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2008 Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies 58th Annual Convention
October 6-7, Houston, Texas
Hosted by Houston Geological Society*
Search and Discovery Article #90085 (2008)
Posted October 31, 2008
*Special appreciation is expressed to Dr. James J. Willis, Odyssey International LLC, for providing these abstracts for posting on Search and Discovery.
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Integrated Core, Well Log, and 
Seismic
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Enzo Aconcha, Charles Kerans, and Hongliu Zeng
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Warren D. Allmon and Linda C. Ivany
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John R. Andrews, Lesli Wood, and James C. Gibeaut
Depositional and Field Development Model, Gray Sandstone (Jurassic), Cotton Valley Field, Northern Louisiana,
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Lawrence R. Baria, Ezat Heydari, and Bradley G. Winton
A History of Crude Oil Earthen Storage In Southeast Texas and Its Legacy of Oily Wastes,
Mary L. Barrett
Revised Biostratigraphy of the Middle Miocene to Earliest Pliocene Goliad Formation of South Texas,
Jon A. Baskin and Richard C. Hulbert
Using Geospatial Solutions for Proprietary and Non-Proprietary Integration and Interpretation,
William J. Berger III and Jennifer Weller
The Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer of Texas: Hydrochemistry, Groundwater Origin and Ages,
Radu Boghici
Three-Dimensional Architecture of Lowstand Incised-Valley Deposits in the Woodbine Group, North East Texas Field,
Florence L. Bonnaffu, William A. Ambrose, Tucker F. Hentz, Fred P. Wang, and Robert G. Loucks
High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphic Correlations of the Oligocene Frio Formation in South Texas,
Florence L. Bonnaffu, Ursula Hammes, David L. Carr, and L. Franck Brown
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Ellen R. Brouillette and Susan T. Goldstein
Shallow Shear-Wave Seismic Velocity Testing in Jackson, Mississippi,
David T. Butler III and James B. Harris
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Douglas A. Carlson and Thomas P. Van Biersel
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Santiago Charleston
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David L. Connolly and Friso Brouwer
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David T. Dockery III and George E. Phillips
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Timothy W. Duex and Dean M. Gresham
Mudstone Geophysical Properties for Pressure Prediction,
Daniel Ebrom
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Richard H. Fluegeman, Aneesha Balakrishnan, Christopher J. Banser, Kelli A. McGuire, Nicholas S. Tiedemann, Davina M. Wolfe, Michelle A. Crume, Daniel C. Thurber, and Bradley A. Funk
USGS Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal: Quantifying Undiscovered Oil and Gas North of the Arctic Circle,
Donald L. Gautier
Interactive 3D Visualization of Marine Depositional Systems at Multiple Scales,
Lindsay J. Gee, Larry A. Mayer, and James V. Gardner
Boundary Changes and Additions to the Aquifers of Texas,
Peter G. George and Robert E. Mace
Hydrocarbon Generating Potential: Jurassic Cotton Valley - Bossier Group, North Louisiana Salt Basin,
Donald A. Goddard, Ernest A. Mancini, Marty R. Horn, and Suhas C. Talukdar
Challenges When Predicting Reservoir Quality in the Sub-Salt K2 Field, Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico,
Todd J. Greene, B. E. O'Neill, R. E. Drumheller, T. Butaud, and A. Rodriguez
Geochemical Modeling of Regional Hydrochemical Evolution in the Wilcox Aquifer of Missouri and Arkansas,
Estifanos Haile and Alan E. Fryar
Rapid Growth of Mollusks in the Eocene Gosport Sand, US Gulf Coast,
Andrew Haveles and Linda C. Ivany
The Last Global Extinction In the Deep Sea,
Bruce W. Hayward, Shungo Kawagata, Hugh R. Grenfell, Ashwaq T. Sabaa, and Tanya O'Neill
A S-N Paleogene Progradational Stratigraphic Wedge, Walker Ridge, and Its Implication in Depositional History of Deepwater GOM,
Leipin He and Rex Poling
Of P99's and Other Risk Management Urban Legends,
Dean R. Hennings, Tom Griffith, and Kevin Martindale
Overpressure Origin in the Bossier Trend, Texas, from Gas Generation and Oil Cracking,
Philip D. Heppard, Bill H. Babcock, Jeffrey R. Allwardt, and Sarah K. Collier
A Regional Erosion Surface and Its Effect on the Smackover Reservoir-Seal System Along the South Arkansas – North Louisiana Jurassic Shelf,
Ezat Heydari and Lawrence R. Baria
Transport and Depositional Features Associated with Submarine Mudflows, Mississippi Delta, Gulf of Mexico,
Christopher Hitchcock, Michael Angell, Robert Givler, and Jim Hooper
Reference Logs for Cotton Valley and Louark Stratigraphic Groups, North Louisiana: A Pilot Study,
Marty Horn
Clay Mineralogy of the Del Rio Clay Formation (Cenomanian), West Texas:Illite/Kaolinite Ratios as Relative Salinity Indicators,
Victoria C. Hover, Fleur S. Bases, and Brian E. Lock
OBS Nodes Deliver Wide-Azimuth Image Improvement in Gulf of Mexico Deepwater at Atlantis,
John M. Howie, David B. Shepherd, Gerard Beaudoin, and Patrice Mahob
TTI Tomography for Dual-Azimuth Data in Gulf of Mexico,
Tony Huang, Sheng Xu, Juan Wang, and Gentiana Ionescu
High Planktonic Foraminiferal Species Turnover, Enhanced Vertical Ocean Mixing and “Coolhouse” Climatic Conditions Across the Aptian-Albian Boundary Interval,
Brian T. Huber, R. Mark Leckie, and Kenneth G. MacLeod
Genetic Pore Typing as a Means of Characterizing Reservoir Flow Units: San Andres, Sunflower Field, Terry County, Texas,
Aubrey N. Humbolt and Wayne Ahr
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Brian B. Hunt
From Martyrdom to Resurrection for St. Lucie: Revival of a Meiofauna,
Sreepat Jain, Lee-Ann C. Hayek, and Martin A. Buzas
Disruption of Community Structure at Isthmus Closure,
Sreepat Jain, Martin A. Buzas, and Lee-Ann C. Hayek
Illuminating Seismic Stratigraphic Features Using 3D Visualization,
Huw James
Permian Radiolarian Faunal Variations Correlated to Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in the Lamar Limestone, Delaware Basin, West Texas: Implications for Radiolarian Paleoecology,
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Production History, Depositional Environments and Future Hydrocarbon Potential for Main Pass Blocks 4, 10, and 49 in Louisiana State Waters,
Chacko J. John, Bobby L. Jones, Brian J. Harder, and Reed J. Bourgeois
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Steve Johnson and Geary M. Schindel
Investigating Recharge in Arid Alluvial Basin Aquifers: The Pecos Valley Aquifer, Texas,
Ian C. Jones
Petroleum Prospects and Discoveries in Central Belize,
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David T. King Jr and Lucille W. Petruny
Interpretation and Mapping in 3-D Virtual Reality of Pleistocene Red River Distributaries on the Prairie Surface Near Lafayette, Louisiana,
Gary L. Kinsland, Christoph W. Borst, Jan-Phillip Tiesel, and Kaushik Das
Imaging Digital Well-logs in 3-D Virtual Reality: Investigation of Northern Louisiana Wilcox Fluvial/Coal Strata for Coalbed Natural Gas,
Gary L. Kinsland, Christoph W. Borst, Jan-Phillip Tiesel, and Catherine E. Bishop
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Regional Groundwater Model for the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifer, Central Texas Gulf Coast: Benefits of a Chronostratigraphic Framework,
Paul R. Knox, Steven C. Young, Van Kelley, Trevor Budge, and Neil E. Deeds
Resolving Aquifer Correlations from Subsurface to Outcrop: The Yegua-Jackson Aquifer of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain,
Paul R. Knox, Neil E. Deeds, Astrid M. Vreugdenhil, and Robert A. Kalbouss
Rejuvenation of a Shallow Reservoir in the Seventy-Year-Old Golden Meadow Field, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana,
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George Kronman and Leah Smith
A Compaction-Based Pore Pressure Model for Shales,
James T. Krushin
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Paul R. Krutak
Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Time-Series Data In the Hydrologic Cycle of the Gulf Coast, USA,
William Joseph Lambert and Paul Aharon
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Xiupeng Li and Hongliu Zeng
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In Hot Water? How Climate Change May (or may not) Affect the Groundwater Resources of Texas,
Robert E. Mace and Shirley Wade
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Tony Marsh and Michelle Fullen
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A High-Resolution Seismic Assesment of Faulting in the Louisiana Coastal Plain,
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Geological Investigation of Petrified Wood in the Miocene Fleming Formation, Jasper County, Texas,
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The Effects of Seismic Data Conditioning on Pre-Stack Simultaneous Impedance Inversion,
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Carly J. Smith, Laurel S. Collins, Carlos Jaramillo, and Luis I. Quiroz
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Brian A. Smith and Brian B. Hunt
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Michael J. Staines, Scott Michell, Dean Chergotis, and John Sharp
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Thomas A. Stidham and Tracey Janus
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Matthew W. Totten Sr, Christina Jones, Iris M. Totten, and Sam Chaudhuri
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Eva Tuzzi, Matthew Olney, Christina Riesselman, and David M. Harwood
Evolution of Tertiary Gulf Coast Marine Vertebrate Faunas,
Mark D. Uhen
Development of a Chloride Standard Exceedance Map for Louisiana,
Thomas P. Van Biersel, L. Riley Milner, and Erin Walden
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Ecospace Utilization in High-Diversity Shallow Shelf Marine Communities of the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain,
Heather L. B. Wall and Linda C. Ivany
Increasing Understanding by Identifying Uncertainty,
Thomas J. Wilker
Geopressure Analysis In the Subsalt Knotty Head Field: Deepwater Gulf of Mexico,
Kenneth E. Williams, Richard Redhead, and William Standifird
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