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Robert G. Loucks is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research has a significant focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with specific contributions in areas such as Mechanics of Materials, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Geology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological Studies and Exploration

Loucks has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Geologic characterization of the type cored section for the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group in southern Texas: A combination fractured and unconventional reservoir, 2020, published in AAPG Bulletin
  • Micropetrographic characterization of a siliciclastic-rich chalk; Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group along the onshore northern Gulf of Mexico, USA, 2020, published in Sedimentary Geology
  • Machine learning classification of Austin Chalk chemofacies from high-resolution x-ray fluorescence core characterization, 2023, published in AAPG Bulletin
  • High-resolution hyperspectral-based continuous mineralogical and total organic carbon analysis of the Eagle Ford Group and associated formations in south Texas, 2020, published in AAPG Bulletin
  • Middle platform carbonate depositional systems and lithofacies patterns in the Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group, Tobosa Basin in West Texas, U.S.A., and subsequent Sauk-Tippecanoe megasequence boundary meteoric karsting, 2023, published in Marine and Petroleum Geology

The predominant venues where Loucks publishes include:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • AAPG Bulletin
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Journal

Frequent collaborators in Loucks's research work comprise:

  • Robert M. Reed
  • Lucy T. Ko
  • Christopher K. Zahm
  • J. Evan Sivil
  • Kelly E. Hattori

Best Publications

  • Morphology, Genesis, and Distribution of Nanometer-Scale Pores in Siliceous Mudstones of the Mississippian Barnett Shale

    Robert G. Loucks;Robert M. Reed;Stephen C. Ruppel;Daniel M. Jarvie

  • Spectrum of pore types and networks in mudrocks and a descriptive classification for matrix-related mudrock pores

    Robert G. Loucks;Robert M. Reed;Stephen C. Ruppel;Ursula Hammes

  • Mississippian Barnett Shale: Lithofacies and depositional setting of a deep-water shale-gas succession in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas

    Robert G. Loucks;Stephen C. Ruppel

  • Paleocave carbonate reservoirs; origins, burial-depth modifications, spatial complexity, and reservoir implications

    Robert G. Loucks

  • Carbonate Depositional Sequences and Systems Tracts—Responses of Carbonate Platforms to Relative Sea-Level Changes

    C. Robertson Handford;Robert G. Loucks

  • 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.

    Shirley P. Dutton;Robert G. Loucks

  • Scanning-Electron-Microscope Petrographic Evidence for Distinguishing Organic-Matter Pores Associated with Depositional Organic Matter versus Migrated Organic Matter in Mudrock

    Robert G. Loucks;Robert M. Reed

  • Pore and pore network evolution of Upper Cretaceous Boquillas (Eagle Ford-equivalent) mudrocks: Results from gold-tube pyrolysis experiments

    Lucy T. Ko;Robert G. Loucks;Tongwei Zhang;Stephen C. Ruppel

  • Mississippian Barnett Formation, Fort Worth Basin, Texas: Bulk geochemical inferences and Mo–TOC constraints on the severity of hydrographic restriction

    Harold D Rowe;Robert G Loucks;Stephen C Ruppel;Susan M. Rimmer

  • Pore-types and pore-network evolution in Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Woodford and Mississippian Barnett mudstones: Insights from laboratory thermal maturation and organic petrology

    Lucy T. Ko;Stephen C. Ruppel;Robert G. Loucks;Paul C. Hackley

  • Regional Controls on Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality in Lower Tertiary Sandstones along the Texas Gulf Coast: Part 1. Concepts and Principles

    Robert G. Loucks;Marianne M. Dodge;William E. Galloway

  • Three-dimensional architecture of a coalesced, collapsed-paleocave system in the Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group, central Texas

    Robert G. Loucks;Paul K. Mescher;George A. McMechan

  • Origin and characterization of Eagle Ford pore networks in the South Texas Upper Cretaceous shelf

    Lucy T. Ko;Robert G. Loucks;Stephen C. Ruppel;Tongwei Zhang

  • History of burial diagenesis determined from isotopic geochemistry, Frio Formation, Brazoria County, Texas

    Kitty L Milliken;L. S. Land;Robert G Loucks

  • Three-dimensional seismic geomorphology and analysis of the Ordovician paleokarst drainage system in the central Tabei Uplift, northern Tarim Basin, western China

    Hongliu Zeng;Robert Loucks;Xavier Janson;Guizhong Wang

  • Quantifying the origin and geometry of circular sag structures in northern Fort Worth Basin, Texas: Paleocave collapse, pull-apart fault systems, or hydrothermal alteration?

    Angela McDonnell;Robert G Loucks;Tim P Dooley

  • Regional Controls on Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality in Lower Tertiary Sandstones along the Texas Gulf Coast

    Robert G. Loucks;Marianne M. Dodge;William E. Galloway

  • Stuart City Trend, Lower Cretaceous, South Texas: a carbonate shelf-margin model for hydrocarbon exploration

    Don Gray Bebout Bebout;Robert G. Loucks

  • Preliminary Classification of Matrix Pores in Mudrocks

    Robert G. Loucks;Robert M. Reed;Stephen C. Ruppel;Ursula Hammes

  • Oceanographic and eustatic control of carbonate platform evolution and sequence stratigraphy on the Cretaceous (Valanginian–Campanian) passive margin, northern Gulf of Mexico

    Ryan M. Phelps;Charles Kerans;Robert G Loucks;Rui O.B.P. Da Gama

  • Ground penetrating radar imaging of a collapsed paleocave system in the Ellenburger dolomite, central Texas

    George A McMechan;Robert G Loucks;Xiaoxian Zeng;Paul Mescher

Frequent Co-Authors

Kitty L. Milliken
Kitty L. Milliken The University of Texas at Austin
Hongliu Zeng
Hongliu Zeng The University of Texas at Austin
William E. Galloway
William E. Galloway The University of Texas at Austin
Tongwei Zhang
Tongwei Zhang The University of Texas at Austin
George A. McMechan
George A. McMechan The University of Texas at Dallas
Ben A. van der Pluijm
Ben A. van der Pluijm University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Paul C. Hackley
Paul C. Hackley United States Geological Survey
Andrew C. Aplin
Andrew C. Aplin Durham University
Jon E. Olson
Jon E. Olson The University of Texas at Austin
Robert L. Folk
Robert L. Folk The University of Texas at Austin

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