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Mapping of the Miocene-Quaternary deformation of Nellis Dunes Recreational Area using GIS, Processed Aster and QuickBird images and field mapping
Shaimaa Abdelhaleem and Wanda J. Taylor
The value of detailed reservoir characterization and stratigraphic interpretation: An example from the San Joaquin Basin, California, U.S.A.
Jonathan P. Allen, David K. Larue, Mark J. Henning, Edwin A. Hernandez and Mark F. Mercer
Incorporating complex geology in basin models: Example from a forearc basin; San Joaquin Valley, California
Lisa A. Alpert and Caroly Lampe
Velocity modeling with complex tectonics; example from the San Joaquin forearc basin, California
Lisa A. Alpert and Josue Rosas
The Henderson Fault and Tectonic Erratics at Lone Mountain and Devils Gate, Eureka County, Nevada
David Arellano, Stanley Finney and Thomas Kelly
EXAMINING THE GEOCHEMICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE TWENTYNINE PALMS AND QUEEN MOUNTAIN PLUTONS IN JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK
Alexander Arita, Vali Memeti and Lizzeth Flores
The Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy: Past, present and future
Bridget Ayling
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Undeveloped petroleum potential of the western-most Santa Barbara Channel, offshore California
Jim Ballard
Chronostratigraphy of the Quaternary Santa Barbara Basin: an integrated geophysical, sedimentologic and paleoceanographic approach
Richard J. Behl, Craig Nicholson, Christopher C. Sorlien, James P. Kennett, Courtney J. Marshall, Sarah Hopkins Decesari and Diane K. Escobedo
Joint inversion of first-arrivals with full waveform inversion: improving the near-surface model for depth imaging the Marcellus shale of Bradford County, PA
Miller L. Bell, Thomas Baltz, Richard Verm and Hui Fan
Exploring Utah's Other Great Lake: What Great Salt Lake Can Tell Us About Ancient Lake Uinta
Michael Vanden Berg, Thomas Chidsey and David Eby
Geochemistry and mineralogy of the Uteland Butte member of the Green River Formation, Uinta Basin
Justin E. Birdwell, Michael Vanden Berg, Ronald C. Johnson and Adam R. Boehike
Aspects of CO2-enhanced oil recovery, from initial field screening to project implementation: Beaver Creek and Big Sand Draw CO2-EOR projects, Wyoming
Brian J. Black, Carlos Periera and Mahmood Ahmadi
The Wolfcamp Horizontal Play of Midland Basin, West Texas
Peter K. Blomquist
Reducing geologic uncertainty in seismic interpretation
James E. Bock
Oil Fields in Railroad Valley Nevada
Louis Bortz
Thickness and extent of clay layers in the Pleistocene Tulare Formation near Elk Hills, California: Implications for water disposal operations and timing of structural growth
Paul Bowles and Janice Gillespie
Hydrocarbon potential of arkosic sands in the Payette Basin, southwest Idaho: a discussion on basin fill, subsurface structure, and syndepositional maturation and migration history
Renee L. Breedlovestrout and M.Ed Ratchford
Monitoring and analysis of surface deformation with InSAR and subsurface data, San Joaquin Valley, California
Graham E. Brew, Mizue Horiuchi, Pieter Bas Leezenberg and Arjan Tabak
Subtle partitioning of a sandstone reservoir: permeability patterns interpreted from fluid-escape geometries in the Early Jurassic Navajo Sandstone
Gerald C. Bryant and Colby Ford
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Alamo Breccia: a key to unravel thrust duplexes in the southern Nevada portion of the western North American Cordillera fold thrust belt
Alan Chamberlain
Great Basin Algorefrauds
Alan Chamberlain
Creating a Master Geologic map of the Great Basin
Alan Chamberlain, Kumar Bhattucharjee and Rick Bailey
Great Basin structure and potential prospects revealed by a structural contour map on top of the Mississippian Joana Limestone
Alan Chamberlain
Newly discovered Chainman shale outcrops in the Spring Mountains west of Las Vegas extends the southern end of the Mississippian Antler foreland basin by about seventy-five miles
Alan Chamberlain
A River Runs Through It
Alan Chamberlain, Kumar Bhattucharjee and Rick Bailey
Mapping and managing Great Basin water resources
Alan Chamberlain, Kumar Bhattucharjee and Rick Bailey
Great Basin oil shales
Alan Chamberlain
Sequence stratigraphy of the Mississippian Antler foreland basin
Alan Chamberlain
Scaling up well log interpretation for groundwater salinity mapping in the age of Big Data
Will Chang, David H. Shimabukuro, Janice Gillespie and Michael J. Stephens
Testing the Mojave-Snow Lake fault hypothesis using Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Eduardo Chavez, Valbone Memeti, Nancy McMillan and Hayden Thompson
‘Clay mineral assemblage of a mudstone facies, Upper Jurassic Curtis Formation, east-central Utah’
Robert P. Conner and Mario V. Caputo
Structural Evolution of the Oil Well Flats Detachment System, Cañon City Embayment, Colorado
Lauren Cross and Bruce Trudgill
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Spatial and geochemical characterization of anomalous, map-scale carbonate bodies in the Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California
Maia Davis and Richard J. Behl
The Santa Susana fault, Aliso Canyon gas storage field, southern California-possible fault rupture hazard, gas well integrity, and regulatory implications
Thomas L. Davis
Improving the performance of mature waterfloods
Roland P. DeBruyn
An Outcrop to Subsurface Stratigraphic Analysis of the Niobrara Formation, Sand Wash Basin, Colorado
Benjamin A. Dellenbach
Exploration and structural controls of the McGinness Hills geothermal field
Benjamin N. Delwiche
Real Global Price of oil in the unconventional era
William D. DeMis
Exploration and Discovery of the Pine Ridge Uranium Deposits Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA
Mark J. Doelger and Kent A. Sundell
Stratigraphic Units in the Bolson of Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, with Emphasis on Hydrostratgraphic Units
David J. Donovan
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Methodologies and strategies for harnessing the vast geothermal potential of Nevada and the Great Basin region: A summary of recent studies and advances
James E. Faulds, Nicholas H. Hinz, Mark F. Coolbaugh, Lisa A. Shevenell and Drew L. Siler
Mowry Shale - Outcrop to Production
Andrew Finley
The tectonic-erratic hypothesis presents a new strategy for petroleum exploration in north-central Nevada
Stanley Finney
Using k-feldspar megacrysts as recorders of magma processes in the Twenty-nine palms pluton in Joshua Tree National Park
Lizzeth Flores
Shear zone faulting, volcanism, and basin evolution along a continental margin transform system: San Pedro Basin, offshore Southern California
Robert D. Francis, Mark R. Legg and Chris M. Castillo
Mississippian shales of the Great Basin: source-rock potential, geographic distribution and tectonic evolution
Don E. French, James H. Trexler, Jerome P. Walker and Patricia H. Cashman
History and future of oil exploration in the Great Basin
Don E. French and Robert A. Schalla
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Diamondoids as molecular markers for coupled oil cracking and expulsion evaluation in unconventional petroleum systems
Li Gao, Yongchun Tang, Andrew C. Sneddon, Yun Li and Sheng Wu
‘Interbedded eolian and alluvial strata analyzed by modified latex peels: Holocene Lake Cahuilla, Carrizo Wash, Anza-Borrego Desert, California’
Matthew Geller and Mario V. Caputo
2014 Wyoming stratigraphic nomenclature chart
Lynette George, Don Cardinal, Carl Babb and Gary Winter
Miocene paleogeography and stratigraphic evolution of the Ventura Basin
Gregory Gordon and Stuart Gordon
The UND-CLR binary geothermal power plant
WilliamD. Gosnold, Michael Mann and Hossein Salefar
Redeveloping the Almond Formation in the Vermillion Basin of southwestern Wyoming: structural and stratigraphic complexity in tight-gas development
Brent Greenhalgh
Investigating the Volcanic-Plutonic Connections Using Geochemistry in the Minarets Caldera, Eastern-Central Sierra Nevada Mountain Range
Evelyn P. Gutierrez
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Importance of regional geological and petrophysical analysis of the Bakken/Three Forks formations of the Williston basin, North Dakota and Montana
Daniel Hallau, Catherine M. Murphy, Stefani Brakenhoof, Ryan J. Sharma, Nikki Oliver and Robert M. Cluff
Python and pandas, oh my: a rich ecosystem of open source tools for petrophysical and geological assessment
Daniel Hallau
Opportunities for geoscientists beyond the conventional
David H. Hawk
The Shell Oil ‘Vilche’ deep test and a better understanding of the Pine Creek Fault, northern Sacramento Basin: what a difference one micropaleontolgy report makes!
Scott T. Hector
Wellsite Log Quality Control - What you don't know can hurt you
Donald G. Hill
‘Potash identification plot (PID) for rapid identification of commercial potash deposits’
Donald G. Hill
Milankovitch stratigraphy in the Miocene-Quaternary marine succession of offshore coastal California
Pamela S. Hill and Richard J. Behl
A Geologic Comparison of the Oil Window and Dry Gas Window within the Tow Creek Member of the Niobrara Formation in the Piceance Basin of Northwestern, Colorado
Marcus J. Hinricher and Steve Sonnenberg
A petrophysical model to distinguish water-wet and oil-wet fractions of unconventional reservoir systems using triple-combo log suites
Michael Holmes, Antony Holmes and Dominic I. Holmes
Stratigraphic geochemical variations in the Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale, southwest Piceance Basin, Colorado
William C. Hood and Rex D. Cole
Structure, Evolution and Tectonic Significance of the Eastern Boundary of the Outer Continental Borderland
Greg De Hoogh, Christopher C. Sorlien, Craig Nicholson, Catherine Schindler and Robert D. Francis
Are we there yet? The road towards maturity in the petroliferous Ventura basin, California
Tom Hopps
Some perspective on electrical borehole image logs for the end user
Thomas Howard
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Tectonic setting and resulting characteristics of the Paisley Geothermal System, Paisley, Oregon
Kyle Makovsky and Walter Snyder
Depositional model and reservoir characteristics of the Lower Tulare Formation (Plio-Pleistocene), South Belridge Field, San Joaquin Valley, California
Mark G. Maroun
Finding new oil fields in a mature play: BV Nose discovery, Upper Miocene Stevens play, San Joaquin basin, California: A case study
Keith Meyerholtz and Manual Paz
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Simplified Workflow for Target Optimization in Heterogeneous Reservoirs, an Example from the Middle Bakken, North Dakota
Mark Millard, Murray Dighans, Sam Fluckiger, Chantel Lines, Riley Brinkerhoff and Sarah Edwards
Stratigraphic reservoirs as geothermal targets in the Great Basin of the United States
Joseph Moore, Rick Allis and Christian Hardwick
Petrophysical techniques for asset analysis in the Permian Basin
Rachael E. Moreland
Probing the Reno-Area Basin to 2 km Depth with Ultra-Deep Refraction Microtremor Surveys: A New Development Tool for Basin Plays of the Intermountain West.
Dan Munger, John N. Louie, Satish Pullammanappallil and Aasha Pancha
Structural and Depositional History of the Early Miocene in the Western San Joaquin Basin: Inferences from 3D Seismic
Gary A. Myers and Gregory Gordon
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The Wildcatters, the Regulators and the Prize: Chronicles of the Cat Canyon Oil Field, Santa Barbara County, CA.
Joe Nahama
‘No Money Down’ Revitalization
Susan Nash
Eight Success Elements for New Ventures
Susan Nash
Old Well Rescue: Don't Euthanize, Revitalize!
Susan Nash
Fractured Precambrian reservoir characteristics: St. Johns CO2 Field, Apache County, AZ
Mary Nelis and Travis Kelsay
Lightning Analysis for Mapping Faults and Identifying Exploration Sweetspots
Roice Nelson
Mixed Siliciclastic-Siliceous Succession, Miocene Monterey Formation, Point Dume to Paradise Cove, Malibu, California
Wanjiru M. Njuguna and Richard J. Behl
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Revisiting the Great Basin, Part 1: Regional cross section construction and thrust sheet restoration.
Daniel Schelling and David A. Wavrek
Virtually eliminate dry or sub-economic wells in over-pressured and normal-pressured fields: Jonah Field and Anadarko Basin case studies
Rick Schrynemeeckers
Optimizing lateral placement and production while minimizing completion costs: an Eagle Ford case study
Rick Schrynemeeckers
Characterization of Pliocene Pico and Repetto Formation Turbidites at Ventura Avenue Field, Ventura, California
Jon Schwalbach, Jay Holloway and Elizabeth Steel
Impact of local accommodation on the architecture and stacking patterns of three Capistrano Formation slope-channel outcrops: Point Fermin, Dana Point, and San Clemente, California
Daniel E. Schwartz, David R. Pyles, Renaud Bourollec, David C. Jennette and Gregory Gordon
Chemostratigraphy of the Miocene Monterey Formation within the San Joaquin Basin, California
Alex Sedlak and Richard J. Behl
New Wellsite Analytical Protocols for Characterizing Original and Producible Tight Oil and Gas
Andrew C. Sneddon, Sheng Wu, Yongchun Tang, Li Gao, Tao Yang and Jian Hu
The Graneros-Greenhorn Petroleum System, a Possible New Resource Play, Rocky Mountain Region, USA
Steve Sonnenberg
Insights into Niobrara Stratigraphic Architecture and Diagenesis, Wattenberg Field, Denver Basin, Colorado
Steve Sonnenberg
OUR CURRENT WORKING MODEL FOR UNCONVENTIONAL TIGHT PETROLEUM SYSTEMS: OIL AND GAS
Steve Sonnenberg and Larry Meckel
Adding value: A new perspective on aging leases, Tulare formation, Cymric oil field
Heather Stang
Calculation of groundwater salinity using the resistivity-porosity (RP) method on digitized geophysical logs from California oil and gas fields
Michael J. Stephens, David H. Shimabukuro and Janice Gillespie
Carlin-type gold deposit development as an analogue for unconventional hydrocarbon field development
Daniel M. Sturmer
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What we know and wish we knew about oil exploration in Nevada
Jerome P. Walker
Play fairway analysis for structurally-controlled geothermal systems in the Eastern Great Basin extensional regime, Utah, USA
Philip Wannamaker, Kristine L. Pankow, Joseph Moore, Gregory Nash, Virginie Maris and Stuart Simmons
Exploration and development of the Neal Hot Springs geothermal resource, Malheur County, Oregon
Ian Warren
Revisiting the Great Basin: Part 2 — Petroleum System Insights
David A. Wavrek, Maria N. Slack and Daniel Schelling
Compositional and diagenetic relationships and controls of mechanical behavior in siliceous mudstones of the upper Monterey Formation, Belridge Oilfield, San Joaquin Basin, California.
Ryan Weller and Richard J. Behl
Evaluating the potential for Enhanced Geothermal Systems development in the United States
Colin F Williams
Apparent and actual strain variation in the Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, southern Santa Maria Basin, California: Implication for cross-section construction and reservoir characterization
Yannick Wirtz, Richard J. Behl, Thomas L. Davis and Jay Namson
Basalt sills in the 10,054-ft deep Ore-Ida well: western Snake River Plain Cenozoic basin of Idaho and Oregon
Spencer Wood
Geology of the western margin of the Cenozoic Western Snake River Plain basin near Ontario, Oregon
Spencer Wood
Light hydrocarbon analysis illustrates oil type and tight reservoir conditions --- examples from PERMIAN, EAGLE FORD, STACK and MISS LIME
Sheng Wu, Andrew C. Sneddon, Tao Yang, Li Gao, Yongchun Tang and Jian Hu
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