WebSaltTectonics/Index.htm

Teaching Resources in Structural Geology, Univ. of Leeds

https://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/structure/learnstructure/

Structural Geology Lecture Notes

https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/martel/Courses/GG303/
GEOPHYSICS, SEISMOLOGY

Seismic/Geology Links Critical

https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2004/brown05/index.htm

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 The Defining Series: Beginner's Guide to Seismic Surveying
https://www.slb.com/resource-library/oilfield-review/defining-series/defining-seismic-surveying

Overview of Seismic Exploration

http://walter.kessinger.com/work/seisx_outline.html

Geophysics 224: Geophysical exploration techniques

https://sites.ualberta.ca/~unsworth/UA-classes/224/notes224.html

The Seismic Reflection Method

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/courses/eosc350/content/methods/meth_10d/index.htm

Reflection Seismic Method

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/EarthSci/people/lidunka/GEOL2014/Geophysics4%20-%20Seismic
%20waves/reflection%20seismology%202.pdf

What is the Difference Between 2D and 3D Seismic

https://thelundingroup.com/lundin-group-of-companies/reports-
from-the-field/what-is-the-difference-between-2d-and-3d-seismic/

3-D Seismic Imaging

https://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/biondo/3DSI_frame.html

4D Geophysical Data
https://geoexpro.com/4d-geophysical-data/

How Do 4-D and 4-C Seismic Work?

https://www.rigzone.com/training/insight.asp?insight_id=316

WELL LOGGING, PETROPHYSICS, FORMATION EVALUATION

Reading the Rocks from Wireline Logs

https://www.kgs.ku.edu/PRS/ReadRocks/TutIntro.html

Open hole tools

https://wiki.aapg.org/Open_hole_tools

Introduction to Wireline Logging

https://www.slb.com/-/media/Files/oilfield-review/defining-
logging.pdf

Geological Log Analysis

https://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/LA/index.html

The Defining Series: Basic Well Log Interpretation

https://www.slb.com/resource-library/oilfield-review/defining-series/defining-log-interpretation

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http://www.sjvgeology.org/oil/logs.html

How Does Well Logging Work?

https://www.rigzone.com/training/insight.asp?insight_id=298

Types of logs
https://petrowiki.spe.org/Types_of_logs

Use of well logs for sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the subsurface

http://sepmstrata.org/page.aspx?&pageid=60&3

Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts

https://www.spwla.org/

SLB (Schlumberger)
https://www.slb.com/products-and-services/innovating-in-oil-and-gas/reservoir-characterization/
surface-and-downhole-logging/wireline-openhole-logging

Halliburton - Wireline Openhole Logging

https://www.halliburton.com/en/subsurface/formation-evaluation/wireline-openhole-logging

Baker Hughes Formation Evaluation

https://www.bakerhughes.com/evaluation/wireline-openhole-logging

Weatherford Open Hole Services

https://www.weatherford.com/en/products-and-services/formation-evaluation/wireline-services/
openhole-wireline/

OIL SHALE

Oil Shale vs. Shale Oil: What's the Difference?

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080715/difference-between-shale-oil-and-oil-
shale.asp

AAPG – Oil Shale

https://wiki.aapg.org/Oil_shales

USGS Oil Shale Homepage

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/central-energy-resources-science-center/science/oil-shale

What is Oil Shale - National Oil Shale Association

https://oilshaleassoc.org/what-is-oil-shale/

Oil Shale - A Daily Reckoning White Paper Report

https://dailyreckoning.com/oil-shale-reserves/

Oil Shale Stratigraphy — A Global Perspective

https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2009/30083nummedal/ndx_nummedal.pdf

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 A Quick Look Determination of Oil-in-place in Oil Shale Resource plays
https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2011/40764downey/ndx_downey.pdf

DOE Oil Shale Activities

https://energy.gov/fe/services/petroleum-reserves/naval-petroleum-reserves/oil-shale-and-other-
unconventional-fuels

Strategic significance of America's oil shale resource: Volume 1--assessment of strategic issues
https://inside.mines.edu/UserFiles/File/library/PDF/Archive/
TEOSR_ONPOSR_strategic_significancev1.pdf

Strategic significance of America's oil shale resource: Volume 2--oil shale resources
https://inside.mines.edu/UserFiles/File/library/PDF/Archive/
TEOSR_ONPOSR_strategic_significancev2.pdf

In-Place Oil Shale Resources Examined by Grade in the Major Basins of the Green River
Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3145/FS12-3145.pdf

Utah Geological Survey Oil Shale Resources

https://geology.utah.gov/energy-minerals/hydrocarbons/oil-shale/

Creationist Misuse of the Green River Formation

https://www.oldearth.org/morton/creationist_misuse_green_river_formation.htm

The Green River Formation

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/tertiary/eoc/greenriver.html

OIL SANDS AND HEAVY OIL DEPOSITS

Oil Sands/Tar Sands

https://geology.utah.gov/resources/energy/tar-sands/

Canada’s Oil Sands - What are the Oil Sands?

https://www.capp.ca/oil/what-are-the-oil-sands/

Oil Sands Facts and Stats

https://open.alberta.ca/publications/oil-sands-facts-and-stats

Geologic features of the Athabasca oil sands

http://www.ramp-alberta.org/river/geography/geological+prehistory/mesozoic.aspx

Oil Sands Geology and the Properties of Bitumen

https://www.oilsandsmagazine.com/technical/properties

The Geology of the Oil Sands

http://www.history.alberta.ca/energyheritage/sands/origins/the-geology-of-the-oil-sands/
default.aspx

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 The Devonian Grosmont: Unconventional Oil in a Fractured and Karstified Dolostone-Evaporite
Platform, Alberta, Canada
https://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2012/80211machel/ndx_machel.pdf.html

COAL BED METHANE

Coal Bed Methane Primer

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc878976/m2/1/high_res_d/902748.pdf

U.S. Geological Survey - Fact Sheet 123-00. Coal-Bed Methane: Potential and Concerns
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs123-00/fs123-00.pdf

Coal Mine Methane Recovery: A Primer

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph240/iskhakov1/docs/epa-430-r-09-013.pdf

METHANE HYDRATES

USGS Gas Hydrates Lab – hydrate video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U46XOoU0DrM

Gas Hydrate in Nature

https://geonarrative.usgs.gov/hydrateinnature/

Ignik Sikumi #1 "Fire in the Ice" Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfgnaeBPZKY

Gas Hydrates – Primer

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Gas Hydrates - Resource Assessment

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Gas Hydrates - Not So Unconventional

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Gas Hydrates – Part I: Burning Ice

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Gas Hydrates - Part V: The Resource Potential

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