Worden, Richard H.Allen, MichaelFaulkner, Daniel R.Utley, JamesBond, Clare E.Alcalde, JuanHeinemann, NiklasHaszeldine, StuartMackay, Eric J.Ghanbari, S.2020-08-042020-08-042020-08-03Worden, R H, Allen, M, Faulkner, D R, Utley, J, Bond, C E, Alcalde, J, Heinemann, N, Haszeldine, S, Mackay, E J & Ghanbari, S 2020, 'Lower Cretaceous Rodby and Palaeocene Lista Shales : Characterisation and Comparison of Top-Seal Mudstones at Two Planned CCS Sites, Offshore UK', Minerals, vol. 10, no. 8, 691. https://doi.org/10.3390/min100806912075-163Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2164/14857Funding: The work reported here was part of the Accelerating Carbon Technologies (ACT) Acorn Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project, under the ERA–NET Horizon 2020 programme, project 271500, and was jointly funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom; the Research Council of Norway; the Netherlands Enterprise Agency. Juan Alcalde is funded by the Spanish MICINN (Juan de la Cierva fellowship-IJC2018-036074-I). Alan James, CEO of Pale Blue Dot Ltd. (Banchory, UK), is warmly thanked for skilfully leading the Acorn Project and offering advice throughout the project, including during the preparation of this manuscript. We express our warm appreciation to guest editor Jim Buckman (Heriot Watt University, UK) for encouraging us to write and submit this paper. We would like to thank four diligent anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful and constructive comments on the initial version of the manuscript, and academic lead for this thematic issue.387233909engRodby shaleLista shalecarbon capture and storageNorth Seawireline logssplitting tensile stressmercury intrusion porosimetrySEM-EDSquantitative mineralogygeomechanical propertiesYoung's modulusCO2 column heightYoung’s modulusCO column heightMercury intrusion porosimetrySplitting tensile stressQuantitative mineralogyLista ShaleRodby ShaleGeomechanical propertiesWireline logsCarbon capture and storageCO2MECHANICAL-PROPERTIESSTORAGECARBON CAPTUREROCKSCAPROCKCO(2)column heightCLAYQE GeologyGeologyGeotechnical Engineering and Engineering GeologyQEJournal article10.3390/min10080691http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090681095&partnerID=8YFLogxK108