Abstracts
(By Author)
Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
56th Annual Convention, Lafayette, Louisiana, September 25-27, 2006
Hosted by Lafayette Geological Society*
*Special appreciation is expressed to Dr. James J. Willis, who provided the abstracts for posting on Search and Discovery.
Search and Discovery #90056 (2006)
Posted August 15, 2006
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Carlos M. Alonso-Hernández, Alain Muñoz-Caravaca, Misael Díaz-Asencio, Carlo Papucci, and Roberta Delfanti
FutureGen: Clean-Coal and
Near-Zero-Emission Power Generation Technology for the Gulf Coast
William A. Ambrose, Mark H. Holtz, Vanessa Núñez López, Caroline L. Breton, et al.
Developing Interactive 3-D
Presentations and Publications for Multidimensional Geoscience Research
John R. Andrews, Lesli J. Wood, and James C. Gibeaut
Hurricanes — How do they Change under
Increased Greenhouse-Gas Concentration?
Klaus Arpe
Trap and Seal Analysis —
Concepts and Mexican Examples
Marco A. Arreguín-López, Raymundo Sánchez-Rivera, Edmundo Heredia-Cervantes, and Susan Hippler
Source and Evolution of the Fluids
around the S. Liberty Salt Dome, SE Texas Gulf Coast
Tat Banga, Regina Capuano, Adry Bissada, and Don Van Nieuwenhuise
Roger Barnaby
Mary L. Barrett and John P. Goodson, Jr.
R.T. Beaubouef and V. Abreu
Seismic Imaging at Conger:
Lessons Learned in Gulf of Mexico Subsalt Imaging
Thomas C. Bergeon and Brad A. Robison
Juan C. Bermúdez, Juan Araujo-Mendieta, Manuel Cruz-Hernández, Humberto Salazar-Soto, et al.
A 1,000-Year High-Resolution
Hurricane Activity Record for the Boston Area
Mark R. Besonen, Mark B. Abbott, Pierre Francus, and Raymond S. Bradley
R.E. Bischke, J. Brewton, and D.J. Tearpock
Vernon Field — Waking a Sleeping
Giant in North Louisiana
Steve J. Blanke and Sean P. Kelly
Coalbed Methane Production Potential in
the Hartshorne Formation (Oklahoma)
Natasha Jeansonne Bordelon
Christoph W. Borst, Gary L. Kinsland, Vijay B. Baiyya, Adam M. Guichard, et al.
Aafke E. Bouma, Ben M. Hewett, and Bret D. Hampton
Arnold H. Bouma, Anne M. Delery, and Alfonso Benavides-Iglesias
F.C. Breland, Jr., R.J. Portier, P.D. Warwick, and C.A. Metosh-Dickey
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Douglas Carlson
Ahmed Chaouche
Major World Delta Variability and
Wetland Loss
James M. Coleman, Oscar K. Huh, DeWitt H. Braud, Jr., and H.H. Roberts
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Where Does the Mud Go? The Dispersal of
Mud from Rivers and the Stratigraphic Implications
Bob Dalrymple
Hurricanes and Energy Infrastructure
in the Gulf of Mexico: Impacts and Challenges
Kristi A.R. Darby, David
E. Dismukes, and Seth E. Cureington
Chandra A. Dreher, Charlotte A. Brunner, Mark A. Kulp, and Matt Totten
A Brief Summary of Water Supply in the State
of Louisiana
Timothy W. Duex
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Michael J. Economides
Mapping Active Faults in the
Houston Area Using LIDAR
Richard Engelkemeir, Shuhab Khan, and Carl Norman
Testate Rhizopods
(Thecamoebians) as pH Bioindicators in Florida Lakes
Jaime Escobar and Mark Brenner
Laura Evins, Antony J. Marsh, Julio Gomez, Gladys Gonzalez, et al.
Variations in Tropical-Cyclone Activity and
Storm-Surge Devastation since the 1950s in China
Daidu Fan
Nicholas F. Ferina, J.G. Flocks, J.L. Kindinger, M.D. Miner, et al.
James Flocks
Natural Gas Reservoirs in the Tertiary
Basins of Mexico
José G. Galicia
Dengliang Gao
Structure-Oriented Texture Model
Regression for Seismic Structure Visualization and Interpretation
Dengliang Gao
When is a Tsunami not a Tsunami? When is it a
Storm?
James R. Goff
Walter S. Guidroz, Gregory W. Stone, and Dane Dartez
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David
J. Hall, Scott N. Opdyke, and Richard L. Nagy
Lisa Lynch Harrell
Pleistocene and Holocene Fluvial Systems
of the Lower Pearl River, Mississippi and Louisiana, USA
Paul V. Heinrich
Ulises Hernandez-Romano, Juan C. Bermudez-Santana, Alberto Rodriguez-Maya, Hector Ruiz-Ruiz, et al.
Climate and the Rise in
Human Dominance
Renée Hetherington and Andrew J. Weaver
Ezat Heydari and Lawrence R. Baria
Sequence Stratigraphy
of the Smackover Formation in the North-Central U.S. Gulf Coast
Ezat Heydari and Lawrence R. Baria
Benjamin P. Horton, Veronica Rossi, Andrea H. Hawkes, and Matthew R. Wright
Jennifer N. Hoyt and Floyd “Bo” Henk
Chacko J. John, Brian J. Harder, Reed J. Bourgeois, and Raymond Fortuna
Joseph R. Johnson, Jr., Maurice A. Meylan, and David
F. Ufnar
Forecast of Nearshore Wave
Parameters Using MIKE-21 Spectral Wave Model
Felix Jose and Gregory W. Stone
Keri B. Judice, Carl Richter, William H. Schramm, Catherine E. Bishop, and Timothy W. Duex
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Cosmic Impact in the Coastal
Plain of Mississippi? The Kilmichael Structure
David
T. King, Jr. and Lucille W. Petruny
Gary L. Kinsland and John Wildgen
Gary Kinsland, Joshua Kull, F. Clayton Breland, and Scott Comegys
A Stratigraphic Approach to Chicot and
Evangeline Aquifer Boundaries, Central Texas Gulf Coast
Paul R. Knox, Steven C. Young, William E. Galloway, Ernest T. Baker, Jr., and Trevor Budge
Daijiro Kobashi, Felix Jose, and Gregory Stone
James T. Krushin
Joshua Kull and Gary L. Kinsland
From Natural Hazard to Environmental
Catastrophe: Past and Present
Suzanne A.G. Leroy
South Hallettsville Field (Wilcox),
Lavaca County, Texas
Stanley M. Leventhal
Modeling of Thermal Maturity History
of Strata in the North Louisiana Salt Basin Area
Peng Li
Reconstruction of Burial History of
Strata in the North Louisiana Salt Basin Area
Peng Li
Short-Term Performance of Segmented
Breakwaters along Raccoon Island, Louisiana
Baozhu Liu and Gregory W. Stone
Paleotempestology —The Science of
Reconstructing Paleohurricane Catastrophes
Kam-biu Liu
Brian E. Lock and Lauren Peschier
Subsalt Interpretation and Visualization
Techniques: Alaminos Canyon, Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico
Frank R. Love
The Tapered Wedge Theory as
Applicable to the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Benefits and Limitations
Allen Lowrie, Nancye Dawers, and Juan Lorenzo
Comparison of Two Gas-Hydrate Sites
for Sea-Floor Monitoring
Carol Lutken, Tom McGee, Allen Lowrie, Charlotte Brunner, et al.
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Robert G. Maliva, Thomas M. Missimer, and Weixing Guo
Ernest A. Mancini and Robert W. Scott
Upper Jurassic Smackover Thrombolite
Buildups and Associated Nearshore Facies, Southwest Alabama
Ernest A. Mancini, William C. Parcell, and Wayne M. Ahr
Ronald B. Martin, Li Fan, Keith W. Owen, Baljit S. Sehbi, et al.
Upper Miocene-Pliocene
Plays and their Economical Importance in the Tertiary Veracruz Basin, Mexico
Martin Martínez-Medrano, Renato Vazquez-Benitez, Victor M. Valdivieso-Ramos, Marco Antonio Arreguin-López, and Sergio Rivera-Cruz
Christopher Robin Mattheus and Antonio B. Rodriguez
Hydrocarbon Production, Surface Subsidence,
and Land Loss in Louisiana
Byron Miller
Basement Control of Coastal Surface
Morphology in Southwest Louisiana
Riley Milner
Michael D. Miner, Mark A. Kulp,, and Duncan M. FitzGerald
Thomas M. Missimer and Robert G. Maliva
Van S. Mount, Arnold Rodriguez, Ahmed Chaouche, Steven G. Crews, et al.
Prasanta K. Mukhopadhyay, Paul J. Harvey, and Kris Kendell
Underground Nuclear Parks in Shallow Gulf
Coast Salt Domes
Carl W. Myers
Seiichi Nagihara
Use of Ground-Based LIDAR in
Geomorphic and Surface Stratigraphic Studies
Seiichi Nagihara
Deep Sedimentary Thermal
Gradient in the Continental Shelf off Alabama through Louisiana
Seiichi Nagihara and Michael A. Smith
H. S. Nance
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Hydrodynamic Control of Coalbed Methane
Reservoir Performance in the Black Warrior Basin
Jack C. Pashin
Bradford E. Prather, Ciaran J. O'Byrne, and Carlos Pirmez
Bradford E. Prather, Carlos Pirmez, Ciaran J. O'Byrne, Charles Winker, et al.
Michael J. Quinn
M. Ed Ratchford and Lindell C. Bridges
Harry H. Roberts and Richard H. Fillon
Harry H. Roberts, Bob A. Hardage, William W. Shedd, and Jesse Hunt, Jr.
Restoration of Barrier Islands
Overlying Poorly-Consolidated Sediments, South-Central Louisiana
Julie Dean Rosati, Gregory W. Stone, Robert G. Dean, and Nicholas C. Kraus
Daniel A. Ruberg and James J. Willis
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On the Origin of Mini-Basins in the Gulf of
Mexico
Ghulam Sarwar
Miocene Vertebrate Fossils
Recovered from the Pascagoula Formation in Southeastern Louisiana
Judith A. Schiebout,, John H.Wrenn, Suyin Ting, Julie L. Hill,
William H. Schramm and Andre Aucoin
The Coalbed Methane Potential of
Louisiana and Texas
Andrew R. Scott and Donna F. Balin
Adam M. Seitchik
Case Study: SAGD Steam Flood Project Using
Simultaneous Inversion of Pre-Stack Seismic Data
Arcangelo Sena
Selim S. Shaker
Understanding a Seismic Response from a
Petrophysical Perspective
Tad Smith
Sequential Geometric Models of Detachment
Folds: Alaminos Canyon Area, Gulf of Mexico
John H. Spang
Ronald K. Stoessell and James G. Coke
Gregory W. Stone
Integrated Workflows for Pre-Drill Pore
Pressure Prediction
Jack Taylor
Angela M. Thomas and Jeffrey A. Nunn
Diagenesis of Mixed-Layer Clay
Minerals in the South Timbalier Area, Gulf of Mexico
Matthew W. Totten, Mark Dixon, and Mark Hanan
The Occurrence and Seismic
Expression of Volcanic Ash Beds in the Gulf of Mexico
Matthew W. Totten, M.A. Jurik, and Mark Hanan
Wheeler Diagrams: A Useful
Exploration Tool in the Gulf of Mexico
Ramon H. Trevino, L. Frank Brown, Jr., Robert G. Loucks, and Ursula Hammes
Production Trends in the Travis Peak of
Panola and Rusk Counties, Texas, East Texas Basin
James R. Turner
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Exploratory Results
and Upgrades in the Veracruz Basin, Mexico
Víctor M. Valdivieso Ramos and Edgar O. Martínez Treviño
Thomas P. Van Biersel
Thomas P. Van Biersel, John E. Jennings, L. Riley Milner, Tiffani M. Craven, et al.
Joanne Wang and Duane Dopkin
Hurricane Rita Storm Surge Deposits in
Southwest Louisiana: Preliminary Fieldwork Results
Harry F. Williams
Weld Classification — Not Just for Salt and
Faults Anymore
James J. Willis
Brad D. Wolaver, John M. Sharp, Jr., and Juan M. Rodriguez
Volume Interpretation Using Advanced
Seismic Data Analysis Techniques and GeoProbe
Ann Worrel, Terry Pool, Adrian Yates, Gene Johnson, et al.
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Fangjian ‘Jack’ Xue, Kim Hemsley, and Dave Paddock
Deep Opportunities in the
South Louisiana Transition Zones
Fangjian ‘Jack’ Xue, Kim Hemsley, and Dan Shan
Louisiana View: A Foundation for Sharing,
Integrating, and Using Data Easily and Consistently
R. Brent Yantis
A Risk-Reduction Recipe Using
Frequency-Based Pore Pressure Predictions from Seismic Data
Roger A. Young and Robert D. LoPiccolo
Depth Imaging of the Drake
Structure in the Ultra-Deep Shelf Play of the Gulf of Mexico
George Zemlicka, Robert J. Bruce, Peter Gale, John E.G. Savage, et al.
An Improved Ocean Observing System for
Coastal Louisiana: WAVE-CURRENT-SURGE Information System
Xiongping Zhang, Gregory W. Stone, DeWitt Braud, and Yuliang Chen
Eric Zimmermann, Mike Schneider, Mike Gallagher, Anish Kumar, et al.