Berea Sandstone
The Berea Sandstone is an important oil and gas reservoir across Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and into Virginia. It is generally classed as a tight-gas sand. It is also widely used as a building stone, and has found prominence as a standard for porosity and permeability testing.
Lithologic Atlas of the Berea
Potter, P.E., Jackson, D., DeReamer, J., and Maynard, J.B., 1984, Lithologic and Environmental Atlas of Berea Sandstone (Mississippian) in the Appalachian Basin: Morganton, WV, Appalachian Geological Society, 157 p.
This book, which has been out of print for some time, is reproduced here as a scanned pdf. Link to pdf The file size is fairly large (13,000 kb). For individual chapters, use the sidebar links.
There are measured sections with photographs and gamma-ray profiles for 16 Berea outcrops. Twenty-two cores are described and compared to wire-line logs. Modal grain size is plotted as is porosity and permeability when available. The last section contains 59 photographs, including X-radiographs of sedimentary structures as seen in slabbed core.
