CARBONATE RESEARCH - PROJECTS AND GALLERIES

Carbonate Group Active World Wide - No Sedimentary Boundary Limits

Introduction

This group is directed by Dr. Charlie Kerans. Researchers include faculty, staff and students of the Jackson School of Geosciences who have wide ranging interests in carbonate geology covering many aspects of carbonate sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy. Many research projects include a consideration of carbonate reservoir characterization, outcrop analog studies, and new approaches to 3D modeling. Current projects are wide ranging, extend world wide and often have links to an understanding of carbonate reservoirs and exploration plays.

Research includes field work in Australia, West Texas, and New Mexico. Subsurface datasets include reservoirs from the Cretaceous and Jurassic of the Middle East and the Permian of West Texas. New research areas being considered are the Holocene sediments of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos. New research directions are in quantitative modeling of outcrop and subsurface data.