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Removal of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids from Petroleum Wastewater Using Sorption Techniques,
      Oludamilola Olusesan Alalade

Delineation of Surficial Karst Manifestations using Photogrammetry (Lidar) in Ordovician Carbonates of Colorado Bend State Park, Central Texas,
      Kyle Altimore and Kevin W. Stafford

Depositional Systems, Facies Variability, and Reservoir Quality in Shallow-Marine Reservoirs in the Eocene Upper Wilcox Group in Fandango Field, Zapata County, Texas,
      William A. Ambrose, Shirley P. Dutton, and Robert G. Loucks

Topographic and Bathymetric Lidar Applications in Coastal Research at the Bureau of Economic Geology,
      John R. Andrews, Jeffrey G. Paine, Caudle L. Tiffany, and Kutalmis Saylam

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Lightning Sparks Interest in the Unconventional Mapping of Active Subsurface Faults,
      Louis Berent and Roice Nelson

Latest Pleistocene 'Blue Unit' of the Mississippi Fan System, Gulf of Mexico,
      Thomas W. Bjerstedt, Kody Kramer, and William W. Shedd

Predicting Sedimentary System Response to Human Activities: The Once and Future Mississippi Delta,
      Mike Blum

The Effect of Sample Volume on Micro-Rebound Hammer UCS Measurements in Gulf Coast Cretaceous Carbonate Cores,
      Donnie Brooks, Xavier Janson, and Chris Zahm

What is the Limiting Factor for Hydrocarbon Prospects of the Port Isabel Passive Margin Foldbelt, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico?,
      Muhammad Nawaz Bugti and Paul Mann

Utilizing Satellite Imagery to Analyze the Relationship between Surface Temperature and Recent Land Use/Cover Change in San Antonio, Texas,
      Jacob Byerly, Brent C. Hedquist, and Haibin Su

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CO₂ Sequestration Capacity Sectors in Miocene Strata of the Offshore Texas State Waters,
      David L. Carr, Kerstan J. Wallace, Changbing Yang, and Andrew J. Nicholson

Using Seismic Inversion and Net Pay to Calibrate Eagle Ford Shale Producible Resources,
      Bo Chen, Dhananjay Kumar, Anthony Uerling, Sheryl Land, Omar Aguirre, Tao Jiang, and Setiawardono Sugianto

A Preliminary Groundwater Conceptual Model for the South Texas Sand Sheet,
      Chu-Lin Cheng

D

Geologic Input in the Workover Process Provides Valuable Analysis to Define 'Sanded Up',
      Margaret Dalthorp and Kevin Beidelman

A Rancholabrean Community of Giant Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus hexagontus) within Willacy County, Texas,
      Randolph G. De La Garza and Juan L. Gonzalez

Effects of Naturally Occurring Radium Activity and Activity Ratio Heterogeneity on Derived Water Mass Ages and SGD: Lessons Learned from Nueces Bay, Texas,
      Audrey Douglas, Dorina Murgulet, and Nicholas Spalt

Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Quality in Deep Upper Wilcox Sandstones of the Rio Grande Delta System, South Texas,
      Shirley P. Dutton, William A. Ambrose, and Robert G. Loucks

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Delineation of Karst Geohazards along Highway 652 through the Use of Ground Penetrating Radar, Culberson County, Texas,
      Aaron A. Eaves and Kevin W. Stafford

Structural Controls on Fluid Migration in Cretaceous Strata, Central Texas,
      Ingrid Eckhoff

Using pXRF to Assess Heterogeneous Sample Preparation Methods: Applications to Coarse-Grained Felsic Rocks,
      Monica M. Estrada, Scott S. Fenner, and Mark T. Ford

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The Hydromorphic Evolution of the Owl Mountain and Nolan Creek Provinces within the Fort Hood Military Installation, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas,
      Melinda S. Faulkner, Kevin W. Stafford, and Matthew W. McBroom

Extensional Salt Keels Detached on Eocene-Oligocene Sediments in the Deepwater Northern Gulf of Mexico: Insights into CanopyAdvancement, Salt-Sediment Interplay, and Evidence for Unrecognized Mass Sediment Displacement,
      J. Carl Fiduk, Vivian Robertson, Marianne Clippard, George A. Jamieson, and Sarah Power

Expanding Horizons: A Writing Intensive Undergraduate Field Camp to Prepare Students for the Future,
      Mark T. Ford and Thomas L. McGehee

Geochemical Evidence of Secondary Microbial Methane in Atlantis Field, Gulf of Mexico,
      Luke Francis and Leon Dzou

Depositional Controls on Sediment Body Architecture in the Eagle Ford/Boquillas System: Insights from Outcrops in West Texas, USA,
      Greg Frebourg, Stephen Ruppe, Robert Loucks, and Josh Lambert

Lithofacies, Diagenesis, and Pore Network of the PennsylvanianCaddo Limestone in Stephens County, Texas,
      Qilong Fu, William Ambrose, and Jim Barton

G

Close Proximity High Resolution Chemostratigraphic Profile of the Upper Cretaceous Formations of Central Texas, USA,
      Kyle Gabb and Harry Rowe

Stratigraphic and Structural Characteristics of a Megaflap Flanking the Witcheline Diapir, Willouran Ranges, Australia,
      C. Evelyn Gannaway, Katherine A. Giles, Mark G. Rowan, Thomas E. Hearon IV, and J. Carl Fiduk

Measurement of Rare Earth Element Concentrations in Produced Water from the Eagle Ford Shale,
      Nima Ghahremani, Yaneth Gamboa, Lucy Camacho, and Lee Clapp

Assessment of Brackish Groundwater Desalination Concentrate as Potential Source Water for Hydraulic Fracturing Operations in the Eagle Ford Shale,
      Nima Ghahremani and Lee Clapp

Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology...The Deep and Real History,
      Robbie Rice Gries

A Summary of New Observations of the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle Structure beneath the Gulf Coastal Plain from Passive and Active Source Seismic Data,
      Harold Gurolla, Jay Pulliam, Randy Keller, and Kevin Mickus

H

Legal Aspects of Coastal Change: Geology is about 'What's a Fact?' while Law is about 'Which Facts Matter?',
      Kelly Haggar

Bridging Students' Knowledge Gaps through Research: A Case Using Synthetic Hydrogeologic Models,
      Billy Hales, Ruben Cano, and Thomas L. McGehee

Regional Assessment of the Eagle Ford Group of South Texas, USA: Insights from Lithology, Pore Volume, Water Saturation, Organic Richness, and Productivity Correlations,
      Ursula Hammes, Raymond Eastwood, Guin McDaid, Emilian Vankov, Jeffrey Yarus, and Amin Gherabati

Problem Solving with Microfossils: A Brief Review of the Role of Thin-Section Studies in Micropaleontology,
      Malcolm B. Hart

Assessment of Downhole Membrane-Diffused Hydrogen for Stimulating Uranium Reduction and Immobilization,
      Lewis Haynes and Lee Clapp

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Seasonal Monitoring of Water Quality and Wastewater Effluent Discharges along the Lower Rio Grande, Texas,
      Rohan Jayasuriya, Lucy Camacho, and Lee Clapp

Low Environmental Risk and Technology Options to Enable Commercial Development of Natural Gas Hydrate,
      Arthur Johnson and Michael Max

K

Geotechnical Properties of the Rodessa Formation in East Texas: A Compressive and Tensile Strength Analysis using Artificial Neural Network Methodology,
      Pawan Kakarla and Wesley A. Brown

Examining Depositional Controls onDeepwater Wilcox Reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico Basin,
      Jeff Kao and John Wagner

Subsidence-Groundwater Interaction in the Houston Metropolitan Area (2005–2014),
      Timothy Kearns, Guoquan Wang, Yan Bao, Jiajun Jiang, and Dongje Lee

Understanding the Origin of Deformed Stratigraphic Blocks inside the Neoproterozoic Patawarta Diapir, Flinders Ranges, South Australia,
      Rachelle Kernen, Katherine Giles, C. Gannaway, Mark Rowan, and Joseph Fiduk

Using Analogs to Reality Check Enhanced Oil Recovery Plans,
      Sean Kimiagar

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Improved Mapping of the Subsalt, Continent-Ocean Boundary in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Implications for the Structural Relief for Overlying Folds of the Passive Margin Fold-Thrust Belt,
      David Lankford-Bravo and Paul Mann

Documentation of Isolated Lenses of High-Velocity, Eocene to Miocene Limestone within Clastic Rocks above and below Allochthonous Salt Bodies, North-Central Gulf of Mexico,
      David Lankford-Bravo, Muhammad Nawaz Bugti, Sharon L. Cornelius, and Paul Mann

Seismic Support for Finding and Developing Fractured Oil and Gas Reservoirs: The Russian Experience with 'Side-View' and Microseismic in Imaging Fracture Intensity and Hydrocarbon Saturation,
      Samuel LeRoy, Oleg Kouznetsov, Yury Lyasch, Igor Chirkin, Evgeny Rizanov, and Achmed Radwan

Ground Motions along the Long-Point Fault Derived from Continuous GPS Observations (2013–2015),
      Yi-An Lin and Guoquan Wang

Kinematics of Jurassic Rifting and Oceanic Spreading between the Continental Blocks of Western Florida and the Yucatan Peninsula,
      Pin Lin and Paul Mann

Thermal Gradient Trends in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Play Area: Preliminary Results from Studies to Support Oil and Natural GasResource Assessments,
      Celeste D. Lohr, Paul C. Hackley, Brett J. Valentine, and Catherine B. Enomoto

Origin and Characterization of the Lithofacies and Dual Micropore/Macropore Network in Pennsylvanian (Early Desmoinesian) Caddo Shelf-Buildup Complexes, Stephens County, North-Central Texas,
      Robert G. Loucks and Qilong Fu

Natural Microfractures in Unconventional Shale-Oil and Shale-Gas Systems: Real, Hypothetical, or Wrongly Defined?,
      Robert G. Loucks and Robert M. Reed

Regional Bathymetric Maps of the Iranian Makran Margin, a Subduction Zone, and the Northern Gulf of Mexico, a Passive Margin, are Similar from Differing Origins,
      Allen Lowrie

Contemporaneous and Mesozoic Low Gradient Shelf Deposition across Wide Continental Shelves,
      Allen Lowrie

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Characterization and Delineation of Karst Geohazards along RM652 Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Culberson County, Texas,
      Adam Majzoub and Kevin W. Stafford

Tweaking Pangea's Breakup: Triassic to Present Plate Tectonic Reconstructions Integrating Recent Geologic, Geophysical, and Hydrocarbon Data from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Conjugate Margins,
      Paul Mann and Andrew Steier

Quantifying Material Removed as a Result of the 2002 Flood at Canyon Lake: A GIS Analysis,
      Lisa A. McLaughlin, Jonathan Sulaica, and Michael Parker

Characterization of Porosity Systems Based on Diagenetic Modelsand its Effect on Petrophysical Analysis in Permian Carbonates,
      Lisa A. McLaughlin and Juan Carlos Laya

Analysis, Prediction, and Impacts of Shoreline Change Rates along the Eastern Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas,
      Preston W. McLaughlin

Controls of the Geometry and Evolution of Salt Diapirs in Experimental Models and Natural Examples,
      Shankar Mitra and Pierre Karam

1919 The Storm,
      Jim Moloney

Relationships between Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and South Texas Precipitation and Streamflow Variability,
      Dorina Murgulet, Valeriu Murgulet, Richard Hay, and Alberto Mestas-Nuñez

Impact of Freshwater Environmental Flow Releases on River-Groundwater Exchange and Water Quality in a Semiarid Area: Nueces River, Texas,
      Valeriu Murgulet, Dorina Murgulet, Audrey Douglas, and Nicholas Spalt

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Mesozoic Stretching Amounts of the Continental Margins of the Gulf of Mexico Basin Derived from 3D Gravity Inversion and Depth to Basement Mapping,
      Luan Nguyen and Paul Mann

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Gravitational Study of the Hastings Salt Dome and Associated Faults in Brazoria and Galveston Counties, Texas,
      Francis C. Okocha and Wesley A. Brown

Microcosm Study to Evaluate Alternative Reduced Sulfur Compounds for Stimulating In-Situ Microbial Reduction and Immobilization of Uranium,
      Nebechi Osia, Dorina Murgulet, and Lee Clapp

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Lithological and Morphological Framework of Pleistocene Barrier Islands and Underlying Strata from Surface and Borehole Geophysics and Airborne Lidar in the Matagorda Embayment,
      Jeffrey Paine and Eddie Collins

Sediment Composition in Texas Bays Related to Inflow Gradients,
      Melissa Pena, Symphony Ovalles, and Paul Montagna

Zircon U–Pb Geochronology and Sources of Volcanic Ash Beds in the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Shale, South Texas,
      John D. Pierce, Stephen C. Ruppel, Harry Rowe, and Daniel F. Stockli

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The Holocene History and Facies Architecture of the Nueces Bayhead Delta of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico,
      Johnathan Rice and Alexander Simms

Geologists, the Public, and Public Policy: What are our Ethical Responsibilities?,
      W. C. 'Rusty' Riese

Late Cretaceous and Tertiary Burial History, Central Texas,
      Peter R. Rose

Chemofacies and Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis of the Cenomanian-Turonian Eagle Ford Formation: Sedimentation and Water Mass Evolution in the Maverick Basin, Southwestern Texas,
      Harry Rowe and Stephen Ruppel

Case Study: The Use of Seismic Attributes to Detect Channels and Enhance Stratigraphic Trap Interpretation,
      Vladimir Rybakov, Irina Mardanova, and Yingwei Yu

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U.S. Exploration Success (Lower 48 Onshore Focus),
      Charles Sheppard

Mechanically-Partitioned Deformation Related to Reactivated Oblique Slip Faults, Pecos River Canyon,
      Gordon Smith, Chris Zahm, and Charles Kerans

Biostratigraphy for Understanding Stratal Surfaces and Facies Variability in the Eagle Ford Group of South and West Texas,
      T. Scott Staerker, Jim Pospichal, Bronwyn Moore, Matthew Wehner, Matthew J. Corbett, Christopher M. Lowery, Michael C. Pope, and Arthur D. Donovan

Seismic Interpretation and Analysis of the Etouffee Reservoir Sand and the Surrounding Area in Terrebonne Parish, Southeastern Louisiana,
      Kenneth L. Stover and Wesley A. Brown

Developing Pathways to Geospatial Intelligence for South Texas Students: First Year Results,
      Haibin Su and Brent Hedquist

Facies Distribution and Paleogeographic Evolution of Pleistocene Carbonates in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles,
      Jonathan Sulaica, Juan Carlos Laya, Michael C. Pope, and Niall Slowey

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Spatial Variability of Relative Sea Level Rise in the Texas Coastal Bend,
      Philippe Tissot and Anthony Reisinger

Modification of Pore Geometry and Petrophysical Characteristics of the Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation Thrombolite Reservoirsafter Dolomitization,
      Sandra Nélis Tonietto and Michael C. Pope

Optimization of pXRF Sampling Methods in Analyzing Hydrocarbon-Rich Zones in the Eagle Ford Shale,
      J. Jonathan Tuck, Burabari Kponi, Thomas L. McGehee, and Mark T. Ford

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Facies and Stratigraphic Interpretation of the Eaglebine Play in Central Texas,
      Sridharan Vallabhaneni, Thomas D. Olszewski, Michael C. Pope, and Zoya Heidari

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Simple and Efficient Representation of Faults and Fault Transmissibility in a Reservoir Simulator – Case Study from the Mad Dog Field, Gulf of Mexico,
      Christopher Walker and Glen Anderson

Maximizing Recoverable Reserves in Tight Reservoirs Using Geostatistical Inversion from 3D Seismic Data: A Powder River Basin Case Study,
      Hai Hong Wang, Howard Titchmarsh, Kevin Chesser, Jeff Zawila, Samuel Fluckiger, Gary Hughes, Edwin Kerr, Andrew Hennes, and Michael Hofmann

Structural, Stratigraphic, and Geomorphologic Reconstruction of an Early Stage Pliocene Raft in Viosca Knoll– Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico, Using 3D Seismic Data,
      Matthew R. Worrell and Wesley A. Brown

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A New Method of Evaluating Tight Gas Sands Pore Structure from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Logs,
      Liang Xiao and Xiu-Hong Xie

Y

Overview of Proposed Geophysics/Petrophysics Programs at Texas A&M University–Kingsville,
      Subbarao Yelisetti, Thomas L. McGehee, and Lionel Hewett

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Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to Create Digital Outcrop Models: An Example from the Cretaceous Cow Creek Formation, Central Texas,
      Chris Zahm, Josh Lambert, and Charlie Kerans

Sediment Dispersal Patterns of the Outer Shelf to Upper Slope Paleocene-Eocene Wilcox Group, South-Central Texas Coast,
      Hongliu Zeng, William A. Ambrose, and Wenlong Xu

Surface to Subsurface Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Buda Formation in West Texas,
      Xiaodong Zhang and Michael C. Pope

The Exploration Evolution of Marmalard Field:A Result of Improved Seismic Algorithms and Methods,
      Ed Zinni

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