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ABSTRACTS
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AAPG Rocky Mountain Section
59th Annual Rocky Mountain Rendezvous
June 13-16, 2010, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO., U.S.A.

Hosted by Four Corners Geological Society
Special thanks to Tom Ann Casey, President AAPG Rocky Mountain Section
and Tom Anderson, President-Elect AAPG Rocky Mountain Section

Search and Discovery Article #90106 (2010)

Posted July 15, 2010

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Turbidites in the Western Interior Cretaceous Seaway: The Known and the Possible,
      Donna S. Anderson

Depositional Controls on the Organic-Rich Juana Lopez Member of the Mancos Shale, Southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah,
      Donna S. Anderson

Evidence for Potential Methane Sourcing and Methanogenesis in Late Cretaceous Shales along the Eastern Flank of the Williston Basin in North Dakota,
      Fred J. Anderson

Geothermal in the Oilfield: Using Hot Produced Water for Power Generation,
      Thomas C. Anderson

Documenting Channel Deposits in the White Rock Mesa Member, Dakota Sandstone at Red Wash, NM: Using Advanced Equipment and Methods to Produce a High-Resolution, Large-Scale Panoramic Photograph for Field Documentation, Publication, and Presentation,
      Richard A. Ashmore and Donald E. Owen

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Structural and Tectonic Evolution of the Douglas Creek Arch and Environs, Northwestern Colorado and Northeastern Utah,
      Jeffrey W. Bader

Spontaneous Potential: Key to Understanding Continuous and Conventional Gas in Upper Cretaceous Sandstones, Deep Eastern Greater Green River Basin, Southwest Wyoming,
      Charles E. Bartberger and Ira Pasternack

Pennsylvanian Organic Mudstone Reservoir Characteristics from the Paradox Basin, Southeastern Utah,
      Robert Bereskin, Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., and John D. McLennan

Uranium Mineralization in the Todilto Formation, New Mexico: Resource Potential and Uranium Sources,
      William R. Berglof and Virginia T. McLemore

Influence of Natural Fractures from Second-Order Faults on Low-Permeability Oil Reservoir (Turner Sandstone), Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA,
      Lee Billingsley

Dakota Bar and Channel Sandstones on the Southern Flank of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico,
      Bruce A. Black

Reservoir Geology and Secondary Recovery at Kleinholz Field, Kimball County, Nebraska,
      Louis C. Bortz and Steven M. Goolsby

Utilizing Lidar and Hyperspectral Imagery in Oil Exploration,
      Gerald Boyd and Ryan Stage

Mechanical and Geochemical Assessment of Hydraulic-Fracturing Proppants Exposed to Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulfide,
      Jordan M. Bremer, Blaise Mibeck, James Sorensen, and John Harju

Oil and Natural Gas Potential of the Pre-Cretaceous Section in the New Mexico Part of the Raton Basin,
      Ronald Broadhead

Climatic Influences on Basinal Infill in the Great Sand Dunes, San Luis Valley, Colorado,
      Maria Brunhart-Lupo

Lidar Intensity as a Remote Sensor of Rock Properties: An Investigation of the Sego Sandstone, Book Cliffs, Utah,
      Darrin Burton and Lesli J. Wood

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Well Core Description and Natural Fractures of the Sego and Castlegate Sandstones of the Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, Greater Natural Buttes Field, Uinta Basin, Utah,
      Stephanie M. Carney, Craig D. Morgan, Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., and Michael D. Laine

Geological Site Characterization of the Aneth Unit, Greater Aneth Field, Southeastern Utah, for Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide: A Project Summary,
      Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., Stephanie M. Carney, and Craig D. Morgan

Desmoinesian Ismay-Hovenweep-Gothic Petroleum System, Blanding Sub-Basin of the Paradox Basin and Surrounds, Utah and Colorado,
      Edward Coalson and Harvey DuChene

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Do Natural Fractures Significantly Influence Production on the Northern End of the Pinedale Anticline?,
      Erika Davis and Randy Koepsell

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Assessment of Potential Geothermal Energy Development in the Tomichi Dome Area, Colorado,
      Alfred M. Elser, Amber L. Robbins, and Dean P. Stilwell

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Mesozoic-Cenozic Basin and Orogeny Evolution of Northern Tianshan: Different from Classic Foreland Thrust Belt,
      Shihu Fang, Zhaojie Guo, Yan Song, and Zhicheng Zhang

The Oil and Gas Resources of the San Juan Basin - An Overview,
      James E. Fassett

Customized Geographic Information Systems Used to Acquire Baseline and Monitoring Data, Identify Gas Seeps, Protect Unconventional Resource Assets, and Comply with the New Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission Rules,
      John V. Fontana, Anthony Gorody, and David Seneshen

Fluvial Architecture of the Tertiary Middle Wasatch Formation in Three Canyon, Utah (Outcrop Study): Implication for Reservoir Down-Spacing and Drainage,
      Grace Ford and Marieke Duchesne

Terrestrial Lidar Scanner Data Quality: Considerations for Collection and Analysis,
      Jedediah D. Frechette and Timothy F. Wawrzyniec

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Upheaval Dome, Southeast Utah: The Evidence Ignored by Both Sides,
      S. Parker Gay, Jr.

Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of Valley- Fill Deposits in the Lower Cretaceous D Sandstone (Cenomanian), Denver Basin, Colorado,
      Steven M. Goolsby

Sedimentology and Facies Architecture of a Mixed-Energy Strand Plain Deposit, Upper Member Dakota Formation, Southern Kaiparowits Plateau, Southern Utah,
      Edmund R. Gustason

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Analysis of Bore-hole Gas with Direct Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry,
      Don L. Hall and Mike Sterner

In Situ Recovery: Hydrologic Aspects of Producing a Deposit with a Fault System,
      Sophie Hancock

Seismic Attribute Analysis for Coal-Bed Methane Detection in the Fort Union Formation, Sweet Water County, Wyoming,
      Whitney Harris and Curtis A. Link

Eolian Architecture of Sandstone Reservoirs in the Covenant Field, Sevier County, Utah,
      Emily E. Hartwick

Facies and Thickness Analysis of the Late Middle Jurassic Entrada Sandstone, South-Central Utah: Implications for Depocenter Variation,
      Tanner C. Hicks, Thomas H. Morris, and Michael D. Fairbanks

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Variations in Organic-Matter Productivity and Preservation through Time, Eocene Lake Uinta, Western Colorado and Eastern Utah,
      Ronald C. Johnson, Tracey J. Mercier, and Michael E. Brownfield

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Post-Leadville Limestone, Pre-Organ Rock Sandstone Faulting in the Paradox Basin, Colorado and Utah,
      Charles F. Kluth, Donald L. Rasmussen, and Harvey DuChene

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The Utah Core Research Center Collection: A Valuable Resource for Paradox Basin Exploration and Production,
      Michael D. Laine and Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr.

A Wiki-Based Tool for Comparing Conceptual Models of Deep Geologic Carbon Sequestration,
      George V. Last, Christopher J. Murray, Mark L. Rockhold, Charlotte Sullivan, and Gary D. Black

Innovations in Carbonate Geology: 50 Years of Change,
      Mark Longman

Thrust Faults in the Alcova Limestone at Beer Mug Anticline, Wyoming,
      John C. Lorenz and Scott P. Cooper

Fractures and Faults within the Cretaceous Section of the San Juan Basin,
      John C. Lorenz and Scott P. Cooper

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A Raton Basin Geothermal Prospect,
      Hal H. Macartney and Colin R. O’Farrell

The Menefee Formation of Southwestern Colorado: World Class Exposures of Non-Marine Progradational and Retrogradational Systems Tracts,
      Brad Macurda and Jeff Brame

Mudrock Reservoir Deposition and Stratigraphy: Not Homogeneous, Not Boring,
      Jeffrey A. May and Donna S. Anderson

The Grants Uranium District, New Mexico: Update on Source, Deposition, and Exploration,
      Virginia T. McLemore

Joint Use of AVO and Multi-Component Seismic Attributes to Estimate Tight Gas Sand Probability in Mamm Creek Field, Piceance Basin, Colorado,
      Reinaldo J. Michelena, Patricia E. Rodrigues, Kevin Godbey, and Michael J. Uland

The Mancos Shale: Lithotyping and Play Characterization in a Cretaceous Mixed Sandstone-Mudstone System,
      Mary K. Milner and S. Robert Bereskin

New Correlation from SW Colorado Outcrop to Eastern Paradox Basin Based on Outcrop Gamma Ray and Conodont Biostratigraphy,
      Kimberlee J. Miskell-Gerhardt, Gary L. Gianniny, and Scott M. Ritter

The Pennsylvanian Gothic Shale, Possibly the New Gas Shale Resource Play from the Paradox Basin,
      Peter G. Moreland

Origins of Thermal Waters in Colorado,
      Paul Morgan

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Geologic Controls on the Stratigraphic Architecture of the Denver Formation, Denver Basin, Colorado,
      Charles R. Nelson

Avulsion Deposits and Incipient Paleosols: The Nature of Alluvial Deposits from PETM Sections in the Bighorn Basin, WY,
      Sophia Newbury and Mary J. Kraus

Aquifer and Reservoir Analog Heterogeneity for Petroleum and Groundwater Modeling from Lidar Imaging of Outcrops,
      Elizabeth M. Nichols, Gary S. Weissmann, and Timothy F. Wawrzyniec

New Mapping of Mancos Shale in Western Colorado,
      David C. Noe

Oil Generation Rates and Subtle Structural Flexure: Keys to Forming the Bakken Sweetspot in the Parshall Field of Mountrail County, North Dakota,
      Stephan H. Nordeng, Julie A. Lefever, Fred J. Anderson, and Eric H. Johnson

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Spatial Variability of Fracture-Enhanced Shale-Gas Production: Insights from the Raton Basin, CO,
      Colin O’Farrell, Sarah Hawkins, William Drake, Hadi Soetrisno, and Todd Peters

The Story of Moving Mountain. An Historic Gas Seepage and Mass Wasting Event,
      Paul Oldaker

K1, K2, and K3 Unconformities and A and X Bentonites are Keys to Deciphering Burro Canyon-Dakota Stratigraphy in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado,
      Donald E. Owen and Charles F. Head

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Optimizing the Development of the Giant Tight Gas Sandstone Reservoir at Jonah Field, Sublette County, Wyoming,
      Ira Pasternack

Terrestrial Sequence Stratigraphy and Paleogeographic Analysis of the Twist Gulch Formation Using the First Radiometric Zircon (U/Pb) Age Dates, Central-Utah Overthrust Belt,
      Tyson L. Perkes, Thomas H. Morris, Tyler Hair, Austin Boles, and Stephen Phillips

Methane Seepage: Measuring the Flux, Recovering Lost Resources, and Protecting the Environment,
      John Peterson

Evidence for Early Eastward Translation of Shortening in the Sevier Thrust Belt, Northeast Utah and Southwest Wyoming, U.S.A,
      S. Lynn Peyton, Kurt N. Constenius, and Peter G. DeCelles

Stromatolitic Carbonate Buildups of the Basal Akah Salt Interval, Western Paradox Basin,
      Danny Powers and Gary L. Gianniny

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Halokinesis Features Related to Flowage and Dissolution of Pennsylvanian Hermosa Salt in the Paradox Basin, Colorado and Utah,
      Donald L. Rasmussen

Cyclic Hermosa Prograding Deltas and Fan Deltas during the Pennsylvanian and Early Permian in the Paradox Basin, Colorado and Utah,
      Donald L. Rasmussen

Analysis of a Long Cane Creek Horizontal: New Insight into an Unconventional Tight Oil Resource Play, Paradox Basin, Utah,
      Larry Rasmussen, Tom Smith, Lynn Canter, Mark Sonnenfeld, and John Forster

Burial Histories of Mississippian Potential Source and Shale- Gas Reservoir Rocks, Central and Western Utah,
      Robert Ressetar

Spatial Variability of Injectivity and Storage Capacity in a Geologically Complex Sequestration Target: The Devonian Sylvania Sandstone, Michigan Basin USA,
      Farsheed Rock and Dave Barnes

Capturing Lessons Learned in DOE’s Best Practice Manuals,
      Traci Rodosta, J. Lytinski, and S. Plasyinki

Uranium Exploration in the Rocky Mountain Region,
      Samuel B. Romberger

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Revisiting the Shale Gas and Shale Oil Resources of the Paradox Basin, Colorado and Utah,
      Steven Schamel

Manning Canyon Shale: An Emerging Shale Gas Resource,
      Steven Schamel and Jeffrey Quick

Federal UIC Regulations for Geologic Sequestration: An Integrated Approach of Site Characterization, Modeling, and Monitoring,
      Gregory Schnaar

Organic and Inorganic Surface Expressions of the Lisbon and Lightning Draw Southeast Oil and Gas Fields, Paradox Basin, Utah, USA,
      David Seneshen, Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., Craig D. Morgan, and Michael D. Vanden Berg

Converting Fugitive Methane Gas Emissions into a Viable Resource,Fruitland Formation Outcrop, San Juan Basin Colorado,
      Christopher E. Shephard and Karen L. Spray

Revised White River Group Stratigraphy and Uranium Mineralization in the Nebraska Panhandle,
      Steven Sibray

Anatomy of a 2nd-Order Unconformity: Stratigraphy and Facies of the Bakken Formation during Basin Realignment,
      Orion L. Skinner, K. Lyn Canter, Mark D. Sonnenfeld, and Mark R. Williams

Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (HHXRF) Analysis of Geochemical Proxies for Productivity in Gas Shales,
      Christopher N. Smith

From “FutureGen” to the “Texas Clean Energy Project”, Building the World’s First 90% Carbon Capture Clean Coal Plant with CCS/EOR,
      Hoxie W. Smith

Source and Reservoir Characteristics of the Bakken Petroleum System in the Billings Nose Area, Williston Basin,
      Stephen A. Sonnenberg, John Stroud, and J. F. (Rick)Sarg

Fracture Analysis in the Tight Gas Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, Uinta Basin, UtaG,
      Ryan C. Sonntag, Paul LaPointe, Hope Sisley, Meagan DeRaps, and Kristin Schade

Overview of the Deep Geothermal Production at the Peppermill Resort, Reno, Nevada,
      Terrence Spampanato, Alan Bailey, William Ehni, and Jerome Walker

Recognition and Distribution of the Middle Jurassic Temple Cap Formation in the Central Utah Thrust belt,
      Douglas A. Sprinkel, John Vrona, Emily E. Hartwick, Hellmut H. Doelling, Bart J. Kowallis, Martin Lester, Christopher Toland, Rossella Sbarra, and Gerald Waanders

The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership: Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration Activities,
      Edward N. Steadman, John Harju, Daniel J. Daly, Charles Gorecki, Melanie D. Jensen, Wesley D. Peck, Steven A. Smith, and James Sorensen

The Mowry Shale, Review of Potential in the Big Horn Basin,
      Robert Sterling, Matt Silverman, and Gary Stewart

Assessment of Potential for Oil, Gas, and Coal-bed Natural Gas Development in the Northeast Paradox Basin, Uncompahgre Plateau and Southeast Piceance Basin, Colorado,
      Dean P. Stilwell, Alfred M. Elser, and Amber L. Robbins

Kinematic Analysis using Profile and Time-Slice Animations of 3-D Seismic Volumes: Examples from the Rocky Mountain Foreland Province,
      Donald S. Stone

Breakthroughs in Seismic and Borehole Characterization of Continental Flood Basalt Sequestration Targets,
      Charlotte Sullivan, Bob Hardage, and Pete McGrail

Geochemical Vectoring of Geothermal Systems,
      Monte Swan and Stan Keith

Mapping Structure of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Using Geochemical Vectoring,
      Monte Swan, Stan Keith, and John Horne

Strato-Tectonic Analysis: A Tectonic Integration Tool Used to Link Complex Orogenic Development of the Western U.S. Cordillera to Hydrocarbon Events,
      Monte Swan, John Horne, Rick Livaccari, and Stan Keith

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State Regulatory Approaches to Geologic Carbon Sequestration in the Big Sky Region,
      John Talbott

The Petroleum Potential of the Pennsylvanian Age Atoka and Cherokee Age Carbonaceous Shales in the Denver Basin,
      Steven Tedesco

Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Bin Distribution Permeability to Observed Production,
      Steven Thibodeaux, Jim Bray, Charles H. Smith, Ken Huggins, and Sandeep Ramakrishna

Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation of the Pennsylvanian Hermosa Group in Rico, Colorado,
      David J. Todaro, Gary L. Gianniny, and Kim Miskell-Gerhardt

The Permian Upper Minnelusa Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Regional Analysis and Application to Exploration and Development,
      Mark Tomasso, Glen Murrell, Brian M. Reyes, Geoffrey Thyne, Gerald G. Forney, and Daniel E. Shier

Using Lidar to Characterize and Model Outcrop Analogs: Application to Aeolian and Shallow Marine Exposures, Wyoming,
      Mark Tomasso, Brian M. Reyes, Randi S. Martinsen, Lee F. Krystinik, and Adam R. Van Holland

Recovery is Under Way: Implications for Rockies Unconventional Plays in 2010,
      Stephen Trammel

Residual Oil Zones: From Science to Commercial Exploitation,
      Bob Trentham and Steve Melzer

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Facies Heterogeneity and Petrography of the Downdip Evaporitic Wedges in the Akah Interval of the Pennsylvanian Paradox Basin,
      Jordan P. Van Sickle and Gary Gianniny

Stratigraphic Characterization of the Birds Nest Aquifer in the Uinta Basin, Utah: Implications for Saline Water Disposal from Natural Gas Production,
      Michael D. Vanden Berg, Stephanie M. Carney, Craig D. Morgan, and Michael D. Laine

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Central Utah Thrust Belt Discoveries - A Tale of Two Hydrocarbon Charges,
      David A. Wavrek, Daniel D. Schelling, Rossella Sbarra, John Vrona, and Keith Johnson

The Application of Ground-Based Lidar to Conduct Multiscale, Outcrop Structural Evaluation with examples from the Anadarko Basin and the Colorado Plateau,
      Timothy F. Wawrzyniec and Roger M. Slatt

Diagenetic Factors Influencing Quality of Mesaverde Tight-Gas Sandstone Reservoirs, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, USA,
      John C. Webb, Alan P. Byrnes, Robert M. Cluff, Dan Krygowski, and Stefani Whittaker

Arizona Uranium Breccia-Pipe District - One of America’s Most Strategic Mineral Resources: Fact or Myth,
      Karen Wenrich

Pre- and Post-Injection Vertical Seismic Profiling over the Southwest Regional Partnership’s Phase II Fruitland Coal CO2 Pilot,
      Tom Wilson, Les Nutt, Ric Smith, Marcia Coueslan, Dwight Peters, Art Wells, Craig Hartline, George Koperna, and Bill Akwari

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Sequence Stratigraphic Approach Using Architectural Element Analysis on a Prograding Shoreline Sequence of the Pictured Cliffs Sandstone, Northern San Juan Basin,
      Senthil Velan Yuvaraj and J.E. Evans

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