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GCAGS hereby announces the creation of the GCAGS Explore & Discover website to provide a more complete archival record of presentations at its conventions, as a supplement to its Transactions and Journal volumes, to foster dissemination of its member society activities and presentations, and to serve as a general repository of Gulf Coast geoscience information.

Complete 2019 Article Series

Complete 2018 Article Series

Select 2018 GCAGS/GCSSEPM Convention Presentations
00297 Adewale Amosu, Mohamed Imsalem, and Yuefeng Sun Estimating the Effect of Rock Mineral Composition on Reservoir Quality:  Application in the Spraberry and Wolfcamp Formations, Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico 2 p.
00298 Khaled S. Amrouni, Osama Rahil Shaltami, Ahmed S. El-Hawat, Michael C. Pope, Aimen Ame, Essa A. Elbileikia, Hassan S. El-Bargathi, Adel A. Obeidi, Khalid A. M. Mustafa, Ahmed M. A. Al-Alwani, Mohamed SH. Abdalla El-Jahmi, Salah S. Abdelsalam El-Ekhfifi, and Matthew P. Wehner Geochemical Analysis of the Carbonate-Evaporite Miocene Outcrops in the Cyrenaica Region of Libya:  Cyrenaica Platform and Sirt Basin 24 p.
00306 H. Sterling Burnett What if Climate Skeptics are Wrong?  Best Policy Responses in the Face of Anthropogenic Climate Change 10 p.
00314 Victoria Chevrot and Raphaël Gottardi Finding Sweet Spots:  An Outcrop-Based Investigation, Eagle Ford Formation, Val Verde County, Texas 2 p.
00316 Matthew Chumley, Bhaskar Sarmah, Joseph Anderson, Rojelio Medina, and Hoda Tahani A Tight Gas Sand Reservoir Characterization Approach in Delineating Different Benches across Lower Cotton Valley Rocks 18 p.
00334 Gregory J. Ferguson, James J. Willis, Duncan S. McIntosh, Jr., Jesse W. Zwennes, James Pasley, and Garrett M. Goettel Influence of Shale Distribution Types on the Effective Porosity of Sandstone Reservoirs 25 p.
00338 Craig D. Hall Geomechanical Heterogeneity in the Lower Cotton Valley Shelf System—Applications to Completion Design 72 p.
00339 Austin Harris and Stan Galicki Distribution of Elements and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in a Commercial Retention Pond:  Colony Crossing, Madison, Mississippi 2 p.
00344 Mohamed Imsalem, Adewale Amosu, Matthew Wehner, Anne Raymond, and Yuefeng Sun Reservoir Quality Assessment of the Lower Acacus and Tannezuft Formations in the NC4 Block, Ghadames Basin, Libya 2 p.
00354 Gary L. Kinsland, Kody Shellhouse, Eric Muchiri, Forrest Frederick, and Kevin Broussard Analyses and Interpretations of a Conventional Core from Central Louisiana, which Contains Deposits Resulting from the Effects of the Chicxulub Impact 16 p.
00364 Nick Loundagin and Gary L. Kinsland Structural Styles and Geotectonic Elements in Northwestern Mississippi:  Interpreted from Gravity, Magnetic, and Proprietary 2D Seismic Data 19 p.
00367 Marvin E. Markley and Ian M. Byram Using Legacy Data from Cores, Open Hole Logs, and Production Logs to Optimize the Placement of Horizontal Well Targets in the Cotton Valley Formation of North Louisiana and East Texas 20 p.
00369 Kiana McFadden and Ezat Heydari Sedimentology, Petrography, and Mineralogy of the Tallahatta Formation near the City of Meridian, Mississippi 29 p.
00371 Danielle Minteer and Wesley A. Brown The Use of Gravitational and Electrical Resistivity Techniques to Delineate the Big Barn Fault Located within the Gulf Coastal Plain, Montgomery County, Texas 2 p.
00374 Osareni C. Ogiesoba and Angela K. Eluwa Structural Styles of Eocene Jackson and Oligocene Vicksburg Formations within the Rio Grande and Houston Embayments near the San Marcos Arch, Refugio and Calhoun Counties, South Texas Gulf Coast 1 p.
00377 Timothy Palmer and Zachary Musselman Late Pleistocene to Holocene Meandering and Lateral Migration of the Big Black River, Mississippi 2 p.
00378 James Pasley and James J. Willis Evaluating Petrophysical Variations of Turbidite Depositional Systems with Implications for Enhanced Reservoir Modeling in Lobster Field, Ewing Bank 873, Gulf of Mexico 34 p.
00380 Nick B. Pollard and Nicole Elhaj A Microseismic Case Study:  Cotton Valley Taylor Sandstones, Overton Field, Texas 18 p.
00383 Mark C. Robinson and Daniel M. Lupton Brackish Groundwater Resources of the Northern Trinity Aquifer, Texas 20 p.
00388 Dale Short Tectonics of the Texas Portion of the Sabine Island 37 p.
00389 Matthew R. Silverman Science under Attack:  John T. Scopes, the Monkey Trial, and a Lesson for our Times 28 p.
00398 Steven Walkinshaw The Jackson Gas Rock, a Unique Upper Cretaceous (Selma Chalk) Lithofacies, Mississippi 26 p.
00403 James J. Willis Weld Types and Classification 52 p.
00404 James J. Willis, Duncan S. McIntosh, Jr., Gregory J. Ferguson, Jesse W. Zwennes, James Pasley, and Garrett M. Goettel Quick-Look Deterministic Approach for Evaluating Shale Distribution in Sandstone Reservoirs:  Progress Report 32 p.
00405 Maya Willis and Zachary Musselman Exploring the Oxbow Lake Facies Model at LeFleur's Bluff State Park, Jackson, Mississippi 2 p.

Complete 2017 Article Series

Select 2017 GCAGS/GCSSEPM Convention Presentations
00188 Adewale Amosu and Yuefeng Sun Sequence Stratigraphy, Chronostratigraphy and Spatio-Temporal Stratigraphic Thickness Variation of the Agbada Formation, Robertkiri and Delta Fields, Niger Delta, Nigeria 2 p.
00189 Adewale Amosu and Yuefeng Sun Visualization of Angular Unconformities and Tectonic Angular Discordance Measurement Constraints by Structural Geometrical Flattening:  Case Studies in the Permian (California), Grand Canyon (Arizona), Chad Basin (Nigeria), Algarve Basin (Iberian Peninsula), and the Aegean Sea Basin (Turkey) 2 p.
00190 Khaled S. Amrouni, Sabra A. Alnaas, Ahmed S. El-Hawat, Michael C. Pope, Adel A. Obeidi, Aimen Amer, Hassan S. El-Bargathi, Osama Rahil Shaltami, Essa A. Elbileikia, Khalid A. M. Mustafa, Ahmed M. A. Al-Alwani, Mohamed SH. Abdalla El-Jahmi, and Salah S. Abdelsalam El-Ekhfifi Turbidite Facies Geometries, Quality, and Connectivity in the Cyrenaican Upper Cretaceous Carbonate Slope Deposits, Al-Athrun Formation, NE Libya 21 p.
00196 Suyapa Gonzalez, Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., Kristine L. DeLong, Kehui Xu, Jeffrey Obelcz, Jonathan Truong, Grant L. Harley, Carl A. Reese, and Alicia Caporaso Facies Reconstruction of a Late Pleistocene Cypress Forest Discovered on the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf 28 p.
00203 James A. MacKay and Gary P. Citron Optimal f: A Money Management Tool for Multi-Well Drilling Commitment Decisions 25 p.
00207 Sergio Perez Rodriguez Statistical Look of the Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of Undiscovered Subsalt Plays at the Mexican Side of the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Basin 3 p.
00211 James J. Willis and William G. Bixler, III Deformation of the Pennsylvanian Collings Ranch Conglomerate, Arbuckle Mountains, Southern Oklahoma:  An Outcrop Mesoscale Intragranular and Intergranular Deformation Analogue to Subsurface Sandstone and Carbonate Reservoirs  40 p.
00212 James J. Willis and Lauren A. Martz Geocentric Sectoring of LWD Azimuthal Log Data for Improved RDIP and RSTRIKE Analysis:  Enhanced Reservoir Navigation and Petrophysical Characterization 41 p.
00236 James J. Willis, Duncan S. McIntosh, Jr., Jesse W. Zwennes, and Gregory J. Ferguson Quick-Look Technique for Quantifying Shale Distribution Types using Total Porosity versus Shale Volume Crossplots 45 p.
00264 Qifei Huang and Yuefeng Sun Carbonate Reservoir Characterization Using the Cementation Factor:  A Case Study of Little Cedar Creek Field, Onshore Alabama 17 p.

Complete 2016 Article Series

Select 2016 GCAGS/GCSSEPM Convention Presentations
00001 James J. Willis and Jill C. Willis Creation of the GCAGS Explore & Discover Website 7 p.
00002 Khaled S. Amrouni, Ahmed S. El-Hawat, Michael C. Pope, Aimen Amer, Adel A. Obeidi, Hassan S. El-Bargathi, Ahmed M. A. Al-Alwani, Mohamed SH. Abdalla El-Jahmi, Khalid A. M. Mustafa, and Essa A. Elbileikia Paleogeographic Reconstruction of the Upper Miocene Sequences of the Wadi Yunis Member of the Al Khums Formation, Sirt Basin, Central Libya 3 p.
00003 Khaled S. Amrouni, Michael C. Pope, Ahmed S. El-Hawat, Adel A. Obeidi, Aimen Amer, Hassan S. El-Bargathi, Mohamed SH. Abdalla El-Jahmi, Ahmed M. A. Al-Alwani, Essa A. Elbileikia, and Khalid A. M. Mustafa Paleoshoreline and Prograding Clinoforms of Oolitic Grainstones of the Miocene Carbonate-Evaporitic Sequences of the Ar-Rajmah Group, Al-Jabal Al-Khdar Uplift and Soluq Trough, Cyrenaica, NE Libya 24 p.
00004 Khaled S. Amrouni, Michael C. Pope, Ahmed S. El-Hawat, Aimen Amer, Essa A. Elbileikia, Hassan S. El-Bargathi, Adel A. Obeidi, Osama Rahil Shaltami, Khalid A. M. Mustafa, Ahmed M. A. Al-Alwani, Mohamed SH. Abdalla El-Jahmi, Salah S. Abdelsalam El-Ekhfifi, and Matthew P. Wehner Silicification in the Cyrenaican Miocene Carbonate-Evaporite Sequence, NE Libya:  Origin, Occurrence, Facies, and Sea Level Relationship 3 p.
00005 Khaled S. Amrouni, Michael C. Pope, Ahmed S. El-Hawat, Adel A. Obeidi, Aimen Amer, Essa A. Elbileikia, Hassan S. El-Bargathi, Mohamed SH. Abdalla El-Jahmi, Khalid A. M. Mustafa, and Ahmed M. A. Al-Alwani Distribution of Fault Controlled, Wave-Tide Dominated, Prograding Oolitic Shoals of the Miocene Carbonate-Evaporite Successions of the Ar-Rajmah Group, Al-Jabal Al-Khdar Uplift and Soluq Trough, Cyrenaica, NE Libya 23 p.
00012 Thomas E. Ewing Pliocene Sub-Willis Unconformity in Southeastern Texas:  Forebulge to the Pliocene Mississippi Delta 13 p.
00013 Thomas E. Ewing and Juan L. Gonzalez The Late Quaternary Rio Grande Delta—A Distinctive, Underappreciated Geologic System  24 p.
00019 Brian B. Hunt, Alex S. Broun, Douglas A. Wierman, David A. Johns, and Brian A. Smith Surface and Groundwater Interaction along Onion Creek, Central Texas 33 p.
00025 James A. MacKay and Gary P. Citron Stress Testing Your Portfolio of Exploration Projects 21 p.
00026 James A. MacKay and Gary P. Citron Utilizing the Kelly Criterion to Select the Best Projects when Capital is Temporarily Constrained 26 p.
00029 Victor J. Mistretta Predicting Sedimentary Facies in the Gulf of Mexico Region from the Combination of Bathymetry, Gravity, and Magnetic Data using Fractal Geometry 27 p.
00034 Rudolph A. Rosen, Erin Scanlon, and Johnnie Smith Aquatic Science Education Pathway from Headwaters to Ocean is a Model for Place-Based Experiential Learning for Protecting and Stewarding Gulf States’ Freshwater and Marine Resources 69 p.
00049 Ohood B. AlSalem, Majie Fan, and Xiangyang Xie Subsidence and Burial Histories of the Fort Worth Basin Reflect Prolonged Ouachita Orogeny during the Mississippian-Permian 38 p.
00050 George B. Asquith ‘Shale Sweet Spots’ Based on Pe Versus RHOb Cross Plots and OGIPscf with and without Using Geochemical Logs, Jurassic Haynesville Shale 42 p.
00053 Edwin Jefferson Bomer IV, Samuel J. Bentley, Kehui Xu, and Qin Chen Sedimentation Dynamics and Stratigraphy of Middle Breton Sound Estuary, Southeastern Louisiana:  Spatiotemporal Evidence for Subdeltaic Evolution 34 p.
00054 James Brewster, Alan Morgan, and John Mims Source Body Migration, an Approximate Inversion Method for Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometer Data 23 p.
00055 Douglas Carlson Influences on Water Quality of the Wilcox Aquifer in Northwestern Louisiana 3 p.
00057 John Cooper, Jeffrey Hardwick, and Alexis Godet Integrated Stratigraphy of the Austin Chalk Group across the San Marcos Arch, Bexar County, Texas 3 p.
00060 Shelby L. Davis, Shweta Mohandas, Ghervy G. Nzoumba, and Thomas E. Yancey Diatomite in Upper Eocene Jackson Group, Fayette County, Texas 3 p.
00064 Leipin He and Rex Poling Post-Jurassic Sedimentary History of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico 19 p.
00070 G. Randy Keller, Jay Pulliam, Harold Gurrola, and Kevin Mickus An Overview of the Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Gulf Coast Region of Texas and Louisiana 39 p.
00071 Gary L. Kinsland and John W. Snedden Comparison of a Portion of the K/Pg Boundary Deposits in Two Locations:  Webb County, Texas and LaSalle Parish, Louisiana 3 p.
00072 Gary L. Kinsland, Robert Stewart, Li Chang, Doug Temple, and Mark King High Resolution Surface-Sourced Seismic Experiment to Image Wilcox Group Horizons in Northern Central Louisiana 19 p.
00098 Thomas W. Bjerstedt, Kody Kramer, and William W. Shedd Latest Pleistocene 'Blue Unit' of the Mississippi Fan System, Gulf of Mexico 3 p.
00104 Bo Chen, Dhananjay Kumar, Anthony Uerling, Sheryl Land, Omar Aguirre, Tao Jiang, and Setiawardono Sugianto Using Seismic Inversion and Net Pay to Calibrate Eagle Ford Shale Producible Resources 21 p.
00142 Celeste D. Lohr, Paul C. Hackley, Brett J. Valentine, and Catherine B. Enomoto Thermal Gradient Trends in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Play Area:  Preliminary Results from Studies to Support Oil and Natural Gas Resource Assessments 11 p.
00169 T. Scott Staerker, Jim Pospichal, Bronwyn Moore, Matthew Wehner, Matthew J. Corbett, Christopher M. Lowery, Michael C. Pope, and Arthur D. Donovan Biostratigraphy for Understanding Stratal Surfaces and Facies Variability in the Eagle Ford Group of South and West Texas 29 p.
00177 Christopher Walker and Glen Anderson Simple and Efficient Representation of Faults and Fault Transmissibility in a Reservoir Simulator—Case Study from the Mad Dog Field, Gulf of Mexico 39 p.


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