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Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies 55th Annual Convention
Scheduled September 25-27, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana*
New Orleans Geological Society as Host*
*Convention was not held due to the tragic Hurricane Katrina.
Search and Discovery #90080 (2008)
Posted August 10, 2008
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Lower Tertiary Discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater: Capitalizing on Success
by Ken Beeney and Greg Kelleher
Seismic Imaging at Conger: Lessons Learned in Gulf of Mexico Subsalt Imaging
by Thomas C. Bergeon
A Robust Technique for Resolving Faulting Problems on the Steeply Dipping Flanks of Salt Bodies, Using the Multiple Bischke Plot Analysis (MBPA)
by R. E. Bischke, J. Brewton, and D. J. Tearpock
Visualization and Interpretation of 3D Geological and Geophysical Data in Heterogeneous Virtual Reality Displays: Examples from the Chicxulub Impact Crater
by Christoph W. Borst and Gary L. Kinsland
The Princess Discovery—Sub Salt Gulf of Mexico: Challenges of Sub-Salt Imaging in a Fast-Paced Sub-Sea Development
by Aafke E. Bouma, Bret D. Hampton, and Ben M. Hewett
Seismic Detection of Stratigraphic and Combination Traps Without Amplitude Expression in Northern Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
by Steven H. Brachman
Wilcox Group Coal-Bed Methane in North-Central Louisiana
by F. Clayton Breland Jr. and Peter D. Warwick
Regional Overwash from Hurricanes Frances-Jeanne and Ivan
by Marianne O'Neal Caldwell, Ping Wang, Mark Horwitz, James Kirby, and Swagata Guha
Combining Microseismic Hydraulic Fracture Monitoring, Petrophysical Evaluation and New Analytical Techniques to Improve Reservoir Management
by Joel Le Calvez, Tom Creegan, Robert Tehan, Kevin Tanner, Roy Yates, Leo Eisner, Rick Lewis, and Les Bennett
A Preliminary Examination of Geothermal Gradient Throughout Louisiana's 64 Parishes
by Douglas Carlson and Richard P. McCulloh
Sequence Correlation of the Mid-Comanche Series, South Texas Region
by Dena S. Chenault and Lance L. Lambert
Sediment and Water Analysis Adjacent to an Active Scrap Yard and Archived Superfund Site, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
by Renee Clary, Dean Gresham, Fleur Bases, Elisabeth Hamlin, Noah Bergeron, Chad Petry, Mike LaGrange, and Eric Fischer
The Ultra-Deep Water Petroleum System in the Neptune Field Area, Gulf of Mexico
by Gary A. Cole, Alan Yu, Julye Nugent, Michael Moore, and Gary Grubitz
Major World Delta Variability and Wetland Loss
by James Coleman, Oscar Huh, DeWitt Braud Jr., and Harry Roberts
Integration—The Key to Understanding Petroleum Systems in the Gulf of Mexico
by Mark Cowgill, Stephen Calvert, Marguerite Fleming, John Newsome, Antony Price, and Carl Watkins
Shale Facies Variability and Sequence Stratigraphy: Application to Top Seal Prediction in Deepwater Depositional Systems
by William C. Dawson and William R. Almon
Classification of Holocene Foraminifera Bio-Facies Within the Transgressive Lower Lafourche Headland, Louisiana
by Chandra Dreher, Charlotte Brunner, Mark Kulp, and Matt Totten
A Brief Summary of Water Supply in Louisiana
by Timothy W. Duex
2003 U.S. Geological Survey Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in Upper Cretaceous Navarro and Taylor Groups, Western Gulf Province, Texas
by T. S. Dyman, S. M. Condon, R. R. Charpentier, T. A. Cook, T. R. Klett, M. D. Lewan, M. J. Pawlewicz, R. M. Pollastro, and C. J. Schenk
Tahoe Field Case Study—Understanding Reservoir Compartmentalization in a Channel-Levee System
by Chekwube Enunwa, Joseph L. Razzano III, Asha Ramgulam, Peter B. Flemings, Turgay Ertekin, and Zuleima T. Karpyn
Relative Sea-Level Rise History in Louisiana
by Sarah Fearnley, Shea Penland, Mark Kulp, Karen Ramsey, S. Jeffress Williams, and Jack Kindinger
Preliminary Assessment of Recent Deposition Related to a Crevasse Splay on the Mississippi River Delta: Implications for Coastal Restoration
by N. F. Ferina, J. G. Flocks, J. L. Kindinger, M. D. Miner, J. P. Motti, P. C. Chadwick, and J. B. Johnston
Paleocene-Eocene Deposystems and Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin Petroleum System
by Richard H. Fillon, Paul N. Lawless, and Arthur S. Waterman
Backbarrier and Sea Level Controls on Tidal Prism and Their Subsequent Impacts on Adjacent Barrier Islands
by Duncan FitzGerald, Ioannis Georgiou, Zoe Hughes, Mark Kulp, Michael Miner, and Shea Penland
Global Positioning System
by George C. Flowers
Geothermal Gradients and Subsurface Temperatures in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
by Joseph Forrest, Ettore Marcucci, and Paul Scott
Burial History of Central Texas Cretaceous Carbonates
by Shawn Fullmer and F. Jerry Lucia
Modeling Future Changes in Barrier-Island Wetlands on Galveston Island, Texas
by James C. Gibeaut
Remaining Hydrocarbon Potential in Oligocene Reservoirs of Mature Fields, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
by Donald A. Goddard, Ronald K. Zimmerman, and Charles M. Meeks
Building a Facies-Based Permeability Model for Deep-Water Miocene Reservoirs, Eastern Gulf of Mexico
by T. J. Greene and B. E. O'Neill
Seismic Geomorphology of Oligocene Frio Lowstand Slope and Basin-Floor Sedimentary Bodies in Growth-Faulted Subbasins in South Texas
by Ursula Hammes, Hongliu Zeng, L. 
Frank
Brown, Robert Loucks, and Patricia Montoya
Post 30 ma Sequence Stratigraphy, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
by Leipin He and Nancye Dawers
Distribution and Origin of Fault-Line Scarps of Southwest Louisiana, USA
by Paul V. Heinrich
A Microbial Smackover Formation and the Dual Reservoir–Seal System at the Little Cedar Creek Field in Conecuh County of Alabama
by Ezat Heydari and Lawrence Baria
A Conceptual Model for the Sequence Stratigraphy of the Smackover Formation in North-Central U.S. Gulf Coast
by Ezat Heydari and Lawrence Baria
Seismic Attributes for Regional Reconnaissance: Deep Gas Interval, Gulf of Mexico Shelf
by H. Truman Holcombe
Sedimentological Characteristics and Internal Architecture of Two Overwash Fans from Hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne
by Mark Horwitz and Ping Wang
Sedimentological Characteristics and Internal Architecture of Two Overwash Fans from Hurricanes Ivan, Frances and Jeanne
by Mark H. Horwitz, Ping Wang, Marianne O'Neal-Caldwell, James Kirby, and Swagata Guha
Genesis 4-D Project Status and Preliminary Lookback
by Tom Hudson, Bernard Regel, John Bretches, Pat Condon, James Rickett, Brian Cerney, Phil Inderwiesen, and Russ Ewy
Miocene Gas Trend of the Eastern Gulf Coast Province: Mississippi and Alabama State Offshore Waters
by Stephen L. Ingram Sr., Charlie Smith, and Allen Lowrie
Exploratory Progress Towards Proving the Billion Barrel Potential of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale
by Chacko J. John, Bobby L. Jones, Brian J. Harder, and Reed J. Bourgeois
The Role of Gas Hydrate in a Global Gas Market
by Arthur H. Johnson
Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Microtektite-Bearing Sands and Tsunami Beds, Alabama Gulf Coastal Plain
by David T. King Jr. and Lucille W. Petruny
Hydrodynamics and Sedimentary Responses Within the Bottom Boundary Layer: Sabine Bank, Western Louisiana
by Daijiro Kobashi, Felix Jose, and Gregory Stone
The Auger 4D Case Study: Exploiting a Gulf of Mexico Turbidite Field by the Use of Time Lapsed Seismic Surveys
by Tom Kratochvil, Tim Beattie, Jim Bikun, Pete Bilinski, Klaas van Luik, Elli Tchouparova, Charles Tixier, Sid Weaver, and Helena Zirczy
Quantifying Shale Porosity—A Thermodynamically Based, Predictive Model Which Includes the Effects of Mechanical Compaction, Temperature, Mineralogy, and Chemical Diagenesis
by James T. Krushin
Long and Short-Term Variability of Subsidence Patterns Across the Mississippi River Delta Plain
by Mark Kulp
Regional Distribution of Arsenic in the Weches Formation of East Texas
by E. B. Ledger
Stratigraphic Analysis Garden Banks Block 235, Gulf of Mexico
by Edwin I. Linares and Abu K. M. Sarwar
River Morphology as an Indicator of the Baton Rouge Fault, Louisiana
by Merethe Lindanger, Nancye Dawers, and Suzanne Leclair
Facies Changes of the Eutaw Formation (Coniacian-Santonian), Onshore to Offshore, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Area
by Kaiyu Liu
Short-Term Performance of Segmented Breakwaters Along Raccoon Island, Louisiana
by Baozhu Liu and Gregory W. Stone
A Revised Delta Cycle Model for the Holocene Deltaic Deposits of South Louisiana, USA
by John A. Lopez
Revisiting the Importance of Secondary Dissolution Pores in Tertiary Sandstones Along the Texas Gulf Coast
by Robert G. Loucks
Free Gas Exploitation Within the Northern Gulf of Mexico: A Viable Potential?
by Allen Lowrie and Carol Blanton Lutken
Sonar Imaging of Bay Bottom Sediments and Anthropogenic Impacts in Galveston Bay, Texas
by D. S. Maddox, W. W. Sager, and Timothy M. Dellapenna
Hydrogeology and Aquifer Storage and Recovery System Performance
by Robert G. Maliva, Weixing Guo, and Thomas M. Missimer
Petroleum Source Rocks of the Onshore Interior Salt Basins, North Central and Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
by Ernest A. Mancini, Peng Li, Donald A. Goddard, and Ronald K. Zimmerman
Potential Reef-Reservoir Facies: Lower Cretaceous Deep-Water Thrombolites, Onshore Central Gulf Of Mexico
by Ernest A. Mancini, Juan Carlos Llinas, Robert W. Scott, and Ruben Llinas
The Artesa-Mundo Nuevo Platform of the Chiapas-Tabasco Region, South-East Basin, Mexico: An Enigma
by Hugo L. Martinez-Kemp, Miguel Varela-Santamaria, Peter Bartok, and Santosh K. Ghosh
Salt Involvement in the Jujo-Tecominoacan Thrust Belt, Chiapas-Tabasco Region, South East Basin, Mexico
by Hugo L. Martinez-Kemp, J. Fernando Gonzalez-Posadas, and Peter Bartok
Numerical Constraints of Current Rates of Surface Elevation Change Due to Compaction of Holocene Sediments in the Louisiana Delta Plain
by T. A. Meckel, U. S. ten Brink, and S. J. Williams
Numerical Constraints of Current Rates of Surface Elevation Change Due to Compaction of Holocene Sediments in the Louisiana Delta Plain
by T. A. Meckel, U. ten Brink, and S. J. Williams
Morphologic Evolution of a Transgressive Tidal Inlet, Little Pass Timbalier, Louisiana
by Michael D. Miner, Duncan M. FitzGerald, and Mark A. Kulp
Diagenesis of the Anastasia Formation in Eastern Coastal Florida: Beachrock or Bed-Scale Cementation
by Thomas M. Missimer and Robert G. Maliva
Play Concepts in an Emerging Major Hydrocarbon Province in the Ultra-Deep Water Gulf of Mexico
by Michael G. Moore and Bryan C. Delph
Historical Subsidence and Wetland Loss in the Mississippi Delta Plain
by Robert A. Morton, Julie C. Bernier, John A. Barras, and Nicholas F. Ferina
Analysis of Geomorphic History and Restoration Efforts at Raccoon Island
by Rebecca C. Murphey and Shea Penland
Deep Sedimentary Thermal Gradient in the Continental Shelf off Alabama, Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana
by Seiichi Nagihara and Michael A. Smith
Dealing with Non-Precipitation Chloride Contributions in the Chloride-Mass Balance Approach to Recharge Calculations in the Plateau Aquifer System, Texas
by H. S. Nance and John M. Sharp
Upper Jurassic Sequence Stratigraphy, Onshore to Offshore Alabama, Eastern Gulf of Mexico
by Jamal A. Obid
Seismic Stratigraphy of the Jurassic Section in Mobile Area, Offshore Alabama, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico, USA
by Jamal A. Obid
Seismic Amplitudes and Low Gas Saturation: A Case Study from Green Canyon Block 474
by John O'Brien
Numerical Chronology of the Late Quaternary Gulf Coastal Plain; Barrier Evolution and an Updated Holocene Sea-Level Curve
by Ervin G. Otvos
Clay Mineralogy and Formation Water Salinities of Upper Wilcox Sediments, Righthand Creek Field, Allen Parish, Louisiana
by Maria Pacheco and Jeffrey S. Hanor
The Gunnison Discovery—Garden Banks Block 668, Gulf of Mexico
by Jeff Gee-shang Pan and Jim Fulcher
Transgressive-Regressive Cycle Characterization of the Jurassic Ellis Group, Wyoming and Montana: A Model for Predicting Reservoir Facies in Northern Gulf Coast Salt Basins
by William C. Parcell, Andrew L. Haner, Manwika Ploynoi, and Ernest A. Mancini
Oil-Base Micro-Resistivity Borehole Image Log Applications in Deep-Water Exploration
by Mitch D. Pavlovic
Comparative Analysis of the Stratigraphic Framework in Relation to the Geomorphic Evolution of the Caillou Bay Headland, South Central, Louisiana
by Elizabeth M. Petro and Mark A. Kulp
The Impact of Increasing Accommodation on Sediment Deposition and Hydrocarbon Accumulation in the Greater Ship Shoal Area
by Michael J. Quinn
Rebuilding the Louisiana Coast: How Long Can We Wait?
by Denise J. Reed
Genesis 4D Project — Design and Execution Overview
by Bernard Regel, Tom Hudson, John Bretches, Phil Inderwiesen, Pat Condon, James Rickett, and Frank Descant
Gas-Charging of Late Pleistocene Shelf-Edge Delta Reservoirs and Dissociation of Gas Hydrate, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
by Harry H. Roberts, Richard H. Fillon, and Larry Cathles III
Josephine Prospect, Cognac Field, MC195 A "Typical" Shelf Deep Pool Discovery
by Robert Rooney, Tim Bourgeois, Christina Davis, Michiel deGroot, Dave French, Machelle Johnson, John Leftwich, Brian O'Neill, and Keerthi McIntosh
Early Paleogene Isolation of the Gulf of Mexico from the World's Oceans: From Hypothesis to Theory
by Joshua Rosenfeld and Jon Blickwede
Oligo-Miocene Extension at the Louann Level in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Kinematic Models and Examples
by Mark G. Rowan, Kerry F. Inman, and J. Carl Fiduk
Counterregional-Style Deformation in the Deep Shelf of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
by Mark G. Rowan and Kerry F. Inman
Coastal Impacts and Processes During Hurricane Ivan
by Asbury Sallenger, C. Wayne Wright, and Jeff Lillycrop
No Active Fault Problems in Louisiana?
by Ghulam Sarwar and Reid Bohlinger
Lower Tertiary Salt-Sediment Interaction in Walker Ridge, Deep Water Gulf of Mexico
by Adam M. Seitchik and Timothy F. Powell
Geopressure Compartmentalization in Salt Basins: Their Assessment for Hydrocarbon Entrapments in the Gulf of Mexico
by Selim S. Shaker
Evolution of the Cretaceous Artesa Mundo-Nuevo Carbonate Platform, North-Central Chiapas, Southeast Mexico
by Joan M. Spaw, J. Ricardo Alcantara, Hugo Pena Ramirez, and Victor M. De la Cruz Rivera
Regional Geologic Model for Hydrocarbon Exploration of Oligo-Miocene Carbonates, Southeast Mexico
by Joan M. Spaw, Joseph Serra-Kiel, Carles Fernandez, Jose Antonio Berlanga Garcia, and Andrew Horbury
A High-Resolution Seismic Survey to Image the Top of Salt at Avery Island, Louisiana
by Dawn Standridge, Cathy Bishop, Gary Kinsland, Robert Schneider, and Laura Serpa
Challenges in Structure Prediction When Developing Remaining Field Reserves Using 3D Seismic, Gulf of Mexico Shelf, Offshore Louisiana
by Ingo Steinhoff and William A. Hill
Chemical Evidence for Migration of Deep Formation Fluids into Shallow Aquifers in South Louisiana
by Ronald K. Stoessell and Lesley Prochaska
Offshore Hydrodynamics and Geological Impacts of Hurricane Ivan Along the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
by Gregory W. Stone and Baozhu Liu
Diagenesis of Mixed-Layer Clay Minerals in the South Timbalier Area, Gulf of Mexico
by Matthew W. Totten, Mark Dixon, and Mark A. Hanan
The Occurrence and Seismic Expression of Volcanic Ash Beds in the Gulf of Mexico
by M. W. Totten, M. A. Jurik, and M. A. Hanan
"Wheeler Diagrams": A Useful Exploration Tool in the Gulf of Mexico
by Ramon H. Trevino, L. Frank
Brown Jr., Robert G. Loucks, and Ursula Hammes
Meteorological Influences on Fecal Coliform Pollution in the Mississippi Sound
by David F. Ufnar, Jennifer A. Ufnar, T. West White, Jason T. Townsend, Dawn Rebarchik, and R. D. Ellender
Evolution of Depositional Patterns in the Mississippi Sound During the Late Holocene
by Brian M. Velardo and Samuel J. Bentley
Reach Sensitivity Index Classification of Louisiana Coastal Rivers: A Tool for Watershed Restoration
by H. Dallon Weathers, Miles Hayes, and Rebecca Murphey
Jet-Plume Depositional Bodies—The Primary Building Blocks of Wax Lake Delta
by Robert Wellner, Rick Beaubouef, John Van Wagoner, Harry Roberts, and Tao Sun
Geoscience in Coastal Ecosystem Restoration: Understanding Coast-Shelf Framework Geology, Offshore Sand Resources and Sedimentary Processes
by S. Jeffress Williams
Deep Opportunities in the South Louisiana
by Fangjian 'Jack' Xue, Kim Hemsley, David Chi, and Dan Shan
New Techniques Reveal the Exploration Opportunities in the Louisiana Coastal and Shelf Areas
by Fangjian 'Jack' Xue, Kim Hemsley, and Dave Paddock
A Risk-Reduction Recipe Using Frequency-Based Pore Pressure Predictions from Seismic
by Roger A. Young and Robert D. LoPiccolo
An Improved Ocean Observing System for Coastal Louisiana: WAVE-CURRENT-SURGE Information System
by Xiongping Zhang, Gregory W. Stone, and DeWitt Braud
Integrated Geologic Interpretation in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Using Borehole Spectroscopy Logs, Microresistivity Images, Log-Derived High-Resolution Mineral-Based Lithofacies, and Regional Seismic Data
by Eric Zimmermann, Mike Schneider, Mike Gallagher, George Kear, Anish Kumar, Brian Briscoe, and David Williamson