Robert T Ryder

• Characteristics of discrete and basin-centered parts of the Lower Silurian regional oil and gas accumulation, Appalachian basin
• Fracture patterns and their origin in the upper Devonian Antrim Shale gas reservoir of the Michigan basin
• Geochemistry of selected oil and source rock samples from Cambrian and Ordovician strata, Ohio-West Virginia-Tennessee part of the Appalachian basin
• Oil and gas resources of the Black Warrior basin, Alabama and Mississippi
• Possible continuous-type (unconventional) gas accumulation in the Lower Silurian "Clinton" sands, Medina Group, and Tuscarora Sandstone in the Appalachian basin
• Stratigraphic framework of Cambrian and Ordovician rocks in the central Appalachian basin from Morrow County, Ohio, to Pendleton County, West Virginia