1997 Meeting Abstracts
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AL-TAWIL, AUS and READ, J. FRED - High Resolution
Surface/Subsurface Correlation of Late Mississippian Carbonate Sequences
in The Appalachian Basin
ANDERSON, WARREN H., MORRIS, LANCE G., and SPARKS,
THOMAS - Semi-Automated Data Capture for Vectorizing Geologic Quadrangle
Maps in Kentucky
ANDREWS, ROBERT E., THACKER, ERNEST E. and WEISENFLUH,
GERALD A. - Regional Mapping of Coal Beds in Kentucky
BALDASSARE, F. J. and LAUGHREY*, CHRISTOPHER
D. - Identifying the Sources of Stray Methane Using Geochemical and
Isotopic Fingerprinting
BARANOSKI , MARK T. and WATTS, DOYLE - Cambrian
hydrocarbon potential in the region of the Serpent Mound disturbance of
southern Ohio
BARTON, ANDREW C., and BAIR, E. SCOTT - Assessment
of Ground-Water Quality Impacts Caused by Land Spreading of Saline Oil
and Gas Exploration and Production Solid Wastes
BARTON, C.D. and KARATHANASIS, A.D. - Aerobic
and Anaerobic Metal Attenuation Processes in a Constructed Wetland Treating
Acid Mine Drainage
BEAR, GLENN W., RUDMAN, ALBERT J., RUPP, JOHN A., and
STEFFENSEN, CARL - Precambrian/Cambrian Rifting in the southern Illinois
Basin: A potential new hydrocarbon province
BEARDSLEY, RICHARD - Structural and stratigraphic
implications of the north bounding fault of the Rome Trough in northeast
Kentucky and western West Virginia
BROWN, LEWIS R., VADIE, ALEX A., and STEPHENS, JAMES
O. - Field Demonstration of the Ability of In-Situ Microorganisms in
the Oil-Bearing Formations to Modify Waterflooding Profiles
CAO YUNXING, and LIU RUIXUN - The Deformation Metamorphism
of Tectonic Coal and Its Application in Geological Mining Hazards
CARROLL, RICHARD E., and PASHIN, JACK C. - Tectonic
and Hydrologic Influences on Coalification and Hydrocarbon Generation in
the Warrior and Cahaba Coal Fields, Alabama
ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN: CHERKAUER, DOUGLAS S.,
CARLSON, DOUGLAS A., U., SCHULZE-MAKUCH, DIRK, and ROVEY, CHARLES
W. - The distribution of hydraulic conductivity within the dolomite aquifer
of southern Wisconsin and its relation to system sedimentology
CHESNUT, D.R., JR., NUTTALL, B.C., EBLE, C.F., HOWER,
J.C., GREB, S.F., HIETT, J.K. - Coalbed Methane in Kentucky
CHILDRESS, MICHAEL T. - The Interface of Science
and Politics: A Porous or Impermeable Boundary?
CLARKSON, C. R., and BUSTIN, R.M. - High pressure
adsorption/desorption isotherms: application to predicting reservoir capacity
and drainage
CLUFF, ROBERT M., CLUFF, SUZANNE G., and MURPHY, CATHERINE
M. - Devonian shale gas resource assessment, Illinois basin
COBB, JAMES C. and WEISENFLUH, GERALD A. - Coal
Resource Estimates in Kentucky - Historical Perspective
COHEN, ARTHUR D., GAGE, CHRISTIAN P., and MOORE, WILLARD
S., and VANPELT, ROBERT S. - Combining Micropetrographic and Palynologic
Methods to Improve Paleoecological Interpretations of Peat Deposits: Examples
from a Carolina Bay in South Carolina and the Everglades of Florida
COLLINS, STEVEN L. - Multivariate Coal Rank
Trends and Anomalies in the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield and Their Relation
to Orogenic Fluids and Basement Features
CONOLLY, CAROL L., and KRUEGER, ALEX J. - The
Coal Availability Studies in Indiana: A Summary
COPLEY, DAVID L. - A 3-D Seismic and Aeromagnetic
Case Study, Western New York
CROWLEY, SHARON S., PALMER, CURTIS A., KOLKER, ALLAN,
FINKELMAN, ROBERT B., KOLB, KATHLEEN C., and WILLETT, JASON C. - Modes
of Occurrence of HAPs Elements in Samples from the Pittsburgh, Elkhorn/Hazard,
and Illinois No. 6 Coal Beds
DENNISON, JOHN M., FILER, JONATHAN K., CAVALLO,
LARRY J., DRAKE, ROBERT A., and MIDDLETON, JEREMY D. - Subsurface
to Surface: Use of Outcrop Gamma-ray Logs to Interpret Structurally Complex
Exposures of Appalachian Devonian Strata
EARLE, DAVID R., ELLIS, RICHARD K., and HOLMES, ALLEN
W., JR. - Continuing Cambro-Ordovician Exploration in the Stephens
Area, Elliott County, Kentucky
ETTENSOHN, FRANK R., and KULP, MARK A. - Stratigraphic
and Structural Framework Of Granville-like Lithologies in the Tanglewood
Member, Middle and Upper Ordovician Lexington Limestone, Central Kentucky
ETTENSOHN, FRANK R.; KULP, M. A. and RAST, N.
- Recognition of Seismogenic Influence During Paleozoic Epicontinental
Sedimentation: Examples from the Middle Ordovician Lexington Limestone,
Central Kentucky
EVANGELOU, V. P. and SETA, A. K. - Influence
Of Bicarbonate On Pyrite Oxidation
FAN PU, YING GUANGGUO, and CHENG KEMING - Geochemical
Study of Oil Derived from Coal
FAUSNAUGH, JAMES M. - Eh-pH Relationships
in Near Surface Hydrocarbon Geochemical Anomalies
FAUSNAUGH, JAMES M. - A Novel Microbial Survey
Method for the Detection of Near Surface Hydrocarbon Microseepage
FISHER, R. STEPHEN - Geologic and Geochemical
Controls on Radioactivity in Pro-duced Water and Scale
FOWLER, MICHAEL L., SAFLEY, L. EUGENE, and YOUNG,
MARK A. - Reservoir Characterization Efforts for Improved Recovery
Guided by Attention to Reservoir Management Context in the Citronelle Field,
a Fluvial Reservoir in the Rodessa Formation (Cretaceous), South Alabama
FRANK, M.C. - Palaeoenvironmental study of the
Palaeocene Souris Lignite, Ravenscrag Formation, Southern Saskatchewan,
Canada: Implications for ancestral Tertiary mire development
FRIEDMAN, GERALD M. - Fluvial Catskill Magnafacies
of New York Dates an Acadian Event of Hydrothermal Circulation at Iapetus
Mid-Ocean Spreading Ridges
GASCHNITZ, ROLAND, KROOSS, BERNHARD M. and LITTKE,
RALF - Coalbed Methane: Adsorptive Gas Storage Capacity of Coal Seams
in the Upper Carboniferous of the Ruhr Basin, Germany
GLICK, DAVID C.; MITCHELL, GARETH D. and DAVIS, ALAN
- Coal Sample Preservation in Foil Multilaminate Bags
GLUSKOTER, HAL - Assessing the Nation's Coal
Resources: The Role of a Federal Agency
GREB, STEPHEN F., and CHESNUT, DONALD R., JR. -
Earth Science Education: Linking Kentucky to the World
GRIGSBY, JEFFRY D. - Petrography, Petrophysics,
and Stratigraphy in the Basin Analysis Laboratory at Ball State University:
Application to the Oil and Gas Industry
GRUBE, J.P., CROCKETT,J.E., HUFF, B.G., LEETARU, H.E.,
MORSE, D.G., SEYLER, B. and UDEGBUNAM, E.O. - Reservoir Compartmentalization
and Management Strategies: Lessons Learned in the Illinois Basin
HARRIS, DAVID C. and SPARKS, THOMAS N. - Industry-Government
Research Partnerships: An Example from the Mississippian of Eastern Kentucky
HARRIS, NICHOLAS B. - Detrital and Geochemical
Control on Chlorite Grain-Coats in Sandstones
HARRISON, III, WILLIAM B. and ATEKWANA, ESTELLA
- Reservoir Properties And Hydrocarbon Potential In Cambrian And Lower
Ordovician Strata In The Michigan Basin
HE PING - Ultralaminae in Humic Coals
HESTER, NORMAN C. - Economic Application of Modeling
Peat-Forming Depositional Environments
HOHMAN, JOHN C., and KEITH, BRIAN D. - Buried
Alive! The demise of the Upper Ordovician carbonate platform in the Illinois
Basin and Cincinnati Arch areas.
HOHMAN, JOHN C., and KEITH, BRIAN D. - The Sebree
Trough - did it really exist? Upper Ordovician sequence stratigraphy provides
an answer
HOLMES, ALLEN W., JR. - Western Newfoundland
Onshore Oil and Gas Potential with Emphasis on the Carboniferous Basins
HOWER, JAMES C., and EBLE, CORTLAND F. - Petrographic
and Chemical Variation in Coal Feed to a Kentucky Power Plant
JACOBEEN, FRANK H., JR. - An Adduction Zone
- A Precursor to a Subduction Zone
JOHNSON, W. I., FELBER, BETTY, SUTTERFIELD, F. DEXTER,
and CARROLL, HERBERT B. - Petroleum Technology Advances Through Applied
Research by Independent Oil Producers, Four Case Studies
KEIGHIN, C.W., and HETTINGER, R.D. - Depositional
dip-oriented cross-section through the Lower Silurian "Clinton" sands and
Medina Group in northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania
KHETANI, AMY B., and READ, J. FRED - Sequence
Stratigraphic Framework of Early Mississippian Mound-Bearing, Ramp Margin
Facies, Fort Payne-Warsaw-Salem, Kentucky
KIM, JUNGHYUN; WAGNER*, THOMAS; KUSS, JOCHEN; and BACHMANN,
MARTINA - Organic Facies And Thermal Maturity Of Lower Cretaceous Sediments
In Northern Sinai (Egypt)
KUEHN, KENNETH W. - Oil-Finding Strategy for the
Warsaw Limestone (Meramecian) of Warren County, Kentucky
KUUSKRAA, VELLO; KELAFANT, JONATHAN, and KUUSKRAA,
JASON A. - A Critical Look At the Geologic and Reservoir Controls on
Producing Appalachian Basin Coalbed Methane
LEETARU, HANNES E. - Natural Resources and Sequence
Stratigraphy of Aux Vases Sandstone
LEONARD, KARL W. - Allostratigraphy of an Abbreviated
Section: The Muscatatuck Group (Middle Devonian) in Southern Indiana
LIN, RUI; DZOU, LEON; DOYLE, KEVIN and JARDINE, ERIC
- Far-East Tertiary Coal-Related Petroleum System
LU XIANCAI, HU WENXUAN, ZHOU GUANGJIA, MIAO DEYU, and
CHEN ZHILIN - Study of Structure and Biomarkers of Organic-Clay Complexes
in Immature Oil Source Rocks, Shengli Oil Field, China
MARKOWSKI, ANTONETTE K., GRADY, WILLIAM C., and
MATCHEN, DAVID L. - Coalbed Methane Resources in the Northern Appalachian
Coal Basin, Southwestern Pennsylvania and North-Central West Virginia
MARTIN, JOHN P. - Developing Viable Industry-Government
Oil and Gas Research Partnerships
MASTALERZ, MARIA and KVALE, ERIK P. - Organic
petrology and geochemistry in Pennsylvanian tidally-influenced sediments
from SW Indiana
MATYJASIK, MAREK and ECKSTEIN, YORAM - Surfactant-Enhanced
Remediation of Saturated Ottawa Sand Contaminated by Ethylbenzene
MAY, MICHAEL T. - Gas Chromatography - Its Not Just
For Source Rocks Anymore: An Environmental Case Study At The Lexington-Bluegrass
Army Depot Site, Fayette County, Kentucky
McCOLLOCH, GAYLE H., JR., NEIDIG, CRAIG, FEDORKO,
NICK, MAKI, EDWIN, HOLLIDAY, ROBERT, and DESAI, CHETAN - West Virginia's
Mineral Lands Mapping Program
McDONALD, JAMES and WICKSTROM, LAWRENCE H.
- Digital Oil-and-Gas-Well Spot Maps for Ohio
MILICI, R .C. and RYDER, R. T. - Regional Unconformities
Beneath Source beds and Geologic Constraints on Deep Plays in the Appalachian
Basin.
MORRIS, JAMES R. - Cyclone Reef 3D Seismic Study
MUKHOPADHYAY, P. K., MACDONALD, D.J., CALDER, J.H.,
HUGHES, J.D., SIMOUN, A., and HATCHER, P.G. - Composition and Maturity
of Appalachian Coals from Nova Scotia: Their Relationship to Methane Generation
and Adsorption, Development of Micropores and Permeability
MUSHRUSH, GEORGE W. and MOSE, DOUGLAS G. -
Evidence On the Usability of Shale Oil as Jet Fuel
NOLDE, JACK E. and SPEARS, DAVID B. - Coalbed
Methane Development in the Virginia Portion of the Central Appalachian
Basin
NUCCIO, VITO F., WANDREY, CRAIG J., RYDER, ROBERT
T., and HARRIS, ANITA G. - Thermal Maturity and Petroleum Generation
of Middle Ordovician Black Shale Source Rocks, Central Appalachian Basin--Controls
on Oil and Gas in Lower Silurian Low-Permeability Sandstone Reservoirs
OBERMAJER, MARK; STASIUK, LAVERN D.; FOWLER, MARTIN
G. and OSADETZ, KIRK G. - Acritarch Fluorescence as a New Thermal Maturity
Indicator
OBERMAJER, MARK; STASIUK, LAVERN D.; FOWLER, MARTIN
G. and OSADETZ, KIRK G. - A comparative examination of organic geochemistry
and petrology of Upper Devonian to Early Mississippian epicontinental black
shales from Canada
PADGETT, PENNY L., and HOWER, JAMES C. - Hardgrove
Grindability Study of Powder River Basin and Appalachian Coal Components
in the Blend to a Midwestern Power Station
PASHIN, JACK C., and GROSHONG, JR., RICHARD H.
- Area Balance in Extensional Structures: Comparison Between the Black
Warrior and Gulf Coast Basins
PRECHT, W.F., and ARONSON, R.B. - Compositional
changes in reef sediments related to changes in coral reef community structure
QIN YONG, ZHONG NINGNING, and ZHANG YOUSHENG - Graptolite
reflectance in the Ordovician shales from the Tarim Basin, Ordos Basin
and Lower Yangtze, China
QIN YONG - Evolution and its stages of the optical
properties of high-rank coal macerals in China
QUINN, LAURA C. and HAYWICK, DOUGLAS W. - Petrographic
and Geochemical Changes in Biogenic Aragonite During Dissolution
RESCH, RHONE A. - EPA'S Natural Gas STAR Program:
Using A Voluntary Approach to Reduce Oil and Natural Gas Emissions
REYNOLDS, DOUGLAS W., JR. - Evidence for the
presence of hydrocarbon charge in the Knox and pre-Knox rocks of the Rough
Creek Graben
REYNOLDS, DOUGLAS W., JR. - Reservoirs and
hydrocarbons of the Narge Creek block: Anatomy of a field extension in
a mature area
RILEY, RONALD A. - Technology Alliance to Examine
Reservoir Characterization for Enhanced Recovery Potential in the East
Canton Field, Ohio
RIMSTIDT, DANIEL L. - Deregulation's Impact
on Resource Studies
ROBISON, C. R. - Organic Facies in Cretaceous
Hydrocarbon Source Rocks, Indus Basin, Southern Pakistan
ROCHER, DON L., TRADER, ROGER K., and STARLING, ROGER
A. - A biomarker-derived paleo-redox indicator
ROTH, BRYAN L. - Reflection Configuration and Paleotopography
of Rose Run Sandstone Remnants in Ohio
RUTLEDGE, JAMES - Are the Shallow Oil Reservoirs
of South-Central Kentucky Undergoing Natural, Microseismic Deformation?
RYDER, R. T., REPETSKI, J. E., and HARRIS, A. G.
- Potential Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Source Rocks in Cambrian and Ordovician
Strata and Their Thermal Maturity, Eastern Kentucky and Adjoining West
Virginia
SAFLEY, L. EUGENE - Reservoir Management Techniques
Applied in East Randolph Field, Portage County, Ohio: Final Results
SEYLER, BEVERLY - Low Resistivity in Aux Vases
Sandstone Reservoirs in the Illinois Basin Linked to Clay Minerals Coating
Sand Grains
SMITH, LANGHORNE B., and READ*, J. FRED - High-Resolution
Sequence Stratigraphy of Late Mississippian (Chesterian) Carbonate and
Mixed Carbonate-clastic Reservoir Facies in the Illinois Basin: An Outcrop
and Core Study
SMOSNA, RICHARD, and BRUNER, KATHY R. - Porosity
Pathways for Devonian Reservoir Sandstones of Pennsylvania
STAGG, ALAN K. and SMITH*, GREGORY C. - Preparation
of Coal Reserve/Resource Estimates - A Consultant's Perspective
STEINHAUFF, D. MARK, and WALKER, KENNETH R. -
Relationship Of Middle Ordovician Late Stage Diagenesis To Diagenesis Of
Lower Ordovician Upper Knox Carbonates In East Tennessee
TILDEN, SCOTT J. - 3D University/Industry Relations
- 4D Seismic Technology
TREWORGY, COLIN G., KOROSE*, CHRISTOPHER P., CHENOWETH,
CHERI A., and MCBETH, JAMIE L. - Coal Resources in Illinois Available
for Efficient, Low-cost Mining
TRUMAN, JAMES T. - Coal Economics - A Factor
to Consider for Reserve Evaluations
TSUZUKI, N.,YOKOYAMA, Y., TAKAYAMA, K., SUZUKI,
M., and TAKEDA, N. - Kinetic Modeling of Oil Cracking
WAGNER, THOMAS - Deposition of Organic Matter
To The Modern and Pleistocene Equatorial Atlantic: Links with African Climate
and Marine Productivity
WAGNER, THOMAS, PLETSCH, THOMAS, and KUHNT, WOLFGANG
- Cretaceous to Late Oligocene Development of Sedimentary and Organic Facies
at ODP Leg 159: Paleoenvironmental Implications for the Eastern Equatorial
Atlantic
WANG FEIYU, HE PING, HAO SHISHENG - Origin of Chinese
lacustrine high-wax oils and organic petrology of its source rocks
WANG FEIYU, HE PING, ZHAO CHANGYI, and ZHANG SHICHANG
- Organic petrological characteristics and hydrocarbon generation of Jurassic
source rocks in the Northwest of China
WARWICK, PETER D., MILICI, ROBERT C., LANDIS, EDWIN
R., MUKHOPADHYAY, ABHIJIT, and ADHIKARI, S. - The character of Permian
coking and non-coking coal in the Sohagpur Coal Field, Madhya Pradesh,
India
WICKS, JOHN L., and WICKSTROM, LAWRENCE H. - Structural
evolution of the Killbuck Dome, east-central Ohio
WOOD, J.R., PENNINGTON, W.D., and HARRISON, W.B.
- Recovery of Bypassed Oil in the Dundee Formation Using Horizontal Drains
WUNSCH, DAVID R. - Hydrodynamics of the Shallow
Salt-Water Interface in the Unglaciated Appalachian Plateau
ZAGGER, GLENN W. - Geochemical Analogs of Hydrocarbon
Reservoirs in the Appalachian and Illinois Basin
ZHOU XINGXI, WANG HONGJUN, CHEN YICAI and XU ZHIMING
- The study on the contributing factors of phase state of condensate gas:
Examples from Tarim Basin