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2009 Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies 59th Annual Convention
A Fusion of Geology & Technology


September 27-29, 2009 Shreveport, Louisiana
Hosted by Shreveport Geological Society *

Search and Discovery Article #90093 (2009)
Posted October 15, 2009

*Special appreciation is expressed to Dr. James J. Willis, Odyssey International LLC, for providing these abstracts for posting on Search and Discovery.

 

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A

Basement Tectonics and Origin of the Sabine Uplift, Richard L. Adams

LaURGE:  Louisiana Undergraduate Recruitment and Geoscience Education, Jeffrey G. Agnew and Jeffrey A. Nunn

Strategies for Optimized Oil Recovery in Fluvial-Dominated Deltaic Reservoirs in the Lower Woodbine Group, East Texas Field, William A. Ambrose, Tucker F. Hentz, Florence Bonnaffé, Robert G. Loucks, and Fred P. Wang

Hydraulic Fracturing Considerations for Natural Gas Wells of the Marcellus Shale, J. Daniel Arthur, Brian Bohm, and Mark Layne

B

Digital Regional Investigation  of the Wilcox Group of Northern Louisiana:  Application to Coalbed Natural Gas Evaluation, Richard W. Ball and Gary L. Kinsland

Shale Plays and Lower Natural Gas Prices: A Time for Critical Thinking, Arthur E. Berman

Linking Earth Science and Social Studies in the Middle and High School Curricula, David B. Bieler

Re-Evaluating Depositional Models for Shelf Shales, Janok P. Bhattacharya and James A. MacEachern

A Seismically Defined Ancient Anoxic Intraslope Basin in Hardin County, Texas—Potential Source and Seismic Pitfall, Steve J. Blanke, Lynn C. Meibos, and Paul S. Kline

Gulf Coast Subsidence, Crustal Loading, Geodesy, and InSAR, Ronald Blom, Bruce Chapman, Roy Dokka, Eric Fielding, Erik Ivins, and Rowena Lohman

Henry Darcy’s The Public Fountains of the City of Dijon, Patricia Bobeck

Preliminary Analytical Results: Haynesville Shale in Northern Panola County, Texas, Chris Bresch and James Carpenter

Wave Equation Prestack Depth Migration for Deep Gulf Coast Prospecting, Morgan Brown, Joe Higginbotham, and Cosmin Macesanu

Petrophysical Evaluation of the Haynesville Shale in Northwest Louisiana and Northeast Texas, Dan Buller and Michael C. Dix

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Influence of Facies, Fractures, and Weathering on the Hydraulic Properties of the Monroe Gas Rock, Douglas Carlson and Thomas Van Biersel

Is Chloride Concentration Increasing in the Sparta Aquifer of North-Central Louisiana?, Douglas Carlson and Thomas Van Biersel

Is Mississippi River Sediment Supply Adequate to Save the Delta Parishes of Southeast Louisiana?, Douglas Carlson and Thomas Van Biersel

Overview of the Wilcox, a Unique Group in Louisiana, Douglas Carlson and Thomas Van Bierse

Dependence of the Wilcox Aquifer Water Chemistry on Stratigraphy, Spatial Distribution, and Proximity to Lignite in Southern Caddo Parish, Louisiana, Douglas Carlson and Thomas Van Biersel

The Wilcox—The Seaward Expression of this Lower Eocene to Paleocene Depositional System, Tom Cheatham

Delineating Stratigraphic Complexity by Integration of 3D Seismic Visualization and Geochemistry, Pressure, Paleontological, and Well Log Data, Jeff Chen, David Petro, George Laguros, Rodrigo Bastidas, and Janell Edman

Haynesville Remains Popular While Other Shales Slow, Robert Clarke

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Comparison of Methods Used to Measure Modern Subsidence in Southeastern Louisiana, Roy K. Dokka

Reservoir Quality and Pore-Type Evolution in Tertiary Wilcox Sandstones of the Northern Texas Gulf of Mexico Coast during Burial from 0.2 to 6.6 km (560 to 21,680 ft), Shirley P. Dutton

Hydrogeologic Explanation for Occurrence of “Updip” Oil Fields and Postulated Coalbed Natural Gas in the Wilcox Group in Central Texas, Gulf of Mexico Basin, USA, Alan R. Dutton and Leigh A. Symank

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Remnants of an Early Mississippi River Delta Complex(es): Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Depositional History, Clint H. Edrington and Harry H. Roberts

The Ups and Downs of the Sabine Uplift and the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin: Jurassic Basement Blocks, Cretaceous Thermal Uplifts, and Cenozoic Flexure, Thomas E. Ewing

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Characteristics of Hydrocarbon Seep-Related Rocks from the Deep Gulf of Mexico, Dong Feng, Harry H. Roberts, Pengfei Di, and Duofu Chen

Haynesville Shale Gas— Why is it Better than the Barnett?, Kevin Ferworn

Characteristics of Hydrocarbon Seep-Related Rocks from the Deep Gulf of Mexico, Dong Feng, Harry H. Roberts, Pengfei Di, and Duofu Chen Haynesville Shale Gas— Why is it Better than the Barnett?, Kevin Ferworn Investigation of Neotectonic Activity within the Shallow, Unconsolidated Holocene Stratigraphy of the Pearl River Delta Area, Louisiana, Dane Fischer, Mark Kulp, Kevin Yeager, and Charlotte Brunner

Status of Wilcox Coal Seam Natural Gas Play in Northeast Louisiana, Deane C. Foss

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De-Risking Subsalt Exploration by Integrated Depth Imaging, Oliver K. Geisler and Markus H. Krieger

Water Budget Assessment of the Southwestern Segment of the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer, Ronald T. Green, F. Paul Bertetti, Ronald L. McGinnis, Richard V. Klar, and Bradford Wilcox

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Sequence Stratigraphy and Core Facies of the Haynesville Mudstone, East Texas, Ursula Hammes

Red River Education and Research Park: A Unique Place-Based Venue for Linking Geology, Other Field-Based Sciences, and Community, Gary M. Hanson and Amanda C. Lewis

Water: A Natural Resource Critical for Development of Unconventional Resource Plays, Gary M. Hanson

An Integrated Geological and Petrophysical Study of a Shale Gas Play: Woodford Shale, Permian Basin, West Texas, Nicholas B. Harris, Nikki T. Hemmesch, Cheryl A. Mnich, Khodir Aoudia, and Jennifer Miskimins

Natural Gas Compositions from Large Tight-Gas-Sand Fields in the Rocky Mountains: A Clue to How these Reservoirs Fill, Nicholas B. Harris, Ting-Wei Ko, R. Paul Philp, Trevor Stroker, and Andrew Govert

The Future of the Global Oil Industry:  Resources, Challenges, and the Geoscience Workforce, G. Warfield Hobbs IV

Stratigraphic Relationships and Nomenclature of the Cotton Valley and Louark Groups, Northwest Louisiana Subsurface, Marty Horn

Alternative Energy-Driven Oilfield Waste Water Reclamation, Nathan R. Hutchings and Eric W. Appleton

Provenance of Paleocene-Eocene Wilcox Group Sediments in Texas: The Evidence from Detrital Zircons, Andrew P. Hutto, Thomas E. Yancey, and Brent V. Miller

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Geochemical and Sediment Diversity of Mobile Bay, Alabama, Wayne C. Isphording, Jane Ashley Cordi, and Ricky A. Schaeffer

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Characteristics of Successful Shale Resource Plays, North America, Daniel M. Jarvie

Field Production and Potential for Deeper Hydrocarbon Resources in the Main Pass Area, Louisiana State Waters, Bobby L. Jones, Chacko J. John, Brian J. Harder, and Reed J. Bourgeois

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Black Creek Field, Grant Parish, Louisiana, Richard Keller

Development of Regional Groundwater Availability Models of the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer in Texas, Van Kelley, Neil Deeds, Dennis Fryar, and Rainer Senger


Channel Bottom Alluvium Sourcing through Sedimentological Characteristics within Mill Creek, Rankin County, Mississippi, Chad Killcreas and Zachary A. Musselman

Cross-Cutting Relationships of Features on the Pleistocene Prairie Complex near Lafayette, Louisiana:  Imaged with LIDAR Data and Interpreted in 3D Virtual Reality, Gary L. Kinsland, Christoph W. Borst, Jan-Phillip Tiesel, Kaushik Das, and Shawn Kushiyama

Southern Gulf Coast Aquifer Characterization: Foundation, P. R. Knox, S. C. Young, and R. A. Kalbouss

Teachable Moments: Earth Science Events for K-12 Education, Jess B. Kozman

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LSUS Red River Watershed Management Institute, Amanda C. Lewis

Using PetrelTM to Improve the Efficiency of Building Static Geological Models, Yamin Li, Ron Martin, Li Fan, Keith Owen, and Andrew Acock

Successful Use of In Situ Chemical Oxidation Technologies for the Destruction of Chlorinated Solvents in Soils and Multiple Aquifers in Southeastern Louisiana, Thomas Liebert, William H. Schramm, Thomas Glibota, and Seth Washington

Tempestite Sedimentation:  An Example from the Del Rio Formation of West Texas, Brian E. Lock, Robert W. Butler, and Roark T. Franklund

Gas Washing Pattern and Economics in an Area of Continental Shelf, Offshore Louisiana, Steven Losh, Daniel Swart, and Andrew Dickinson

Mineralogy and Diagenetic History of the Upper Cretaceous Woodbine Sandstone in the Giant East Texas Field, Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, and William A. Ambrose

Do Deep Salt Layers Argue for Multiple Sigsbee Salt Layer Events along the Northern Gulf of Mexico?, Allen Lowrie and Linda H. Jenkins

Sedimentary Passive Margin Development and Breakage from Seafloor to Lithosphere: A Continuum of Sequence Stratigraphy, Allen Lowrie and Richard H. Bennett

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A Quantitative Paleogeomorphic Study of the Fluvio-Deltaic Reservoirs in the Atoka Interval, Fort Worth Basin, Texas, U.S.A., Vishal T. Maharaj and Lesli J. Wood

Ancestral Basin Architecture:  A Possible Key to the Jurassic Haynesville Trend, Bruce J. Martin and Thomas E. Ewing

Unlocking Value through Collaboration, Relationship Development, and Stakeholder Management, Kevin McCotter

Geological Processes and Sedimentation Rates of Wind-Tidal Flats, Laguna Madre, Texas, Robert A. Morton and Charles W. Holmes

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Assessment of Industry Water-Use in the Barnett Shale Gas Play (Fort Worth Basin), Jean-Philippe Nicot

Industry and Academic Consortium for Computer Based Subsurface Geology and Well Log Analysis, Jeffrey A. Nunn, Alan L. Brown, and Stephen O. Sears

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Integrated 3D Seismic, Core, and Well Log Study of an Upper Pleistocene Submarine Fan Reservoir in the Garden Banks Area, Northern Gulf of Mexico, Sean O’Brien, M. Royhan Gani, and Abu K. M. Sarwar

Lower Pearl River Valley: Pleistocene Coastal Plain and Terrace Development. Alluvial Allostratigraphy in Louisiana, Ervin G. Otvos

Pleistocene Gulf Coastal Plain: Regional Stratigraphic and Geomorphic Contrasts.  Intensive Erosion Related to Sea-Level Decline and Hinterland Uplift,   Ervin G. Otvos

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The Haynesville Play: A New Opportunity to Prove the Strategic Value of Natural Gas in Peak Oil Mitigation, Martin B. Payne

Pleistocene Shelf-Margin Delta: Intradeltaic Deformation and Sediment Bypass, Northern Gulf of Mexico, Grigoriy Perov

Salt Tectonics and the Influence on Sedimentation Patterns, North-Central Green Canyon Area, Gulf of Mexico, David L. Pope

Preliminary Interpretation of the Pressure Architecture in Parts of Northern Louisiana, Southern Arkansas, and Eastern Texas, Jim Puckette

Hydrogeologic Characteristics and Water Levels of the Wilcox Aquifer in Southwestern and Northeastern Arkansas, Aaron L. Pugh and Tony P. Schrader

Jurassic Radiolaria in the Subsurface of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Haynesville Formation, North Louisiana, Ignacio Pujana, Nolan Shaw, Jr., and Patricia F. DuBois

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Shallow Seismic Reflection Profiling of the Bluff Line Lineament in Northwest Mississippi, Jack E. Rader, Daniel C. Rice, and James B. Harris

Origin of Igneous Rock Fragments from South Louisiana Salt Domes, Minghua Ren, Robert Stern, Brian E. Lock, Randy Griffin, Elizabeth Y. Anthony, and Ian Norton

Structure of the Wills Valley Anticline, Alabama, Delores M. Robinson, Marty G. Gates, and Andrew M. Goodliffe

Framework and Evolution of a Transgressed Delta Lobe:  St. Bernard Shoals, Northern Gulf of Mexico, USA, Bryan Rogers, Mark Kulp, and Michael D. Miner

Core-Based Chemostratigraphy of the Barnett Shale, Permian Basin, Texas, Harry Rowe, Steve Ruppel, Sue Rimmer, and Robert Loucks

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Coal Bed Methane Resources in the Wilcox Formation (Paleocene-Eocene) in Louisiana, Warren J. Schulingkamp

Dirty vs. Clean Salt:  Their Impact on the Subsalt Wilcox Deepwater Exploration Plays, Selim Shaker

Workflow for Stratigraphic Characterization of Unconventional Gas Shales, R. M. Slatt, P. Singh, R. P. Philp, K. J. Marfurt, Y. Abousleiman, N. R. O’Brien, and E. V. Eslinger

Grain Size Distributions across the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico:  A Field Exercise in Coastal Geology for Graduate/Undergraduate Oceanography Students, Amy L. Spaziani and Gregory W. Stone

Complex Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of an Inner Shelf Shoal and Nearshore along the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico, USA, Amy L. Spaziani, Gregory W. Stone, and Baozhu Liu

Jack Nolan—East Texas Oilfield Photographer, Jeff A. Spencer

Basement Controls on Subsurface Geologic Patterns and Coastal Geomorphology across the Northern Gulf of Mexico:  Implications for Subsidence Studies and Coastal Restoration, Bryan P. Stephens

 

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Distribution and Source Analysis of Elevated Chloride Concentration in the Wilcox Aquifer of Northwestern Louisiana, Thomas P. Van Biersel and Douglas A. Carlson

Magnetic Susceptibility Survey of Baton Rouge, Louisiana:  Implications for Potential Heavy Metal Soil Contamination, Hannah Vedrines, Carl Richter, and William H. Schramm

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Integrated Analysis of the Upper Jurassic Bossier Deltaic Complex, East Texas: A Revisit of Deposition Seaward of the Delta-Front, J. B. Wagner and K. M. Stevens

Screening Criteria for Shale-Gas Systems, Fred P. Wang and Julia F. W. Gale

Advances in Image Log Visualization and Interpretation, James J. Willis

Structures Associated with Downsag and Basin Development:  Examples from the Gulf of Mexico Province and Other Environments, James J. Willis, Daniel A. Ruberg, and Kristen M. Willis

Calichification-Induced Structures in the Edwards Plateau, Texas, James J. Willis and Kristen M. Willis

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North Monroeville Field, Monroe County, Alabama, Gregory J. Zerrahn and Michael T. Roberts