What is TOADAL?
The Turbidite Outcrop Analog Database Archive and Learning (TOADAL) tool is a digital data archive center developed by the Slope and Basin Consortium. TOADAL is designed to aid in the exploration, development, and management of deepwater reservoirs through the application and integration of outcrop analog information in subsurface data analysis. This educational resource provides access to outcrop data, documentation, and interactive learning modules about deepwater depositional systems, modeling, and using analog outcrop patterns in subsurface exploration.
The TOADAL knowledgebase was assembled during an eleven-year study of the Brushy Canyon formation by the Slope and Basin Consortium at The Colorado School of Mines, and more recently at Montana State University, where research continues. Additional outcrop information and subsurface data from other basins supplement and enrich the learning experience.
TOADAL comprises three databases: outcrop analogs, interactive learning, and the Relational Outcrop Analog Database (ROAD).
The outcrop analog collection features depositional patterns that are graphically expressed in multiple dimensions: well log/core, maps, dimensional attributes, and cross sections. The outcrop analog collection will eventually contain patterns from more than 100 different outcrops worldwide.
The interactive learning modules feature online tutorials about marine geology and deepwater depositional systems. Instructional text and supporing graphics and images provide an overview of geologic attributes of deepwater depositional systems, how to select an outcrop analog pattern, and how to apply reservoir modeling to petrophysical data.
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The Relational Outcrop Analog Database (ROAD) provides access to dimensional data on sedimentary bodies and their attributes. Data can be plotted according to a range of geologic attributes and viewed as both a graph and a spreadsheet, and every data point is linked to its original outcrop photo.
Why use TOADAL?
TOADAL was designed for and populated with data from the Permian Brushy Canyon Formation of West Texas. The large-scale outcrop and nearby subsurface data from the Delaware Basin provide documentation of a complete deepwater sedimentary basin. This study generated more than 15,000 documents representing theses, reports, guidebooks, photos and 1D sections, 2D panels, 3D geologic, petrophysical and geophysical models and numeric datasets. All data is in digital format, and the total size is estimated at about one Terabyte.
How do I access data and information in TOADAL?
The TOADAL database can be searched for GIS data, dimensional data (ROAD), and thousands of archived documents including theses, guidebooks, publications, cross-sections, photo panels, posters, maps, and publications.
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