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AAPG ABSTRACTS
(By Author)
AAPG Pacific Section / SPE Western Regional
Joint Meeting
May 19-24, 2003, Long Beach, California, U.S.A.
Search and Discovery Article #90014 (2003).
Note: Items preceded by asterisks(*) designate extended abstracts, most with illustrations.
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A B C D E F G H,I J K L M N,O P,Q R S T,U V W,X Y Z
Elk Hills - 5 Years Later
by Allen, John
(John Allen, President and General Manager of Occidental of Elk Hills,
Inc., will discuss Occidental's successful investment in Elk Hills and
the challenges going forward.)
Growth Strata: An Overview of Kinematic
Cyclostratigraphy
by Barbeau, David L.
The Geology of Sand Dunes Found on San Nicolas Island, California
by Barron, Diana, and Pedro C. Ramirez
Microseismic Fracture Mapping in the N-Shale for
Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments in Wells 344A-5G and 315-4G, Elk Hills
Field
by Batory, Bruce
Separating Hydrocarbon and Ground Water Production
Effects from Tectonic Contraction Measurements across the Metropolitan
Los Angeles, California
by Bawden, Gerald W.
The Monterey Formation of Coastal Orange County,
California: Preliminary Sedimentologic and Diagenetic Findings
by Behl, Richard J., Charles T. Herzig, Scott P. Singley, Charlotte T.
Deason, Pamela S. Hill, and Olga K. Katsuk
Development of the Monterey Shale with Horizontal
Wells, 29r Anticline, Elk Hills, CA (2003)
by Benmore, William C., and Allen B. Luthi
Sacramento Valley, Ca - 'Massaging' Exploratory
Concepts and Development Strategies in a Mature Dry Gas Basin
by Blake, Richard G., and Robert G. Lindblom
Fluid Conductivity in the South Ellwood Fault:
Communication between the Ocean and a Hydrocarbon Reservoir at One
Kilometer Depth
by Boles, James R., and Steve Horner
Tsunami Hazards Offshore of Southern California
by Borrero, Jose C., Mark R. Legg, and Costas E. Synolakis
Pliocene Age of the Etchegoin Group, San Joaquin
Basin, California
by Bowersox, J. Richard
Reservoir Segmentation in the Complexly Folded,
Faulted, and Fractured Lower Miocene Monterey Chert Reservoir as
Evidenced from Formation Test (Schlumberger, MDT) and Production Data:
Implication for Reservoir Depletion and Development, Santa Ynez Unit,
Offshore California
by Bullock, B.R., D.G. Carpenter, A. Stefaniak, S. Grayson, T.L. Sims,
and N.E. Reish
The Application of Kinematic Indicators to
Determine Paleo-Stress Fields and Fluid Flow Paths within the Midway
Sunset Oil Field
by Byington, Craig
Multiple-Point Geostatistics: Integrating
Geological and Seismic Data in the Deepwater Environment
by Caers, Jef, and Sebastien Strebelle
Lithostratigraphic,
Biostratigraphic, and
Magnetostratigraphic Documentation of a Major Unconformity in the Middle
Eocene to Early Miocene Continental Sespe Formation, Northern Santa Ana
Mountains, Orange County, Southern California
by Calvano, Gino, E. Bruce Lander, David P. Whistler, Mark A. Roeder,
Joshua Ludtke, 
Donald
R. Prothero, Stephen L. Walsh, and Hugh M. Wagner
Description of a Single, Non-Fan Turbidite Channel
within the Miocene Capistrano Formation, San Clemente State Beach,
California
by Camacho, Hilario, Cathy Busby, and Ben Kneller
Architecture and Lithofacies of Deep-Water Channels
in the Capistrano Formation, San Clemente, California
by Campion, Kirt, Anthony Sprague, and Morgan
Sullivan
Structural Compartmentalization of Lower Miocene
Monterey Chert Reservoirs by Transpressional Fault Systems with Focus on
Field Development, Santa Ynez Unit, Offshore California
by Carpenter, D.G., B.R. Bullock, N.E. Reish, T.L.
Sims, A. Stefaniak, and T.E. West
Subsurface Geometry and Structure of the San
Andreas and Associated Fault Zones from High-Resolution Seismic Imaging
by Catchings, R.D., M.J. Rymer, and M.R. Goldman
Seismic Techniques Revitalize Stripper Wells
by Chilingar, George V., and John O. Robertson Jr.
Why Many "Condemned" Overpressured
Petroleum Reservoirs Should Be Re-Examined!
by Chilingar, George V., and John O. Robertson Jr.
Determination of Paleoearthquakes, Slip per Event
Data, and a Holocene Slip Rate for the Puente Hills Blind-Thrust Fault,
Los Angeles, California
by Christofferson, Shari, James F. Dolan, and John
H. Shaw
Basin Architecture of Diatomite-Turbidite Complexes
in the Monterey-Stevens Petroleum System, San Joaquin Basin, California
by Clark, Michael S.
Preservation of Geologic Data in the United States
by Clarke, Donald, and Larry Knauer
The Role of Antecedent Rivers in Shaping the
Southern California Coast
by Colburn, Ivan P.
Application of SCAT (Statistical Curvature Analysis
Technique) to Define a Complex Faulted Reservoir Model - 24Z Stevens
Sands, Elk Hills Field, California
by Countryman, Robert L., and Robert J. Reed
The Geology-Engineering Integration Toolkit: A
Process to Integrate and Share Geologic, Production, and Engineering
Data, Occidental of Elk Hills
by Cowell, Peter F.
Secondary Processes in the
Formation of Ribbon Bedded and Nodular Chert in the Monterey Formation
at Mussel Rock, Santa Barbara County, California
by Deason, Charlotte T., and Richard J. Behl
Real Time Structural
Interpretation of Logging While Drilling Images in Horizontal Wells
by Denichou, J. M., and L. Ortenzi
Pre- and Post-Modelo
Folding in the Eastern Santa Monica Mountains, Southern California
by Denison, Frank E.
Hydrocarbon Seeps in
Middle Miocene Topanga Formation North of the Beverly Hills Oil Field,
Los Angeles, California
by Denison, Frank E., Joseph M. Saenz, and Mark Tribold
Sedimentology of
Coarse-Grained, Thick-Bedded Turbidites, Talara Basin, Peru
by Duerichen, Erin
Offshore Seismic
Stratigraphic Controls on Saltwater Intrusion in Los Angeles Area
Coastal Aquifers
by Edwards, Brian D., Kenneth D. Ehman, Daniel J. Ponti, John C.
Tinsley, III, and Eric G. Reichard
Hydrostratigraphic and
Geologic Controls on Defining the San Mateo Plain Groundwater Basin
Boundary at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Menlo Park,
California
by Ehman, Kenneth D., Helen Nuckolls, and Susan Witebsky
Fracture Formation in
Response to Chemical Alteration in Monterey-Type Siliceous Mudstone
by Eichhubl, Peter
Stratigraphic Controls on
the Deep Migration of Dissolved Contaminants in South Lake Tahoe,
California
by Einarson, Murray D.
Technical Competencies for
Geoscience Professionals
by Fattahi, Behrooz, Anthony S. Murer, and Gary A. Myers
Fifteen Years of Thought
Evolution on the Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic
and Cambrian in the Southern Great Basin: Reflections on Working with
John Cooper
by Fedo, Christopher M.
Sedimentology and Sequence
Stratigraphy of the Vinini Creek Section: Key to Understanding the Late
Ordovician Graptolite Mass Extinction
by Finney, Stanley C.
Facies Architecture and
Syntectonic Fold Geometry of Fluvial Conglomerate in the Cretaceous
Nanushuk Formation, Brooks Range Foothills, Alaska
by Finzel, Emily S., Paul J. McCarthy, and Wesley K. Wallace
Geological Controls of
Hydrocarbon Seeps in Santa Maria Basin, Offshore California
by Fischer, Peter J., and Saenz, Joseph M.
Geologic Structure of
the San Pedro Shelf Region, Southern California
by Fisher, Michael A., William R. Normark, and Victoria E.
Langenheim
Depth Imaging Velocity
Estimation Case History in a Challenging Area of California
by Fliedner, Moritz, Dimitri Bevc, and Robert Clapp
Structure and Correlation
Sections, Santa Ynez Mountains to the Santa Barbara Channel and the
Channel Islands, Western Transverse Ranges, California
by Foreman, John, James Galloway, Marc Kamerling, and Tom Redin
Segmentation in the Palos
Verdes Fault, San Pedro Bay, and Detachment Attenuation within the Inner
Continental Borderland, Offshore Southern California
by Francis, Robert D., Mark R. Legg, and Donald E. Hallinger
Innovations in Managing the
Geological Operations for a Multi-Rig Drilling Program at Elk Hills
Field
by Gayer, Marty
An Innovative GIS-Based
Approach to Characterizing Fractures in the Monterey Formation
by Ghosh, Kajari, and Michael R. Gross
Vertical Tectonics at
Peninsular Ranges-Transverse Ranges Intersections: Offshore
Investigations of Pleistocene Low-Stand Shorelines
by Goldfinger, Chris, Gary J. Huftile, Mark Legg, Bob Yeats, and
Marc Kamerling
3-D Geographic Information
Systems at Field and Regional Scales
by Grace, John D., Anthony Dupont
Revisiting Fractures in the
Monterey Formation
by Gross, Michael R.
Tectono-Stratigraphic
Interpretation of the Monagas Foreland and Thrust Belt, Eastern
Venezuela
by Guerrero, Luz Sophia Cobos, Raul Yssaci, and Franklin Yoris
Utilizing the Global
Positioning System (GPS) To Monitor Oil Field Subsidence - Wilmington
Oil Field
by Henderson, Curtis P., David Rutledge, and Roy K. Koerner
Influence of Climate on
the Development of an Ancient Paleosol
by Hernandez, Hector O, Pedro C. Ramirez, and Gabriela Noriega
Gravity-Defined Narrow
Subbasins along the Margins of the Los Angeles Basin, California
by Hildenbrand, Thomas G., Victoria E. Langenheim, and Daniel J.
Ponti
Use of Orbital Cyclicity as a
High-Resolution Dating and Correlation Tool in the Monterey and Sisquoc
Formations of the Santa Maria Basin and Offshore Equivalents, Central
California Margin
by Hill, Pamela S., and Richard J. Behl
Developing Neutron Computed
Tomography as an Effeicient, Non-Invasive Tool to Image Organics in
Sedimentary Rocks
by Huerta, Nicolas J., and Dawn Y. Sumner
Lead Isotope Ratios in
Hydrocarbons: A New Approach to Age Dating Crude Oils and Environmental
Releases of Refined Petroleum Hydrocarbon Products
by Hurst, Richard W.
An Assessment of
Hydrocarbon and Geothermal Resources on Federal Lands in Western
Washington State
by Jackson, James S., David Percy, and Michael L. Cummings
Chemical Oxidation and
Enhanced Natural Attenuation for Oilfield Remediation
by Jacobs, James A.
Complex Compressional
Structures Documented with Digital Photographs in Sepulveda Canyon,
Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles, California
by Jacobs, Stephen E., and Arthur R. Brown
The Monterey Formation
at South Ellwood Field, Santa Barbara Channel, California
by Kamerling, Marc, Steve Horner, and Laird Thompson
The Argentine Precordillera
- A Terrane More Exotic Than Ever
by Keller, Martin
What, No Gull-Wings?
Multiple Scales of Levee Failure in Outcrop and Seismic
by Kneller, Ben, and Mason Dykstra
New 40Ar/39Ar Age
Determinations for Two Tuffs in the Piuma (Upper) Member of the
Continental Sespe Formation, Central Santa Monica Mountains, California
by Lander, E. Bruce, Peter W. Weigand, A. Eugene Fritsche, John
M. Alderson, and Alexander Iriondo
Postglacial
Environmental Record in Central Ohio
by Lazzareschi, D.
A North American
Perspective on the Latest Ordovician Extinction Event: Integrative
Lithostratigraphy, Conodont Biostratigraphy, and Carbon-Isotope
Stratigraphy, Southern Great Basin, Central Nevada, and Anticosti
Island, Canada
by Leatham, W. Britt, John D. Cooper, Fullerton), and Robert L.
Ripperdan
Large Crater Structures
Offshore Southern California
by Legg, Mark R., Craig Nicholson, Marc J. Kamerling, Randall
Milstein, and Chris Goldfinger
Evolution of Continental
Rifting to Seafloor Spreading: The South San Clemente Rift, California
Continental Borderland
by Legg, Mark R., Scott M. White, Ken C. Macdonald, Chris
Goldfinger, Victor-Wong-Ortega, Jorge Ledesma-Vasquez, Craig Nicholson,
and Rachel Haymon
The Late Cambrian-Early
Ordovician Rimmed Shelf Margin of Eastern California
by Lehnert, Oliver, and John D. Cooper
Calculating Vapor Intrusion
to Indoor Air From Groundwater and Soil: An Evolving Science
by Liban, Cris B., Katherine Hancock, Sally Liu, Kay Johnson,
and Ron Chu
Urban Oil Field
Development in the Los Angeles Basin --An Historical and Current
Perspective on the East Beverly Hills and San Vicente Fields
by Lindblom, Robert G., and Philip C. Dupler
Style of Deformation and
Uplift Rate of the Hollywood Fault, Southern California
by Lindvall, Scott C., Thomas K. Rockwell, Gerald Kasman, and
John G. Helms
Getting the Most out of
the Inglewood Oil Field, Los Angeles, California
by Lockman, Dalton, David Jefferis, and Toni Eilerts
Isotopic Record of
Foraminifera Living in Methane-Venting Cold Seeps
by Martin, J. B., S. Day, A. Rathbun, M. E. Pérez, J. Gieskes,
and C. Mahn
Tectonic Oversteepening: An
Alternative to Sea-Level Lowstands as a Control on
Submarine Canyon and Fan Development
by May, Jeffrey A., and William C. Ross
Topographic Signal of Fault
Displacement, Fault Propagation, and Rock Uplift in the Coyote Hills on
the Northeastern Margin of the Los Angeles (LA) Basin
by Meigs, Andrew, Sam Vanlaningham, and Robert Yeats
Occurrence and Mitigation
of Petroleum Seeps in Los Angeles
by Mulhern, Mike, and Mark Oborn
Paleoenvironmental
Reconstruction of Holocene Lake Inchiquin, Western Ireland, Using Grain
Size, Loss-On-Ignition, and Diatom Analyses
by Myers, A., and K. Siân Davies-Vollum
Paleosol Development
through Intense Weathering of a Paleocene Sandstone during a Tropical
Climate
by Noriega, Gabriela, Pedro C. Ramirez, and Hector O. Hernandez
Defining Hydrostratigraphic
Units within a Heterogeneous Alluvial Setting-- Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
by Noyes, Charles D., Richard G. Blake, and Michael P. Maley
3D Massive VSP at
Wilmington Oil Field, Long Beach Unit
by Paulsson, Bjorn N. P., Martin Karrenbach, Alan Hardin, and
Karen E. Blake
Mineralization, Fluid Flow,
and Sealing Properties Associated with an Active Thrustfault: San
Joaquin Basin, California
by Perez, R.J., and J.R. Boles
Seawater Intrusion of
Producing Aquifers in the Long Beach Area, California: Insights From New
USGS Corehole Data
by Ponti, Daniel J., John C. Tinsley, III, Kenneth D. Ehman,
Charles L. Powell, II, Kristin McDougall, John W. Hillhouse, and Brian
D. Edwards
Stratigraphic Dipmeter
Curvature Analysis (Strat-Scat) for Reservoir Simulation /
Characterization of Northwest Stevens (A3-A6) Sands, Elk Hills Field,
California
by Reed, Robert J., and Robert Taylor
Using Petroleum Industry 3D
Surveys to Improve Understanding of Active Offshore Faults: The
Palos Verdes Fault in San Pedro Bay, Los Angeles Basin, CA
by Rigor, Andrew W., Mark R. Legg, Robert J. Mellors, and Robert
D. Francis
Oxygen Isotope, Sequence
Stratigraphic and Biostratigraphic Constraints on Paleotemperature and
Paleo Ice Volume during the Terminal Ordovician Glacial Epoch
by Ripperdan, Robert L., John D. Cooper, and W. Britt Leatham
Paleoseismic Summary of
the Southern San Andreas Fault System: Implications of Long-Term
Regional Strain Release
by Rockwell
, Tom
A Review of the Issue and
Data Related to Hydrolysis of MTBE to TBA during Analytical Testing
Process
by Rong, Yue
Groundwater Data Analysis:
MTBE Relative to Other Gasoline Oxygenates at Gasoline Impacted Sites,
Los Angeles, California
by Rong, Yue, and Heesu Park
Seismic Risk
Communication among Hazard Experts and Local-Level Governments Using
Safety Elements
by Runnerstrom, Eric E., and Lisa B. Grant
Recent Faulting in the Gulf
of Santa Catalina from San Diego to Dana Point, California
by Ryan, H.F., R. Sliter, and W.R. Normark
Characterization of the
Monterey Formation at Elk Hills
by Schwalbach, Jon R., Charles O'Brien, Robert Godfrey, and
Cynthia Huggins
Channelized Deep Marine
Reservoirs in the Deepwater - Modeling and Recovery
by Schwartz, Daniel E.
A Pursuit of By-Passed Oil:
Redevelopment of Upper Miocene Stevens "Main Body B"
Reservoirs at Elk Hills; Occidental of Elk Hills, Inc
by Scott, Dick, Peter F. Cowell, Shawn Kerns, Tom Walker, David
Sharbak, Wallace Bayne, and Stephen Smart
Mentoring through Research
as a Catalyst for the Success of Under-Represented Minority Students in
the Geosciences at California State University Northridge
by Simila, G.W., K.M. Marsaglia, V. Pedone, and J.D. Yule
Outcrop/behind outcrop
Characterization of Deepwater (Turbidite) Petroleum Reservoir Analogs:
Why and How: Keynote Address
by Slatt, Roger M.
The Use of Three Dimensional
Geologic Modeling for Collaborative Field Development and Surveillance
by Smart, Stephen
Structure and Kinematics
beneath Santa Monica Bay, California
by Sorlien, Christopher C., Kris Broderick, Marc J. Kamerling,
Michael A. Fisher, William R. Normark, Ray Sliter, and Leonardo Seeber
Drilling for Oil in Los
Angeles: An Urban Legend
by Spaulding, Arthur O.
The North Shafter and
Rose Oil Fields, A Seismically Defined, Diagenetic Stratigraphic Trap in
the Miocene McLure Shale, San Joaquin Basin, CA
by Sterling, Robert, Anne Grau, Robert Kidney, Barbara Ganong,
Paul Pendleton, Lawrence Drennen, and Angela Bosse
Fluvial-Deltaic
Cyclicity, Ridge Basin, Southern California: Evidence for Kinematic
Cyclostratigraphy
by Sullivan, Morgan D., and Kenneth D. Ehman
Tectonic Controls on
Sedimentation in the Early Tertiary Deposits of the Sacramento
Basin
by Sullivan, Morgan D., and Raymond Sullivan
The Digital Oilfield:
Extending Reserve Life through the Use of Collaborative Digital
Surveillance (CDS)
by Tasker, Jim
Occurrence and Mitigation of
LNAPL and Dissolved Hydrocarbons in Groundwater beneath the Coastal
Plain of Los Angeles County, California - A Decade Later
by Testa, Stephen M.
Channel Deposits in a
Submarine Turbidity Current Experiment
by Violet, Jacob A., Chris Paola, Lincoln
Pratson, and Gary Parker
Step-over Evolution
along Strike-Slip Faults as a Cause of Locally Driven Basin Inversion
by Wakabayashi, John, James V. Hengesh, and Thomas L. Sawyer
26R Reservoir - Post
Blowdown
by Watkins, Ralph, John Acord, and Scott Smith
A Combined
Deterministic/Stochastic Approach to Multi-Scale, Nonstationary Alluvial
Aquifer Characterization
by Weissmann, Gary S., and Robert S. Trahan
Stratigraphy and
Hydrogeology of the Santa Clara Valley, San Francisco Bay Region,
California: A Progress Report
by Wentworth, Carl, R.T. Hanson, Mark Newhouse, R.C Jachens, E.A.
Mankinen, Geoffrey Phelps, J.C. Tinsley III, C.F. Williams, R.A.
Williams, D.W. Andersen, and E.P. Metzger
Rotation of Sub-Domains
within the Transverse Ranges Province: Sockeye Field, Santa Barbara
Channel, California
by Wracher, Michael D., Marc Kamerling, and Laird Thompson
Why Isn't the San Gabriel
Basin a Major Oil Producer?
by Yeats, Robert S.
Active Tectonics of the
Los Angeles Basin
by Yeats, Robert S.
Pollen Analysis of the Las
Yeguas Paleoseismic Trench Site, Cholame Segment of the San Andreas
Fault, California
by Young, Jeri J., and J.R. Arrowsmith, and F. Rich
Charging of Elk Hills
Reservoirs as Determined by Oil Geochemistry
by Zumberge, John, and Judy Russell