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Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
53rd Annual Convention, Baton Rouge, LA, October 22-24, 2003
Hosted by Baton Rouge Geological Society
Search and Discovery #90021 (2003)
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Is Drilling in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
Uncorking Bad Genies?
by Paul Aharon
Miocene Valley-Fill, Slope, and
Submarine-Canyon Systems in the Laguna Madre-Tuxpan Area, Mexico
by William A. Ambrose, F. Fouad, D. Jennette, L.F. Brown, Jr., T. Wawrzyniec,
S. Sakurai, E. Guevara, M. Aranda, U. Hernandez, D. Velez, F. Sanchez, G. Lopez,
J.C. Flores, J. Alvarado, and E. Macias
Meta Attributes: A New Concept for
Reservoir Characterization and Seismic Anomaly Detection
by Fred Aminzadeh
Semiquantitative Estimation of
Carbonates in Holocene Siliciclastic Sequences of the Mississippi Delta
by Alan M. Bailey, H.H. Roberts, and S. Pal
Exploitation of Thin Basin-floor Fan
Sandstones, Navarro Formation (Upper Cretaceous), South Texas
by Richard C. Bain
Coalbed Methane in Late Pennsylvanian to
Early Permian coal, Kerr Basin, Edwards County, Texas
by Charles E. Barker, William Heck, and Cortland Eble
How Accurately Do Offlap-Break Elevations
of Shelf-Phase Deltas Record Past Sea-Level Elevations? Clues from the
Morphology of the Mississippi River Deltas
by Philip J. Bart, Swati Ghoshal
The Sedimentology of Muddy Coastal
Systems: The Research Legacy and New Perspectives from the Coastal Studies
Institute
by 
Samuel
J. Bentley, Harry H. Roberts, and Kristina Rotondo
Middle Holocene Sea-Level and Evolution of
the Gulf of Mexico Coast
by Michael D. Blum, Amy E. Sivers, Tracy Zayac, and Ronald J. Goble
How Many Species of the Fossil Rodent
Copemys Occur at a Single Prolific Screening Site in the Miocene, Fleming
Formation at Fort Polk, Louisiana?
by Grant S. Boardman, Judith A. Schiebout, and John Wrenn
Economic Biostratigraphy in the Gulf of
Mexico Basin: A Review of Application Advances, Limitations and Challenges for
the New
by S.Q. Breard, A.D. Callender, and M.J. Nault
Large-Scale Fluid Migration Driven by
Salt Dissolution, Bay Marchand Dome, Offshore Louisiana
by R. Stephanie Bruno, Jeffrey S. Hanor
Modern Water Chemistry and Benthic
Foraminiferal Abundance in Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic
by David Buck
Investigating a Possible Link between
Water from Aquifers Containing Lignite Deposits and Kidney Disease in the USA:
Louisiana Project
by Joeseph Bunnell, Rebecca Bushon, William Orem, Robert Finkelman, Bradford
Hanson, Douglas Carlson, Runhua Shi, and others
Intellectual Property Rights and
Geoscience Technology
by Wendy K.B. Buskop
A Preliminary Examination of the
Hydrogeology of the Chicot Aquifer
by Douglas Carlson, Riley Milner
A Preliminary Examination of the
Hydrogeology of the Sparta Aquifer and Adjacent Aquifers in North Central
Louisiana
by Douglas Carlson
Under-Explored Oil and Gas Trends of
Mississippi
by Stephen D. Champlin
Wetland Loss and Barrier Shoreline
Erosion along the Plaquemines Barrier Shoreline
by Paul Connor, Andrew Beal, Phil Mccarty, Shea Penland, and Karen Westphal
Exploring for Deep Gas in the Gulf of
Mexico Shelf and Deepwater using Chimney Processing
by David Connolly, Fred Aminzadeh
Metal Distribution and Metal Site
Partitioning, Mobile Bay Surface Sediments
by J. Ashley Cordi, Maurice A. Meylan, and Wayne C. Isphording
Temporal Dynamics of Paleogene
Paleovegetational Response to Climatic Changes and Regional Upwelling, West
Africa (ODP Site 959)
by Sarah R. De La Rue, Francisca E. Oboh-Ikuenobe
Aspect Ratios in Coarse-Grained and
Fine-Grained Submarine Fan Channels
by Anne M. Delery, Arnold H. Bouma
Sequence Biostratigraphy and a New
Nannofossil Zonation of the Pleistocene Gulf of Mexico
by Richard A. Denne
Seismic-Sequence Stratigraphy and
Petroleum System Modeling of the Downdip Tuscaloosa-Woodbine, LA and TX
by Russell F. Dubiel, Janet K. Pitman, and Douglas Steinshouer
Water Supply in Lafayette, Louisiana
by Timothy W. Duex
Geologic and Geoacoustic Study of
Surficial Deposits, North-Central Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf
by Triniti A. Dufrene, Samuel J. Bentley, and Yvonne C. Allen
Event Sedimentation and Long-Term
Accumulation in a Salt Marsh: St. Louis Bay, Mississippi
by Lawrence A. Febo, Triniti A. Dufrene, Dana A. Watzke, and Samuel J.
Bentley
Multiple Overlapping Foraminiferal
Litho-Biofacies: Applications to Deep-Water Sedimentology and Reservoir
Properties of Turbidites
by Richard H. Fillon
Tidal Prism Changes within Barataria
Bay and its Effects on Sedimentation Patterns and Barrier Shoreline Stability
by Duncan Fitzgerald, Mark A. Kulp, and Shea Penland
Comparisons between Compacted and
Decompacted Turbidite Systems, Tanqua Karoo, South Africa
by Judith Fridge, Arnold H. Bouma
Neo-Tectonic Framework of Southeast
Louisiana and Applications to Coastal Restoration
by Sherwood M. Gagliano, E. Burton Kemp Iii, Karen M. Wicker, Kathleen S.
Wiltenmuth, and Robert W. Sabate
Paleoenvironment of Paleocene Wilcox Big
Shale in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
by Lloyd N. Glawe
Shallow Miocene and Oligocene Gas
Potential: Southeastern Louisiana’s Florida Parishes
by Donald A. Goddard, Ronald K. Zimmerman
Seismic Stratigraphy and Late Quaternary
Evolution of Eastern Mississippi Sound, Alabama
by Larry Greene, Antonio B. Rodriguez
Exploration Potential and
High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of Shelf-Sand Reservoirs, Miocene, South
Mississippi
by C. Robertson Handford, Lawrence R. Baria
Origin of a Circular Depression and
Associated Fractured and Shocked Quartz, St. Helena Parish, LA
by Paul V. Heinrich
Dolomitization of the Smackover
Formation and Hydrocarbon Exploration in Mississippi
by Ezat Heydari, Monyette Keyes
Remote Sensing Science and Technology: Role
of the Earth Scan Laboratory
by Oscar K. Huh, Nan D. Walker
Louisiana's Voluntary Remedial Program
(VRP), A Case Study
by Charles M. Hunter, William H. Schramm
Field Studies in the Chandeleur Sound
Area, Offshore Louisiana (State Waters)
by Chacko J. John, Bobby L. Jones, Brian J. Harder, Reed Bourgeois, and M.
Byron Miller
Sedimentary Thermal Maturation Models
for the Deepwater Eastern Gulf of Mexico
by Kelly Opre Jones, Seiichi Nagihara
The Regional Geothermal Heat Flow
Regime of the North-Central Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope
by Michael L. Jones, Seiichi Nagihara, and Michael A. Smith
Shallow-Marine Facies of the Orange Walk
Group, Miocene-Pliocene, Northern Belize (Central America)
by David T. King Jr., Lucille W. Petruny, and Kevin O. Pope
Integrated Exploration Scheme for
Lower Wilcox Coalbed Methane in Central Louisiana
by Gary L. Kinsland, Joseph E. Zeosky, Gilbert B. Smith, and Robert V.
Schneider
Geologic Sequestration in the Gulf Coast:
Subregional Considerations
by P.R. Knox, M.H Holtz, S.D. Hovorka, and C.A. Doughty
“Reefs” as Exploration Targets in the
Smackover Formation
by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Evolution and Stratigraphy of a Recent
Flood Tidal Delta: Raccoon Pass, Timbalier Islands Louisiana
by Mark A. Kulp, Duncan Fitzgerald, Shea Penland, and Jeffrey Motti
Lithofacies Classification Based on
Spectral Yields and Borehole Microresistivity Images
by Anish Kumar, George R. Kear
An Assessment of the Late Holocene
Record of Severe Storm Impacts from Lake Shelby, Alabama
by W. Joe Lambert, Paul Aharon, and Antonio B. Rodriguez
Elevated Arsenic Levels in the Weches
Formation Nacogdoches County, Texas
by E.B. Ledger, Kathy Judy
Petroleum Exploration for Upper Jurassic
Smackover Carbonate Shoal and Microbial Reefal Lithofacies Associated with
Paleohighs, Southwest Alabama
by Juan Carlos Llinás
High Frequency Cycles (Parasequences) in
the Edwards Group, Central Texas
by Brian E. Lock, Francisco Cardona S., and Jamsie Roberts
A Proposed Seismic Network For
Louisiana Public High Schools - SeisMEAUXgraph
by Juan Lorenzo
Inferred Fracture Patterns within
Overlapping Normal Fault Zones From Shallow, High-Resolution Gravity, Seismic,
and Laser Altimetry (Lidar) Data Sets: Neotectonics along Northern Gulf Coast of
Mexico, Louisiana, USA
by Juan Lorenzo, C. Westbrook, C. Cazes, and I. Van Heerden
Lower Cretaceous Glen Rose “Patch Reef”
Reservoir in the Chittim Field, Maverick County, South Texas
by Robert G. Loucks, Charles Kerans
Interpretation of High Resolution
Seismic Data from a Geologically Complex Continental Margin, Northern Gulf of
Mexico
by Carol Lutken, Allen Lowrie, Erika Geresi, Richard Bennett, Richard Faas,
Bradley Battista, and Tom Mcgee
Integrated Biostratigraphic and
Sequence Stratigraphic Approach for Correlation and Basin Interpretation
by Ernest A. Mancini, T. Markham Puckett
Petroleum Potential of Aggrading
Sandstones of Trangressive-Regressive Cycles in the Mississippi-Alabama Area
by Ernest A. Mancini, T. Markham Puckett
Preservation Potential of Paleocyclone
Deposits in Gulf of Mexico Coastal Sediments
by Lisa Marie Mertz, Marylea Hart, and John Jaeger
Hydrocarbon Production and Subsurface
Expression of the China Segment of the Tepetate Fault Zone, Louisiana
by Byron Miller, Paul V. Heinrich
Chicot Aquifer in Jefferson Davis
Parish, Louisiana
by Riley Milner
Hydraulic Entrapment of Relict Saline
Water Within Semi-Confined Aquifers in Southwest Florida
by Thomas M. Missimer, W. Kirk Martin, and Weixing Guo
Anatomy of a Barrier Island Beach
Ridge Aquifer, Eastern Florida
by Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping, Aleta M. Mitchell-Tapping
Exploration of the Sunniland
Formation of Southern Florida
by Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping, Aleta M. Mitchell-Tapping
Rudistids of the South Florida Lower
Cretaceous Sunniland Formation
by Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping, Aleta M. Mitchell-Tapping
3-D Interpretation Using Seismic and
Non-Seismic Data from a Regional to Prospect Scale
by Shawn Mulcahy, Patrick S. Millegan, John E. Bain, and Steven E. Schulz
Enhanced Temperature Gradient in the
Deep Tuscaloosa Trend – Is it really there?
by Philip H. Nelson
Character of Overpressure in the Deep
Tuscaloosa Trend, Louisiana
by Philip H. Nelson
Land Surface Subsidence Caused by
Groundwater Withdrawal in Southeastern Louisiana
by Jeffrey A. Nunn
Facies Identification and
Depositional Environment Interpretation, North Blowhorn Creek Field, Alabama
by Brian J. Panetta
Reservoir Characterization and 3-D
Geologic Modeling, North Blowhorn Creek Oil Field, Alabama
by Brian J. Panetta
Examining the Definition and
Significance of the Maximum Flooding Surface through Fuzzy Logic Modeling
by William C. Parcell
210Pb and 137Cs Geochronology of the
Lake Fausse Pointe Region of the Lower Atchafalaya Basin
by Luke J. Patterson, Zahid Muhammad, Samuel J. Bentley, L. Del Britsch, and
Douglas L. Dillon
Tropical Storm Isidore and Hurricane
Lili Impact: Implications for Coastal Restoration
by Shea Penland, Asbury Sallenger
Fifty Years of Achievements and Service
to the Geologic Community by the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM
by Edward B. Picou Jr.
A Computer-based System for the Storage
and Application of Expert Knowledge in Paleoenvironmental Interpretations
by E. Platon, Anthony Gary
Regional and Local Scale Groundwater
Modeling of the Chicot Aquifer System.
by A. Rahman, S. Hortono, and C.Willson
Managing the Probability of Making at
least One Discovery
by George H. Rhoads
A 50-Year History of Coastal Studies
Institute Contributions to Science
by H.H. Roberts, J.M. Coleman
An Embryonic Major Delta Lobe: A New
Generation of Delta Studies in the Atchafalaya-Wax Lake Delta System
by H.H. Roberts, J.M. Coleman, S.J. Bentley, and N. Walker
Late Quaternary Avulsion Events
Preserved in Mobile Bay, Alabama
by Antonio B. Rodriguez, Craig T. Meyer, and John B. Anderson
Deposition and Resuspension of Fluid
Mud on the Western Louisiana Inner Shelf
by Kristina A. Rotondo, Samuel J. Bentley
Pontchartrain: Frangenic Lake
by Robert W. Sabate, Kathleen S. Wiltenmuth
Tropical Storm Isidore and Hurricane
Lili: Louisiana Barrier Shoreline Response, Preliminary Results
by Asbury Sallenger, Shea Penland, and William Krabill
Geochemistry of an Oil Seep and Gas
Hydrate on the Lower Slope, Central Gulf of Mexico: Significance to
Paleogeography and Possible Source Rocks
by Roger Sassen, Paul J. Post, Debra A. Defreitas, and Stephen T. Sweet
Remedial Technology Selection and
Implementation at a Remote Gasoline Pipeline Release Site: A Study of Proactive
Impact Management under RECAP
by William H. Schramm, Jeffrey T. Jones
Exploring "Sweet Spots" in the Deep
Shelf, Gulf of Mexico
by Selim S. Shaker, Walter W. Wornardt Jr.
Wave Evolution in Cohesive Sedimentary
Environments: Open Problems
by A. Sheremet, J. M. Kaihatu, G. W. Stone, and X. Zhang
Geology, Geological History, and
Exploration Potential of the Middle and Late Miocene Natural Gas Sands of
Alabama
by Charles C. Smith
Coastal Observing Systems: Key to the
Future of Coastal Dynamics Investigations
by Gregory W. Stone, Xiongping Zhang, Jian Li, and Alex Sheremet
Spatial Variations in the Salinity
of Produced Waters from Southwestern Louisiana
by D. Scott Szalkowski, Jeffrey S. Hanor
Eolian Reservoir Facies within the
Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation, Western-Central Mississippi: A New
Exploration Target
by William A. Tedesco, R. P. Major
General Geology of the Mid-Tertiary
Block 889 Field Area, Offshore Mustang Island, Texas
by Ramón H. Treviño, Robert G. Loucks, L. Frank Brown, and Randy L.
Remington
Impacts of Tropical Systems on the
Sedimentary Fabric of the Mississippi Sound
by Brian M. Velardo, Samuel
J. Bentley, and Gregory W. Stone
Radial Faulting above Salt-Diapir
Overhangs: Natural Example, and Physical and Kinematic Models
by Bruno C. Vendeville, Khaled Fouad, and Paul R. Knox
Sedimentary Evidence for Turbidity
Maximum Influenced Fluvial Deposition in the Modern Mahakam Delta
by Brian Vosburg, Harry H. Roberts
Cenozoic Deformational Styles of the
Laguna-Madre_Tuxpan Shelf and Mexican Ridges Fold Belt, Mexico
by Tim Wawrzyniec, Khaled Fouad, Dan Schultz-Ela, William Ambrose, David
Jennette, Shinichi Sakurai, Edgar Guevara, Mario Aranda, Juan Alvarado, Ulises
Hernandez, Eduardo Macias, J. Roman, C. Rosas, K. Rosas, and L. E. Salomon
Miocene Lower Vertebrates from Fort
Polk, LA: A Preliminary Report
by Michael J. Williams, Judith A. Schiebout
Seismic Sequence Stratigraphic
Correlation of the Placid #1 OCS-G-6932, Ewing Bank 1001 and the Shell #1
OCS-G-4888, South Timbalier, Block 292 Offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico
by Walter W. Wornardt
Palynologic Age Determination of the
Catahoula Formation, Big Creek, Sicily Island, Louisiana
by John H. Wrenn, William C.Elsik, and Richard P. Mcculloh
Combining Dipmeter Measurements and
Formation Imaging to Improve Reservoir Characterization
by Roy L. Yates, Joël H. Le Calvez
Geometric Properties of Active Piercement
Structures: Geologic Insights from 3-D Kinematic Models
by Hongwei Yin, Richard H. Groshong, Jr.
Diagenetic Patterns and Reservoir
Development in the Woodbine Formation, Tyler County, Texas
by G. Russell Young, Mary L. Barrett
Integration of Geologic Model and
Reservoir Simulation, Popeye Field, Green Canyon 116
by Beth Yuvancic-Strickland, Eric Kuhl, Tin-Wai Lee, Benjamin Seldon, Peter
B. Flemings, and Turgay Ertekin
Sequence Stratigraphy Models of Rift
Lacustrine Basin and their Applications in Bohai Bay Basin, East China
by Shiqi Zhang
Reservoir and Hydrocarbon
Characteristics of Igneous Rock of Kongdian Formation in Zaoyuan Oil Field, East
China
by Shiqi Zhang