GCAGS 2007 Annual Convention

Corpus Christi, Texas     October 21-23, 2007 

Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies and Gulf Coast Section of SEPM

Corpus Christi Geological Society

 

 

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Abstracts

Characterization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Using Pore-Scale Measurements and NMR: A New Approach to Lowering Risk in Carbonate Field Development

Aaron J. Adams1 and Wayne M. Ahr2

 

Depositional Systems of Uranium in South Texas

William A. Ambrose

 

Findings, Interpretations and Potential of the Shallowest Reservoirs in Burgos Basin, México

Hugo Avalos Torres, Victor Manuel Alvarez Maya, Mariano H. Téllez Aviles, Manuel Morales Leal, and José Bernal Monjaras

 

What they don’t Teach Geologists on Campus

Rebecca Barber

 

South Texas and the Great American Interchange

Jon A. Baskin and Ronny G. Thomas

 

Integrated Seismic and Gravity Data Modeling:  Basement Structure in the Gulf of Mexico

Dale E. Bird1, Barbara J. Radovich2, and Jerry Moon3

 

Characteristic Geometries of Distal Fine-Grained Fans Based on Mississippi Fan, Jackfork, and South Africa Studies

Arnold H. Bouma1, Daniel J. Rozman2, Donald E. Rehmer3, and Samuel K. Huisman4

 

Geological Analysis of the Trinity Group Aquifers in Western Hays County, Texas, with Focus on Implications to Groundwater Availability

Alex S. Broun1, Doug Wierman2, Andrew H. Backus3, and Brian Hunt4

 

Chronostratigraphic ("Wheeler") Chart of the Texas Gulf Coast Tertiary System

L. F. Brown, Jr., and R. G. Loucks

 

Woodbine Formation Sandstone Reservoir Prediction and Variability, Polk and Tyler Counties, Texas

Robert J. Bunge

 

Uranium In Situ Leach (Recovery) Development and Associated Environmental Issues

Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H.1, Henry M. Wise, P.G.2, and Ruffin I. Rackley3

 

Estimate of Vertical Anisotropy of Hydraulic Conductivity for Western Louisiana Aquifers from Grain-Size Data

Douglas A. Carlson

 

Fracture Patterns within Mudstones on the Flanks of a Salt Dome:  Syneresis or Slumping?

Morenike O. Coker1, Janok P. Bhattacharya2, and Kurt J. Marfurt2

 

Stratigraphic and Structural Study of Paleogene Wilcox Strata in East-Central Louisiana:  Implications for Coalbed Natural Gas Exploration

Scott G. Comegys1, Gary L. Kinsland2, and F. Clayton Breland, Jr.3

 

When Dunes Walk Over Dune Walkovers

Rob Conti

 

Southwest Speaks Lower Wilcox Structural Complex, Lavaca County, Texas

Frank G. Cornish1 and Robert W. Parker2

 

Resource Assessment Status Report on Geothermal Energy within Deep Sedimentary Basins in Texas

Richard J. Erdlac, Jr.1, Linda Armour2, Robert Lee3, Susan Snyder2, Mike Sorensen2, Mike Matteucci2, and Jordan Horton2

 

A New Future for Deep Depleted Wells—Geothermal Energy from Sedimentary Basins

Richard J. Erdlac, Jr.

 

Citronelle Dome: A Giant Opportunity for Multi-Zone Carbon Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery in the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin of Alabama

Richard A. Esposito1, Jack C. Pashin2, and Peter M. Walsh3

 

Fairways in the Downdip and Middip Yegua Trend—A Review of 25 Years of Exploration

Thomas E. Ewing

 

Hurricane Impact Analysis of a Louisiana Shallow Coastal Bay Bottom and Its Shallow Subsurface Geology

Angelina M. Freeman1, Harry H. Roberts1, and Patrick D. Banks2

 

Evidence of a Large Paleo-Seismic Event in Southeast Texas – Southwest Louisiana Circa 20,000 Years Ago

Sherwood M. Gagliano1 and Ethan Allen2

 

Gravity-Induced Transfer Faults on the Lower Congo Basin Slope, Offshore Angola (West Africa): Implications for Deep-Marine Hydrocarbon Exploration on Passive Continental Margins

Dengliang Gao and Jeff Milliken

 

The Nueces Incised Valley Revisited: A Reinterpretation of the Sedimentology and Depositional Sequence Stratigraphy of Preserved Pleistocene and Holocene Valley-Fill Sediments

James R. Garrison, Jr., and Bobby McCoy

 

Recovery of Infaunal Crustacean Colonies Following a Period of Rapid Sedimentation and Defaunation: A Neoichnological Examination Following Beach Rejuvenation on the South Side of Packery Channel, North Padre Island, Texas

James R. Garrison, Jr., and Sara Smelley

 

Neoichnology of the Micro-Tidal Gulf Coast of Texas:Implications for Paleoecological and PaleoenvironmentalInterpretations of Ancient Micro-Tidal Clastic Shoreline Systems

James R. Garrison, Jr.1, Bo Henk2, and Rachael Creel3

 

History of the Oil and Gas Industry on the Gulf Coast

Ray Govett

 

A Regional Subsurface Geological Investigation of Lower Wilcox Group Coalbed Natural Gas Potential in Northeastern Louisiana

Christopher A. Guidry1, Gary L. Kinsland2, and F. Clayton Breland3

 

All Fill—No Spill:  Slope-Fan Sand Bodies in Growth-Faulted Subbasins:  Oligocene Frio Formation, South Texas Gulf Coast

Ursula Hammes, Hongliu Zeng, Robert Loucks, and Frank Brown, Jr.

 

The Eco-Rig Concept: Converting Decommissioned Offshore Platforms for Energy Production

Brian J. Harder, Chacko J. John, and Reed J. Bourgeois

 

The Geologic History of Quartz Grains, as Revealed by Color SEM-CL

John N. Hooker and Stephen E. Laubach

 

Geologic Review

John E. Johnston, III

 

Geochemical and Hydrologic Characterization to Identify the Source of Low Level Benzene in the Chicot Aquifer Groundwater

Henry B. Kerfoot1, Warren Brady2, Bill Schramm3, and Mark A. Allendorf4

 

Impact Structures and Craters of the U.S. Gulf Coastal States

David T. King, Jr.1, and Lucille W. Petruny2

 

Geomorphology and Holocene Fluvial Depositional History in the Mississippi River Valley near Lafayette, Louisiana:  Interpretations of LIDAR Data Performed in 3D Virtual Reality

Gary L. Kinsland1, Christoph W. Borst2, Christopher M. Best2, and Vijay Baiyya2

 

Creating the Framework for a New Aquifer: The Yegua-Jackson of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain

Paul R. Knox1, Van C. Kelley2, and H. Scott Hamlin3

 

Integration of Wireline Borehole Image and Seismic Data: Structural and Stratigraphic Study of the N-Sand in the Helis East Black Bay Field Extension

Anish Kumar1, Brian Briscoe2, George R. Kear2, Terry D. Keegan3, Paul N. Lawless3, Jonathan W. Malone2, James P. Stoyanoff3, and Elizabeth Zobell4

 

The Cenomanian Sequence Stratigraphy of Central to West Texas

Brian E. Lock, Fleur S. Bases, and Robert A. Glaser

 

Re-assessment of the Mississippi River "Delta Model" Curve

J. A. Lopez

 

Site-Specific Sequence Stratigraphic Sections (S5 Benchmark Charts); Practical Tool for Correlating Chronostratigraphic Units in the Texas Gulf Coast Tertiary Section

Robert G. Loucks, Ramón H. Treviño, L. Frank Brown, Jr., and Ursula Hammes

 

Groundwater Supplies and Availability in Texas: Results from the 2006 Regional Water Plans and the 2007 State Water Plan

Robert E. Mace and Sarah C. Davidson

 

Gas Potential of Deeply Buried Mesozoic Facies and Reservoirs in the Onshore Interior Salt Basins, North Central and Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Ernest A. Mancini1, Donald A. Goddard2, Peng Li1, and Victor Ramirez1

 

Potential Extent and Thickness of Gas Hydrates in the Deep Water of the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Ettore Marcucci and Joseph Forrest

 

Geostatistical Modeling of Lower Cotton Valley Sands in the Carthage Field, Panola County, Texas, Optimizes Placement of Horizontal Wells

Ronald B. Martin1, Zhong He1, Keith W. Owen1, Li Fan1, W. Keith Atwood1, Ayati Ghosh1, and John Hebert2

 

Papán Field Reservoir Rock in the Veracruz Tertiary Basin: Stacked Channel and Dike Complexes

Martín Martínez Medrano1, Sergio Rivera Cruz2, Noe Loyo Hernández1, and Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez Hernández1

 

Incised-Valley Fill of the Sabine and Calcasieu Fluvial Systems (Texas and Louisiana): A Comparison of Sediment Flux During Sea-Level Rise

K. T. Milliken1, J. B. Anderson1, and A. B. Rodriguez2

 

New Folio by the Louisiana Geological Survey of Maps and Cross Sections of the Chicot Aquifer, Southwest Louisiana

Riley Milner and Chad Fisher

 

Biogeochemistry of Hydrocarbon Seeps on the Campeche Escarpment, Southern Gulf of Mexico

Thomas H. Naehr1, Ian R. MacDonald1, Gerhard Bohrmann2, and Elva Escobar Briones3

 

Thermal Gradients in the Texas Continental Shelf

Seiichi Nagihara1 and Michael A. Smith2

 

Graphic Correlation and Sequence Stratigraphy in the Neogene of Macuspana Basin, Southern Gulf of Mexico

Yanina Narváez-Rodríguez1, Javier Helenes1, Carlos Jaramillo2, José M. Del Moral3, Víctor M. Martínez3, Consuelo Macias3, Olga G. Castillejos3, Jorge E. Lugo3, Olga Granados3, Corazón Olivera3, Maria A. Sánchez4, Patricia Padilla4, Monica Ayala4 and Aaron Del Valle4

 

Modern In Situ Uranium Recovery Technology Assures No Adverse Impact on Adjacent Aquifer Uses

Mark S. Pelizza

 

Tertiary Deep Water Systems in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

Elia Pliego-Vidal1, Roberto Rojas-Rosas2, Arturo Escamilla-Herrera2, José Robles-Nolasco2, José Vicente Ortega-González2, and Hilarión Sánchez-Hernández2

 

Insights into Structure and Stratigraphy of the Northern Gulf of Mexico from 2D Pre-Stack Depth Migration Imaging of Mega-Regional Onshore to Deep Water, Long-Offset Seismic Data

Barbara J. Radovich1, Jerry Moon2, Chris D. Connors3, and Dale Bird4

 

Corpus Christi Bay—Another 3D Success

Robert M. Rice

 

Exploration of the Deep Gulf of Mexico Slope using DSV Alvin:  Site Selection and Geologic Character

Harry H. Roberts1, Chuck R. Fisher2, Jim M. Brooks3, Bernie Bernard3, Robert S. Carney4, Erik Cordes5, William Shedd6, Jesse Hunt, Jr.6, Samantha Joye7, Ian R. MacDonald8, and Cheryl Morrison9

 

Petrophysical Characterization of the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridgian for a High Permeability Well at Dos Bocas Area

Silvestre Carlos Rodríguez Díaz1, Chamaly Revelez Ramirez2, and María del Carmen Hernández Hernández3

 

Characterization of Ground Water Flow to a Bacteria Impaired Surface Water Body Using Heat as a Tracer

Katrina B. Simons, Richard Hay, and Egon Weber

 

A Method for Calculating Pseudo Sonics from E-Logs in a Clastic Geologic Setting

Joe H. Smith

 

Exploration History of the Northern Mustang Island, Gulf of Mexico, Texas State Waters

Jeff A. Spencer and Elliot Barrett

 

The Effect of Provenance on Clay Mineral Diagenesis in Gulf of Mexico Shales

Matthew W. Totten, Sr.1, Joniell Borges2, and Iris M. Totten1

 

The Occurrence and Distribution of Sedimentary Zeolites in the Main Pass Area, Gulf of Mexico Basin

Matthew W. Totten, Sr.1, Sheri Simpson2, Elizabeth Powers3, and Iris M. Totten1

 

Extending Facies Interpretations by Integrating Core, Image-Log, and Wireline-Log Data in the Upper Cretaceous Olmos Formation of South Texas

Ramon H. Trevino1, Robert G. Loucks1, Julia F. W. Gale1, and Abdelmoniem K. Abdelmoniem2

 

Development of Empirical Formation Factors to Estimate Water Quality from Electrical Logs for the Southern Hills Aquifer System of Southeastern Louisiana

Thomas P. Van Biersel

 

Ostracode Biomarkers in the Paleogene of the Gulf of Mexico

Donald S. Van Nieuwenhuise

 

The Isla del Carmen Barrier Island Complex: An Analog of a Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Depositional System, Campeche, Mexico

Miguel Varela-Santamaría1 and Santosh K. Ghosh2

 

Middle Albian Age of the “Regional Dense” Marker Bed of the Edwards Group, Pawnee Field, South-Central Texas

Lowell E. Waite1, Robert W. Scott2, and Charles Kerans3

 

Magnetotelluric Investigation of a Pleistocene Nueces River Valley, Mustang Island, Texas

Egon T. Weber, Richard Hay, and James R. Garrison, Jr.

 

“Gotcha Deep” Project: PVT Quality Fluid Samples Using New MDT Sampling Probes Lead to More Accurate Reservoir Answers in Less Time

Peter Weinheber1, John Johns2, and Paul Babasick1

 

Evaluating the Mobilization of Cations from Aquifer Rocks Exposed to High CO2 Levels

Corinne Wong, Sue Hovorka, and Tip Meckel

 

Fire on the Water: Impacts of Firefighting Activities for the Helotes Mulch Fire on the Edwards Aquifer

Rosemary M. Wyman1 and Kelly Cook2

 

A Groundwater Flow Model of the Texas Central Coast Constructed from a Detailed Site Conceptual Model

Steven C. Young1, Trevor Budge1, Neil Deeds2, Van Kelley2, Paul Knox3, Ernie Baker4, Geoff Saunders5, and John Waugh6

 

Seismic Sedimentological Expression of Higher-Order Lowstand Slope Fans and Prograding Deltas in the Frio Formation, Corpus Christi Bay, Texas

Hongliu Zeng and Robert G. Loucks

 

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