QCL

The Quantitative Clastics Laboratory (QCL) carries out geologic studies of the processes, tectonics, and quantitative morphology of basins around the world. QCL research emphasizes the use of mega-merged 3D seismic data sets for quantitative seismic geomorphologic study of the basin fill, evaluation of source-to-sink relationships between the shelf, slope and deep basin and analyses of the influence of tectonics and fluids (such as gas hydrates) on the evolution of these complex continental margin settings. The program was established in 2001 and is funded by a consortium of oil companies and supported by numerous software vendors and foreign energy ministries. The QCL is widely considered the world's premier research group in the application of seismic geomorphology to reservoir characterizations, and is a Jackson School of Geosciences collaboration between the Department of Geosciences, the Bureau of Economic Geology and the Institute for Geophysics.

The 2008 Quantitative Clastics Laboratory Annual Meeting is scheduled for Monday-Friday, September 22-26. The meeting will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with a subsequent field trip which will take us to Chama, New Mexico, ending up in Farmington, New Mexico, as we see the proximal and distal shelf systems of the El Vado Sandstone (a large gas and oil producer in the San Juan Basin) and the Picture Cliffs Sandstones (a large unconventional gas producing, wave-dominated shelf reservoir). The meeting is open only to staff of QCL member companies. Further details will be posted in the Members' Area in due course.