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…

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New 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…

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Touchstone 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…

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2020 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…

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Touchstone 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…

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Shaking

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.

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3rd 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.…

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1st 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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