The Bureau of Economic Geology The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences
Oriskany Formation, Appalachian Basin (Western Pennsyslvania, Eastern Ohio, and Eastern Kentucky)

Comments on Geologic Parameters

12a Formation Temperature:

Opritza (1996) and Patchen and Harper (1996) provided temperature versus depth data for the Oriskany Sandstone of the central Appalachian Basin. We plotted their data, which formed a definite gradient such that 63 + 0.0092 Depth = formation temperature (in o F). To derive a temperature-distribution map for the GIS, the temperature gradient at formation depth was calculated (c12oriskanyg).

12a Map:

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12a Reference:

Opritza, S. T., 1996, Play Dop: the Lower Devonian Oriskany Sandstone updip permeability pinchout, in Roen, J. B., and Walker, B. J., eds., The atlas of major Appalachian gas plays: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Publication V-25, p. 126-129.

Patchen, D. G., and Harper, J. A., 1996, Play Doc: the Lower Devonian Oriskany Sandstone combination traps play, in Roen, J. B., and Walker, B. J., eds., The atlas of major Appalachian gas plays: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Publication V-25, p. 118-125.

 
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