Possible Continuous-Type (Unconventional) Gas Accumulation in Lower Silurian "Clinton" Sands, Medina Group, and the Tuscarora Sandstone in the Appalachian Basin: A Progress Report of 1995 project activities

Robert T. Ryder, Kerry L. Aggen, Robert D. Hettinger, Ben E. Law, John J. Miller, Vito F. Nuccio, William J. Perry, Jr., Stephen E. Prensky, John R. SanFilipo, and Craig J. Wandrey

Open-File Report 96-42

APPENDIX I

Selected bibliography of the geology and oil and gas resources of the Lower Silurian "Clinton" sands, Medina Group sandstones, and Tuscarora Sandstone, Appalachian basin of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia (as of October 1, 1995)

"CLINTON"/MEDINA BIBLIGORAPHY (WEST VIRGINIA)

Avary, K.L., in press, Play Sts: The Lower Silurian Tuscarora Sandstone fractured anticlinal play, in Roen, J.B. and Walker, B., eds., Atlas of major Appalachian gas plays : U.S. Department of Energy, Gas Research Institute, and Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Research Consortium.

Bambach, R.K., 1987, The Ordovician-Silurian unconformity in western Virginia and adjacent West Virginia, in Shumaker, R.C., compiler, Appalachian Basin Industrial Associates, v.13, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, p. 2-14.

Bayles, R.E., Henry, W.H., Fettke, C.R., harris, L,d., Floewrs, R.R., and Haught, O.L., 1956, Well log, sample, and core description, in Haught, O.L., ed., Wood County deep well: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Report of Investigations RI-14, p. 5-28

Boswell, R., Pool, S., Pratt, S., and Matchen, D., 1993, Appalachian basin low permeability sandstone reservoir characterizations: Report 94CC-R91-003, U.S. Department of Energy contract DE-AC21-90MC26328, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, Morgantown, West Virginia, 73 p.

Bruner, K.R., 1983, Petrology and diagenesis of the Lower Silurian Tuscarora Sandstone, Kanawha County, West Virginia: unpublished M.S. thesis, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 148 p.

Cardwell, D.H., 1977, West Virginia gas development in Tuscarora and deeper formations: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Mineral Resources Series 8, 38 p.

__________, 1982, Oriskany and Huntersville gas fields of West Virginia with deep well and structural geologic map: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Mineral Resources Series MRS-5A, 180 p., 1 map, scale 1:250,000.

Cardwell, D.H. and Avary, K.L., 1982, Oil and gas fields of West Virginia: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Series MRS-7B, 119 p.

Castle, J.W., 1991, Sequence Stratigraphy and depositional systems of the Lower Silurian Medina Group, Appalachian basin (abs.): American Association of petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 75, no. 8, p. 1380.

Finley, R.J., 1984, Tuscarora Sandstone, Appalachian basin, in Geology and engineering characteristics of selected low-permeability gas sandstones: A national survey: Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 138, 220 p.

Folk, R.L., 1960, Petrography and origin of the Tuscarora, Rose Hill, and Keefer Formations, Lower and Middle Silurian of eastern West Virginia: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 30, no. 1, p. 1-58.

Hamak, J.E. and Sigler, S., 1991, Analyses of natural gases, 1986-1990: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular IC 9301, 315 p.

Horvath, A.L., O'Brien, M.H., and Pryce, R.A., 1970, Generalized cross section, stratigraphic correlations, Silurian strata from Highland County, Ohio to Montgomery County, Virginia, in Silurian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basis: Appalachian Geological Society, Charleston, West Virginia, 1 plate.

Lukasik, D.M., 1988, Lithostratigraphy of Silurian rocks in southern Ohio and adjacent Kentucky and West Virginia: unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Cincinnati, 313 p.

Moore, B.J., 1982, Analyses of natural gases, 1917-1980: U.S. Bureau of mines Information Circular 8870, 1055 p.

Patchen, D.G., 1969, A summary of Tuscarora Sandstone ("Clinton sand") and pre-Silurian test wells in West Virginia: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Circular 8 (reprinted with Addendum), 36 p.

Patchen, D.G., Kline, P.C., Patchen, M.A., Cardwell, D.H., and Behling, M.C., compilers, 1977, catalog of subsurface information for West Virginia: volume 1--well samples and cores: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Mineral Resources Series 6-1, 189 p.

Perry, W.J., Jr., 1962, Investigations of the Brassfield-Tuscarora (Clinch) correlation problems in the Albion Series of western West Virginia and eastern Kentucky: West Virginia Academy of Science Proceedings, v. 34, p. 103-113.

Pryce, R.A., 1970, The Silurian System in western West Virginia and southeastern Ohio, in Silurian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basin: Appalachian Geological Society, Charleston, West Virginia, p. 42-46.

Smosna, R.A. and Patchen, D.G., 1978, Silurian evolution of central Appalachian basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 62, no. 11, p. 2308-2328.

Spencer, S., 1970, General structure and stratigraphy of the Silurian in central and southeastern West Virginia, in Silurian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basin: Appalachian Geological Society, Charleston, West Virginia, p. 47-53.

Westcott, W.A., 1882, Nature of porosity in Tuscarora Sandstone (Lower Silurian) in the Appalachian basin: Oil and Gas Journal, Aug. 23, 1982, p. 159-160, 165, 167-168, 170, 173.

Youse, A.C., 1970, A summary of Tuscarora Sandstone petroleum exploration in West Virginia, in Silurian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basin: Appalachian Geological Society, Charleston, West Virginia, p. 86-98.

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