1995 - Resources Of Southwest Wyoming |
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Wyoming Geological Association Forty-Sixth Field Conference Guidebook 1995 Resources of Southwestern Wyoming Editor Richard W. Jones Rock Springs, Wyoming , August 19-22, 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication...i In memoriam...ii Greetings from the WGA President...vii Greetings from the conference chairmen...vii WGA 1995 field conference committee...vii Comments from the guidebook editor...viii WGA officers for 1995...viii HISTORICAL Stratigraphic plays of the l950s on the Wamsutter arch: discovery of Desert Springs, Patrick Draw, and West Desert Springs field - Robert J. Weimer...1 The "Great Diamond Hoax of 1872" - W. Dan Hausel and Sandy Stahl...13 Exploration and development of the coal fields of southwestern Wyoming (Abstract) - A. Dudley Gardner..29 STRUCTURAL & SEISMIC Structural and seismic Timing of the Laramide rise of the Uinta Mountains, Utah and Colorado - Michael D. Bradley...31 Stresses and fractures in the Frontier Formation, Green River Basin, predicted from basin-margin tectonic element interactions - John C. Lorenz...45 Relating fractures in the eastern Greater Green River Basin to oil and gas fields: integrating field measurements, linear features, and digital geologic data - Cheryl Jaworowski and Robert Simon...61 Three-dimensional depth imaging of seismic data, with examples from the Overthrust Belt of southwestern Wyoming - Alvin K. Benson...77 MINERAL RESOURCES Industrial mineral resources of southwestern Wyoming - Ray E. Harris...89 Wyoming:the soda ash capital of the world - Dennis S. Kostick...99 Wyoming trona: an overview (Abstract) - R. Terry Leigh...111 Natural zeolites in southwestern Wyoming - Ray E.Harris...113 Geology and geochemistry of the Quaking Asp Mountain and Black Butte silicified zones, Green River Basin - W. Dan Hausel, Gordon G. Marlatt, Eric L. Nielsen, and Robert W. Gregory...125 Lamproites, diamond indicator minerals, and related anomalies in the Green River Basin, Wyoming - W. Dan Hausel, Wayne M. Sutherland, and Robert W. Gregory...137 Mantle indicator minerals in ant mounds and conglomerates of the southern Green River Basin, Wyoming - TE. McCandless, W.P. Nash, and W. Dan Hausel...153 Uraniferous phosphatic lake beds of Eocene age in the Green River Basin, Wyoming - J.D. Love...165 RESOURCES OF NATURAL GAS Estimates of recoverable gas from basin-centered gas accumulations in the Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah (Abstract) - Ben E. Law, James W. Schmoker, and Robert A. Crovelli...183 Summary of coal and coal gas resources for the Mesaverde Group and Fort Union Formation in the Greater Green River Basin - Andrew R. Scott, Roger Tyler, Douglas S. Hamilton, and Naijiang Zhou...185 Helium resources of Wyoming - Rodney H. De Bruin...191 PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS A review of the components and controls on basin-centered gas in the Greater Green River Basin, southwestern Wyoming (Abstract) - Michael L. Hendricks...203 Pressure regime in the Upper Cretaceous shales and sandstones in the Washakie Basin, Wyoming - Ronald C. Surdam, Zung S. Jiao, and Jie Liu...205 Hydrocarbon generation potential and expulsion efficiency in shales and coals: example from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming - Mario Garcia-Gonzalez and Ronald C. Surdam...225 Effects of diagenesis on petrophysical properties of reservoir rocks, Washakie Basin - Peigui Yin and Ronald C. Surdam...247 Cements and in-situ widths of natural fractures, Almond Formation, Green River Basin, Wyoming - Thomas L. Dunn, Bernabe Aguado, John Humphreys, and Ronald C. Surdam...255 Improvements to formation evaluation, Almond Formation, Green River Basin, Wyoming - William P. Iverson, Thomas L. Dunn, and Ronald C. Surdam...271 Mesaverde exploration objectives in the Red Desert and Washakie Basins, southwestern Wyoming (Abstract) - Michael L. Hendricks...281 Horizontal wells in Wyoming through 1994 - Wallace W. Stewart...283 Whitney Canyon-Carter Creek Field: a synergistic geologic and engineering analysis (Abstract) - Jeffrey D. Hunt and Dwain E. McGarry...296 STRATIGRAPHY Stratigraphy and lithofacies of the Almond Formation, Washakie and Great Divide Basins, Wyoming - Randi S. Martinsen, Glen E. Christiansen, Mark A. Olson, and Ronald C. Surdam...297 The Laramide orogeny and associated lithostratigraphic units, southwestern Wyoming - Harold A. Boyd...313 MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS The impact of reservoir heterogeneity on fluid flow in the Tensleep Sandstone of the Bighorn Basin - Mamdouh A. Shebl...343 Preliminary report on the geology and gold mineralization in the Rattlesnake Hills, Granite Mountains, Wyoming - W. Dan Hausel...361 Wind River glacier discoveries: melting, grasshoppers, climate, and chemistry (Abstract) - Charles M. Love and Craig D. Thompson...373 LIST OF ADVERTISERS...375 PLATES...(back pocket) Oil and gas exploration activity maps of the Moxa Arch (I) - Wallace W. Stewart Oil and gas exploration activity maps of the Moxa Arch (II) - Wallace W. Stewart Oil and gas exploration activity maps of the eastern Washakie Basin and southern Red Desert Basin - Donald F. Cardinal Plate I. Well log cross sections A-A', B-B', C-C', and D-D', Almond Formation - Randi S. Martinsen, G.E. Christiansen, and R.C. Surdam Plate II. Well log cross section grid of Almond Units 1 and 2 within the Coal Gulch Field - Randi S. Martinsen, G.E. Christiansen, and R.C. Surdam Plate I. Geologic map and sample locations of the Rattlesnake Hills, Wyoming - W. Dan Hausel |
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