Using structural diagenesis to infer the timing of natural fractures in the Marcellus shale

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference 2013, URTC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pommer, Laura ^a   Gale, Julia F W ^a   Eichhubl, Peter ^a   Fall, András ^a   Laubach, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CEMENTS; CORE SAMPLES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; ISOTOPES; MINERALOGY; POROSITY; RESOURCE VALUATION; SHALE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEXTURES; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ECONOMIC PRODUCTION; FRACTURE OPENING; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE STIMULATION; HYDROCARBON FLUID INCLUSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NATURAL FRACTURE; NATURAL FRACTURE SYSTEM; SUB-SURFACE FRACTURES;

FRACTURE;

EID: 85088405562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/urtec2013-167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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