Shale

Fracking As shale and fracking is increasing, the International Energy Agency projects that the United States could become the world’s leading oil producer by 2015 (WhatIsFracking.com). Fracking or hydraulic fracturing is the process of drilling down into the earth. A high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Soon, water, sand and chemicals are injected into the rock at a high pressure, which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well (BBC.com).…

the dominant features within the Mesa Verde area because it encompasses about nine percent of the map area. There are over 150 landslides that have currently been identified. Many of these landslides occur within the Menefee Formation and the Mancos Shale which are two of the four sedimentary rock levels. Loess is wind-blown silt and fine sand and clay. Loess forms a “blanket” that covers millions of miles of underlying bedrock. Just within Mesa Verde National Park, there is a covered area of…

Field Trip Report: Great Valley Sequence and Coast Range Ophiolite The Moreno Formation in the Great Valley Sequence (GVS) is consisting of interbedded sandstones and organic-rich black shales, which were deposited during Upper Cretaceous (74-80 Ma) in near shore and shallow marine environment according to the fossils found. The sandstone in this outcrop is medium-sorted, angular to sub-angular arkosic arenite, with minerals such as quartz, plagioclase, muscovite and altered biotite. 1/4 of the…

Depositional environment: The Depositional environment throughout the Cooper Basin formations is wholly non-marine, with the Patchawarra formation being a fluvial/deltaic depositional environment, with point-bar sandstones the most common reservoir type. Trap structures: Traps in the Cooper Basin are recognised as being structural e.g Anticlines, Stratigraphic e.g. facies change or a combination of these. Most traps in the Patchawarra formation are combination traps and lie somewhere between…

The majority of large animation producers of the time were drafted in to produce informational films for a number of different aspects of the war effort. Animation was now being sought after as a form of motivating and explaining in an engaging manner due to its relatively simplistic nature of the time (Solomon, 1994). It seemed that animation had begun to move away from the notion that it could only be used as a form of entertainment. It was now being utilized for its ability to convey…

Fracking has large impact on daily life for global consumers, it effects prices and availability of fuels for consumers. Fracking is an exceptionally complicated process. To start the process, a ten thousand foot well is drilled below the surface into shale layers. Next, 1 to 8 million gallons of water mixed with chemicals are injected into the well at extremely high pressures to crack the rock. This will allow the product to flow out once the water is mostly removed. This process is highly…

Hydraulic Fracturing, also known as fracking, has been debated as being an irresponsible technique for oil and natural gas recovery from shale beds in the earth. Some environmentalists have made claims that hydraulic fracturing practices employed by oil and gas drilling companies have caused ground water contamination, leakage of methane gas into the atmosphere, and even claims that fracking can increase the chance of an earthquake taking place (Loki 8). An industry so large as oil and gas that…

quartzite. A lava flow nonconformably overlies the quartzite and nonconformably underlies a layer of shale with interbedded conglomerates and sandstones, quartzite nonconformably overlies this. This is then nonconformably overlain by shale. The dolomite sequence that contains stromatolites conformably overlies the shale and the repetition of nonconformable successive sequences of lava, quartzite and shale occurs in chronological order in the stratigraphy (Matthews, 1967). The boundary that…

export to Brazil. Symbolically, the tanker marked a new era of energy production and trade and was a sign of the U.S.’s new position as an independent player in the Energy Sector. In many ways, this milestone was made possible by the decade-old shale boom that was pioneered and propelled by the energy visionary, Mr. Aubrey McClendon. Mr. McClendon died on March 2nd in a one-man car crash in Oklahoma City at 56 years old. McClendon was undoubtedly a pioneer in the U.S. energy industry and a…

plays a large role in why America is currently experiencing an energy revolution (Energy from Shale 2016). This advancement in the way gas is produced is one that has changed the U.S. energy picture from scarcity to abundance (Energy from Shale 2016). The controversial practice of fracking is allowing the United States to tap vast oil and natural gas reserves that previously beyond our reach, locked in shale and other tight-rock formations. In the next decade, up to ninety percent of the natural…