Session: The Gulf of Mexico as a Geologic Laboratory: Making New Links in Depositional Systems from the Coastal Plain to Deep Water

220 T171. The Gulf of Mexico as a Geologic Laboratory: Making New Links in Depositional Systems from the Coastal Plain to Deep Water
(GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)

Monday, 6 October 2008: 1:30 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 351AD

Presiding:

Russell F. Dubiel and Angela McDonnell

1:30 PM

Gulf of Mexico Record of North American Tectonism and Landscape Evolution
W.E. Galloway, Jackson School of Geosciences

1:50 PM

New Insights into Structure and Stratigraphy of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Barbara J. Radovich, ION; Christopher D. Connors, Washington and Lee University; Jerry Moon, ION

2:10 PM

Wilcox Depositional Systems: Shelf, Slope, and Basin Floor
Larry Zarra, Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company

2:30 PM

Variation in detrital mineralogy caused by provenance and depositional setting: linking Tertiary sandstones from the upper Texas coastal plain to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico
Shirley P. Dutton, The University of Texas at Austin; Robert G. Loucks, The University of Texas at Austin

2:45 PM

Paleocene to Eocene deepwater slope canyons, western Gulf of Mexico: further insights for provenance of deep offshore Wilcox plays
Angela McDonnell, Bureau of Economic Geology; William E. Galloway, The University of Texas at Austin; Robert G. Loucks, The University of Texas at Austin

3:00 PM

Petroleum Source-Rock Potential of Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Wilcox and Claiborne Group Strata Determined by Geophysical Well-Log Analysis: Zapata County, Texas
Margaret A. Keller, USGS

3:15 PM

A Geologic-Based Evaluation of the Potential for Undiscovered Oil and Gas Accumulations in Paleogene Strata of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain and State Waters
Peter D. Warwick, US Geological Survey; James L. Coleman Jr, U. S. Geol Survey; Paul C. Hackley; Daniel O. Hayba, U.S. Geological Survey; Alexander W. Karlsen, U.S. Geol Survey; Elisabeth L. Rowan, U.S. Geological Survey; Sharon M. Swanson, U.S. Geological Survey

3:30 PM

Break

3:45 PM

Early Paleogene Isolation of the Gulf of Mexico from the World's Oceans; Drawdown and Refill
Joshua H. Rosenfeld; Arthur E. Berman; Jon F. Blickwede; Louis R. Chaboudy

4:00 PM

Elevated Sediment Temperatures along Growth Faults in the Texas Continental Shelf
Seiichi Nagihara, Texas Tech University

4:15 PM

Geologic Controls on the Distribution of Oil and Gas Fields In Neogene Strata of the Gulf Coast, U.S.A
Russell F. Dubiel, U.S. Geological Survey; Janet K. Pitman, U.S. Geological Survey; Ofori N. Pearson, U.S. Geological Survey

4:30 PM

Potential for Undiscovered Hydrocarbon Accumulations in Southern Louisiana – Insights from the Structural Interpretation and Restoration of 2D Seismic Lines
Ofori N. Pearson, United States Geological Society; Janet K. Pitman, United States Geological Society; Russell F. Dubiel, United States Geological Society

4:45 PM

Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of Cranfield Field, Mississippi—An Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Sequestration Study
Ramón H. Treviño, The University of Texas at Austin; Susan D. Hovorka, The University of Texas at Austin; William A. Ambrose, The University of Texas at Austin; Timothy A. Meckel, Univ Texas at Austin

5:00 PM

Petrologic and Petrophysical Differences Between Sandstones In the Middle and Lower Parts of the Upper Jurassic Bossier Formation, East Texas Basin, Texas: Implications for the Source of Produced Gas
Neil S. Fishman; Donald L. Hall, Fluid Inclusion Technologies, Inc; John W. Neasham

5:15 PM

Concluding Remarks

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