Fayetteville Shale
| Fayetteville Shale | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Carboniferous: Mississippian (Serpukhovian)[1] | |
 Outcrop of the lower Fayetteville Shale in northern Arkansas | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Sub-units | Wedington Sandstone Member |
| Underlies | Pitkin Limestone,[2] Hale Formation[3] |
| Overlies | Ruddell Shale, Batesville Sandstone[2] Moorefield Shale[3] |
| Area | Arkansas and Oklahoma[4] |
| Thickness | 50 to 500 feet (15 to 152 m) |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Shale |
| Other | Sandstone, limestone |
| Location | |
| Region | Arkansas |
| Country |  United States |
| Extent | 50 miles (80 km) |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas |
| Named by | Frederick Willard Simonds[5][6] |
 The Fayetteville formation runs widespread across Arkansas | |
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The Fayetteville Shale is a geologic formation of Mississippian age (354–323 million years ago) composed of tight shale within the Arkoma Basin of Arkansas and Oklahoma.[4][7] It is named for the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and requires hydraulic fracturing to release the natural gas contained within.
Nomenclature
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Named by Frederick Willard Simonds in 1891, Simonds recognized what is now the Fayetteville Shale as three separate formations overlying the now abandoned Wyman Sandstone: the Fayetteville Shale, the Batesville Sandstone, and the Marshall Shale.[6] In 1904, the name "Fayetteville Shale" replaced all three of these names. The Fayetteville Shale that Simonds recognized is now considered as the lower Fayetteville Shale. Simonds' Batesville Sandstone was found to be the same as the Wyman Sandstone, and replaced the name "Wyman Sandstone", while Simonds' Batesville Sandstone became known as the "Wedington Sandstone Member" presumably after Wedington Mountain. The name Marshall Shale was abandoned and is now known as the upper Fayetteville Shale.[8]
Natural gas
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The formation holds natural gas in a fine-grained rock matrix which requires hydraulic fracturing to release the gas.[9] This process became cost-effective in some shales such as the Fayetteville after years of experimentation in the Barnett Shale in North Texas, especially when combined with horizontal drilling.
The Fayetteville Shale play began in July 2004 when Southwestern Energy drilled the Thomas #1-9 vertical well in Conway County, Arkansas.[10] In February 2005, Southwestern Energy drilled the first horizontal well, the Seeco-Vaughan #4-22H, also in Conway County.[11]
The US Energy Information Administration estimated that the 5,853 square miles (15,160 km2) shale play held 13,240 billion cubic ft (375 billion cubic meters) of unproved, technically recoverable gas.[7] The average well was estimated to produce 1.3 billion cubic feet of gas.[12] As of 2018, new drilling in the Fayetteville Shale had ceased and almost 1/5 of wells were abandoned.[13]
Paleontology
[edit]Flora
[edit]Because the Fayetteville Formation is a marine unit, most of the plants found in the black shales must have been washed into the Carboniferous sea from a landmass. However one unit within the formation, the Weddington Sandstone Member, is a series of river deposited sand beds. Fossil plants from this unit were probably deposited closer to their source.
- A. minima[14]
- C. inquirenda[14]
- C. hirta[14]
- C. chesterianus[14]
- L. chesterensis[14]
- L. sagittatum[14]
- L. occidentalis[14]
- L. royalii[16]
- R. fayettevillense[14]
- R. quinnii [17]
- T. arkansana[18]
Fauna
[edit]Vertebrates
[edit]- Carcharopsis wortheni[19]
- "Cobelodus" (remains now attributed to Ozarcus) [20]
- Cosmoselachus mehlingi[21]
- Ozarcus mapesae[22]
Echinoderms
[edit]
- Acrocrinus constrictus[23]
- Agassizocrinus conicus[23]
- Alcimocrinus ornatus[23]
- Allocatillocrinus carpenteri[23]
- Ampelocrinus erectus[23]
- Aphelecrinus exoticus[23]
Cephalopods
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- Dombarites mapesi [27]
- Eurmorphoceras plummeri [28][27]
- Fayettevillea planorbis [27]
- Girtyoceras [29]
- Goniatites granosus [28][27]
- Lusitanites subcircularis [27]
- Metadimorphoceras wiswellense [27]
- Neoglyphioceras crebriliratum [27]
- Paracravenoceras ozarkense [28][27]
- Paradimorphoceras [28]
- Pronorites baconi [27]
- Rayonnoceras solidiforme [28]
- Tumulites varians [28][27]
Corals
[edit]Bivalves
[edit]
- Canyella peculiaris [31]
- Cardiomorpha inflata [31]
- Conocardium peculiare [31]
- Cypricardia fayettevillensis [31]
- Cyprecardella sublata [31]
- Edmondia equilateralis [31]
- Palaeoneilo sera [31]
- Phestia stevensiana [31]
- Solenamorpha nitida [31]
- Sphenotus branneri [31]
Brachiopods
[edit]Gastropods
[edit]
- Euconospira disjuncta [33]
- Mourlonia lativittata [33]
- Patellilabia laevigata [33]
- Platyceras subelegans [33]
Arthropods
[edit]
- Amphissites[34]
- Bairdia[34]
- Cyrtoproetus kerhini[35]
- Kirkbya [34]
- Geisina[34]
- Glyptopleura[34]
- Graphiadactyllis[34]
- Orthobairdia[34]
- Paladin murconatus [36]
- Paraparchites
- Roundyella[34]
- Sansabella[34]
- Serenida[34]
Ostracods
[edit]Bryozoans
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Foraminifera
[edit]Trace Fossils
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f M. Gordon Jr. and T. W. Henry. 1993. Late Mississippian Productoid Brachiopods Inflatia, Keokukia, and Adairia, Ozark Region of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Paleontological Society Memoir 30:1-29
- ^ a b Freemen, T. Fossils of Arkansas. Arkansas Geologic Commission.
- ^ a b "Major Stratigraphic Layers of the Fayetteville Shale Formation". Chesapeake Energy, Inc. Archived from the original on August 20, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ^ a b c d Sando, W. 1969. Revision of Some of Girty's Invertebrate Fossils from the Fayetteville Shale (Mississippian) of Arkansas and Oklahoma: Part B- Corals. United States Geologic Survey Professional Paper 606
- ^ Branner, J. (1891). "Introduction". Arkansas Geological Survey Annual Report 1888. 4: xiii.
- ^ a b Simonds, F.W. (1891). "The geology of Washington County". Arkansas Geological Survey Annual Report 1888. 4: 26, 42–49.
- ^ a b Reed, Michael (June 2013). "Shale Play Should See Added Capacity Next 2 Years". Pipeline & Gas Journal. 240 (6). Houston, TX: Oildom Publishing Company: 46.
- ^ Adams, George I.; Ulrich, E. O. (1904). "Zinc and lead deposits of northern Arkansas" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 24. doi:10.3133/pp24. hdl:2346/61716. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
- ^ "About the Fayetteville Shale". University of Arkansas. Archived from the original on August 20, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ^ Taylor, Larry. "Fayetteville Shale". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
- ^ Shelby, Phillip (April 2008). "The Fayetteville Shale play of north-central Arkansas: a project update". AAPG Search and Discovery. 10172 (2008). Retrieved 31 May 2018.
- ^ US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy outlook 2012, accessed 14 Sept. 2013.
- ^ Nallur, V. (2020). "Potential for Reclamation of Abandoned Gas Wells to Restore Ecosystem Services in the Fayetteville Shale of Arkansas". Environmental Management. 66 (2): 180–190. doi:10.1007/s00267-020-01307-3. PMID 32500202. S2CID 219282476.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w White, David (1937). "Fossil flora of the Wedington Sandstone Member of the Fayetteville Shale" (PDF). USGS Professional Paper. 186-B: 40, 9 pls.
- ^ a b c d e f g Taylor, T., Eggard, D.,1967. Petrified Plants from the Upper Mississippian (Chester Series) of Arkansas. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 86: 4
- ^ Tomescu, A. 2001. Lyginopteris royalii sp. nov. from the Upper Mississippian of North America. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology. 116: 3-4
- ^ Dunn, M., Rothwell, G., Mapes, G. 2002.Additional observations on Rhynchosperma quinnii (Medullosaceae): a permineralized ovule from the Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Fayetteville Formation of Arkansas. Journal of Botany. 89:11
- ^ Dunn, M., Rothwell, G., Mapes, G. 2003. On Paleozoic plants from marine strata: Trivena arkansana (Lyginopteridaceae) gen. et sp. nov., a lyginopterid from the Fayetteville Formation (middle Chesterian/Upper Mississippian) of Arkansas, USA. Journal of Botany. 90:8
- ^ Lund, R., Mapes, R. 1984. Carcharopsis wortheni from the Fayetteville Formation (Mississippian) of Arkansas. Journal of Paleontology. 58:3.
- ^ Maisey, J. G. (2007). The braincase in Paleozoic symmoriiform and cladoselachian sharks. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2007(307), 1-122.
- ^ Bronson, Allison W.; Pradel, Alan; Denton, John S. S.; Maisey, John G. (2024-03-07). "A new operculate symmoriiform chondrichthyan from the Late Mississippian Fayetteville Shale (Arkansas, United States)". Geodiversitas. 46 (4): 101–117. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2024v46a4. eISSN 1638-9395. ISSN 1280-9659.
- ^ Alan Pradel; John G. Maisey; Paul Tafforeau; Royal H. Mapes; Jon Mallatt (2014). "A Palaeozoic shark with osteichthyan-like branchial arches". Nature. 509 (7502): 608–611. Bibcode:2014Natur.509..608P. doi:10.1038/nature13195. PMID 24739974. S2CID 3504437.
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- ^ a b c Burdick, D., Strimple, H. 1973. Flexible Crinoids from the Fayetteville Formation (Chesterian) of Northeastern Oklahoma. Journal of Paleontology. 47:2
- ^ a b Horowitz, Alan S.; Macurda Jr, D. B. (1977). "Late Mississippian and Early Pennsylvanian blastoids from northeastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas" (PDF). Oklahoma Geological Survey Guidebook. 18: 169–170. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ^ Strimple, H. 1948. Notes on Phanocrinus from the Fayetteville Formation of Northeastern Oklahoma. Journal of Paleontology. 22:4
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