Digital Sedimentary Petrology
Geocosm is helping to invent this nascent field, which uses a rigorous chemistry and physics based approach for simulating the properties and geologic evolution of sediments and rocks in 3D at the grain scale. In the examples below, created with our patented Cyberstone™ system, we simulate deposition, compaction, cementation, and pore-scale fluid flow. (US Patent…
Read MoreNew Textbook!
Sandstone Petrography, Petrology, and Modeling is now available from SEPM at this link: https://lnkd.in/g9X9cwxC This book owes its existence to Tom Taylor, who had minor assistance from Linda Bonnell and Rob Lander. Chapter 12 includes a discussion of various diagenesis and reservoir quality models including Geocosm’s Touchstone, Prism2D, and Cyberstone simulation systems. From the publisher’s…
Read MoreTouchstone 8.2 Released
We are delighted to announce the release of version 8.2 of Touchstone, Geocosm’s flagship system for prediction of the diagenesis and properties of clastic rocks. Important new capabilities and enhancements in Touchstone 8.2 include: Sorting impact on compaction: We have introduced a new compaction model option that considers the influence of depositional IGV variations on…
Read More2020 RQC Meeting
Thanks to all who attended our 2020 RQC meeting discussion session on December 17th. This year we used an online format for the first time for our meeting with pre-recorded videos of our presentations and online workshops that were posted about a week before a live online discussion session. We had nearly 40 people take…
Read MoreTouchstone Fundamentals Online!
After months of work on both the content and our website we are delighted to announce that the Touchstone Fundamentals Course is now available online for active RQC members and recipients of academic Touchstone licenses. The course is intended for individuals who are new to Touchstone but experienced Touchstone modelers might find some things of…
Read MoreShaking
In this strange time it isn’t surprising that you just want to shake something! Check out this Cyberstone simulation where we shake grains into a tighter packing arrangement.
Read More3rd International School on Diagenesis
The Applied Sedimentology Group at the GeoZentrum NordBayern (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Geocosm LLC. announce the 3rd School on the Diagenesis of Silicilastic Sediments on September 7-11, 2020. The school will be held at the Geozentrum Nordbayern in Erlangen, Germany and will focus on the controls on sandstone diagenesis and their implications for data interpretation and modeling.…
Read MoreEstimation of Geothermal Reservoir Quality by Diagenesis Modelling of Gassum Formation Sandstones
Geocosm’s Touchstone system is proving to be useful for the exploration of geothermal energy resources for RQC consortium member GEUS (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland) as discussed in the presentation below at the 34th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting in Oslo, Norway, January, 2020. ABSTRACT Olivarius, M.1,*, Tremosa, J.2 , Mathiesen, A.1 , Weibel, R.1…
Read MoreThe Role of Chemistry in Fracture Pattern Development and Opportunities to Advance Interpretations of Geological Materials
Geocosm scientists are co-authors on this article that was just published in Reviews of Geophysics. The article has open access and may be downloaded using this link. Abstract Fracture pattern development has been a challenging area of research in the Earth sciences for more than 100 years. Much has been learned about the spatial and…
Read MoreConsortium Meeting November 12-14, 2019 Durango
The RQC and T>Map/T>Earth consortia will be meeting on November 12-14, 2019 in Durango, Colorado USA and is open to all active members. The signup deadline is October 14th.
Read More1st DGMK/KIT Reservoir Days
Geocosm’s Linda Bonnell and Rob Lander were among the keynote speakers for the 1st DGMK / KIT Joint Workshop RESERVOIR DAYS — Clastic Reservoir Quality, on September 2-4, 2019 in Liensweiler, Germany. OVERVIEW Reservoir quality of clastic sedimentary rocks is a function of many factors such as thermal exposure, time, tectonics, stress, detrital and authigenic…
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