Mudstones in the Wild -

The workshop starts in the field in central Kentucky. Exceptional Paleozoic shale and tight-rock outcrops between Lexington and Louisville provide superb opportunities to study the stratigraphy, facies, mechanical properties, and heterogeneity of mudstones applicable to unconventional depositional systems from Exploration to Development scale. The workshop concludes on campus at Indiana University where participants will observe SEM analyses and sedimentology experiments with mud flumes that produce geologic features observed in shale and tight rocks. Participants will work as teams on a capstone project to integrate all lessons from previous days using seismic, well-log, core, and analytical data. Examples considered include Paleozoic to Cenozoic units: the New Albany, Marcellus, and Ohio shales, Spraberry-Wolfcamp formations, Woodford Shale, Eagle Ford Formation, Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Vaca Muerta Formation, Kingak Formation, Mowry Shale, and Monterey Formation.