2026 Mudstones in the Wild
The workshop starts in the field in central Kentucky. Exceptional Paleozoic shale and tight-rock outcrops between Lexington and Louisville provide superb opportunities to study the stratigraphy, facies, mechanical properties, and heterogeneity of mudstones applicable to unconventional depositional systems from Exploration to Development scale. The workshop concludes on campus at Indiana University where participants will observe SEM analyses and sedimentology experiments with mud flumes that produce geologic features observed in shale and tight rocks. Participants will work as teams on a capstone project to integrate all lessons from previous days using seismic, well-log, core, and analytical data. Examples considered include Paleozoic to Cenozoic units: the New Albany, Marcellus, and Ohio shales, Spraberry-Wolfcamp formations, Woodford Shale, Eagle Ford Formation, Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Vaca Muerta Formation, Kingak Formation, Mowry Shale, and Monterey Formation.
Registration includes:
- All transportation from Lexington, KY to Bloomington, IN and to the Indianapolis Airport. Attendees must take care of their own transportation to Lexington, KY
- All breakfasts, lunches, and field drinks and snacks
- All exercise materials
- Field Guidebook
- SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology & Paleontology # 12 - Mudstone Primer
- Room blocks with special rates are secured at the Origin Hotel, Lexington, KY and the Graduate hotel in Bloomington, IN - registrants are responsible for their own reservations and hotel expenses as well as dinners
Cancellation Policy: June 23 – 90% Refund; July 23 50% Refund - Cancellations received after August 7th no refund is available.