Browsing Library by Author "Nestell, Merlynd K."
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A comparison of reservoir gas energy and composition with respect to initial oil production in the San Andres Formation of Shafter Lake Field, Andrews County, Texas
Smith, Jacob Ross; 0000-0003-4227-0714 (2018-05-14)The oil-rich, Permian-age San Andres Formation in the Permian Basin of West Texas produces Wolfcampian-age oil from the dolomitic host rock in prolific amounts. The present study focuses on the Shafter Lake field and ... -
A MEGABRECCIA WITH ASSOCIATED STRATIGRAPHY OF THE CHERRY CANYON AND BELL CANYON FORMATIONS TRANSITION (GUADALUPIAN, MIDDLE PERMIAN), SOUTHERN DELAWARE MOUNTAINS, WEST TEXAS
Bogacz, Johnathon Lee; 0000-0001-8556-0020 (2017-05-10)The Cherry Canyon and Bell Canyon Formations (Guadalupian, Middle Permian) are well exposed in the southern part of the Delaware Mountains, West Texas and are marked by the presence of several distinct and widespread debris ... -
A MODERN RESERVOIR ANALOG FOR A POORLY DRAINED “HIGH ACCOMMODATION” FLUVIAL SYSTEM: SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES, ARCHITECTURE, AND RESERVOIR CONNECTIVITY OF THE GRIJALVA SYSTEM, TABASCO STATE, MEXICO
Hull, Mark (2016-09-12)High-accommodation fluvial systems are subject to much modeling and substantial rock drilling and imagination, but limited modern field observation. The Grijalva River system of Tabasco State, Mexico offers the opportunity ... -
Appalachian Delta Plain Paleoecology Of The Cretaceous Woodbine Formation At The Arlington Archosaur Site, North Texas
Main, Derek Jason (Environmental & Earth Science, 2013-07-22)The Arlington Archosaur Site (AAS) is a North Texas fossil locality that preserves a Mid- Cretaceous ecosystem along a low lying coastal plain. The site lies within the Cenomanian (95 Mya) rocks of the Woodbine Formation ... -
Climate Change of the South Polar Region in response to topographic and cryospheric forcings during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum
Brown, Mikaela; 0000-0001-6060-500X (2019-05-03)The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) occurred approximately 56 Ma and is marked by an estimated global temperature increase of 5 °C, a large negative carbon and oxygen excursion, and deep-sea carbonate dissolution. ... -
Foraminifers Of The Clarita Formation (Wenlock, Silurian), From The Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma
Parker, Melinda (Geology, 2014-12)The study, identification, and classification of Silurian foraminifers from the Arbuckle Mountains in Oklahoma have attracted little attention since the work of Moreman and Ireland in late 1930's. These authors described ... -
Fusulinid and conodont biostratigraphy of the Upper Pennsylvanian–Cisuralian Riepe Spring Limestone, Spruce Mountain Ridge, Elko County, Nevada, U.S.A.
Read, Michael Taylor (2018-12-06)The Upper Pennsylvanian-Cisuralian (lower Permian) mixed carbonate-siliciclastic strata exposed at Spruce Mountain Ridge, Elko County, Nevada, record the shallow-marine microfauna and oscillating depositional history of ... -
A Geologic Map And Stratigraphy Of Upper Guadalupian - Lower Ochoan (permian) Strata Along And East Of Fm 2185 In The Northwestern Apache Mountains Near Van Horn, West Texas
Sweatt, Michael James (Geology, 2010-03-03)A surface geologic map is constructed for an area of approximately four square miles east of Texas FM 2185, 35 miles northeast of Van Horn, West Texas in the northwestern part of the Apache Mountains. Middle Permian ... -
Geology Of The Northwestern Apache Mountains, Southeast Culberson County, West Texas, U.S.A.
Kennedy, Walter Lyman (Environmental & Earth Science, 2009-09-16)Middle Permian marine (Bell Canyon Formation) strata along the southwestern margin of the Delaware Basin in southeastern Culberson County, Texas provide excellent exposures of basinal and slope strata, useful fossils for ... -
IMPLICATIONS OF LITHOFACIES ASSOCIATION AND ARCHITECTURE FOR LOW AND HIGH-ACCOMMODATION SYSTEM TRACTS FROM THE SANDSTONE DOMINATED ZONE ( THE BARREN SERIES) OF THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOCENE RATON FORMATION, TRINIDAD, COLORADO
Alrefaei, Yaqoub Y Y S M Alsayed; 0000-0002-4373-259X (2017-01-02)The Raton Formation is an Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleocene unit that is interpreted to be deposited in various stages of high-accommodation fluvial systems. High-accommodation flood basin deposits are generally considered ... -
Microfacies Analysis Of The Jacksboro Limestone Member (Graham Formation, Virgilian, Pennsylvanian) In Jack County, Texas
Leyva, Claudio Manuel (Geology, 2011-07-14)The Jacksboro Limestone is a member of the Graham Formation of the Virgilian (Upper Pennsylvanian) and is exposed only in and around the city of Jacksboro in central Jack County, Texas. The purposes of this investigation ... -
Microfaunal Assemblages Of The Placid Shale (Missourian, Upper Pennsylvanian), Brazos River Valley, North-Central Texas
Meagher, Brittany E. (Geology, 2012-07-25)The Pennsylvanian and lowermost part of the Permian strata in North-Central Texas is assigned to the Strawn, Canyon, and Cisco Groups. The Canyon Group is approximately equivalent to the middle-upper part of the Missourian ... -
Middle Permian (Late Guadalupian) back-reef carbonate of Panther Canyon, Apache Mountains, Trans-Pecos Texas
Moore, Joshua Caleb (2018-06-22)In the Apache Mountains of West Texas, Middle Permian (Guadalupian) strata a portion of the Delaware Basin part of the Capitan Reef is well exposed in many canyons that cut through the northern escarpment in the eastern ... -
NANO-PETROPHYSICS OF AVALON SHALE OF THE DELAWARE BASIN OF WEST TEXAS & SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO
Adon, Arinze Collins (2019-01-17)The Avalon Shale is a Permian-aged stratum and represents a significant rock unit within the Bone Spring, of the Delaware basin of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. The Delaware Basin has witnessed increased drilling ... -
Predicting Variability Of Basal Scour And Quantifying Vertical Connectivity For Channel-belt Reservoirs Using Observations From The Holocene Mississippi River And Channel-belt
Alexandrowicz, NealAssessment of potential for draining unpenetrated but closely stacked channel-belt reservoirs from an existing belt penetration depends upon an understanding of the methods of and the likelihood for connectivity between ... -
Southern Illinois Paleoclimate Determined From Variations In Iron Oxide Content
Blankenship, James Lee (Geology, 2008-08-08)Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy was used to determine the relative abundance of the iron oxides hematite and goethite in a loess and paleosol sequence from an unglaciated area of southern Illinois. Factor analysis of ... -
THE MICROFOSSIL ASSOCIATION OF THE UPPER PART OF THE SALESVILLE FORMATION (LOWER MISSOURIAN, PENNSYLVANIAN) NEAR MINERAL WELLS, NORTH-CENTRAL TEXAS
Williams, Billy Allen (2021-05-09)The microfossil association of the Salesville Formation (Strawn Group, Missourian, Pennsylvanian) of small foraminifers, fusulinids, conodonts, ostracodes, holothurian sclerites, and rare radiolarians, has received very ...