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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Terry Engelder is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their work spans multiple areas in engineering and earth sciences, with particular focus on geophysics and mechanics of materials.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects including:

  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Coal Properties and Utilization
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Engelder's frequent coauthors include:

  • John N. Hooker
  • Rui Liu
  • Fang Hao
  • Zhiguo Zhu
  • Jizheng Yi

Their research has been published in a variety of journals, with repeated appearances in the following venues:

  • AAPG Bulletin
  • Hydrogeology Journal
  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Engelder include:

  • "Influence of tectonic exhumation on porosity of Wufeng-Longmaxi shale in the Fuling gas field of the eastern Sichuan Basin, China," 2020, AAPG Bulletin
  • "Gas well integrity and methane migration: evaluation of published evidence during shale-gas development in the USA," 2020, Hydrogeology Journal
  • "Fracture-pattern growth in the deep, chemically reactive subsurface," 2023, Journal of Structural Geology
  • "Skempton's poroelastic relaxation: The mechanism that accounts for the distribution of pore pressure and exhumation-related fractures in black shale of the Appalachian Basin," 2021, AAPG Bulletin
  • "RESIDUAL STRESS: ANOTHER SOURCE OF STRAIN ENERGY TO DRIVE MECHANICAL WEATHERING," 2022, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Engelder's publications demonstrate a sustained engagement with topics involving subsurface geological processes, mechanical behaviors of rocks, and interactions between geological structures and fluid dynamics in natural reservoirs.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • The role of salt in fold-and-thrust belts

    Dan M. Davis;Terry Engelder

  • Natural gas: Should fracking stop?

    Robert W. Howarth;Anthony Ingraffea;Terry Engelder

  • Stress Regimes in the Lithosphere

    Terry Engelder

  • The permeability of whole and jointed Barre Granite

    R.L. Kranzz;A.D. Frankel;T. Engelder;C.H. Scholz

  • On the use of regional joint sets as trajectories of paleostress fields during the development of the Appalachian Plateau, New York

    Terry Engelder;Peter Geiser

  • Joint sets that enhance production from Middle and Upper Devonian gas shales of the Appalachian Basin

    Terry Engelder;Gary G. Lash;Redescal S. Uzcátegui

  • 2 – JOINTS AND SHEAR FRACTURES IN ROCK

    Terry Engelder

  • Loading paths to joint propagation during a tectonic cycle: an example from the Appalachian Plateau, U.S.A.

    Terry Engelder

  • Factors controlling joint spacing in interbedded sedimentary rocks: Integrating numerical models with field observations from the Monterey Formation, USA

    Michael R. Gross;Mark P. Fischer;Terry Engelder;Roy J. Greenfield

  • Influence of poroelastic behavior on the magnitude of minimum horizontal stress, Sh in overpressured parts of sedimentary basins

    Terry Engelder;Mark P. Fischer

  • Classification of solution cleavage in pelagic limestones

    Walter Alvarez;Terry Engelder;Peter A. Geiser

  • The fate of residual treatment water in gas shale

    Terry Engelder;Lawrence M. Cathles;L. Taras Bryndzia

  • Thickness trends and sequence stratigraphy of the Middle Devonian Marcellus Formation, Appalachian Basin: Implications for Acadian foreland basin evolution

    Gary G. Lash;Terry Engelder

  • An analysis of horizontal microcracking during catagenesis: Example from the Catskill delta complex

    Gary G. Lash;Terry Engelder

  • Disjunctive cleavage formed at shallow depths in sedimentary rocks

    Terry Engelder;Stephen Marshak

  • Formation of spaced cleavage and folds in brittle limestone by dissolution

    Walter Alvarez;Terry Engelder;William Lowrie

  • Appalachian Stress Study: 1. A detailed description of in situ stress variations in Devonian shales of the Appalachian Plateau

    Keith F. Evans;Terry Engelder;Richard A. Plumb

  • Is there a genetic relationship between selected regional joints and contemporary stress within the lithosphere of North America

    Terry Engelder

  • The distribution of layer parallel shortening fabrics in the Appalachian foreland of New York and ‘Pennsylvania: Evidence for two non-coaxial phases of the Alleghanian orogeny

    Peter Geiser;Terry Engelder

  • Reply to "Comment on `Is there a genetic relationship between selected regional joints and contemporary stress within the lithosphere of North America?'"

    Terry Engelder

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith F. Evans
Keith F. Evans ETH Zurich
Stephen Marshak
Stephen Marshak University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John W. Cosgrove
John W. Cosgrove Imperial College London
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez University of California, Berkeley
Robert D. Hatcher
Robert D. Hatcher University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Christopher H. Scholz
Christopher H. Scholz Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Michael A. Arthur
Michael A. Arthur Pennsylvania State University
Fang Hao
Fang Hao China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Rudy Slingerland
Rudy Slingerland Pennsylvania State University
Susan L. Brantley
Susan L. Brantley Pennsylvania State University

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