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What's New at the Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education
NEXT WORKSHOP
-March 20, 2008
Contact us for more details (Phone 269-387-8633, email harrison@wmich.edu)
New K-12 Educational Outreach Initiative:
Funded by a generous grant from the DTE Energy Foundation to support educational outreach and
provide support for Geoscience knowledge and materials to the K-12 classrooms in Michigan.
Susan Grammer in the coordinator in charge of this program at MGRRE. Contact her at (269)387-8642
or susan.grammer@wmich.edu
Carbon Geological Sequestration Studies:
Researchers at MGRRE have been a part of the geological research team for the Midwest Regional
Carbon Sequestration Partnership for the past several years and will continue to participate
in Carbon Geostorage research. Phase 1 which consisted of a regional assessment of Carbon sequestration
potential for all geological formations in Michigan was completed in 2006. In Phase 2, a CO2 injection
test well was recently drilled and completed in Otsego County. Injection of approximately 10,000 tons
of CO2 will begin soon. An extended period of monitoring and verification will follow for several more years.
Contact Dr. David Barnes, Principal Investigator, for more information at (269)387-8617 or
barnes@wmich.edu
New Additions to our Databases:
Digital Porosity and permeability data from our collection of paper copies of conventional
core analyses have been typed into Excel spreadsheets. These data will soon be available.
3,000 new entries have been entered in our wireline log database
A new mud log database with 1,200 entries has been created
A collection of approximately 1,930 gamma ray, half-scale logs, from 38
Michigan counties, and from Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Ontario, covering all
or part of the Devonian-Mississippian black shale sequence was just donated to
us by Dr. David Matthews. These have all been entered in an Access database,
soon to be made searchable. We think this collection and his papers will form a
very interesting resource, considered the renewed interest in Antrim
exploration.
New Core collections:
The complete collection of cores, mounted and unmounted drill cuttings,
thin sections and data from the Subsurface Laboratory at the University of
Michigan has now been transferred to the MGRRE facility at WMU.
Over 4000 boxes of A-1 Salt cores from over 90 wells in the central Michigan Basin
are now at the MGRRE. These wells are from oil and gas and minerals wells. Many of the
wells were part of extensive solution salt mining for Potash and other minerals.
From BP (previously Arco), 4 cored wells drilled in southeastern Kalamazoo
County: 3 of the wells cored in the Niagara, and l well cored in the Sylvania
and Bois Blanc.
From The Environmental Response Division of the Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality (DEQ), 2 cored wells approximately 200' each from Wayne
County, Michigan. Cored intervals, include Detroit River Group, Sylvania
sandstone, Bois Blanc dolomite and Bass Island dolomite.
New Collection of Marathon's Core from the Michigan Basin, including
Trenton/Black River Cores from Albion Scipio and Stony Point fields and St.
Peter/Prairie du Chien cores from the deep central basin Marathon Core List
From Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. - 1 cored well drilled in Macomb County:
It is over 200 ft. in a Niagaran Reef in the Washington 10 Gas Storage field
Upcoming Workshops:
core-lab@wmich.edu
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