General Setting
Information Search and Selection

Com ments

on

Geo logic

Para meters

1 Depth:

2 Permeability/Hydraulic Conductivity:

3 Formation Thickness:
4 Net Sand Thickness:
5 Percent Shale:
6 Continuity:
7 Top Seal Thickness:
8 Continuity of top seal:
9 Hydrocarbon Production:
10 Fluid Residence Time:
11 Flow Direction Elevation:

12

CO2 Solu bility Brine

 12a Temperature:
12b Pressure:
12c Salinity:
13 Rock/Water Reaction:
14 Porosity:
15 Water Chemistry:
16 Rock Mineralogy:

Granite Wash, Palo Duro Basin, Texas

Comments on Geologic Parameters

7 Top Seal Thickness:

We found no thickness map of the entire evaporite aquitard that overlies the Granite Wash. However, adding the gridded isopach maps of the San Andres / Blaine Formations and the genetic unit above them results in thicknesses that approach or exceed 2,000 ft, ample seal thickness. (c7granitewash).

7 Map:

7 Reference:

Presley, M. W., 1979, Upper Permian evaporites and red beds, in Dutton, S. P., Finley R. J., Galloway, W. E., Gustavson, T. C., Handford, C. R., and Presley, M. W., Geology and hydrology of the Palo Duro Basin, Texas Panhandle: a report on the progress of nuclear waste isolation feasibility studies, 1978: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Geological Circular 79-1, p. 39–49.