Publications, Theses, & Dissertations
Publications
Javadpour, F., 2020, Nanoscience in geoscience: nanopore characterizations using atomic force microscope: NANOscientific, v. 20, p. 22-25. [PDF]
Larson, T. E., Perkins, G.B., Williams, R.F., Fessenden, J.E., Clegg, S.M., Currier, R.P., Partitioning of oxygen isotopes during the aqueous solvation of nitric acid. Fluid Phase Equilibria, v. 506, 112364, p. 1-5. [PDF]
Loucks, R. G., Larson, T. E., Zheng, C. Y. C., Zahm, C. K., Ko, L. T., Sivil, J. E., Peng, S., Ruppel, S. C., and Ambrose, W. A., 2020, Geologic characterization of the type cored section for the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group in southern Texas: a combination fractured and unconventional reservoir: AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 10, p. 2209–2245, http://doi.org/10.1306/04222019197. [PDF]
Rabbani, A., Babaei, M., Javadpour, F., 2020, A Triple Pore Network Model (T-PNM) for Gas Flow Simulation in Fractured, Micro-porous and Mesoporous Media. Transport in Porous Media (IF: 2.32). V. 132: 707-740.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-020-01409-w [PDF]
Reed, R. M., Sivil, J. E., Sun, X., and Ruppel, S. C., 2019, Heterogeneity of microscale lithology and pore systems in an Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group horizontal core, South Texas, U.S.A.: GCAGS Journal, v. 8, p. 22–34. [PDF]
Reed, R. M., Loucks, R. G., and Ko, L. T., 2020, Scanning electron microscope petrographic differentiation among different types of pores associated with organic matter in mudrocks: GCAGS Journal, v. 9, p. 17–27. [PDF]
Ruppel, S. C., Rowe, H., Reed, R. M., Barrick, J. E., James, E. J., and Loucks, R. G., 2020, The Woodford Formation of the Permian Basin: Regional, Middle to Late Devonian Transgression of the Southern Midcontinent and Accompanying Anoxia, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic Basin: The Permian Basin, USA: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, pt. 2, p. 75–124, http://doi.org/0.23867/RI0285-2.
Ruppel, S. C., Rowe, H., Reed, R. M., and Loucks, R. G., 2020, The Mississippian System in the Permian Basin: Proximal Platform Carbonates and Distal Organic-Rich Mudrocks, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic Basin: The Permian Basin, USA: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, v. 118, pt. 2, p. 125–158, http://doi.org/0.23867/RI0285-2.
Shao, D., Zhang, T., Ko, L. T., Li, Y., Yan, J., Zhang, L., Luo, H., and Qiao, B., 2020, Experimental investigation of oil generation, retention, and expulsion within Type II kerogen-dominated marine shales: insights from gold-tube nonhydrous pyrolysis of Barnett and Woodford Shales using miniature core plugs: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 217, no. 103337, 16 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2019.103337. [PDF]
Sheng, G., Javadpour, F., Yuliang Su, 2019, Dynamic Porosity and Apparent Permeability in Porous Organic Matter of Shale Gas Reservoirs, Fuel (IF: 5.7). V. 251, p. 341-351. [PDF]
Sheng, G., Javadpour, F., Yuliang Su, Jinghua Liu, Kunjie Li, Wendong Wang. 2019. A Semianalytic Solution for Temporal Pressure and Production Rate in a Shale Reservoir with Non-Uniform Distribution of Induced Fractures. SPE Journal (IF: 3.095). Aug. 2019, pp. 1856-1883. [PDF]
Sheng, G., Su, Y., Javadpour, F., Wang, W. Zhan, S., Liu, J., 2020, A New Slip Coefficient Model Considering Adsorbed Gas Diffusion in Shale Gas Reservoirs. Energy and Fuels (IF: 3.421). v. 34, pp. 12078-12087. [PDF]
Sheng, G., Zhao, H., Su, Y., Javadpour, F., Wang, C., Zhou, Y., Liu, J., Wang, H., 2020, An Analytical Model to Couple Gas Storage and Transport Capacity in Organic Matter with Noncircular Pores. Fuel (IF: 5.7). V. 268, 15 May, 117288, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.117288 [PDF]
Tahmasebi, P, Javadpour, F. Digital rock techniques to study shale permeability: A mini-review, Energy and Fuels (IF: 3.421), Invited paper. Accepted. [PDF]
Wang, S., Feng, Q., Javadpour, F., Wu, K. 2019, Competitive adsorption of methane and ethane in montmorillonite nanopores of shale at supercritical conditions: A grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation study. Chemical Engineering Journal (IF: 10.652). v. 355, p. 76-90. DOI:10.1016/j.cej.2018.08.067 [PDF]
Wang, S., Feng, Q., Javadpour, F., Zha, M., and Cui, R., 2020, Multiscale Modeling of Shale Apparent Permeability: An Integrated Study of Molecular Dynamics and Rigid Pore Network Model. SPE Journal (IF: 3.095). v. 25, issue 03, June. 27 pages. DOI: 10.2118/187286-PA [PDF]
Zhang, T., Javadpour, F., Li, X., Wu, K., Sun, Z., Li, J., Yin, Y., 2020, Mesoscopic Method to Study Water Flow in Nanochannels with different wettability. Physical Review E (IF: 2.296). V. 102, pp. 013306 (1-17). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.013306 [PDF]
Zhang, T., Javadpour, F., Ying Yin, Xiangfang Li, 2020, Upscaling Water Flow in Composite Nanoporous Shale Matrix Using Lattice Boltzmann Method. Water Resources Research (IF: 4.36).https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026007 [PDF]
Zhao, H., Liu, C., Larson, T.E., McGovern, G.P., Horita, J., Bulk and position-specific isotope geochemistry of natural gases from the Late cretaceous Eagle Ford Shale, south Texas, Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 122, 104659, p. 1-11. [PDF]
Zuo, H., Javadpour, F., Deng, S., Jiang, X., Li, Z., Li, H., 2020, Liquid Slippage on Rough Hydrophobic Surfaces with and without Gas Bubbles. Physics of Fluids (IF: 3.514). V. 32 (8), 082003, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0015193 [PDF]
Zuo, H., Javadpour, F., Deng, S., Jiang, X., Li, Z., Li, H., 2020, Reassessing water slippage in hydrophobic nanostructures. Journal of Chemical Physics (IF: 2.991). v. 153, 191101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0030758. [PDF]
Peng, S., B. Ren, M. Mian, 2019, Quantifying the influence of fractures for more accurate laboratory measurement of shale matrix permeability using a modified gas expansion method, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering-Formation Evaluation (accepted manuscript)
Afsharpoor, A., Javadpour, Farzam. 2018. Pore Connectivity Between Organic and Inorganic Matter in Shale: Network Modeling of Mercury Capillary Pressure. Transport in Porous Media (IF: 2.205). DOI: 10.1007/s11242-018-1132-0
Hosseini, A., Javadpour, F., 2018, Determination of nanoparticle macrotransport coefficients from pore scale processes, Transport in Porous Media (IF: 2.205). DOI: 10.1007/s11242-018-1123-1.
Lucy T. Ko, Stephen C. Ruppel, Robert G. Loucks, Paul C. Hackley, Tongwei Zhang, Deyong Shao, 2018. Pore-types and pore-network evolution in Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Woodford and Mississippian Barnett mudstones: Insights from laboratory thermal maturation and organic petrology. International Journal of Coal Geology. . 10.1016/j.coal.2017.10.001.
Larson, T. E., Nicot, J.P., Mickler, P., Castro, M.C., Darvari, R., Wen, T., and Hall, C. M., 2018, Monitoring stray natural gas in groundwater with dissolved nitrogen. An example from Parker County, Texas, Water Resources Research, v.54, p. 6024–6041.
Loucks, R. G., Eagle Ford-A depositional setting and processes in southwestern Texas: An example of deeper-water,below-storm-wave-base carbonate sedimentation on a drowned shelf, GCAGS Journal, v. 7, p. 59–78.
Mauck, J. V., R. G. Loucks, and D. J. Entzminger, 2018, Stratigraphic architecture, depositional systems, and lithofacies of the Mississippian Upper Barnett Two Finger Sand interval, Midland Basin, Texas, GCAGS Journal, v. 7, p. 21–45.
Naraghi, M.E., Javadpour, Farzam, Ko, T.K., 2018, An Object-based Shale Permeability Model: Non-Darcy Gas Flow, Sorption, and Surface Diffusion Effects. Transport in Porous Media. Published online.
Sheng, G., Javadpour, F., and Su, Y., 2018, Effect of microscale compressibility on apparent porosity and permeability in shale gas reservoirs: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 120, p. 56-65, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.12.014.
Tahmasebi, P., Javadpour, Farzam, Freboug, G. 2018, Geologic Modeling of Eagle Ford Facies Continuity Based on Outcrop Images and Depositional Processes, SPE Journal (IF: 2.21). Aug. 2018, 1359-1371.
Wang, S., Feng, Q., Javadpour, Farzam, Wu, K. 2018, Competitive adsorption of methane and ethane in montmorillonite nanopores of shale at supercritical conditions: A grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation study. Chemical Engineering Journal (IF: 6.735). v. 355, p. 76-90. DOI:10.1016/j.cej.2018.08.067
Wang, S., Feng, Q., Zha, M. Javadpour, Farzam; Hu, Q., 2018, Supercritical Methane Diffusion in Shale Nanopores: Effects of Pressure, Mineral Types, and Moisture Content Energy & Fuels, Accepted.
Xu, S., Feng, Q., Wang, S., Javadpour, Farzam, 2018. Optimization of multistage fractured horizontal wells in tight oil based on embedded discrete fracture model. Computers & Chemical Engineering (IF: 3.113). DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2018.06.015
Zheng, F., C. Hsu, Y. Zhang, Y. Wu, H. Lu, X. Sun, Q. Shi, 2018, Simultaneous detection of vanadyl, nickel, iron, and gallium porphyrins in marine shales from the Eagle Ford Formation, south Texas, Energy & Fuel (accepted manuscript)
Afsharpoor, A., Javadpour, Farzam, Wu, J., Ko, L.T., Liang, Q., 2017, Network modeling of liquid flow in Yanchang shale, Interpretation. v. 5, issue 2; p. SF99-SF107, DOI:10.1190/INT-2016-0100.1.
Ghanbarian, B., Javadpour, Farzam, 2017, Upscaling pore pressure-dependent permeability of shales, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 122, doi:10.1002/2016JB013846
Paul C. Hackley, Lixia Zhang, and Tongwei Zhang (2017). ”Organic petrology of peak oil maturity Triassic Yanchang Formation lacustrine mudrocks, Ordos Basin, China.” Interpretation, 5(2), SF211-SF223. https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2016-0111.1
Ko, L. T., R. G. Loucks, S. C. Ruppel, T. Zhang, S. Peng, 2017, Origin and characterization of Eagle Ford Pore Networks in the South Texas Upper Cretaceous Shelf, (in press; preliminary version published online Ahead of Print 07 November 2016), AAPG Bulletin (doi: 10.1306/08051616035)
Lucy T. Ko, Robert G. Loucks, Kitty L. Milliken, Quansheng Liang, Tongwei Zhang, Xun Sun, Paul C. Hackley, Stephen C. Ruppel, and Sheng Peng, 2017,”Controls on pore types and pore-size distribution in the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China: Implications for pore-evolution models of lacustrine mudrocks.” Interpretation, 5(2), SF127-SF148.
Robert G. Loucks, Stephen C. Ruppel, Xiangzeng Wang, Lucy Ko, Sheng Peng, Tongwei Zhang, Harry D. Rowe, and Patrick Smith (2017). ”Pore types, pore-network analysis, and pore quantification of the lacustrine shale-hydrocarbon system in the Late Triassic Yanchang Formation in the southeastern Ordos Basin, China.”Interpretation, 5(2), SF63-SF79. https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2016-0094.1
Mehrabi, M., Javadpour, F., Sepehrnoori, K., 2017, Analytical analysis of gas diffusion into non-circular pores of shale organic matter: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 819, 656-677. Doi:10.1017/jfm.2017.180.
Kitty L. Milliken, Ying Shen, Lucy T. Ko, and Quansheng Liang (2017). ”Grain composition and diagenesis of organic-rich lacustrine tarls, Triassic Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China.” Interpretation, 5(2), SF189-SF210. https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2016-0092.1
Reed, Robert M. (2017) Organic-matter pores: new findings from lower-thermal-maturity mudrocks. GCAGS Journal, v. 6, p. 99–110.
Harry Rowe, Xiangzeng Wang, Bojiang Fan, Tongwei Zhang, Stephen C. Ruppel, Kitty L. Milliken, Robert Loucks, Ying Shen, Jianfeng Zhang, Quansheng Liang, and Evan Sivil (2017). ”Chemostratigraphic insights into fluvio-lacustrine deposition, Yanchang Formation, Upper Triassic, Ordos Basin, China.” Interpretation, 5(2), SF149-SF165. https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2016-0121.1
Stephen C. Ruppel, Harry Rowe, Kitty Milliken, Chao Gao, and Yongping Wan (2017). ”Facies, rock attributes, stratigraphy, and depositional environments: Yanchang Formation, Central Ordos Basin, China.” Interpretation, 5(2), SF15-SF29.
Sheng, G., Su, Y., Wang, W., Javadpour, F., and Tang, M., 2017, Application of fractal geometry in evaluation of effective stimulated reservoir volume in shale gas reservoirs: Fractals, v. 25, no.4, p. 1740007-1 to 1740007-13, http://doi.org/10.1142/S0218348X17400072.
Singh, H., and Javadpour, F., 2017, Retention of nanoparticles: from laboratory cores to outcrop scales: Geofluids, v. 2017, 16 p., http://doi.org/10.1155/2017/8730749, Article ID 8730749.
Xun Sun, Quansheng Liang, Chengfu Jiang, Daniel Enriquez, Tongwei Zhang, and Paul Hackley (2017). ”Liquid hydrocarbon characterization of the lacustrine Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China: Organic-matter source variation and thermal maturity.” Interpretation, 5(2), SF225-SF242. https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2016-0114.1
Tahmasebi, P., Javadpour, F., and Sahimi, M., 2017, Data mining and machine learning for identifying sweet spots in shale reservoirs: Expert Systems with Applications, v. 88, p. 435-447, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.07.015.
Wei Wang, Xiangzeng Wang, Hongliu Zeng, and Quansheng Liang (2017). ”Preconditioning point-source/point-receiver high-density 3D seismic data for lacustrine shale characterization in a loess mountain area.” Interpretation, 5(2), SF177-SF188. https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2016-0107.1
Hongliu Zeng, Wei Wang, and Quansheng Liang (2017). ”Seismic expression of delta to deep-lake transition and its control on lithology, total organic content, brittleness, and shale-gas sweet spots in Triassic Yanchang Formation, southern Ordos Basin, China.” Interpretation, 5(2), SF1-SF14. https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2016-0095.1
Tongwei Zhang, Xiangzeng Wang, Hongliu Zeng, Neil Fishman, Barry J. Katz, Kitty L. Milliken, Mingzhen Wei, Bob Loucks, and Amin Ghanizadeh (2017). ”Introduction to special section: Lacustrine shale characterization and shale resource potential in Ordos Basin, China.” Interpretation, 5(2), SFi-SFii. https://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2017-0314-SPSEINTRO.1
Zhang, T., X.Z., Wang, J.F. Zhang, X. Sun, K.L., Milliken, S.C. Ruppel, D. Enriquez, 2017,Geochemical evidence for oil and gas expulsion in Triassic lacustrine organic-rich mudstone, Ordos Basin, China. Interpretation, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp SF41-SF61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/INT-2016-0104.1
Zhang, T., X. Sun, K. L. Milliken, S. C. Ruppel, and D. Enriquez, 2017, Empirical relationship between gas composition and thermal maturity in Eagle Ford Shale, south TexasAAPG Bulletin, V.101, NO.8, pp.1277-1307. DOI:10.1306/09221615209.
Afsharpoor, A., and Javadpour, F., 2016, Liquid slip flow in a network of shale noncircular nanopores: Fuel, v. 180, p. 580-590, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2016.04.078.
Baumgardner, R. W., Jr., DiMichele, W. A., and de Siqueira Vieira, N., 2016, An early Permian coastal flora dominated by Germaropteris martinsii from basinal sediments in the Midland Basin, West Texas: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 459, p. 409-422, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.07.024.
Baumgardner, R. W. Jr., Hamlin, H. S., and Rowe, H. D., 2016, Lithofacies of the Wolfcamp and Lower Leonard Intervals, Southern Midland Basin, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations No. 281, 67 p. doi.org/10.23867ri0281D.
D. Fairbanks, Michael & Ruppel, Stephen & Rowe, Harry. (2016). High-resolution stratigraphy and facies architecture of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) Eagle Ford Group, Central Texas. AAPG Bulletin. 100. 379-403. 10.1306/12071514187.
Frébourg, G., Ruppel, S. C., Loucks, R. G., and Lambert, J., 2016, Depositional controls on sediment body architecture in the Eagle Ford/Boquillas system: Insights from outcrops in west Texas, United States: AAPG Bulletin, v. 100, no. 4, p. 657-682, http://doi.org/10.1306/12091515101.
Ko, L. T., Loucks, R. G., Zhang, T., Ruppel, S. C., and Shao, D., 2016, Pore and pore network evolution of Upper Cretaceous Boquillas (Eagle Ford-equivalent) mudrocks: Results from gold tube pyrolysis experiments: AAPG Bulletin, v. 100, no. 11, p. 1693-1722, http://doi.org/10.1306/04151615092.
Peng, S., B. Loucks, 2016, Permeability measurements in Mudrocks using gas-expansion methods on plug and crushed-rock samples. Marine and Petroleum Geology, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.02.025.
Reed, R. M., and Roush, R. S., 2016, Pore Systems of the Cline Shale, Midland Basin, West Texas, Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, DOI 10.15530-urtec-2016-2423781, no. 2423781, San Antonio, Texas, 10 p
Singh, H., and Javadpour, F., 2016, Langmuir slip-Langmuir sorption permeability model of shale: Fuel, v. 164, p. 28-37, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2015.09.073.
Tahmasebi, P., Javadpour, F., Sahimi, M., and Piri, M., 2016, Multiscale study for stochastic characterization of shale samples: Advances in Water Resources, v. 89, p. 91-103, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.01.008.
Tahmasebi, P., Javadpour, F., and Sahimi, M., 2016, Stochastic shale permeability matching: Three-dimensional characterization and modeling: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 165, p. 231-242,
Wang, S., Javadpour, F., and Feng, Q., 2016, Confinement correction to mercury intrusion capillary pressure of shale nanopores: Scientific Reports, v. 6, no. 20160, 12 p., http://doi.org/10.1038/srep20160.
Wang, S., Feng, Q., Javadpour, F., and Yang, Y-B., 2016, Breakdown of fast mass transport of methane through calcite nanopores: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, v. 120, p. 14260-14269, http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b05511.
Wang, S., Javadpour, Farzam, Qihong, F., 2016, Fast mass transport of oil and supercritical carbon dioxide through organic nanopores in shale, Fuel. v. 181, p. 741-758. DOI:10.1016/j.fuel.2016.05.057
Wang, S., Javadpour, F., and Feng, Q., 2016, Molecular dynamics simulations of oil transport through inorganic nanopores in shale: Fuel, v. 171, p. 74-86, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2015.12.071.
Hosseini, S. A., Javadpour, F., and Michael, G. E., 2015, Novel analytical core-sample analysis indicates higher gas content in shale-gas reservoirs: SPE Journal, v. 20, no. 6, p. 1397-1408, http://doi.org/10.2118/174549-PA.
Javadpour, F., McClure, M., and Naraghi, M. E., 2015, Slip-corrected liquid permeability and its effect on hydraulic fracturing and fluid loss in shale: Fuel, v. 160, p. 549-559, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2015.08.017
Nance, H. S. and Rowe, H., 2015, Eustatic controls on stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and water mass evolution preserved in a Lower Permian mudrock succession, Delaware Basin, west Texas, USA. 3(1), SH11-SH25.
Naraghi, M. E. and Javadpour, F., A stochastic permeability model for the shale-gas systems, International Journal of Coal Geology, Volume 140, 15 February 2015, Pages 111-124, ISSN 0166-5162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2015.02.004.
Peng, S., Yang, J., Xiao, X., Loucks, R. G., Ruppel, S. C., and Zhang, T., 2015, An integrated method for upscaling pore-network characterization and permeability estimation: example from the Mississippian Barnett Shale: Transport in Porous Media, v.109, no.2, p. 359-376, http://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-015-0523-8.
Pommer, M., Milliken, K., 2015, Pore types and pore-size distributions across thermal maturity, Eagle Ford Formation, southern Texas: AAPG Bulletin, v. xx, no. xx, p. 1-32
Reed, R.M., and Loucks, R.G., 2015, Low-thermal-maturity (<0.7% VR) mudrock pore systems: Mississippian Barnett Shale, southern Forth Worth Basin: GCAGS Journal, v. 4, p. 15-28.
Tahmasebi, P., Javadpour, F., and Sahimi, M., 2015, Multiscale and multiresolution modeling of shales and their flow and morphological properties: Scientific Reports, v. 5, no. 16373, 11 p., http://doi.org/10.1038/srep16373.
Tahmasebi, P., Javadpour, F., and Sahimi, M., 2015, Three-dimensional stochastic characterization of shale SEM images: Transport in Porous Media, v. 110, p. 521-531, http://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-015-0570-1.
Algeo, T. J., Meyers, P. A., Robinson, R. S., Rowe, H., and Jiang, G. Q.: Icehouse–greenhouse variations in marine denitrification, Biogeosciences, 11, 1273-1295, doi:10.5194/bg-11-1273-2014, 2014.
Loucks, R. G., and Reed, R. M., 2014, Scanning-electron-microscope petrographic evidence for distinguishing organic-matter pores associated with depositional organic matter versus migrated organic matter in mudrocks: GCAGS Journal, v. 3, p. 51-60.
Loucks, R. G., and Rowe, H. D., 2014, Shale-gas reservoir potential of the Lower Cretaceous Skull Creek Shale in Niobrara County, Wyoming: Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, 11 p., http://doi.org/10.15530/urtec-2014-1918804.
Loucks, R. G., and Rowe, H. D., 2014, Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk in Buck Peak Field, Sand Wash Basin, NW Colorado: depositional setting, lithofacies, and nanopore network: Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, 13 p., http://doi.org/10.15530/urtec-2014-1918913.
Milliken, K., 2014, A compositional classification for grain assemblages in fine-grained sediments and sedimentary rocks: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 84, p. 1185-1199, http://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2014.92.
Milliken, K., et al., SEM Petrography of Eastern Mediterranean Sapropels: Analogue Data for Assessing Organic Matter in Oil and Gas Shales: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 84, p. 961-974.
Reed, R.M., Loucks, R.G., and Ruppel, S.C., 2014, Comment on “Formation of nanoporous pyrobitumen residues during maturation of the Barnett Shale (Fort Worth Basin)” by Bernard et al. (2012): International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 127, 111-113.
Zhang, Tongwei et al, 2014, Chemical and isotopic composition of gases released by crush methods from organic rich mudrocks: Organic Geochemistry, v. 73, p. 16-28.
Frebourg, G., Ruppel, S. C., and Rowe, H., 2013, Sedimentology of the Haynesville (Upper Kimmeridgian) and Bossier (Tithonian) Formation, in the Western Haynesville Basin, Texas, USA. In: Hammes, U. and Gale, J., eds., Geology of the Haynesville Gas Shale in East Texas and West Louisiana, USA,: AAPG Memoir 105, p. 47-67.
Milliken, K., Day-Stirrat, R., 2013, Cementation in Mudrocks: Brief Review with Examples from Cratonic Basin Mudrocks: AAPG Memoir No. 103, p. 133-150.
Milliken, 2013, Organic matter hosted pore system, Marcellus Formation (Devonian), Pennsylvania: AAPG Bulletin, v. 97, No. 2, p. 177-200.
Milliken, 2013, SEM-Based Cathodoluminescence Imaging for Discriminating Quartz Types in Mudrocks: URTeC 1582467, Unconventional Resources Technology Conference
Algeo, T., Henderson, C.M., Ellwood, B., Rowe, H., Elswick, E., Bates, S., Lyons, T., Hower, J.C., Smith, C., Maynard, B., Hays, L.E., Summons, R.E., Fulton, J. and Freeman, K.H. 2012. Evidence for a diachronous Late Permian marine crisis from the Canadian Arctic region. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 124, p. 1424–1448.
Algeo, T. J. and Rowe, H., 2012, Paleoceanographic applications of trace-metal concentration data: Chemical Geology v. 324-325, p. 6-18.
Azom, P., Javadpour, F., Dual-continuum modeling of shale and tight gas reservoirs, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, USA, 8-10 October 2012, p. 1-11.
Darabi, H., Ettehad, A., Javadpour, F., Sepehrnoori, K., 2012, Gas flow in ultra-tight shale strata: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, v. 710, p. 641-658
Hamlin, H. S. and Baumgardner, R. W., 2012, Wolfberry (Wolfcampian-Leonardian) deep-water depositional systems in the Midland Basin: stratigraphy, lithofacies, reservoirs, and source rocks: Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 277, 61 p.
Hammes, Ursula, and Frébourg, G., 2012, Haynesville and Bossier mudrocks: a facies and sequence stratigraphic investigation, East Texas and Louisiana, USA: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 31, p. 8-26.
Javadpour, F., Moravvej, M., Amrein, M., 2012, Atomic force microscopy (AFM) a new tool for gas shale characterization. SPE-Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology. v. 51, no. 4, p. 236‒243.
Loucks, R. G. and Hull, D. C., 2012, Depositional Significance of Siliciclastic Component of the Lower Cretaceous Pearsall Cow Creek Limestone Member in the Western Maverick Basin, South Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 62, p. 253-263.
Loucks, R. G., Reed, R. M., Ruppel, S. C., and Hammes, U., 2012, Spectrum of pore types and networks in mudrocks and a descriptive classification for matrix-related mudrock pores: AAPG Bulletin, v. 96, no. 6, p. 1071-1098.
Milliken, K. L., et al, 2012, Grain assemblages and strong diagenetic overprinting in siliceous mudrocks, Barnett Shale (Mississippian), Fort Worth Basin, Texas, AAPG Bulletin, v.96, No.8, PP. 1553-1578
Milliken, K. L., R. J. Day-Stirrat, P. K. Papazis, and C. Dohse, 2012, Carbonate lithologies of the Mississippian Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas, in J. A. Breyer, ed., Shale reservoirs—Giant resources for the 21st century: AAPG Memoir 97, p. 290–321.
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Theses and Dissertations
Ko, T., 2017, Depositional, Mineralogical, and Maturity Controls on Pore Types, Porosity, and Pore-Size Distribution in Mudrocks, PhD Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 329 p.
Hendrix, C. K., 2016, Chemolithofacies of the Upper Cretaceous Buda Formation and Austin Chalk Group, South-Central Texas: A Product of Integration of Lithologic and Chemical Data, MS Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 129 p.
Hu, N., 2016, Lithofaceis, Depositional Environment, and Stratigraphic Architecture of the Deep-Water Hybrid Mudrock System of the Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) Cherokee Group, Western Anadarko Basin, Texas Panhandle, MS Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 89 p.
Nieto, M. A., 2016, Geochronologic and Chemostratigraphic Record of Cenomanian-Turonian Eagle Ford, South Texas, USA, MS Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 183 p.
Redmond, L. P., 2016, Lithofacies, Depositional Systems, and Depositional Model of the Mississippian Barnett Formation in the Southern Fort Worth Basin, MS Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 149 p.
Fry, K., 2015, Lithofacies, Biostratigraphy, Chemostratigraphy, and Stratal Architecture of the Boquillas Formation and Eagle Ford Group: A Comparison of Outcrop and Core Data from Big Bend National Park to Maverick Basin, Southwest Texas, USA, MS Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin 225 p.
Abdi, Z., 2014, Chemostratigraphy of the Austin Chalk and Upper Eagle Ford Shale, South Central, TX: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 44 p.
McCreight, K., 2014, Geochemical Analysis of the Woodford Shale, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 55 p.
Nikirk, R. F., 2014, Chemostratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group, South Texas: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 60 p.
Pierce, J.D, 2014, U-Pb Geochronology of the Late Cretaceous Eagle Ford Shale, Texas; Defining Chronostratigraphic Boundaries and Volcanic Ash Source: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 144 p.
Woolston, L. A., 2014, Geochemistry of the Haynesville Formation Using the Carthage Core in Panola County, Texas: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 63 p.
Huffman, B., 2013, Chemostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous from Central and South Texas with Focus on the Eagle Ford Group: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 71 p.
Jabri, N. R., 2013, Chemostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment of the Haynesville Formation, Harrison County, Texas: The University of Texas at Arlington, 51 p.
Nsianya, C. C., 2013, Chemostratigraphy of the Mississippian-Age Barnett Formation, Forth Worth Basin, Wise County, Texas, USA: MS thesis The University of Texas at Arlington, 69 p.
Cortez, M., 2012, Chemostratigraphy, Paleoceanography, and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Section in the Midland Basin of West Texas with Focus on the Wolfcamp Formation: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 107 p.
Fairbanks, M. D., 2012, High Resolution Stratigraphy and Facies Architecture of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Eagle Ford Group, Central Texas,: MS Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 120 p.
Maldonado, D. N., 2012, Chemostratigraphy and Geochemical Constraints on the Deposition of the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 91 p.
Moran, L. M., 2012, High Resolution Geochemistry of the Cretaceous Eagle Ford Formation, Bee County, Texas: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 46 p.
Ovalle-Rauch, R. B., 2012, Chemostratigraphy and Paleoenvironmental Significance of the Pennsylvanian Smithwick Formation, Northern Llano Uplift Region, Texas: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 66 p.
Robinson, K. C., 2012, Integrated Chemostratigraphy and Paleoceanography of the Mississippian Barnett Formation: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 66 p.
Harbor, R.L., 2011, Facies characterization and stratigraphic architecture of organic-rich mudrocks, Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Formation, South Texas: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 184 p.
Hoelke, J. D., 2011, Chemostratigraphy and Paleoceanography of the Mississippian Barnett Formation, Southern Fort Worth Basin, Texas, USA: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 108 p.
Hughes, E. N., 2011, Chemostratigraphy And Paleoenvironment of the Smithwick Formation, Fort Worth Basin, San Saba County, Texas: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 104 p.
Hull, D. C, 2011, Stratigraphic Architecture, Depositional Systems, and Reservoir Characteristics of the Pearsall Shale-Gas System, Lower Cretaceous, South Texas: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 208 p.
Kearns, T. J., 2011, Chemostratigraphy of the Eagle Ford Formation: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 254 p.
Mainali, P., 2011, Chemostratigraphy and the Paleoceanography of the Bossier-Haynesville Formation, East Texas Basin, TX & LA, USA: MS thesis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 80 p.
