Time: 11:30 am Buffet, Noon Speaker Presentation

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Cost: $27 with RSVP, $30 with no RSVP, student members eat free with RSVP (Student Members please directly email the FWGS Secretary to RSVP).

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Abstract:

While not widely appreciated, whole-rock elemental data has been used for improved stratigraphic correlation (chemostratigraphy) and formation evaluation since the early 1990s. Chemostratigraphy was a small but growing discipline successfully applied to sandstone reservoirs, and later to carbonates, through the middle 2000s. Two events conspired in the late 2000s to push elemental applications into the mainstream: the proliferation of unconventional plays (self-sourced, mudstone-dominated reservoirs) and significant improvements in portable XRF technology. The rich mineral diversity and trace element compositions of fine-grained rocks ma…