Shale characterization and resource appraisal of the Devonian black shales of the Appalachian basin. Quarterly report, October--December 1978

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6419572

Activities are reported in a program designed to characterize the gas-productive and potentially gas-productive brown and black carbonaceous shales and related rocks of Middle and Late Devonian age in the Appalachian basin using data developed in the stratigraphy, structure, mineralogy, paleontology, geochemistry, geophysics, and hydrocarbon productivity of these rocks; to develop a comprehensive paleogeographic model of the basin of accumulation and the environment of deposition for the Devonian shales and related rocks; to assist the Department of Energy's Morgantown Energy Technology Center by monitoring and coordinating efforts of other Eastern Gas Shales Project cooperators in stratigraphic studies; to respond to specific requests by METC to data germaine to the shale characterization study; to develop a data system capable of storing for retrieval the many diverse data generated in the EGS project in the Appalachian basin; and to make a resource appraisal of the energy potential of the Devonian brown and black shales in the Appalachian basin.

• Research Organization: Geological Survey, Reston, VA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EX-76-C-01-2287
• OSTI ID: 6419572
• Report Number(s): TID-29376
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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APPALACHIA
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GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS
NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS
BLACK SHALES
EVALUATION
EXPLORATION
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
DEVONIAN PERIOD
PALEONTOLOGY
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GEOLOGIC AGES
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
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OIL SHALES
PALEOZOIC ERA
RESOURCES
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