Tuscaloosa Marine Shale
The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale is a 90-million-year-old Late Cretaceous sedimentary rock formation across the Gulf Coast region of the United States.[1]
It is similar in composition and
The thickness of the formation varies from 500–800 feet,[3] and is located at a depth of 11,000-15,000 feet.
Petroleum
The formation is an
hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technologies to reach economic viability for extraction. The potential reserve is currently estimated at 7 billion barrels of oil.[4]
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- ^ Durham, L. S. (2011a) Similar in age and lithology to Eagle Ford Tuscaloosa Another Shale Playground. AAPG Explorer, August 2011.
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- ^ Chacko J. J., B. L. Jones, J. E. Moncrief, R. Bourgeois, and B. J. Harder (1997) An Unproven Unconventional Seven Billion Barrel Oil Resource - the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale. Archived 2012-09-16 at the Wayback Machine LSU Basin Research Institute Bulletin. vol. 7, pp. 1-22.