AAPG Rocky Mountain Section Meeting

Alex Henry, Dillon Osborne, Nicole Coleman, Zach Johnston, Steve Mayo, Lindsey Richardson, Kyle Wise, Tyler Hathaway, Jon Wright, Clay Gookin, Brandon Vickers, Sean Johnson, Allan Fraser, Thom Seymour, Ed Mueller, and Kent Sundell

Exhumed Impact Craters, Sheep Mountain, Douglas, Wyoming, USA, Evidence from Field Sampling, Satellite, and Drone Imagery

Alex Henry, Dillon Osborne, Brandon Brown, John Livingston, Nicole Coleman, Zach Johnston, Lindsey Richardson, Allan Fraser, Beth Wisely, Kent Sundell, Lindsey Richardson, Kyle Wise, Tyler Hathaway, Jon Wright, Clay Gookin, Brandon Vickers, Sean Johnson, Allan Fraser, Thom Seymour, and Ed Mueller

Impact of geology on development of the Niobrara and Codell resource play in Wattenberg Field, CO

Ryan J. Herz-Thyhsen and Edmund R. “Gus” Gustason

Controls on Petroleum Production and Resources for the Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Basin

D.K. Higley

W.A. Cobban, the Cookes Range, N.H. Darton, J.G. Love, and me

Stephen C. Hook

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Geologic characterization of new Cane Creek cores from the northern part of the Paradox Basin, Utah

Elliot A. Jagniecki, Ryan D. Gall, and Michael D. Vanden Berg

Characterize subsurface 3-D geological heterogeneity in targeted CO2 storage reservoirs in the Rock Springs Uplift: Wyoming’s highest-priority saline aquifer for CO2 storage

Jiao Z., F. McLaughlin, Y. Ganshin, H. Wang, and M. Johnson

Connections between Eocene Lakes Uinta and Gosiute preceding and during the infilling stage of Lake Uinta, Piceance Basin

Ronald C. Johnson, Justin E. Birdwell, Michael E. Brownfield, Tracey J. Mercier, and Paula L. Hansley

The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Carlile Shale of eastern South Dakota and adjacent areas with correlations to the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming

Steven D. Jorgensen and Neal L. Larson

From Stone to Paper and Back Again: Creating Stone Geologic Maps

Susan A. Judy

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Geochemistry of Bubbling Springs, Atlantic Rim, South-Central Wyoming

Kelsey S. Kehoe, Karl G. Taboga, and Kara L. Hoppes

History of Oil Refining in Wyoming and Montana

Robert A. King

A look back at the prospect generation of Cedar Hills-East Lookout Butte Fields, Williston Basin (first Economic Resource Play), Codell Resource Play North Denver Basin from Concept to Present

Steve Kirkwood

The Eagle Basin of Northwest Colorado: A Compartmentalized Evaporite Basin and Large Hydrocarbon Frontier

Constance N. Knight, PhD

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Middle Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonites from a gravel pit in Wisconsin

Steven D. Jorgensen and Neal L. Larson

Revisiting the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Petroleum System in the Rocky Mountain Region: Mark W. Longman, and Barbara A. Luneau

Mark W. Longman and Barbara A. Luneau

The Importance of Detrital Dolomite in Upper Devonian Carbonates: Examples from the Dyer Formation (Northwest Colorado) and Bakken/Three Forks Petroleum System (Williston Basin)

M. Longman and D. Anderson

Characterization of a Pleistocene lacustrine spit to serve as a depositional model for large scale lacustrine deposits

Eli Lopez and J. H. McBride

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Alunite in Tyler Formation, Late Carboniferous Deposits of Williston Basin North Dakota

Fazilatun N. Mahmood and Stephan H. Nordeng

Updated U.S. Geological Survey Petroleum Resource Assessment of Continuous and Conventional Reservoirs of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado

Kristen R. Marra

A Hydrothermal Dolomite Model for the Cheyenne Wells / Smoky Creek Fields, Colorado

R. Mark Maslyn

Using Sequence Stratigraphy to Optimize Target Selection in Shale Plays of the Rockies (and Beyond)

Jeffrey A. May, PhD

Using Sequence Stratigraphy to Optimize Target Selection in Tight Sandstone Reservoirs of the Rockies (and Beyond)

Jeffrey A. May, PhD

Data Mining Ammonite Localities to Build Chronostratigraphic Frameworks in the Western Interior Basin

B. McDowell, P. Plink-Bjorklund

Great Scott! A Homebrewed Recipe for Regional Trend-Based Log Normalization: Various Examples from Rocky Mountain Basins

Mark Millard, Andy Hennes, Preston Kerr, Riley Brinkerhoff, Justin Brown

Development of Glenrock Area Fields, Converse County, WY

Mark Milliken

Revisiting the offset-stacked Campanian stratigraphic sequences of S. Wyoming and NE. Utah

Keith Minor, Ronald Steel and Cornel Olariu

The Mesaverde Group of S. Wyoming and N. Utah

Keith Minor, Ronald Steel, and Cornel Olariu

Fracture, Stratigraphic, and Lithologic Analysis of the Niobrara-Equivalent Cody Shale WyomingNorthern Bighorn Basin,

Wesley Moots

Sedimentology, chemofacies, and stratigraphic architecture of the Lower Cretaceous Burro Canyon Formation, Nine-Mile Canyon, Colorado

Hannah M. Morgan, Matthew J. Pranter, and Rex D. Cole

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Sequence Stratigraphy and Geologic Reservoir Characterization of the Niobrara-Equivalent Section the Northern San Juan Basin

Walter Nelson

Sedimentology-Stratigraphy of the Lower Tyler Formation (Upper Mississippian?) – Williston Basin: Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Development for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Development

Timothy O. Nesheim

Examination of downward hydrocarbon charge within the Bakken-Three Forks Petroleum System – Williston Basin, North America

Timothy Nesheim

Atomic Fracking in Wyoming: The Story of Project Wagon Wheel

Ann Chambers Noble

Diagenesis, Porosity and Petroleum Source Beds of Birdbear Formation, McKenzie County, Williston Basin, North America

Francis Nwachukwu

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Oil and Gas Exploration and Development in Wyoming: Where do we go Now?

P. Obermuller

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For Volcanic Ash to be the Key to Organic Rich Rock Formation, the Implications are Dramatic; but are they Probable?

D. Parker

Organically enriched rocks have been causally attributed to transgressive seas largely because of a misunderstanding of the condensed section in sequence stratigraphy

Doug Parker

Can “volcanic tephra fall” replace “sea level transgression” as the driver for organically enriched rock formation at the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary (OAE2)?

Doug Parker

Petroleum System Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the Upper Jurassic Haynesville (Kimmeridgian) and Bossier (Tithonian) Formations, Onshore U.S. Gulf Coast

Stanley T. Paxton, Janet K. Pitman, Scott A. Kinney, Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, Ofori N. Pearson, Katherine J. Whidden, Christopher J. Schenk, Heidi M. Leathers-Miller

Sedimentology and Reservoir Potential of Allochthonous Upper Desert Creek Carbonates, Southern Margin of the Aneth Complex (Middle Pennsylvanian), Paradox Basin, Utah

Chris Perfili, Scott Ritter, Bob Lindsay, and Peter Neilsen

Sequence Stratigraphy of Lower Madison Strata in the Greater Williston Basin Area

David M. Petty

Salt Creek - A Wyoming Giant and a Cast of Characters

Sam L. Pfiester

Observations on the Occurrence and Distribution of Critical Resources in Wyoming, USA

Erin H. Phillips, Zhiwu Liu, J. Fred McLaughlin, Thomas Moore, Davin Bagdonas, and Scott Quillinan

Building a Predictive Model for Stratigraphic Transitions and Lateral Facies Changes in the Cretaceous Almond Formation, Wyoming

John E. Phillips, Samuel M. Hudson, and Brent W. Greenhalgh