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AAPG Rocky Mountain Section
Vintage Geology – Perfectly Aged
September 9-12, 2012, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA
Hosted by Grand Junction Geological Society
Appreciation is expressed to Bruce Lemmon,
GemWorld Events, for providing the abstracts.
Search and Discovery Article #90156 (2012)

Posted August 24, 2012

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Using Biomarkers to Distinguish Between Oil From Al Kotlah Graben and the Surrounding Platforms, Sirt Basin, Libya,
      Alsharef Albaghdady and Paul Philp

Underground injection and moderately saline groundwater in the Uinta Basin, Utah,
      Paul Anderson, Michael Vanden Berg, Stephanie Carney, Craig Morgan, and Sonja Heuscher

Petroleum Geology of the West Puerto Chiquito Field Area, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, San Juan Basin, U.S.A.,
      Thomas Arthur and Steve Sonnenberg

Mapping Rocky Mountain fractures: Interplay of Laramide thrust and transpressional zones,
      Karen Aydinian, Laura Kennedy, Eric Erselv, and Scott Larson

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The Geologic Map of the Grand Valley, Mesa County, Colorado,
      Ryan Baker and Verner Johnson

Insights into the Bakken: Overpressure, Sweet Spots, and Trap,
      Charles Bartberger, Eryn Bergin, and Katie Kocman

Breaking Down Barriers in Mudstone Investigations: What Oil Shale Can Tell Us about Shale-Hosted Hydrocarbons,
      Jeremy Boak and J. Frederick Sarg

Stratigraphic Variations and Relationships of the Mineralogy of the Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Western Colorado,
      Jeremy Boak, Sheven Poole, Kati Tanavsuu-Milkeviciene, Jufang Feng, and J. Frederick Sarg

A tale of twopoint bars: inclined heterolithic strata and reservoir compartmentalization, Piceance Basin, Colorado,
      Patrick Boulas, Kimberly Hlava, Matthew Pranter, and Rex Cole

Structural Analysis of the Piceance Basin, Northwestern Colorado,
      Renaud Bouroullec and Paul Weimer

Nuclear Logs Identify Gas-Bearing Sands,
      Jack Bowler

Subsurface Core and Analogous Outcrop Characterization of the Muddy/Newcastle Formation for the Bell Creek Oil Field, Powder River County, Montana,
      Jason Braunberger, Terry Bailey, Jordan Bremer, Charles Gorecki, and Benjamin Huffman

Prestack Depth Migration for 'Easy' Onshore Plays?,
      Morgan Brown

Paleobasin Mapping using Lunette Morphology,
      Maria Brunhart-Lupo

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Grand Junction and the Manhattan Project,
      William Chenoweth

Characterization of Thickness Anomalies within the Three Forks Formation, Lower Bakken Shale, and Middle Bakken Siltstone Members, North Central North Dakota, US and Southwestern Manitoba, CA,
      Dylan Cobb and Stephen Sonnenberg

Lithofacies, Depositional Systems,and Reservoir Elements in the Burro Canyon-Dakota Interval, Southwest Piceance Basin, Colorado,
      Rex Cole and George Moore

Mesaverde Tight Gas Sandstone Sourcing from Underlying Mancos-Niobrara Shales,
      Stephen Cumella and Jay Scheevel

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Timing and Mechanisms of Fracturing within the Irish Canyon-Vermillion Creek Area, Moffat County, Colorado,
      John Detring, Scott Larson, and Eric Eslev

A sequence stratigraphic framework for the Niobrara Formation in the Denver-Julesburg Basin,
      William Drake and Sarah Hawkins

Favorable Stratigraphic Conditions for Carbon Sequestration Exist in the Rocky Mountain Basins,
      Ronald Drake II and Sean Brennan

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Niobrara Tight Oil Success in Colorado: What do the Numbers Indicate?,
      Chris Eisinger and James Milne

Expression of low- to intermediate-frequency cyclicity in siliciclastic intervals of the Paradox Formation, Paradox Basin, Utah,
      Jennifer Eoff, Katherine Whidden, Russell Dubiel, Sarah Hawkins, Kristen Marra, Ofori Pearson, and Janet Pitman

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Aquavortex: A Model for the Formation of Certain Pipe Structures Near the Permo Triassic Boundary in Southern Utah,
      Joe Fandrich

Forward Seismic Models of Ferron and Sego Sandstones,
      Michael Farrell and Maija Brown

Subsurface stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous middle Williams Fork Formation, Piceance Basin, northwest Colorado: implications for reservoir sandstones,
      Renee Foster, Paul Weimer, Jonathan Cantwell, Renaud Bouroullec, and Edward (Gus) Gustason

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Hydrocarbon migration and iron-oxide concretion formation in the Permian White Rim Sandstone: Implications for reservoir characterization of carbon capture and sequestration,
      Marko Gorenc, Marjorie Chan, and Brian McPherson

Aspects Ore Genesis at the Lost Creek Uranium Deposit, Sweetwater County, Wyoming,
      Robert Gregory, Susan Swapp, B. Ronald Frost, Jonathan McLaughlin, and Carol Frost

Eolian and Dryland Reservoir Characterization, Process Sedimentology and Stratigraphic Architecture of the Permian Weber Sandstone, Rangely Field, Colorado,
      Ryan Grimm

Integrated characterization and modeling of reservoir lithofacies and reserves of the Sussex Sandstone, House Creek North area, Powder River Basin, Wyoming,
      Edmund (Gus) Gustason and Matthew Pranter

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Trace Fossils in the Green Zone: Ichnology, Mineralogy and Paleoclimatology in Two Mesozoic Seaways, Utah and Wyoming,
      Sherie Harding and A. Ekdale

Fluvial Architecture of the Lower Williams Fork Formation (Middle Mesaverde Group), Douglas Creek Arch, Colorado,
      Ericka Harper, Rex Cole, and Matthew Pranter

Analysis and Correlation of Growth Strata of the Lower Dawson Formation: Insight into the Tectono-stratigraphic Evolution of the Colorado Front Range,
      Korey Harvey and Jennifer Aschoff

U.S. Geological Survey research core of the Niobrara Member of the Mancos Shale, Delta, Colorado,
      Sarah Hawkins, Mark Kirschbaum, and Christopher Schenk

Fracture Interpretation from Image Logs: Skinner Ridge, Piceance, CO,
      Vincent Heesakkers, Meghan Playton, and Li-Fan Yue

Petroleum system model of the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Saskatchewan and Alberta,
      Debra Higley-Feldman

Sequence-stratigraphic controls on reservoir-scale architecture of the middle Mesaverde Group, Douglas Creek Arch, Colorado,
      Kimberly Hlava, Matthew Pranter, and Rex Cole

Modeling of hydrofacture Stimulated gas wells near the Rulison Nuclear Test,
      Rex Hodges, Art Keinrath, and Rick Hutton

Defining the 'Extra Bakken': Sequence stratigraphy of the Sanish play in the Williston Basin,
      John Hohman

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Source Rock Potential of the Bakken Shales in the Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana,
      Hui Jin and Stephen Sonnenberg

Nahcolite and halite deposition through time during the saline phase of Eocene Lake Uinta, Piceance Basin, western Colorado,
      Ronald Johnson

Pronghorn Member, Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, USA: lithology, stratigraphy, and reservoir quality,
      Rebecca Johnson

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Characterization of Fluvial Sandstones Based on Outcrop Gamma-ray Data and Borehole Images, Williams Fork Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado,
      Gabriela Keeton, Matthew Pranter, Edmund (Gus) Gustason, and Rex Cole

Mapping Rocky Mountain Fractures: GIS Methods for Resource Plays,
      Laura Kennedy, Eric Erslev, and Karen Aydinian

Applying Chemostratigraphy to the Williams Fork Formation, Piceance Basin: an integrated stratigraphic approach,
      Jennifer Kharrazi, Milly Wright, and Jonathan Cantwell

Following the footsteps of Dr. Robert Young - across the Mancos desert and back again,
      Mark Kirschbaum

Revision of Ancestral Rocky Mountain Paleogeography,
      Charles Kluth

Relationship of Faults, Fractures, and Critical Stress to Mesaverde Reservoir Performance, North La Barge Field, Sublette County, Wyoming,
      Constance Knight and Jennifer Miskimins

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Mapping subsurface flow paths: Connecting reservoir data with passive and reflection seismic imaging,
      Alfred Lacazette

Subsurface stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous upper Williams Fork Formation, Piceance Basin, northwest Colorado,
      Mike Leibovitz, Paul Weimer, Stephen Cumella, Renaud Bouroullec, and Edmund (Gus) Gustason

The Chuar Petroleum System Revisited,
      Paul Lillis

Integrated seismic and geologic analysis of high density fracture zones within the Niobrara Formation in Moffat County, NW Colorado,
      Vivian Lin, J. Frederick Sarg, and Stephen Sonnenberg

The Laramide-Age Structural Pattern of the northern Uncompahgre Plateau, western Colorado,
      Richard Livaccari

The Multiwell Experiment in the Piceance Basin, Colorado: Reprise from 30 Years Ago,
      John Lorenz

Natural Gas & Oil Exploration in Northwest Colorado: Obtaining and Maintaining the Social License to Operate,
      David Ludlum

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The Art of Logging Horizontal Wells in the Denver Basin,
      Janet Marks

Interpreting small-scale cyclicity of halite-anhydrite precipitation within Cycle 13, Shafer No. 1 core, Paradox Basin, Utah,
      Kristen Marra, Russell Dubiel, Janet Pitman, Ofori Pearson, Katherine Whidden, Jennifer Eoff, and Sarah Hawkins

Potash well database and thickness maps for the Paradox Basin, Utah; guides to exploration and management of vast Pennsylvanian-aged potash resources,
      Terry Massoth, Bryce Tripp, and David Tabet

Subsurface correlation and structure of the Mancos Shale, Uinta Basin, Utah,
      Andrew McCauley, Brendan Horton, Robert Ressetar, and Lauren Birgenheier

Heath Formation of Central Montana: A New Tight Oil Resource Play?,
      Graham McClave

Reservoir Characteristics and Gas Flow in Tight-Gas Sands, Upper Williams Fork Formation, Northeastern Piceance Basin, Colorado,
      Bryan McDowell and Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Local Variations in Depositional Facies of the Honaker Trail Formation (Pennsylvanian, Hermosa Group), Durango, Colorado,
      Kimberlee Miskell-Gerhardt

Gordon Creek Field, Carbon County Utah: Methane, CO2, and Potential Carbon Storage Unit,
      Craig Morgan, Stephanie Carney, and Peter Nelsen

Lessons in Exploration - Early History of Oil Development in NW Colorado,
      Larry Moyer

Evidence for shallow natural gas in the Silt, Colorado Area,
      Larry Moyer

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An explanation for pervasive underpressure in the Raton Basin, Colorado and New Mexico,
      Phillip Nelson, Lawrence Anna, and Nicholas Gianoutsos

Underpressured Gas Accumulations with Pressure Control at the Outcrop,
      Philip Nelson

Geochronology of Lignite Beds in the Fort Union Formation, Williston Basin,
      Charles Nelson

Examination of Source Rocks within the Tyler Formation (Pennsylvanian), North Dakota,
      Timothy Nesheim and Stephen Nordeng

Subsurface Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous lower Williams Fork Formation, Piceance Basin, Northwest Colorado,
      Joseph Nicolete, Paul Weimer, Stephen Cumella, Renaud Bouroulec, Edmund (Gus) Gustason, and Dag Nummendal

Geologic and Structural Controls for the CO2 Sequestration Potential of the Permian Cutler Group White Rim and De Chelly Sandstones in Southeastern Utah,
      Peter Nielsen, Stephenie Carney, and Craig Morgan

Application of the Kissinger equation to the problem of evaluating reaction kinetics using T[sub]max[/sub] and formation temperature data from the Tyler Formation (Pennsylvanian) of North Dakota,
      Stephen Nordeng

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The Use of the Radiometric Response to Hydrocarbon Microseepage in Oil and Gas Exploration,
      Robert Olson

Paleoenvironments and Petrology of Virgelle Member, Eagle Formation of the Elk Basin (Wyoming and Montana),
      Joaquin Owens and Henry Chafetz

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Jointing, Linears, and Lineaments - the Basement Connection,
      S. Parker Gay, Jr.

Spatial Variability of Free-Fluid Porosity in the Middle Bakken Reservoir: Applying Traditional Mapping Techniques to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Log Data,
      Jonathan Payne and Peter Hook

Quantitative Color Analysis of Evaporites from the Middle Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation, Paradox Basin, Utah,
      Ofori Pearson, Russell Dubiel, Jennifer Eoff, Sarah Hawkins, Kristen Marra, Janet Pitman, and Katherine Whidden

Geologic Model for assessment of Unconventional (Continuous) Reservoirs of the Paradox Formation,
      Krystal Pearson, Lawrence Anna, Katherine Whidden, Paul Lillis, and Russell Dubiel

Iron Precipitation in a Natural CO2 Reservoir: Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in the northern San Rafael Swell, UT, USA,
      Sally Potter-McIntyre, Jessica Allen, Majorie Chan, Weon Shik Han, Si-Yong Lee, and Brian McPherson

Fluvial architecture and connectivity of the Williams Fork Formation: combining outcrops analogs and reservoir modeling for stratigraphic reservoir characterization,
      Matthew Pranter, J. Alexandra Sloan, Alicia Hewlett, James Gilman, Hai Zui Meng, and Rex Cole

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Permian and Triassic Namakiers in the Paradox Basin of Colorado and Utah, USA,
      Donald Rasmussen

Pennsylvanian-Permian Hermosa Group in the Paradox Basin,
      Donald Rasmussen

Risk Reduction for Prospecting in the Unconventional Niobrara Play,
      Tony Rebec and Alvano Chaveste

Surficial Fracture Patterns in the Niobrara-Mancos Shale of Eastern Rio Arriba County, New Mexico and Applicability to Four Corner Basins,
      Santiago Reynolds

Subsurface Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Lower Mancos Shale and Related Units, Piceance Basin, Northwestern Colorado,
      Nathan Rogers, Paul Weimer, Stephen Cumella, Renaud Bouroullec, Edmund (Gus) Gustason, and Dag Nummedal

Atlas of Cretaceous gas fields, Piceance Basin, northwest Colorado,
      Nathan Rogers, Stephen Cumella, Paul Weimer, and Mike Leibovitz

Potash bed mapping in northern San Juan County, Paradox Basin, Utah,
      Andrew Rupke and Taylor Boden

Assessment of Scale on Permeability Estimates in Late Cretaceous Reservoirs, Denver Basin, Colorado,
      Christopher Rybowiak and Matthew Pranter

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Climate Control on Oil Shale Organic Richness - Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin,
      J. Frederick Sarg, Jufang Feng, and Kati Tanavsuu-Milkeviciene

Upper Devonian - Lower Mississippian Stratigraphy of Northwestern Montana: A Petroleum System Approach,
      Paul Schietinger

Subsurface Variations of Sandstone-Body Thickness in the Williams Fork Formation (Cretaceous) from Douglas Creek Arch to Coal Canyon, Colorado,
      Scott Schindelar, Beau Taylor, Marko Gorenc, Rex Cole, and Matthew Pranter

Subsurface Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Castlegate through Iles Formation, Piceance Basin, Northwestern Colorado,
      Kristopher Schwendeman, Paul Weimer, Stephen Cumella, Renaud Bouroullec, Edmund (Gus) Gustason, and Dag Nummedal

Stratigraphic architecture and preservation of shallow-marine parasequences: lower Williams Fork Formation, southeastern Piceance Basin, Colorado,
      Rachel Shaak, Matthew Pranter, and Edmund (Gus) Gustason

Exploring for Roll Front Uranium Deposits and Groundwater Using Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys in the Nebraska Panhandle,
      Steven Silbray, James Cannia, Bruce Smith, and Jared Abraham

Effects of the Laramide Structures on the Regional Distribution of Tight-Gas Sandstone in the Upper Mesaverde Group, Uinta Basin, Utah,
      Raju Sitaula and Jennifer Aschoff

A Helicopter Time Domain Survey for Hydrogeologic Mapping, Northwest Paradox Valley, Colorado and Utah,
      Bruce Smith, Jared Abraham, Kenneth Watts, Andrew Nicholas, George Breit, Benjamin Bloss, and Paul Bedrosian

Polygonal Fault Systems - A New Structural Style for the Niobrara Formation, Denver Basin, CO,
      Stephen Sonnenberg and David Underwood

Bakken and Three Forks Petroleum Development, Production and Potential, Western Williston Basin, Northeastern Montana,
      Stephen Sonnenberg and Alyssa Franklin

Re-evaluation of depositional environments of the Neslen Formation from subsurface and surface data, Book Cliffs, Utah,
      Brianne Spear and Mark Kirschbaum

Historical Trends in Minnelusa Exploration - Powder River Basin, WY,
      Ralph Specht

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Climate Control on Sequence Stratigraphy in Organic-Rich Lake Basin: Green River Formation, Lake Uinta, Colorado and Utah,
      Kati Tanavsuu-Milkeviciene, J. Frederick Sarg, and Yuval Bartov

The Pennsylvanian Desmoinesian Mudstone and Carbonates Reservoirs in Southern Denver Basin,
      Steven Tedesco

Factors Influencing Productivity in the Bakken Play, Williston Basin,
      Cosima Theloy and Stephen Sonnenberg

Evidence of Multiple Vitrinite Populations in the Niobrara Formation of the Denver Basin and Their Implications for Petroleum Exploration and Development,
      David Thul and Stephen Sonnenberg

A Four-Dimensional Basin and Petroleum System Modeling for the Piceance Basin,
      Yao Tong, Tapan Mukerji, and Allegra Scheirer

Subsurface Stratigraphy of the Paleogene Wasatch Formation in the Piceance Basin, Northwestern Colorado,
      Dawn Tschanz, Paul Weimer, Stephen Cumella, and Edmund (Gus) Gustason

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Core-based Sedimentologic, Stratigraphic, and Geochemical Analysis of the Lacustrine Upper Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah: Implications for Conventional and Unconventional Petroleum Development,
      Michael Vanden Berg, Lauren Birgenheier, and Morgan Rosenberg

Status and importance of oil shale,
      Glenn Vawter

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Laramide-Age Structures of the northern Colorado National Monument-Fruita area of the Uncompahgre Plateau, western Colorado,
      William Walsh, Michael Dunlop, Richard Livaccari, Roderick Maclean, Max Schultz, Aaron Tofsrud, Alexander Asay, Benjamin Haveman, and Tyrell Kipp

Regional subsurface stratigraphy of the Piceance Basin, northwest Colorado: results of a joint RPSEA-industry sponsored research program,
      Paul Weimer, Dag Nummedal, Stephen Cumella, Mike Leibovitz, Renee Foster, Kristopher Schwendeman, Dawn Tschanz, Joseph Nicollette, Nathan Rogers, Renaud Bouroullec, and Edmund (Gus) Gustason

Identifying Geologic Variables Controlling Production from the Niobrara Formation at Silo Field, Laramie County, Wyoming,
      Carrie Welker, Lisa Stright, and Tom Anderson

Expression of high-frequency cyclicity in different lithofacies of the Paradox Formation, Paradox Basin, Utah,
      Katherine Whidden, Russell Dubiel, Jennifer Eoff, Sarah Hawkins, Kristen Marra, Ofori Pearson, and Janet Pitman

Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources in the Paradox Basin, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona,
      Katherine Whidden, Krystal Pearson, Lawrence Anna, Paul Lillis, and Russell Dubiel

Variations in Fluvial Sand-Body Architecture within the Depositional Systems of the Cretaceous Mesaverde and Eocene Wasatch Formations, Greater Uinta Basin, Utah,
      Howard White, Rachel Friedman, Sean Kelly, and Rex Cole

Preliminary Facies Analysis, Regional Sequence Stratigraphy and Distribution of Stratigraphically controlled Mechanical Units of the middle and upper Williams Fork Formation, Piceance Basin, CO,
      Michele Wiechman and Jennifer Aschoff

Ruminations of a Plateau Geologist - What it was like during the Uranium Boom of the 1950's,
      Mark Wood

Low net:gross reservoir trends and exploration potential of the El Vado Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale, northwestern New Mexico,
      Lesli Wood and Tiffany Hedayati

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Well log reversals and pressure data in Cretaceous shales of the northern Green River Basin, Wyoming,
      Margarita Zyrianova and Philip Nelson

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