Articles | Volume 49
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-49-121-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-49-121-2019
19 Sep 2019
 | 19 Sep 2019

Using core and outcrop analogues to predict flow pathways in the subsurface: examples from the Triassic sandstones of north Cheshire, UK

Joanna Thompson, Daniel Parkes, Edward Hough, and Oliver Wakefield

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This paper presents a case study from the Sherwood Sandstone Group of North-West England. Measurements taken from published outcrop data and borehole core were used to give an indicative ratio of height to length of different types of unit within the group. This ratio can be used to predict the distribution of these units in the subsurface where information is limited to borehole core. The information can be used to model how water and gases move through these sandstones.