Robert G. Loucks, PhD - Publications

Affiliations: 
Bureau of Economic Geology 
Area:
Mudrock, stratigraphy, sedimentology

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2020 Alnahwi A, Kosanke T, Loucks RG, Greene J, Liu X, Linton P. High-resolution hyperspectral-based continuous mineralogical and total organic carbon analysis of the Eagle Ford Group and associated formations in south Texas Aapg Bulletin. 104: 1439-1462. DOI: 10.1306/02262018156  0.398
2019 Loucks RG, Dutton SP. Insights into deep, onshore Gulf of Mexico Wilcox sandstone pore networks and reservoir quality through the integration of petrographic, porosity and permeability, and mercury injection capillary pressure analyses Aapg Bulletin. 103: 745-765. DOI: 10.1306/09181817366  0.39
2019 Alnahwi A, Loucks RG. Mineralogical composition and total organic carbon quantification using x-ray fluorescence data from the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group in southern Texas Aapg Bulletin. 103: 2891-2907. DOI: 10.1306/04151918090  0.308
2019 Ogiesoba OC, Ambrose WA, Loucks RG. Investigation of seismic attributes, depositional environments, and hydrocarbon sweet-spot distribution in the Serbin field, Taylor Formation, Southeast Texas Interpretation. 7. DOI: 10.1190/Int-2018-0041.1  0.359
2019 Hattori KE, Loucks RG, Kerans C. Stratal architecture of a halokinetically controlled patch reef complex and implications for reservoir quality: A case study from the Aptian James Limestone in the Fairway Field, East Texas Basin Sedimentary Geology. 387: 87-103. DOI: 10.1016/J.Sedgeo.2019.04.009  0.446
2018 Garcia-Fresca B, Pinkston D, Loucks RG, LeFever R. The Three Forks playa lake depositional model: Implications for characterization and development of an unconventional carbonate play Aapg Bulletin. 102: 1455-1488. DOI: 10.1306/12081716510  0.456
2018 Alnahwi A, Loucks RG, Ruppel SC, Scott RW, Tribovillard N. Dip-related changes in stratigraphic architecture and associated sedimentological and geochemical variability in the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group in south Texas Aapg Bulletin. 102: 2537-2568. DOI: 10.1306/05111817310  0.456
2018 Loucks RG. Domal, thrombolitic, microbialite biostromes and associated lithofacies in the Upper Albian Devils River Trend along the northern, high-energy margin of the Maverick Basin Sedimentary Geology. 371: 75-88. DOI: 10.1016/J.Sedgeo.2018.04.010  0.428
2017 Ko LT, Loucks RG, Ruppel SC, Zhang T, Peng S. Origin and characterization of Eagle Ford pore networks in the South Texas Upper Cretaceous shelf Aapg Bulletin. 101: 387-418. DOI: 10.1306/08051616035  0.428
2017 Loucks RG, Kerans C, Zeng H, Sullivan PA. Documentation and characterization of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian) Calvin and Winn carbonate shelves and shelf margins, onshore northcentral Gulf of Mexico Aapg Bulletin. 101: 119-142. DOI: 10.1306/06281615248  0.467
2017 Rowe H, Wang X, Fan B, Zhang T, Ruppel SC, Milliken KL, Loucks R, Shen Y, Zhang J, Liang Q, Sivil E. Chemostratigraphic insights into fluvio-lacustrine deposition, Yanchang Formation, Upper Triassic, Ordos Basin, China Interpretation. 5. DOI: 10.1190/Int-2016-0121.1  0.421
2017 Ko LT, Loucks RG, Milliken KL, Liang Q, Zhang T, Sun X, Hackley PC, Ruppel SC, Peng S. Controls on pore types and pore-size distribution in the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China: Implications for pore-evolution models of lacustrine mudrocks Interpretation. 5. DOI: 10.1190/Int-2016-0115.1  0.437
2017 Loucks RG, Ruppel SC, Wang X, Ko L, Peng S, Zhang T, Rowe HD, Smith P. Pore types, pore-network analysis, and pore quantification of the lacustrine shale-hydrocarbon system in the Late Triassic Yanchang Formation in the southeastern Ordos Basin, China Interpretation. 5. DOI: 10.1190/Int-2016-0094.1  0.464
2017 Phelps RM, Kerans C, Loucks RG. Reply to the Discussion by Rose of Phelps et al. (2014) ‘Oceanographic and eustatic control of carbonate platform evolution and sequence stratigraphy on the Cretaceous (Valanginian–Campanian) passive margin, northern Gulf of Mexico’, Sedimentology, 61, 461–496 Sedimentology. 64: 858-870. DOI: 10.1111/Sed.12324  0.339
2017 Ko LT, Ruppel SC, Loucks RG, Hackley PC, Zhang T, Shao D. Pore-types and pore-network evolution in Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Woodford and Mississippian Barnett mudstones: Insights from laboratory thermal maturation and organic petrology International Journal of Coal Geology. 190: 3-28. DOI: 10.1016/J.Coal.2017.10.001  0.378
2016 Frébourg G, Ruppel SC, Loucks RG, Lambert J. Depositional controls on sediment body architecture in the Eagle Ford/Boquillas system: Insights from outcrops in west Texas, United States Aapg Bulletin. 100: 657-682. DOI: 10.1306/12091515101  0.448
2016 Ko LT, Loucks RG, Zhang T, Ruppel SC, Shao D. Pore and pore network evolution of Upper Cretaceous Boquillas (Eagle Ford-equivalent) mudrocks: Results from gold-tube pyrolysis experiments Aapg Bulletin. 100: 1693-1722. DOI: 10.1306/04151615092  0.395
2016 McMechan GA, Loucks RG, Mescher P, Zeng X. Characterization of a coalesced, collapsed paleocave reservoir analog using GPR and well-core data Geophysics. 67: 1148-1158. DOI: 10.1190/1.1500376  0.418
2016 Peng S, Hassan A, Loucks RG. Permeability estimation based on thin-section image analysis and 2D flow modeling in grain-dominated carbonates Marine and Petroleum Geology. 77: 763-775. DOI: 10.1016/J.Marpetgeo.2016.07.024  0.319
2015 Phelps RM, Kerans C, Da-Gama ROBP, Jeremiah J, Hull DG, Loucks RG. Response and recovery of the Comanche carbonate platform surrounding multiple Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events, northern Gulf of Mexico Cretaceous Research. 54: 117-144. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cretres.2014.09.002  0.432
2014 Phelps RM, Kerans C, Loucks RG, Gama ROBPD, Jeremiah J, Hull DG. Oceanographic and eustatic control of carbonate platform evolution and sequence stratigraphy on the Cretaceous (Valanginian–Campanian) passive margin, northern Gulf of Mexico Sedimentology. 61: 461-496. DOI: 10.1111/Sed.12062  0.428
2014 Reed RM, Loucks RG, Ruppel SC. Comment on “Formation of nanoporous pyrobitumen residues during maturation of the Barnett Shale (Fort Worth Basin)” by Bernard et al. (2012) International Journal of Coal Geology. 127: 111-113. DOI: 10.1016/J.Coal.2013.11.012  0.308
2012 Loucks RG, Reed RM, Ruppel SC, Hammes U. Spectrum of pore types and networks in mudrocks and a descriptive classification for matrix-related mudrock pores Aapg Bulletin. 96: 1071-1098. DOI: 10.1306/08171111061  0.338
2012 Dutton SP, Loucks RG, Day-Stirrat RJ. Impact of regional variation in detrital mineral composition on reservoir quality in deep to ultradeep lower Miocene sandstones, western Gulf of Mexico Marine and Petroleum Geology. 35: 139-153. DOI: 10.1016/J.Marpetgeo.2012.01.006  0.413
2011 Janson X, Kerans C, Loucks R, Marhx MA, Reyes C, Murguia F. Seismic architecture of a Lower Cretaceous platform-to-slope system, Santa Agueda and Poza Rica fields, Mexico Aapg Bulletin. 95: 105-146. DOI: 10.1306/06301009107  0.487
2011 Zeng H, Loucks R, Janson X, Wang G, Xia Y, Yuan B, Xu L. Three-dimensional seismic geomorphology and analysis of the Ordovician paleokarst drainage system in the central Tabei Uplift, northern Tarim Basin, western China Aapg Bulletin. 95: 2061-2083. DOI: 10.1306/03111110136  0.427
2011 Loucks RG, Moore BT, Zeng H. On-shelf lower Miocene Oakville sediment-dispersal patterns within a three-dimensional sequence-stratigraphic architectural framework and implications for deep-water reservoirs in the central coastal area of Texas Aapg Bulletin. 95: 1795-1817. DOI: 10.1306/02171110142  0.441
2011 Zeng H, Wang G, Janson X, Loucks R, Xia Y, Xu L, Yuan B. Characterizing seismic bright spots in deeply buried, Ordovician Paleokarst strata, Central Tabei uplift, Tarim Basin, Western China Geophysics. 76: B127-B137. DOI: 10.1190/1.3581199  0.431
2010 Day-Stirrat RJ, Dutton SP, Milliken KL, Loucks RG, Aplin AC, Hillier S, Pluijm BAvd. Fabric anisotropy induced by primary depositional variations in the silt: clay ratio in two fine-grained slope fan complexes: Texas Gulf Coast and northern North Sea Sedimentary Geology. 226: 42-53. DOI: 10.1016/J.Sedgeo.2010.02.007  0.411
2010 Day-Stirrat RJ, Milliken KL, Dutton SP, Loucks RG, Hillier S, Aplin AC, Schleicher AM. Open-system chemical behavior in deep Wilcox Group mudstones, Texas Gulf Coast, USA Marine and Petroleum Geology. 27: 1804-1818. DOI: 10.1016/J.Marpetgeo.2010.08.006  0.312
2010 Dutton SP, Loucks RG. Diagenetic controls on evolution of porosity and permeability in lower Tertiary Wilcox sandstones from shallow to ultradeep (200–6700 m) burial, Gulf of Mexico Basin, U.S.A. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 27: 69-81. DOI: 10.1016/J.Marpetgeo.2009.08.008  0.484
2009 Loucks RG, Reed RM, Ruppel SC, Jarvie DM. Morphology, Genesis, and Distribution of Nanometer-Scale Pores in Siliceous Mudstones of the Mississippian Barnett Shale Journal of Sedimentary Research. 79: 848-861. DOI: 10.2110/Jsr.2009.092  0.367
2009 Ambrose WA, Hentz TF, Bonnaffé F, Loucks RG, Brown LF, Wang FP, Potter EC. Sequence-stratigraphic controls on complex reservoir architecture of highstand fluvial-dominated deltaic and lowstand valley-fill deposits in the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Woodbine Group, East Texas field: Regional and local perspectives Aapg Bulletin. 93: 231-269. DOI: 10.1306/09180808053  0.463
2008 McDonnell A, Loucks RG, Galloway WE. Paleocene to Eocene deep-water slope canyons, western Gulf of Mexico: Further insight for the provenance of deep-water offshore Wilcox Group plays Aapg Bulletin. 92: 1169-1189. DOI: 10.1306/05150808014  0.424
2008 Zeng H, Loucks RG, Hammes U. Linear amplitude patterns in Corpus Christi Bay Frio Subbasin, south Texas: Interpretive pitfalls or depositional features? Geophysics. 73. DOI: 10.1190/1.2949255  0.346
2008 Day-Stirrat RJ, Loucks RG, Milliken KL, Hillier S, Pluijm BAvd. Phyllosilicate orientation demonstrates early timing of compactional stabilization in calcite-cemented concretions in the Barnett Shale (Late Mississippian), Fort Worth Basin, Texas (U.S.A) Sedimentary Geology. 208: 27-35. DOI: 10.1016/J.Sedgeo.2008.04.007  0.398
2008 Rowe HD, Loucks RG, Ruppel SC, Rimmer SM. Mississippian Barnett Formation, Fort Worth Basin, Texas: Bulk geochemical inferences and Mo–TOC constraints on the severity of hydrographic restriction Chemical Geology. 257: 16-25. DOI: 10.1016/J.Chemgeo.2008.08.006  0.4
2007 Loucks RG. A Review of Coalesced, Collapsed-Paleocave Systems and Associated Suprastratal Deformation Acta Carsologica. 36. DOI: 10.3986/Ac.V36I1.214  0.385
2007 Loucks RG, Ruppel SC. Mississippian Barnett Shale: Lithofacies and depositional setting of a deep-water shale-gas succession in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas Aapg Bulletin. 91: 579-601. DOI: 10.1306/11020606059  0.471
2007 McDonnell A, Loucks RG, Dooley T. Quantifying the origin and geometry of circular sag structures in northern Fort Worth Basin, Texas: Paleocave collapse, pull-apart fault systems, or hydrothermal alteration? Aapg Bulletin. 91: 1295-1318. DOI: 10.1306/05170706086  0.37
2007 Zeng H, Loucks RG, Brown LF. Mapping sediment-dispersal patterns and associated systems tracts in fourth- and fifth-order sequences using seismic sedimentology: Example from Corpus Christi Bay, Texas Aapg Bulletin. 91: 981-1003. DOI: 10.1306/02060706048  0.416
2007 Zeng H, Loucks RG, Hammes U, John A, Katherine G. Linear amplitude patterns in Corpus Christi Bay Frio Subbasin, South Texas: Artifacts or depositional features? Seg Technical Program Expanded Abstracts. DOI: 10.1190/1.2792555  0.36
2005 Brown LF, Loucks RG, Treviño RH. Site-specific sequence-stratigraphic section benchmark charts are key to regional chronostratigraphic systems tract analysis in growth-faulted basins Aapg Bulletin. 89: 715-724. DOI: 10.1306/01270504066  0.388
2004 Feazel C, Byrnes A, Honefenger J, Leibrecht R, Loucks R, McCants S, Saller A. Techbits: Research Symposium Focuses on Complexity of Carbonate-Reservoir Characterization and Simulation Journal of Petroleum Technology. 56: 26-34. DOI: 10.2118/0804-0026-Jpt  0.31
2004 Loucks RG, Mescher PK, McMechan GA. Three-dimensional architecture of a coalesced, collapsed-paleocave system in the Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group, central Texas Aapg Bulletin. 88: 545-564. DOI: 10.1306/12220303072  0.408
2004 Brown LF, Loucks RG, Treviño RH, Hammes U. Understanding growth-faulted, intraslope subbasins by applying sequence-stratigraphic principles: Examples from the south Texas Oligocene Frio Formation Aapg Bulletin. 88: 1501-1522. DOI: 10.1306/11180505120  0.376
2004 Feazel CT, Byrnes AP, Honefenger JW, Leibrecht RJ, Loucks RG, McCants S, Saller AH. Carbonate reservoir characterization and simulation: From facies to flow units: Report from the March 2004 Hedberg Research Symposium Aapg Bulletin. 88: 1467-1470. DOI: 10.1306/06160404053  0.323
2002 Brown AA, Loucks RG. ABSTRACT: Controls on Late Guadalupian Toe-Of-Slope Bedding-Termination Patterns, Guadalupe Mountains: Implications for Carbonate Sequence Analysis Aapg Bulletin. 86. DOI: 10.1306/61Eee214-173E-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.336
2002 Loucks RG, Mescher P. ABSTRACT: Geologic Reservoir Characterization of the Willard Unit in the San Andres Wasson Field, West Texas Aapg Bulletin. 86. DOI: 10.1306/3Fef4203-1741-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.372
2001 Brown AA, Loucks RG. ABSTRACT: Evaluation of Anhydrite Seals through Depositional, Structural, and Lithological Analysis; Example from the Jurassic Arab Formation, Al Rayyan Field, Qatar Aapg Bulletin. 85. DOI: 10.1306/8626D775-173B-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.324
2001 Loucks RG. Modern Analogs for Paleocave-Sediment Fills and Their Importance in Identifying Paleocave Reservoirs Aapg Bulletin. 51: 195-206. DOI: 10.1306/8626Cf37-173B-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.493
2001 Loucks RG, Mescher P. ABSTRACT: Characterizing the Three-Dimensional Architecture of a Coalesced, Collapsed-Paleocave System in the Lower Ordovician, Ellenburger Group by Integrating Ground-Penetrating Radar, Shallow-Core, and Outcrop Data Aapg Bulletin. 85. DOI: 10.1306/61Eec586-173E-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.321
2001 Loucks RG, Entzminger D. ABSTRACT: High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphic Approach to Carbonate Reservoir Characterization for Understanding Flow Units and Petrophysical Properties; Example from Permian North Cowden Field, West Texas Aapg Bulletin. 85. DOI: 10.1306/61Eec57C-173E-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.384
1999 Loucks RG. Paleocave carbonate reservoirs; origins, burial-depth modifications, spatial complexity, and reservoir implications Aapg Bulletin. 83: 1795-1834. DOI: 10.1306/E4Fd426F-1732-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.409
1998 McMechan GA, Loucks RG, Zeng X, Mescher P. Ground penetrating radar imaging of a collapsed paleocave system in the Ellenburger dolomite, central Texas Journal of Applied Geophysics. 39: 1-10. DOI: 10.1016/S0926-9851(98)00004-4  0.38
1996 Loucks R, Hoeve MV. Paleotopography Association, Lithofacies Architecture, and Reservoir Quality of the Upper James Lime Reservoir (Pearsall Fm, Lower Cretaceous) in the Poplarville Field, Pearl River County, Mississippi: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 80. DOI: 10.1306/64Ed9C90-1724-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.396
1996 Loucks RG, Mescher P. Architecture of Collapsed-Paleocave Reservoirs: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 80. DOI: 10.1306/522B32E5-1727-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.355
1991 Loucks RG, Brown AA, Achauer CW, Tx GC,P. Carbonate gravity-flow processes on the Lower Permian slope, northwest Delaware basin Aapg Bulletin. 75. DOI: 10.1306/0C9B05Fd-1710-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.396
1990 Loucks RG, Patty KA, Tx GC,P. Closed-system vadose diagenesis in the Holocene Cancun Eolianite, Isla Cancun, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Aapg Bulletin. 74. DOI: 10.1306/44B4B559-170A-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.323
1981 Milliken KL, Land LS, Loucks RG. History of burial diagenesis determined from isotopic geochemistry, Frio Formation, Brazoria County, Texas Aapg Bulletin. 65: 1397-1413. DOI: 10.1306/03B59558-16D1-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.442
1979 Loucks RG, Dodge MM, Galloway WE. Reservoir Quality in Tertiary Sandstones along Texas Gulf Coast: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 63: 488-488. DOI: 10.1306/C1Ea5B7F-16C9-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.459
1979 Bebout DG, Loucks RG, Gregory AR. World's First Geopressured Geothermal Test Well, Brazoria County, Texas: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 63: 417-417. DOI: 10.1306/C1Ea56B6-16C9-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.351
1979 Bebout DG, Loucks RG, Gregory AR. Potential for Production of Geopressured Geothermal Energy, Texas Gulf Coast: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 63: 417-417. DOI: 10.1306/C1Ea56B1-16C9-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.444
1979 Loucks RG, Dodge MM, Galloway WE. Importance of Secondary Leached Porosity in Lower Tertiary Sandstone Reservoirs Along Texas Gulf Coast: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 63: 1606-1607. DOI: 10.1306/2F9187C0-16Ce-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.471
1979 Bebout DG, Loucks RG, Gregory AR. Testing Geopressured Geothermal Resource, Frio Formation, Texas Gulf Coast: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 63: 1595-1595. DOI: 10.1306/2F91870C-16Ce-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.386
1977 Loucks RG. Incomplete Carbonate Cementation--Principal Factor in Development of Porosity: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 61. DOI: 10.1306/C1Ea413F-16C9-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.305
1976 Loucks RG. Relation of Early Carbonate Porosity to Depositional and Diagenetic Facies, Subsurface Cow Creek Limestone (Lower Cretaceous), South Texas: ABSTRACT Aapg Bulletin. 60. DOI: 10.1306/83D92762-16C7-11D7-8645000102C1865D  0.416
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