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Mapping of the Miocene-Quaternary deformation of Nellis Dunes Recreational Area using GIS, Processed Aster and QuickBird images and field mapping

Shaimaa Abdelhaleem and Wanda J. Taylor

The value of detailed reservoir characterization and stratigraphic interpretation: An example from the San Joaquin Basin, California, U.S.A.

Jonathan P. Allen, David K. Larue, Mark J. Henning, Edwin A. Hernandez and Mark F. Mercer

Incorporating complex geology in basin models: Example from a forearc basin; San Joaquin Valley, California

Lisa A. Alpert and Caroly Lampe

Velocity modeling with complex tectonics; example from the San Joaquin forearc basin, California

Lisa A. Alpert and Josue Rosas

The Henderson Fault and Tectonic Erratics at Lone Mountain and Devils Gate, Eureka County, Nevada

David Arellano, Stanley Finney and Thomas Kelly

EXAMINING THE GEOCHEMICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE TWENTYNINE PALMS AND QUEEN MOUNTAIN PLUTONS IN JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK

Alexander Arita, Vali Memeti and Lizzeth Flores

The Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy: Past, present and future

Bridget Ayling

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Undeveloped petroleum potential of the western-most Santa Barbara Channel, offshore California

Jim Ballard

Chronostratigraphy of the Quaternary Santa Barbara Basin: an integrated geophysical, sedimentologic and paleoceanographic approach

Richard J. Behl, Craig Nicholson, Christopher C. Sorlien, James P. Kennett, Courtney J. Marshall, Sarah Hopkins Decesari and Diane K. Escobedo

Joint inversion of first-arrivals with full waveform inversion: improving the near-surface model for depth imaging the Marcellus shale of Bradford County, PA

Miller L. Bell, Thomas Baltz, Richard Verm and Hui Fan

Exploring Utah's Other Great Lake: What Great Salt Lake Can Tell Us About Ancient Lake Uinta

Michael Vanden Berg, Thomas Chidsey and David Eby

Geochemistry and mineralogy of the Uteland Butte member of the Green River Formation, Uinta Basin

Justin E. Birdwell, Michael Vanden Berg, Ronald C. Johnson and Adam R. Boehike

Aspects of CO2-enhanced oil recovery, from initial field screening to project implementation: Beaver Creek and Big Sand Draw CO2-EOR projects, Wyoming

Brian J. Black, Carlos Periera and Mahmood Ahmadi

The Wolfcamp Horizontal Play of Midland Basin, West Texas

Peter K. Blomquist

Reducing geologic uncertainty in seismic interpretation

James E. Bock

Oil Fields in Railroad Valley Nevada

Louis Bortz

Thickness and extent of clay layers in the Pleistocene Tulare Formation near Elk Hills, California: Implications for water disposal operations and timing of structural growth

Paul Bowles and Janice Gillespie

Hydrocarbon potential of arkosic sands in the Payette Basin, southwest Idaho: a discussion on basin fill, subsurface structure, and syndepositional maturation and migration history

Renee L. Breedlovestrout and M.Ed Ratchford

Monitoring and analysis of surface deformation with InSAR and subsurface data, San Joaquin Valley, California

Graham E. Brew, Mizue Horiuchi, Pieter Bas Leezenberg and Arjan Tabak

Subtle partitioning of a sandstone reservoir: permeability patterns interpreted from fluid-escape geometries in the Early Jurassic Navajo Sandstone

Gerald C. Bryant and Colby Ford

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Alamo Breccia: a key to unravel thrust duplexes in the southern Nevada portion of the western North American Cordillera fold thrust belt

Alan Chamberlain

Great Basin Algorefrauds

Alan Chamberlain

Creating a Master Geologic map of the Great Basin

Alan Chamberlain, Kumar Bhattucharjee and Rick Bailey

Great Basin structure and potential prospects revealed by a structural contour map on top of the Mississippian Joana Limestone

Alan Chamberlain

Newly discovered Chainman shale outcrops in the Spring Mountains west of Las Vegas extends the southern end of the Mississippian Antler foreland basin by about seventy-five miles

Alan Chamberlain

A River Runs Through It

Alan Chamberlain, Kumar Bhattucharjee and Rick Bailey

Mapping and managing Great Basin water resources

Alan Chamberlain, Kumar Bhattucharjee and Rick Bailey

Great Basin oil shales

Alan Chamberlain

Sequence stratigraphy of the Mississippian Antler foreland basin

Alan Chamberlain

Scaling up well log interpretation for groundwater salinity mapping in the age of Big Data

Will Chang, David H. Shimabukuro, Janice Gillespie and Michael J. Stephens

Testing the Mojave-Snow Lake fault hypothesis using Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

Eduardo Chavez, Valbone Memeti, Nancy McMillan and Hayden Thompson

‘Clay mineral assemblage of a mudstone facies, Upper Jurassic Curtis Formation, east-central Utah’

Robert P. Conner and Mario V. Caputo

Structural Evolution of the Oil Well Flats Detachment System, Cañon City Embayment, Colorado

Lauren Cross and Bruce Trudgill

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Spatial and geochemical characterization of anomalous, map-scale carbonate bodies in the Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California

Maia Davis and Richard J. Behl

The Santa Susana fault, Aliso Canyon gas storage field, southern California-possible fault rupture hazard, gas well integrity, and regulatory implications

Thomas L. Davis

Improving the performance of mature waterfloods

Roland P. DeBruyn

An Outcrop to Subsurface Stratigraphic Analysis of the Niobrara Formation, Sand Wash Basin, Colorado

Benjamin A. Dellenbach

Exploration and structural controls of the McGinness Hills geothermal field

Benjamin N. Delwiche

Real Global Price of oil in the unconventional era

William D. DeMis

Exploration and Discovery of the Pine Ridge Uranium Deposits Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA

Mark J. Doelger and Kent A. Sundell

Stratigraphic Units in the Bolson of Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, with Emphasis on Hydrostratgraphic Units

David J. Donovan

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Geology and drilling results from two of the most recently discovered oil and gas fields in Nevada, Noble's Humboldt and Huntington oil and gas fields in Elko County, Nevada.

William J. Ehni

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Methodologies and strategies for harnessing the vast geothermal potential of Nevada and the Great Basin region: A summary of recent studies and advances

James E. Faulds, Nicholas H. Hinz, Mark F. Coolbaugh, Lisa A. Shevenell and Drew L. Siler

Mowry Shale - Outcrop to Production

Andrew Finley

The tectonic-erratic hypothesis presents a new strategy for petroleum exploration in north-central Nevada

Stanley Finney

Using k-feldspar megacrysts as recorders of magma processes in the Twenty-nine palms pluton in Joshua Tree National Park

Lizzeth Flores

Shear zone faulting, volcanism, and basin evolution along a continental margin transform system: San Pedro Basin, offshore Southern California

Robert D. Francis, Mark R. Legg and Chris M. Castillo

Mississippian shales of the Great Basin: source-rock potential, geographic distribution and tectonic evolution

Don E. French, James H. Trexler, Jerome P. Walker and Patricia H. Cashman

History and future of oil exploration in the Great Basin

Don E. French and Robert A. Schalla

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Diamondoids as molecular markers for coupled oil cracking and expulsion evaluation in unconventional petroleum systems

Li Gao, Yongchun Tang, Andrew C. Sneddon, Yun Li and Sheng Wu

‘Interbedded eolian and alluvial strata analyzed by modified latex peels: Holocene Lake Cahuilla, Carrizo Wash, Anza-Borrego Desert, California’

Matthew Geller and Mario V. Caputo

2014 Wyoming stratigraphic nomenclature chart

Lynette George, Don Cardinal, Carl Babb and Gary Winter

Miocene paleogeography and stratigraphic evolution of the Ventura Basin

Gregory Gordon and Stuart Gordon

The UND-CLR binary geothermal power plant

WilliamD. Gosnold, Michael Mann and Hossein Salefar

Redeveloping the Almond Formation in the Vermillion Basin of southwestern Wyoming: structural and stratigraphic complexity in tight-gas development

Brent Greenhalgh

Investigating the Volcanic-Plutonic Connections Using Geochemistry in the Minarets Caldera, Eastern-Central Sierra Nevada Mountain Range

Evelyn P. Gutierrez

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Importance of regional geological and petrophysical analysis of the Bakken/Three Forks formations of the Williston basin, North Dakota and Montana

Daniel Hallau, Catherine M. Murphy, Stefani Brakenhoof, Ryan J. Sharma, Nikki Oliver and Robert M. Cluff

Python and pandas, oh my: a rich ecosystem of open source tools for petrophysical and geological assessment

Daniel Hallau

Opportunities for geoscientists beyond the conventional

David H. Hawk

The Shell Oil ‘Vilche’ deep test and a better understanding of the Pine Creek Fault, northern Sacramento Basin: what a difference one micropaleontolgy report makes!

Scott T. Hector

Wellsite Log Quality Control - What you don't know can hurt you

Donald G. Hill

‘Potash identification plot (PID) for rapid identification of commercial potash deposits’

Donald G. Hill

Milankovitch stratigraphy in the Miocene-Quaternary marine succession of offshore coastal California

Pamela S. Hill and Richard J. Behl

A Geologic Comparison of the Oil Window and Dry Gas Window within the Tow Creek Member of the Niobrara Formation in the Piceance Basin of Northwestern, Colorado

Marcus J. Hinricher and Steve Sonnenberg

A petrophysical model to distinguish water-wet and oil-wet fractions of unconventional reservoir systems using triple-combo log suites

Michael Holmes, Antony Holmes and Dominic I. Holmes

Stratigraphic geochemical variations in the Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale, southwest Piceance Basin, Colorado

William C. Hood and Rex D. Cole

Structure, Evolution and Tectonic Significance of the Eastern Boundary of the Outer Continental Borderland

Greg De Hoogh, Christopher C. Sorlien, Craig Nicholson, Catherine Schindler and Robert D. Francis

Are we there yet? The road towards maturity in the petroliferous Ventura basin, California

Tom Hopps

Some perspective on electrical borehole image logs for the end user

Thomas Howard

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Petroleum generation and migration from the oil shale interval of the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

Ronald C. Johnson, Justin E. Birdwell and Tracey J. Mercier

Evolution of the Lower Tertiary Elko Formation, a potential lacustrine petroleum source rock in northeast Nevada

Ronald C. Johnson and Justin E. Birdwell

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X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of Ubehebe Hills and related basalts, Northern Death Valley, California

Grant G. Kennis, Jeffrey R. Knott and Jade Star Lackey

Using Analogs to Reality-Check Redevelopment Plans

Sean Kimiagar

A look back at the prospect generation of Cedar Hills-Lookout Butte Fields Resource Play Williston Basin, Codell Resource Play North Denver Basin.

Steve Kirkwood

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Niobrara EUR Estimates for the Powder River and DJ Basins

Paul Lawless

Miocene basin configuration and tectonic evolution of the Inner Borderland Rift

Mark R. Legg, Mark J. Kamerling and Alivia R. Stoller

Geobiologic Controls on Carbonate Sedimentation: Tanner and Cortes Banks, California Continental Borderland

Samuel H. Limerick and Scott Thornton

A structural model for brittle detachment faulting in the central Grant Range and the Grant Canyon and Bacon Flat oil fields in Railroad Valley, eastern Nevada

Sean Long and Jerome P. Walker

All fractures are not equal: The effect of fracture type on reservoir permeability

John Lorenz and Scott P. Cooper

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Tectonic setting and resulting characteristics of the Paisley Geothermal System, Paisley, Oregon

Kyle Makovsky and Walter Snyder

Depositional model and reservoir characteristics of the Lower Tulare Formation (Plio-Pleistocene), South Belridge Field, San Joaquin Valley, California

Mark G. Maroun

Finding new oil fields in a mature play: BV Nose discovery, Upper Miocene Stevens play, San Joaquin basin, California: A case study

Keith Meyerholtz and Manual Paz

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Simplified Workflow for Target Optimization in Heterogeneous Reservoirs, an Example from the Middle Bakken, North Dakota

Mark Millard, Murray Dighans, Sam Fluckiger, Chantel Lines, Riley Brinkerhoff and Sarah Edwards

Stratigraphic reservoirs as geothermal targets in the Great Basin of the United States

Joseph Moore, Rick Allis and Christian Hardwick

Petrophysical techniques for asset analysis in the Permian Basin

Rachael E. Moreland

Probing the Reno-Area Basin to 2 km Depth with Ultra-Deep Refraction Microtremor Surveys: A New Development Tool for Basin Plays of the Intermountain West.

Dan Munger, John N. Louie, Satish Pullammanappallil and Aasha Pancha

Structural and Depositional History of the Early Miocene in the Western San Joaquin Basin: Inferences from 3D Seismic

Gary A. Myers and Gregory Gordon

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The Wildcatters, the Regulators and the Prize: Chronicles of the Cat Canyon Oil Field, Santa Barbara County, CA.

Joe Nahama

‘No Money Down’ Revitalization

Susan Nash

Eight Success Elements for New Ventures

Susan Nash

Old Well Rescue: Don't Euthanize, Revitalize!

Susan Nash

Fractured Precambrian reservoir characteristics: St. Johns CO₂ Field, Apache County, AZ

Mary Nelis and Travis Kelsay

Lightning Analysis for Mapping Faults and Identifying Exploration Sweetspots

Roice Nelson

Mixed Siliciclastic-Siliceous Succession, Miocene Monterey Formation, Point Dume to Paradise Cove, Malibu, California

Wanjiru M. Njuguna and Richard J. Behl

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Twenty One Years of CBM Production and Monitoring of the Pine River Subcrop and Gas Seeps. No Depletion.

Paul R. Oldaker

Water Quality Profiles From Well Logs: When They Don't Match Lab Analyses, Consider the Conductive Clays

Deborah M. Olson and William R. Berry

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Successful exploration in a challenging frontier

Alfred Pekarek

The multiple undeveloped petroleum plays in Nevada

Alfred Pekarek

Implications of Tectonic Signatures within and above the Niobrara Formation in Cherry Creek Field, Eastern Denver Basin.

Melanie D. Peterson

Hitting the Jackpot During Oil-Gas Price Collapse: The Consumer

Jeremy B. Platt

Aliso Canyon Gas Storage Leak Disaster and Response

Jeremy B. Platt

Unlocking exploration opportunities in active fore arc basin Southern Java Offshore : C-Prospect

Ryan Damara Pradhana and Yanuaria Satya Dewi

Miocene-Pliocene(?) folds and normal faults associated with the left-lateral Buckhorn Fault, Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada

Thomas Price and Wanda J. Taylor

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Improving tight reservoir definition using seismic object detection within the Woodford Formation

Christopher P. Ross

Stratigraphic framework of the Middle—Upper Triassic Shublik Formation, Arctic Alaska: Insights from regional outcrop, core, and well log analyses

William A. Rouse and Katherine J. Whidden

Origin of petroliferous dolomitic beds in the Uteland Butte Member, Lower Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

Federico Rueda, Hans G. Machel and Michael Vanden Berg

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Revisiting the Great Basin, Part 1: Regional cross section construction and thrust sheet restoration.

Daniel Schelling and David A. Wavrek

Virtually eliminate dry or sub-economic wells in over-pressured and normal-pressured fields: Jonah Field and Anadarko Basin case studies

Rick Schrynemeeckers

Optimizing lateral placement and production while minimizing completion costs: an Eagle Ford case study

Rick Schrynemeeckers

Characterization of Pliocene Pico and Repetto Formation Turbidites at Ventura Avenue Field, Ventura, California

Jon Schwalbach, Jay Holloway and Elizabeth Steel

Impact of local accommodation on the architecture and stacking patterns of three Capistrano Formation slope-channel outcrops: Point Fermin, Dana Point, and San Clemente, California

Daniel E. Schwartz, David R. Pyles, Renaud Bourollec, David C. Jennette and Gregory Gordon

Chemostratigraphy of the Miocene Monterey Formation within the San Joaquin Basin, California

Alex Sedlak and Richard J. Behl

New Wellsite Analytical Protocols for Characterizing Original and Producible Tight Oil and Gas

Andrew C. Sneddon, Sheng Wu, Yongchun Tang, Li Gao, Tao Yang and Jian Hu

The Graneros-Greenhorn Petroleum System, a Possible New Resource Play, Rocky Mountain Region, USA

Steve Sonnenberg

Insights into Niobrara Stratigraphic Architecture and Diagenesis, Wattenberg Field, Denver Basin, Colorado

Steve Sonnenberg

OUR CURRENT WORKING MODEL FOR UNCONVENTIONAL TIGHT PETROLEUM SYSTEMS: OIL AND GAS

Steve Sonnenberg and Larry Meckel

Adding value: A new perspective on aging leases, Tulare formation, Cymric oil field

Heather Stang

Calculation of groundwater salinity using the resistivity-porosity (RP) method on digitized geophysical logs from California oil and gas fields

Michael J. Stephens, David H. Shimabukuro and Janice Gillespie

Carlin-type gold deposit development as an analogue for unconventional hydrocarbon field development

Daniel M. Sturmer

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Distribution of mid-Mesozoic to Cenozoic deformations in East-Central Nevada

Wanda J. Taylor

Historical development of well stimulation and hydraulic fracturing technologies

Stephen M. Testa

Tectonic Evolution of the Palos Verdes Fault - Lasuen Knoll Segment, Offshore Southern California

Michael Thompson and Robert D. Francis

Holocene Organic Rich Slope-centered Mudrock Deposition, Santa Barbara Basin, California Continental Borderland: El Nino Flood-Induced Suspended Sediments, Turbidites, Syntectonic Sedimentation & Mass Flows during Greenhouse Eart

Scott Thornton

Hydrogen Index as a maturity proxy — some pitfalls and how to overcome them

Mark H. Tobey and Catherine E. Campbell

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What we know and wish we knew about oil exploration in Nevada

Jerome P. Walker

Play fairway analysis for structurally-controlled geothermal systems in the Eastern Great Basin extensional regime, Utah, USA

Philip Wannamaker, Kristine L. Pankow, Joseph Moore, Gregory Nash, Virginie Maris and Stuart Simmons

Exploration and development of the Neal Hot Springs geothermal resource, Malheur County, Oregon

Ian Warren

Revisiting the Great Basin: Part 2 — Petroleum System Insights

David A. Wavrek, Maria N. Slack and Daniel Schelling

Compositional and diagenetic relationships and controls of mechanical behavior in siliceous mudstones of the upper Monterey Formation, Belridge Oilfield, San Joaquin Basin, California.

Ryan Weller and Richard J. Behl

Evaluating the potential for Enhanced Geothermal Systems development in the United States

Colin F Williams

Apparent and actual strain variation in the Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, southern Santa Maria Basin, California: Implication for cross-section construction and reservoir characterization

Yannick Wirtz, Richard J. Behl, Thomas L. Davis and Jay Namson

Basalt sills in the 10,054-ft deep Ore-Ida well: western Snake River Plain Cenozoic basin of Idaho and Oregon

Spencer Wood

Geology of the western margin of the Cenozoic Western Snake River Plain basin near Ontario, Oregon

Spencer Wood

Light hydrocarbon analysis illustrates oil type and tight reservoir conditions --- examples from PERMIAN, EAGLE FORD, STACK and MISS LIME

Sheng Wu, Andrew C. Sneddon, Tao Yang, Li Gao, Yongchun Tang and Jian Hu

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A petrographic analysis of the Lower Bakken Shale and Pronghorn Member of the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin

Jingqi Xu, Dipanwita Nandy and Steve Sonnenberg

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Evaluation of Cretaceous petroleum systems using produced oils and gases, Powder River Basin, USA

John E. Zumberge, John B. Curtis and Stephen W. Brown