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AAPG Rocky Mountain Section
July 9-11, 2008, Denver, Colorado

Search and Discovery Article #90092 (2009)
Posted September 25, 2009

*Appreciation is expressed to Mark Sonnenfeld, President, Rocky Mountain Section, Technical Program Chair, for providing these abstracts to post on Search and Discovery.

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      P. E. Devine

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      M. P. Dolan, A. Grau, K. Ferworn, and S. Brown

Maturity Determinations in the Vermillion Basin-Baxter Shale: Fluid Maturity Parameters Help Interpret Charge and Migration,
      M. P. Dolan, D. G. Majewski, K. Ferworn, and S. Brown

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The Use of Epifluorescence Techniques to Determine Potential Oil-Prone Areas in the Mississippian Leadville Limestone, Northern Paradox Basin, Utah,
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Combined Electromagnetic Induction and Magnetic Susceptibility Surveys for the Detection of Near Surface Geochemical Anomalies,
      J. M. Fausnaugh

Detecting Free Water Above Jonah Pay Using Pickett Plots and Core Analysis,
      A. Fisher

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Cased Hole Solutions: Predicting Open Hole Logs Using Artifical Neural Networks,
      J. F. Gegg

Basin Centered Gas Accumulations - Fact or Fiction?,
      S. M. Goolsby and E. Coalson

Use of 3D Seismic to Land Horizontal Wellbores in Thin Beds: Potash Solution Mining Near Moab Utah,
      R. J. Grundy and H. Harvey

Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Architecture of the Lower Cretaceous J Sandstone, Wattenberg Field, Dj Basin, Colorado,
      E. R. Gustason

Shale Gas Potential of Fine-Grained Cretaceous Source Rocks, Raton Basin, South-Central Colorado and Northeastern New Mexico,
      E. R. Gustason and M. H. Tobey

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      R. C. Hartman

Characterization of Syn-Depositional Faulting of a Composite Type B Halokinetic Sequence Along the La Popa Salt Weld, La Popa Basin, Nuevo Leon, Mexico,
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The Stone Cabin 3D Leads the Deep Exploration and Development of the West Tavaputs Plateau,
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