Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, and Eastern Kentucky
Comments on Geologic Parameters
12a CO2 Solubility Brine: 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 °F). To derive a temperature-distribution map for the GIS, the temperature gradient at formation depth was calculated (c12oriskanyg).
12a Map:

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.
Geological Parameter 12a, CO2 Solubility Brine: Formation Temperature
- Arbuckle Group
- Basin Fill /Carbonates
- Cape Fear Formation
- Cedar Keys Lawson
- Fox Hills, Lower Hell Creek
- Glen Canyon Group
- Granite Wash
- Lower Potomac Group
- Lyons Formation
- Madison Group
- Miocene, Lower
- Miocene, Upper
- Morrison Formation
- Mt. Simon Formation
- Oligocene
- Oriskany Formation
- Paluxy Sand
- Pliocene, Lower
- Pliocene, Upper
- Pottsville Formation
- Pre-Tuscaloosa
- Repetto Formation
- St. Peter Sand
- Tuscaloosa (AL)
- Tuscaloosa (GA)
- Woodbine Formation