Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin corners
Jackson School of Geosciences
Jackson School of Geosciences
Department of Geological SciencesBureau of Economic GeologyInstitute for Geophysics

JSG is there!

JSG will be at the 2009 AAPG Annual Meeting!

JSG will be represented at AAPG's 2009 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, June 7-10, 2009, by members of its staff, students, and alumni.

Friends and Alumni, we'll be in Booth 1031 at the AAPG meeting. Join us for a reception in the Hyatt Regency Convention Center, Centennial Salon A, on Monday, June 8, from 5:30-730 pm.

Sue Hovorka will present "Risks and Benefits of Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide - How Do the Pieces Fit?" at the AAPG Divisions Energy Forum on Tuesday, Room 702/704/706, 5:00 p.m. - 6:05 p.m.

Beverly Blakeney De Jarnett will be co-leader of Field Trip 2, Predicting Clastic Reservoirs Using Applied Sequence Stratigraphy: Understanding the Fundamental Drivers of Basin Fill Architecture.

Ron Steel will be co-leader of Field Trip 2, Development of an Anomalous Clastic Wedge: A 400-Kilometer “Sink-to-Source” Transect through Upper Cretaceous Cordilleran Foreland Basin Fill, Utah and Colorado.

 

Sessions Chaired by JSG Staff

(Co-)Chair

Session

Room/Time

Lesli Wood

Theme XIII - 3-D Seismic Geomodeling

Wednesday, 8:00 am,
Room 708/710/712

Xavier Janson

Theme IV – Origin of Carbonate Breccia Systems—Multi-time Events and Reservoir Quality”

Monday, 8:30 am,
Exhibit Hall

Mike Hudec

Theme V – Salt Basins of the World—Broadening Our Understanding of Salt Tectonics

Monday,8:30 am, Exhibit Hall

Julia Gale

Theme V—Tectonics and Diagenesis in Shale Basins

Monday, 8:30 am,
Exhibit Hall

Chris Zahm

Theme V- Role of Mechanical Stratigraphy in Reservoir Development

Tuesday, 8:30 am,
Exhibit Hall

Stephen C. Ruppel and Farzam Javadpour

Theme VIII – Pore Network and Fluid Flow in Mudrocks

Tuesday, 10:15 am,
102/104/106

William Ambrose

Theme X – Energy Minerals in the Solar System—Resources for the 21st Century

Tuesday, 8:00 am
108/110/112

Jerome Bellian

Theme IV – Carbonate Outcrop Analogs for Reservoir Characterization II

Wednesday, 8:30 am
Exhibit Hall

Chris Zahm and Bob Loucks

Theme VIII – Tight Gas Sandstones and Carbonates—Micropore Networks and Fracture Systems

Wednesday, 8:30 am,
Exhibit Hall

Tip Meckel

Theme XII—Imagining a Carbon Constrained World: EOR Using Anthropogenic CO2 and Other Options

Monday, 8:30 am,
Exhibit Hall

 

Talks and Posters

Authors(s)

Title

Theme

Room/Time

Monday Talks

B. Johnson, Ogiesoba, O.C. and Hammes, U.

Techniques for Imaging 4th- and 5th-Order Shelf Sequences in 3-D Seismic Data:Miocene, South Texas Gulf Coast

Visualizing and Quantifying Uncertainty in Seismic Interpretations

708/710/712
8:45 am

Armando Sena, Paul Stoffa Mrinal Sen, Long Jin, Roustam Seif

4-D Seismic: When Should We Acquire the Next Seismic Survey?

Visualizing and Quantifying Uncertainty in Seismic Interpretations

708/710/712
11:20 am

M.R. Hudec and M. Jackson

Criteria for interpreting open feeders beneath allochthonous salt sheets

Salt Tectonics of the northern Gulf of Mexico - new insights from new data

102/104/106
01:20 pm

Beatriz Garcia-Fresca*, Gareth D. Jones and Tianfu Xu

The apparent stratigraphic concordance of reflux dolomite: New insights from synsedimentary reactive transport models

CARBONATE SYSTEMS: Carbonate Diagenesis - Shallow-to-Deep Processes and Products

108/110/112
2:00 pm

H. Zeng

Frequency-Dependent Seismic Stratigraphy for High-Resolution Interpretation of Depositional Sequences

Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation - Case Histories for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Exploitation

708/710/712
2:40 pm

Walaa Ali**, Julia F. W. Gale, Stephen C. Ruppel, David L. Carr and Robert G. Loucks

Lithofacies, Depositional Environment, Burial History and Calculation of Organic Richness from Wireline Logs: A study of the Barnett Shale in the Delaware Basin, Pecos Co., West Texas, and comparison with the Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth Basin

Theme IX: Gas Shales Reservoirs - Updates and New Insights

605/607
3:50 pm

Hammes, U. and D. L. Carr

Sequence Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments, and Production Fairways of the Haynesville Shale-Gas Play in East Texas

Theme IX: Gas Shales Reservoirs - Updates and New Insights

605/607
4:10 pm

Monday Morning Posters

L. Bingham, A. Escalona, I. Norton, P. Mann

GIS-Based Hydrocarbon Resource Map of the Mexican Sector of the Gulf of Mexico

Global E & P - North America

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

A.M. Fernandes*, S. Henriksen, R. Steel, and D. Mohrig

Comparing Stratal Architectures in Confined and Weakly Confined Turbidite Channel Systems

Understanding Deepwater Sedimentary Systems — Predictions Versus Observations

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Angela McDonnell, Lesli Wood, R. Day-Stirrat

Characteristics of 'Mobile' Shale in the Deep Stratigraphic Subsurface

Stratigraphy and Sedimentation

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Tip Meckel and S. Tinker

A Texas Geologic Carbon Repository Concept Beneath Submerged State Lands

Imagining a Carbon Constrained World: EOR using Anthropogenic CO2 and Other Options

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Ogiesoba, O.C. and Hammes, U.

Seismic Interpretation of Mass-Moved Sediments Within the Upper Oligocene Frio Formation, South Texas Gulf Coast

Stratigraphy and Sedimentation

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Estrellina Pacis, Kip V. Hodges, Linda Kobayashi, Maria Bualat, Mark Helper, Matthew C. Deans, Pascal Lee, Rob Landis, Steve Riley, Terry Fong

Robotic Scouting for Human Exploration

Lunar Field Exploration Equipment and Sample Documentation

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Raun, W., Wood, L. and Huang, J.

Mass-transport deposits in distal confined mini-basin settings, Mad Dog area, Gulf of Mexico

Stratigraphy and Sedimentation

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

H.E. Strong**, P.B. Flemings, D.E. Sawyer*, J.T. Germaine, R. Day-Stirrat, J. Schneider

Consolidation Characteristics of Mass Transport Deposits in Ursa Basin, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Selected Academic Research Topics: AAPG Student Presentations

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Arthur W. Snoke, Mark Helper

Field Exploration Analysis Team (FEAT): An Overview

Lunar Field Exploration Equipment and Sample Documentation

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

G. A. Taboada**, P. Mann, A. Escalona

Tectonic Controls for Three Main Subsidence Phases of the Eastern Venezuelan Foreland Basin in the Region of the Orinoco Delta

XV: Selected Academic Research

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Shew, R., Studlick, J. and Wood, L.

Deep-Water Architectures and Statistics

 

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Singh, K.** and Wood, L.

Geometry and nature of modern and ancient mass transport deposits

Theme XV: SEPM Student Academic Research

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Monday Afternoon Posters

P.A. Emmet and P. Mann

Hydrocarbon Potential of the Nicaragua Rise Based on Reevaluation of Vintage Seismic andWell Data from the 1970s and 1980s

Global E & P - South America and Caribbean

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

A.M. Fernandes*, D. Mohrig, J. Buttles, A. Peyret, R. Steel

Laboratory Experimentation in Self-Channelization by Turbidity Currents

Understanding Deepwater Sedimentary Systems - Predictions Versus Observations

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

William Galloway, Patricia Ganey-Curry, Timothy L. Whiteaker

Regional Controls on Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Continental Slope and Abyssal Plain Reservoir Systems of the Gulf of Mexico Basin

Understanding Deepwater Sedimentary Systems - Predictions vs. Observations

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

X. Jiang, P. Mann, A. Escalona

Tectonostratigraphic and Hydrocarbon Framework of the Colombian Offshore Margin from the Magdalena Delta to Panama

Global E & P - South America and Caribbean

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

T. Meckel, Sue Hovorka, R.H. Trevino

Continuous Real-Time Pressure Monitoring During a CO2-EOR Project at Cranfield,Mississippi, and Relevance for Geologic Sequestration

XII: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Sequestration III

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

I. Norton, A. Escalona, P. Mann, L. Lawver

Mesozoic Caribbean Plate Reconstructions Based on a Revised Fit of Pre-Cambrian and Paleozoic Terranes in Northwestern South America and Central America

Global E & P - South America and Caribbean

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

I. Norton, M. Jackson, M.R. Hudec

Tectonics of Passive Margin Salt Basins: Crustal Structure of the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic during Salt Deposition

V: Structure and Tectonics

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

M. Santra*, R. Steel, and M.L. Sweet

Deep-Water Fan Complexes in a Forearc Basin — Eocene Tyee Formation

Deepwater Core and Outcrop Analogs - Comparison with Subsurface and Reservoir Prediction

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

Tuesday Talks

Morgan, J. and Lesli Wood

Quantitative Seismic Geomorphologic analysis of early Pliocene-age fans outboard of the Sigsbee Escarpment, Mad Dog Area, northern Gulf of Mexico

Theme V: 3-D Interaction of Tectonics and Sedimentation I

205/207
8:00 am

Lesli Wood

Deltas and Turbidites in Martian Lake Settings: Implications for the Occurrence of Organic Matter, Water Body Distribution and Sediment Dispersal

Theme X: Energy Minerals in the Solar System - Resources for the 21st Century

108/110/112
8:00 am

W. A. Ambrose

Water Ice on Mars and the Moon

Theme X: Energy Minerals in the Solar System - Resources for the 21st Century (EMD)

108/110/112
8:05 am

T. F. Hentz, W. A. Ambrose, and D. L. Carr

Sequence Stratigraphic and Depositional Settings of Highstand Deltaic and Lowstand Valley-Fill Deposits of the Middle and Upper Pennsylvanian Cleveland and Marmaton Tight-Gas Sandstones, Northwest Anadarko Basin

Siliciclastic Sedimentology and Sequence Analysis for Improved Reservoir Prediction I

605/607
8:45 am

J.L. Aschoff and R. Steel

Basin Dynamics and Bayhead Deltas: Recognition of Their Deposits and Possible External Controls

Coastal and Shallow Marine Siliciclastic Systems I

601/603
10:40 am

Vishal T Maharaj** and Lesli J. Wood

A Quantitative Paleo-Geomorphic Study of the Fluvio-Deltaic Reservoirs in the Atoka Interval, Fort Worth Basin, Texas, U.S.A.

Siliciclastic Sedimentology and Sequence Analysis for Improved Reservoir Prediction I

605/607
10:55 am

W. A. Ambrose, R. G. Loucks, T. F. Hentz, and F. Bonnaffé

Facies Architectural Elements and Sandstone-Body Continuity in Highstand, Fluvial-Dominated, Deltaic Reservoirs in the Upper Cretaceous Woodbine Group, East Texas Field

Theme III: Siliciclastic Sedimentology and Sequence Analysis for Improved Reservoir Prediction I (SEPM)

605/607
11:20 am

R.M .Reed, R. Loucks, K. Milliken

SEM-Based Observations of Micro- and Nanopore in Mudrocks Using Argon-Ion-Beam Milled Samples

Pore Network and Fluid Flow in Mudrocks

102/104/106
11:20 am

J. Goff

Evolution and Preservation of Sand Ridges on the New Jersey Middle and Outer Shelf

Siliciclastic Sedimentology and Sequence Analysis for Improved Reservoir Prediction II

605/607
01:20 pm

A. Strasser, A. Miall, B. Macurda, B. Pratt, C. Fielding, C. G. Kendall, D. Nummedal, H.W. Posamentier, J. Neal, J. Bhattacharya, J. Holbrook, K. Giles, K. Shanley, M. R. Gibling, M. Tucker, M. Blum, O. Catuneanu, O. Martinsen, P. Eriksson, R. Sarg, R.W. Dalrymple, Ronald Steel, V. Abreu, W. Galloway, W.L. Fisher

Towards the Standardization of Sequence Stratigraphy

Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation - Case Histories for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Exploitation

708/710/712
1:20 pm

A. El-Barkooky, M. Hamdan, Safiya M. Hassan, N. Christie-Blick, S. Goldstein, Y. Cai

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Lower Miocene Moghra Formation in the Qattara Depression, North Western Desert, Egypt

Coastal and Shallow Marine Siliciclastic Systems II

601-603
2:00

Andrew Petter*, N.D. Phillips, Ronald Steel

Tide-dominated shelf-edge deltas deliver and store sand on the upper slope: Columbus Basin, Trinidad

Siliciclastic Sedimentology and Sequence Analysis for Improved Reservoir Prediction II

605/607
2:00 pm

Brian K. Horton, Joel E. Saylor, Junsheng Nie, Mauricio Parra, Daniel F. Stockli, Andrés Mora

Basin Evolution and Sediment Provenance in the Colombian Andes: Results from Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology

Theme V: 3-D Interaction of Tectonics and Sedimentation II

205/207
2:20 pm

J.L. Aschoff and R. Steel

Clastic Wedge Development in the Cordilleran Foreland Basin, U.S.A.: Implications for Basin Dynamics During the Cretaceous Sevier-Laramide Transition

3-D Interaction of Tectonics and Sedimentation II

205/207
03:50 pm

Tuesday Morning Posters

D. L. Carr and T. F. Hentz

Sequence Stratigraphy and Organic Richness of the Lower Pennsylvanian Atoka Series, Northwest Anadarko Basin, Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle

Theme IX: Gas Shales Reservoirs - Updates and New Insights II

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

A.Ozkan*, S.Cumella, K. Milliken, S. Cumella, S. Laubach

Prediction of Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality Using Well Logs,Williams Fork Formation,Mamm Creek Field, Piceance Basin

Petrographic Techniques and Examples Used in Reservoir Delineation

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Milt Enderlin, Chris Zahm, and David Naylor

A Method to Quantifiably Relate Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) Between the Surface and the Subsurface for Mechanical Stratigraphic Applications

Theme V: Role of Mechanical Stratigraphy in Reservoir Development

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Ryan Phelps, Charles Kerans

Allocycles, Autocycles, and Dolomite Distribution in Albian Peritidal Successions of the Upper Glen Rose, Austin, Texas

Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Analysis for Exploration and Improved Reservoir Prediction

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

X. Xie, P. Mann, A. Escalona

Impact of Tectonic Setting and Diagenetic History on the Reservoir Potential of Eocene to Miocene On- and Off-Shore, Deep-Water Sandstones, Northern South America

VII: Petrographic Techniques and Examples Used in Reservoir Delineation

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Chris Zahm, Charles Kerans, Xavier Janson

Integrating Fracture Systems into a Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphic Framework

Theme V: Role of Mechanical Stratigraphy in Reservoir Development

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Tuesday Afternoon Posters

S Bachtel, R. Phelps*, K. Hereid*, J. El-Azzi**, E.M. Dunn**, D. Helbert**, P. Cardona**, R. Caber**, Singh, K.**, and B. Kiel**

Modern Isolated Carbonate Platform Dimensional Database Collected from Publicly Available Image Catalogs

Modern Carbonate Systems - Processes, Products, and Characterization II

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

R. Iglesias, A. J. Maraschin, G. Sbrissa, M. Ketzer, R. Steel

Modeling the CO2-Water-Rock Interactions Aimed for Carbon Dioxide Storage in the Hygiene Formation, Denver Basin (Colorado) and Ericson/Rock Springs Formations, Rock Springs Uplift (Wyoming)

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Sequestration I

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

R.H. Trevino, W. Ambrose, T. Meckel, J. Lu, M. Kordi, and H. Zeng

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Tuscaloosa at Cranfield Field, Mississippi - A Carbon Sequestration Study in an Enhanced Oil Recovery Operation

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Sequestration III

Exhibition Hall
1:15 - 5:00

Wednesday Talks

Xavier Janson and Sergey Fomel

3-D Seismic Expression of Karst Using 3-D Synthetic Seismic Model of Modern Analogs

Theme XIII: 3-D Seismic Geomodeling

708/710/712
8:05 am

Julia F. W. Gale, R.M. Reed, S. Becker, and Walaa Ali**

Natural Fractures in the Barnett Shale in the Delaware Basin, Pecos Co. West Texas: comparison with the Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth Basin

Theme V Impact of Fractures and Faults on Reservoir Performance

201/203
9:05 am

W. A. Ambrose

Giant Impact Basins of the Solar System

Theme X: The Impact of Impacts (EMD)

108/110/112
1:20 pm

W. A. Ambrose

Procellarum: The Largest Basin on the Moon

Theme X: The Impact of Impacts (EMD)

108/110/112
1:20 pm

D. Dunlap, Moscardelli, M. Hornbach, L. Wood

Potential Casual Mechanisin for MTC generation of the Northwest African Shelf

Theme X - The impacts of Impacts

108-112
2:40 pm

C. Olariu, R. Steel, and A. Petter*

The Wider-Than-Longer Sand Lobe of the Hyperpycnal Panther Tongue Delta, Cretaceous, Utah, U.S.A.

SEPM Research Symposium: Source-to-Sink Analysis of Clastic Depositional Systems: Models and Applications II

201/203
02:40 pm

Andrew Petter*, Cristian Carvajal, David Mohrig, Ronald Steel

Sediment flux and load estimation for ancient shelf-margin successions

SEPM Research Symposium: Source-to-Sink Analysis of Clastic Depositional Systems: Models and Applications II

201/203
3:20 pm

Wright, W. R., Tomasso, M., Kerans, C., Santì Anna, M.V., Machado, E.C.V. , Costa, F.O., and Araújo, A. D.

Evolution of a Pre-, Syn- and Post-Halokinetic Lower to Middle Albian Carbonate Platform Succession, Campos Basin-Brazil

Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Analysis for Exploration and Improved Reservoir Prediction II

205-207
3:20 pm

Wednesday Morning Posters

Erwin W. Adams, Jerome Bellian, Paul Milroy, Reuben Reyes

Supervised Automated Lidar Mapping of Permo-Triassic Carbonate Strata, Jebel Akhdar, Oman

Carbonate Outcrop Analogs for Reservoir Characterization II

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

T. Alvarez*, P. Mann, L. Wood

Three-Dimensional Relationships Between Synchronous Normal Faulting, Folding and Sedimentation in the Columbus Basin, Offshore Southern Trinidad

XV: Student Presentations II

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

S.P. Becker, J.N. Hooker, P. Eichhubl, S. Laubach, R. Lander, L. Bonnell, R.M .Reed, A. Fall

History of Fracture Development and Diagenesis in Piceance Basin Tight Gas Reservoirs: Insights from Fluid Inclusion and Fracture Scaling Analyses

Tight Gas Sandstones and Carbonates Micropore Networks and Fracture Systems

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

F. Bonnaffé and Hammes, U.

Volumetric Partitioning of Growth-Faulted Subbasins and High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture of the Oligocene Frio Formation in the Corpus Christi Area of SouthTexas

Siliciclastic Sedimentology and Sequence Analysis for Exploration and Improved Reservoir Prediction I

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Tim Dooley, M. Jackson, M.R. Hudec

Deformation Styles and Linkage of Salt Walls during Oblique Shortening

Theme V: 3-D Interaction of Tectonics and Sedimentation

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

S.P. Dutton and R. G. Loucks

Detrital Mineral Composition and Reservoir Quality of Upper and Lower Wilcox Sandstones of the Texas Gulf of Mexico Coast

Theme VII: Resource Development and Reservoir Characterization

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

D. Helbert**, Stephen C. Ruppel

Reservoir Characterization and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Permian San Andres Platform Carbonates, Permian Basin, West Texas

Theme XV: Student Presentations II

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Huang, J., Wood, L. and Raun, W.

Fill, Strip and Spill model of minibasin sedimentation, Mad Dog area, Gulf of Mexico

3-D Interaction of Tectonics and Sedimentation

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

R. G. Loucks, R.M. Reed, W. A. Ambrose

Preservation of High Reservoir Quality by Early Quartz Cementation in the Historically Significant East Texas Field, Upper Cretaceous Woodbine Sandstone

Siliciclastic Diagenesis - New Insights

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

M. I. Olariu, C. Olariu, R. Steel, and A. Martinius

Architecture of Obliquely Migrating Tidal Bars: Esdolomada Member, Roda Formation,Graus-Tremp Basin, Spain

Coastal and Shallow Marine Siliciclastic Systems I

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

S. Punnette**, P. Mann, A. Escalona

Tectonic and Stratigraphic Setting of Gas Fields of the North Coast Marine Area,Offshore Northern Trinidad and Tobago Basin

XV: Student Presentations II

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Tomasso, M., Wright, W. R., Costa, F.O., Araujo, A.D., Sant’ Anna, M.V., Machado, E.C.V., Hudec, M.R., and Jackson, M.P.A.

The Relationship of Salt-Tectonic Structures to Pre-evaporite Depositional and Structural Regimes and Evaporite Facies in the Campos Basin, Offshore Brazil

3-D Interaction of Tectonics and Sedimentation

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

Chris Zahm, G.P. Tsoflias, K. Petersen, Xavier Janson

Shallow Water Injection Monitoring in Vuggy Pores Using Ground-Penetrating Radar and Cross-Hole Tomography, Pipe Creek,Texas

Theme IV: Carbonate Outcrop Analogs for Reservoir Characterization II

Exhibition Hall
8:30 - 12:00

* PhD Student
** Master's Student
*** Undergraduate Student