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B U L L E T I N

HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Houston, Texas

Volume 9, No. 3

November, 1966

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OFFICERS President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jesse L . George . . . . . . . . . . CA 8-0815 1st Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred L . Smith . . . . . . . . . . . CA 5-5757

. . . . . . . . . . . 2nd Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward G Lipp CA 2-6285 Secretary . . . . . . . . . . D . C . Gillzison ... . . CA 8-9329 Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James 0 . Lewi.5 . . . . . CA 7-2060

EXECUTIVE COMMllTEEMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hal H . Bybee CA 5-1511

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lewis J . Nrcbka CA 5-55 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E . H . Rainwater CA 9-5123

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lawrence J . Vittrup FA 3-1 191 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f . Ben Carsey. Ex-Officio CA 2-6976

COMMlTlEE CHAIRMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Finance James Roach . . . . . . . . . . . CA 5-081 1

. . . . . . . . Distribution & Publication Jack G . Fischer . . . . . . . . M 0 6-015 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical Program Edward G . Lipp CA 2-6285

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Awards & Loans Leighton F . Young, J r . . . . . CA 8-9461 . . . . . . . . . . . . Research & Study Martin M . Cassidy . . . . . . . . CA 7-437 1

. . . . . . . . . . . . H . G . S . Membership John B . Williams . . . . . . . . . CA 4-7961

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personnel Placement George Sealy CA 1-3312 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Remembrances Donald 1 Gahagan CA 9-271 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Public Relations Kenneth L Harkins CA 1-335 1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entertainment George K Harcourt RI 8-2000 . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . AAPG Membership James 0 Lewis CA 7-2060

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballot C . E . nowbridge . . . . . . . . . CA 7-7804 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . Advertising James T. Goodwyn, Jr CA 8-8741

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exhibitis GCAGS-AAPG Curtis W . Burgess, J r CA 4-7591 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transportation Carleton D Speed, Jr CA 4-2523

Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roy Scout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cJ . '4 . Mouton . . . . . . CA 8-9681

Special Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Academic Liaison Robert Dollison

Submarine Geology & Advisor to . . . . . . . . . Museum of Natural Science Harold Geis

Special Publications Committee . . . . . . . . . . . for Geology of Deltas Martha Lou Shirley

REPRESENTATIVES . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.A.G.S. Representative Raymong E . Fairchild M 0 4-3401

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alternate Harold E . Voigt CA 4-5 1 1 1

THE B U L L E T I N

THIS MONTH VOLUME 9 NUMBER 3

........................................... MeetingNotice Page 2

........................................ News of Members

News of Other Societies ................................... Page 6

Professional Directory .................................... Page 9

President'sCorner ....................................... Page 14

........................................ GeoScienceNotes Page 15

Distaff Side ............................................. Page 16

News of AAPG .......................................... Page 17

InMemoriam ........................................... Page 18

Advertisers ............................................ Page 19

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Vol. 9, No. 3

M E E T I N G N O T I C E

November, 1966

THIRD MEETING - NOVEMBER 14, 1966

Th i s meeting will be held on the 10th floor of the Houston Club Building, Monday evening, November 14, 1966. The social period begins a t 5:15 P.M. , dinner a t 6:00 P.M. and the meeting will begin a t 7:00 P.M.

The previously scheduled speaker for our third meeting h a s been cancelled. Dr . A. W. Bally, Chief Geologist for Shell Canada, Ltd. i s presently ill and feels he will be unable to present h is AAPG Distinguished Lecture Tour paper a t our November 14, meeting. We plan to reschedule this paper during the Spring of 1967.

The guest speaker for this evening i s Mr . Max Bornhauser, one of our own Society members , who will present h is paper entitled "Marine Unconformitie in the Northwestern Gulf Coast". Th i s paper d iscusses the various types of mar ine unconformities recognizable in the subsurface of the Gulf Coast region. Examples of these unconformities a s well a s their importance and significance to oil and g a s accumulation will be discussed.

M r . Bornhauser was born in Switzerland and graduated from the University of Bern in 1936 with a PhD in Geology. He i s presently Chief Geologist for Dil lard & Waltermire .

M r . Bornhauser i s a member of HGS and AAPG and the Swiss Geological Society. He has published severa l excellent papers on Gulf Coast Geology. Th i s lec ture will include some additional data other than that presented a t the GCAGS meeting held in Lafayette.

DECEMBER MEETING

At our fourth meeting to be held December 12, Mr . ED L. DILLON w i l l present h i s AAPG Distinguished Lecture Tour paper entitled "MODERN GEOLOGY REQUIRES MODERN TECHNOLOGY". M r . Dillon i s coordinator for computer application for Shell Oil Company he re in Houston.

. . Edward G. Lipp

N E W S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OF MEMBERS

HERBERT G. OFFICER, Vice President in Charge of Exploration and Produc- tion for Pennzoil Oil Company, was t r ans fe r r ed to Calgary, Alberta, a s Vice President and General Manager of Pennzoil 's Canadian Division. R. D. ROGERS, J r . , will take over the position vacated by Herb Officer .

ALICE PRAISNAR has recently joined the staff of Photogravity Company, Inc. Miss P ra i sna r received h e r B. S. degree in Geology f rom Baylor University and i s working i n Photogravity interpretat ion.

JACK E . CORNELIUS h a s resigned f rom T e x a s Eas t e rn T ransmis s ion Corp- oration to j o i n Southland Royalty Company in Fo r t Worth, Texas . Since Southland's office i s in F o r t Worth, a cor rec t ion i s in o rde r f o r BEN CURTIS: he i s in F o r t Worth and not in Dallas, a s was reported e a r l i e r .

MR. BEN SIMMONS recently presented a n AAPG sponsored talk on "The Water Beneath Us" to the Salesmanship Club a t i t s regular noon meeting a t the Rice Hotel. In addition to M r . Simmons, other speakers a r e available t o present ta lks t o civic organizations in Houston and Bellaire. Arrangements for speakers can be made by calling Edd T u r n e r a t CA 8-9361.

J. E.TYSON has moved h i s office f rom the San Jacinto Bldg. to 812 Americana Building. His phone number, CA 8-0843, remains the s a m e .

Crown Central has vacated the i r offices on the fourth floor of the Bank of the Southwest Building to occupy the i r new offices a t 1010 Bank of the Southwest Bldg.

Robert W. Harr i son and Company has moved to the i r new qua r t e r s in T h e Main Bldg., Suite 242, a t 1212 Main St ree t .

PAUL HARDWICK closed h i s office in the Americana Bldg. to join with Texota Oil Company, with offices a t 477 San Jacinto Bldg. T h e phone number i s CA 4-2501. Paul i s Manager of Exploration.

Another long-time member , GEORGE WATFORD, has moved f rom Houston to join the P ra i r i e Producing Company in Dallas a t 1150 F i r s t National Bank Bldg., a s Manager of Exploration. The phone number i s RI 2-6584 (area code 214).

At the t ime of this writing, JAMES WERNER i s recuperat ing f rom surgery a t the Spring Branch Memorial Hospital.

RALPH G. NICHOLS with T h e Superior Oil Company i s s t i l l in the Memorial Baptist Hospital a s the resul t of a s t roke and i s s t i l l on the cr i t ica l l i s t . T h e Society a l so lost another of i t s long-time member s in the death of M r . L . R. VAN BURGH.

JOHN TALIAFERRO has opened a new office a t 1029 San Jacinto Building, Houston, Texas . T h e phone number i s CA 8-1764.

Hamilton Brothers Oil Company has opened an office in Houston, Texas , a t 1938 Bank of the Southwest Building. T h e phone number i s CA 5-5439. D. G. WHITIKER i s Exploration Manager and ROSS E. DAWSON, JR., is Geologist for Hamilton Brothers in this office.

JOHN A. BROCK has opened an office a t 1125 Bank of the Southwest Bldg. The phone number i s CA 2-0316.

NEW MEMBERS - THE HGS welcomes the following new members :

D. E . "Roby" Roberson Lane-Wells Company Donald S. McPherron Humble Oil & Refining Company J. Wesley Adams Humble Oil & Refining Company Kenneth 0. Williams Shell Oil Company

Robert J . Meaux Sun Oil Company

Howard W. Cox, J r . Consultant M. Victor Witzel E. Cockrel l , J r . Billy James Johnson Humble Oil & Refining Company

David L. Henning Texas Gulf Sulphur Andrew Frank Walch Continental Oil Company James R. Stripling Ci t ies Service Oil Company William C. Hawk Continental Oil Company Douglas E. White Continental Oil Company Ross E. Dawson, J r . Hamilton Brothers Oil Company G. Jack F i sche r Texaco Inc . P. G . Von Tungeln Shell Oil Company

Gerald G. Burkett Midwest Oil Corporation

D. Char les Menut Sun Oil Company

Har ry L. Thomson Shell Development Company

Anthony J. Mandry Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America

D. Beadle Moore Humble Oil & Refining Company James Dawson Snyder T . C. Morrow Oil Company

W. P. Ryman E s s o Production Research Co.

Neal A. C a r t e r Pan American Petroleum Corp.

Dan J. Hartmann Pan American Petroleum Corp. Robert Robinson Cocke Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America

Joe 0. Wolfe J. M. Huber Corporation

T . A. Fitzgerald Humble Oil & Refining Company Edward G. Heath Shell Development Company Stanley Wahl Austral Oil Company R. Wallace Knapp Pan American Petroleum Corp .

Raymond F . Kosatka Phillips Petroleum Company

B. G. Robertson Tenneco Oil Company

William G. Pittman George H. Coates

Thomas H. Murray, J r . Chevron Oil Co. Standard of Texas Div.

Richard D. Zang Phillips Petroleum Company

Walton S. Launcy Humble Oil & Refining Company

Doyle G. Whitaker Hamilton Brothers Oil Company William H. Medary Tenneco Oil Company James S. Baker Mobil Oil Corporation

Donald E. Goeger Samedan Oil Corporation

William E. Mur rah Humble Oil & Refining Company

Dorr C. Skells

J. M. Smith Jerry S. Webb

E s s o Production Research Company Associates

Baroid Division Welex

HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY GROUP INSURANCE High Limit Accidental Death, Dismemberment & Disability Plan

Several years ago, prior to the t ime that the AAPG sponsored an insurance program, the Houston Geological Society made local arrangements for accidental death and disability insurance. A number of our members still subscribe to this program, and those who may desi re to subscribe to this program may do so by contacting: Rathmell & Company

2701 Louisiana, Houston, Texas Phone Number: JA-2-7851

Following a r e some of the major points of this insurance: 1. The member and each of his employees may apply for coverage in any

amount from $10,000 to $200,000.

2. The spouse may likewise apply for coverage in any amount from $10,000 to $200,000, not to exceed amount applied for by the employee.

3. This plan does not require any evidence of insurability.

4 . The benefits a r e paid when loss occurs within 365 days of the accident.

5. The principal sum applied for shall be paid in one lump sum in the event of permanent and total disability.

6 . Twenty-four hour coverage (subject to a few standard exclusions such a s suicide) good anywhere in the world.

7. This plan has been in effect and widely accepted by our members since 1959.

8. The premium for this plan is the same a s the National plan a t 80Q per $1,000 annually.

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W. DON BISHOP has been made Gulf Coast Region Sales Manager for Lane- Wells Company.

I N O T I C E ! N O T I C E ! N O T I C E !

The Deadline for sending in HGS-GSH Directory Information has been se t for December 1, 1966. YOUR information is important, PLEASE send it in.

N E W S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . + . . . O F OTHER SOCIETIES

Michel T . Halbouty addresses the Calgary Joint Conference of the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists and the

Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists

CALGARY, September 13 - - Petroleum industry management was warned today that i t should coordinate the efforts of geologists and geophysicists o r suffer the consequence of finding l e s s and l e s s oil and gas .

Michel T . Halbouty of Houston, issued the warning in an address to the Calgary Joint Conference of the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists and the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Halbouty i s president of the 15, 000-member American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the world's la rges t geological organization.

"Management has pitted the geologist and the geophysicists against each other too long, " he said. "Neither the geologist nor the geophysicist should permit this any more . They should t ry to persuade and convince management to ei ther coordinate their efforts o r suffer the consequence of finding l e s s and l e s s r e se rves . The geologist and the geophysicist can work together: management should not simply encourage but should force this alliance."

Halbouty urged the recognition of a new e r a of exploration based on new ideas, concepts and incentives. He said new incentives include l e s s but more intelli- gent government control and more rea l i s t ic pr ices for petroleum products.

"Big r e se rves of the future l ie in the l e s s obvious t r aps - - such a s stratigraphic", he said. "Finding these elusive t raps will require creative, highly imaginative thinking combined with using tools of every applicable scientific discipline en- gaged in the search for new petroleum rese rves . "

Halbouty said the future for sound exploration i s ingenuity andcreativity tied to common sense-and good reasoning.

"This kind of creativity, " he said, " i s the key to the nature 's hiding places for petroleum: the future discoveries of the world's giant oil and g a s r e se rves , " he said.

While admitting that the most obvious surface and subsurface s t ruc tures a r e known and have been tested, Halbouty told his audience that many sedimentary relationships favorable to the entrapment of petroleum in strat igraphic t raps occur in practically al l basins.

"We know some of these t r aps contain l a rge amounts of petroleum because huge stratigraphic-type fields already have been found, " he said.

Halbouty said the burden of convincing management t o support the search for these future giant fields l ies with the explorationist.

"The explorationist will have to convince management that there a r e l a rge fields to be found in the subtly hidden t r aps which lack any semblance of s t ruc ture -- the kind that will requi re ' the sticking out of neck' to find--the kind that 's lying right under our noses, " he said.

Officers for the New Orleans Geological Society a r e listed below:

President, H. G. Collier, J r . Directors: F i r s t Vice President, G. Briggs H. H. Hintze Second Vice President, R. M. Danos E. A. Gibson Secretary, R. M. Swords R. M. Jemison, J r . T r e a s u r e r , R. G. Pfister D. N. Rockwood

BACK ISSUES OF OLD HGS NEWSLETTERS

The University of Houston's M.D. Anderson Library i s endeavoring to assemble a complete se t of the mimeographed NEWSLETTER which the Houston Geological Society issued during the 1950's. If anyone can donate i ssues not l isted below, will they please 'phone the Librarian concerned, Miss Sara Aull, a t CA 5-4451, Ext. 268.

The Library already has the following numbers: 1949/50: nos. 1-4, 9-10, 12 1950/51: nos. 1, 4-5, 9-15 1951/52: no. 1 1952/53: no. 10 1953/54: 1954/55: nos. 3-4, 6-7, 10 1955/56: nos. 1, 4, 6 -8 1956/57: nos. 1-2

PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL SURVEY 103 Utah Geological Survey Building, University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NUMBER 20, THE GREAT SALT LAKE, Wm. Lee Stokes, Editor; published by the Utah Geological Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1966; 173 pages, 36 illustrations, 3 fold-outs 11 technical papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4.50

IGNEOUS COMPLEX AT WAH WAH PASS,BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH, by Max P. Erickson. A description of three dioritic stocks and associated rock alteration in the Wah Wah Pass together with resul ts from a magnetic geophysical survey: Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Special Studies 17, 14 p., 2 pls . , (geologic map and sections, pl, I; map showing dis t r i - bution of magnetic intensities, pl. 11) . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.50

SECOND RECONNAISSANCE O F WATER RESOURCES IN WESTERN KANE COUNTY, UTAH, by Harry D. Goode: Utah Geological and Mineralogical

. . . . . . Survey Water-Resources Bulletin 8, 44 p . , 10 figs, 13 illus. $1 .OO

OHIO DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1207 Grandview Avenue, Columbus Ohio 43212

NOTIFICATION LIST September 1966

A notification list of new publications of the Ohio Geological Survey i s sent out annually. Please keep us informed of any change of address.

R. I. 56 Summary of oil and gas activity in Ohio during 1964, by Donald L. Norling, Theodore A. DeBrosse, and William J. Buschman, J r . 139 p . , 1 fig., 1965. A tabulation andbrief discussion of the activities in drilling and recompleting wells for oil and gas in Ohio during 1965. $2.00 plus 6 cents tax in Ohio.

R. I. 57 Geology of the Malvern quadrangle, Ohio, by Richard M. DeLong. One sheet with map and text, 1965. A colored geologic map with a stratigraphic section and a short discussion of the economic geology. $1.00 plus 3 cents tax in Ohio.

R. I. 58 Synoptic survey of water properties in the western basin of L a k e E r i e , b y Robert P. Hartley, Charles E. Herdendorf, a n d Myrl Keller. 19 p. , 14 figs., 1966. A report of measurements of temperature, turbidity, color, current, and other properties of water in western Lake Er ie . $0.50 plus 2 cents tax in Ohio.

R. I. 59 Glacial map of Licking County, Ohio, by Jane L. Forsyth. One sheet with text, 1966. Glacial deposits in Lickingcounty a r e shown on a colored map and a discussion of the glacial geology and sand and gravel deposits is included. $1.00 plus 3 cents tax in Ohio.

Geologic map of Ohio, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, in six colors. 2 cents.

Oil and gas fields map of Ohio, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, in two colors. 2 cents.

Oil and gas fields map of Ohio, 17 x 20 inches, in two colors. 5 cents.

Glacial deposits of Ohio, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, in six colors. 2 cents.

A charge of 10% of the total cost of the order will be made for postage and handling. Please add this amount when sending money for publications listed here o r for any other Ohio Geological Survey publications.

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Space for Professional Cards of Members

JOSEPH L. ADLER

Geologist & Geophysicist Chamber of Commerce Bldg.

CA 2-7925 Houston, Texas 77002

R. P. AKKERMAN Geologist EXPLORATION Engineer

Review of Subsurface Data 3425 Bradford Place MO 8-4327

Houston, Texas 77025

ALLEN & GlLKlSON Oil and Gas Consultants

Harris H. Allen and D. C. Gilkison

963 San Jacinto Bldg. CA 8-9329 Houston, Texas 77002

JOY J. ANNELER Consulting Geophysicist

and Geologist 7054 Hendon PR 4-6562


E. J. BARRAGY

lndependent Geolog~st

JA 2-4644

3005 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas

A. I. BARTOW

Geophysical Consultant

2315 Watts Road

Phone: MO 8-3306

JOHN L. BIBLE BIBLE GEOPHYSICAL CO., INC.

Gravity - Magnetic Surveys Interpretations

236 Esperson Bldg. CA 2-6266 Houston, Texas 77002

LESLIE BOWLING

Oil and Gas Consultant

316 California Bldg. JA 2-0432

New Orleans. Louisiana

WAYNE F. BOWMAN lndependent Geologist

1314 Niels Esperson Bldg. CA 2-0279


ORVAL L. BRACE

Geologist

2206 South Coast Bldg. CA 8-5404


BREWER AND COMPANY

Consultants

IRA BRINKERHOFF

Petroleum Consultant

822 Americana Bldg.

CA 4-2656


RALPH B. CANTRELL

Petroleum Geologist and Engineer

4005 Bellaire Boulevard

Houston, Texas 77025 MO 8-0471

GEORGE H. CLARK Petroleum Geologist

404 First City National Bank FA 3-1187

Houston, Texas

JACK COLLE & ASSOCIATES Consulting Geologists and Paleontologists 817 C & I Building

Houston, Texas 77002 Associate CA 7-6266 E. H. Stork, Jr. SU 2-4555

MORGAN J. DAVIS Petroleum Consultant

MORGAN J. DAVIS, JR. Geologist

Suite 709 Capital National Bank Building


ERNEST A. ELWOOD, JR.

Prudential Drilling Company

1418 Bank of the Southwest Bldg.


PAUL FARREN


Geodata Building MO 7-3317

5603 S. Rice Ave. (77036)

KENNETH L. GOW Geologist and Engineer

151 1 C & I Bldg. CA 2-9921


MICHEL T. HALBOUTY Consulting Geologist Petroleum Engineer

Independent Producer and Operator The Michel T. Halbouty Bldg.

51 11 Westheimer NA 2-1 130 Houston, Texas 77027

HILLORD HINSON Consulting Geologist

CA 8-9455

2138 Bank of the Southwest Bldg. Houston, Texas 77002

JOHN L. KALTENBACH KALTENBACH CONSULTANTS

Photogeology - Photogeomorphology Suite 104, 51 11 Woodway

SU 2-5966 Houston, Texas 77027

GENTRY KlDD and

SHIRLEY L. MASON Geologists

813 Esperson Bldg. CA 7-8231

KlMES & GRUBBS

Exploration Consultants

San Jacinto Building

Geology Geophysics


ORVILLE G. LUNDSTROM Nutter & Lundstrorn

Geologists 889 Houston Club Building

Houston, Texas 77002 CA 7-601 5

GEORGE N. MAY & ASSOCIATES Consulting Geologists and Paleontologists

Building 36, Heyrnann Oil Center P. 0. Box 51858 Oil Center Station

Lafayette, Louisiana 70501 CE 4-3379

W. B. McCARTER C. E. McCARTER

Independents 2522 Hazard JA 3-5733

JA 9-1881 Houston, Texas 77019

GEORGE I. McFERRON

Consulting Geologist

Room 5, 1973 W. Gray JA 2-2627

Houston, Texas

KINDEL P. McNElLL Geophysical - Geological

Computer Applications McDonnell Automation Center

500 Jefferson Building Suite 400 CA 4-5921

R. B. MITCHELL

Geologist

2801 First City National Bank Bldg.


JOHN C. MYERS Consultant in Oil, Gas and Sulphur 1207 Bank of the Southwest Bldg.

CA 5-4133 and CA 5-4559 Houston, Texas 77002

KENNETH DALE OWEN

Geologist

Esperson Building


ROLAND B. PAXSON Consulting Geologist

Oil and Sulphur 3524 Sunset Blvd. MO 8-9196


S.I.P.E.S. SAM M. PENA

Consulting Geophysicist Offshore

(Geophysical Data Trades) . . -

2601 Esperson Bldg. Houston, Texas 77002

Bus: FA 3-8455 Res: SU 2-6802

WALLACE E. PRATT

Geologist

1620 El Paso National Bank Bldg.

El Paso, Texas 79901

RAYMOND D. REYNOLDS Geologist

436 Bankers Mortgage Bldg. Houston, Texas 77001

CA 7-5309

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Space for Professional Cards o f Members

A. L. SELlG Geologist

1907 Bank of the Southwest Bldg.


FRED L. SMITH, JR. Consulting Geologist

Paleontologist 1226 Bank of the Southwest Bldg. Houston, Texas 77002 CA 5-5757

CARLETON D. SPEED, JR.

Geologist - Oil Producer

, 71 1 Houston Club Bldg. CA 4-2523


H. C. SPOOR, JR. HARRY KlLlAN

Geologists 2130 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Houston, Texas 77002 CA 4-9624

D. C. STALLWORTH, INC. Engineering and Geological Drafting

Surveying and Mapping Planirnetering and Acreage Calculations

1210 Bank of the Southwest Bldg. Houston, Texas 77002 FA 3-7343

S. BROOKS STEWART Geophysical Consultant

320 Bankers Mortgage Bldg. CA 2-7718


HAROLD VANCE Petroleum Investment Counselor Petroleum Evaluation Engineer

CApitol 7-3949 1119 Bank of the Soruthwest Bldg.


GENE VAN DYKE

Van Dyke Oil Company

Southwest Tower

CA 8-8174

MERLIN J. VERRET Geologist

Route 2, Box 109 Lake Charles, Louisiana

Phone: 477-1477-8 --

LAWRENCE J. VITTRUP Petroleum Geologist

Representing Goodale, Bertman & Co., Inc.

1925 Bank of the Southwest Bldg. FA 3-1191 Houston, Texas

J. C. WALTER, JR. Geologist and Petroleum Engineer

3055 Humble Bldg. CA 7-1246 Houston, Texas 77002

Home Phone: HO 5-9773

JAMES A. WHEELER Geologist

C.P.G. No. 109 926 Americana Bldg. CA 3-1618



JAMES M. WILSON


415 San Jacinto Building

CA 7-7845

WOODHAM CONSULTING CO. Geological-Geophysical Consultants

Bill Woodham - H. R. Warren 1200 C & I Building

CA 7-4138

THE PRESIDENT'S C O R N E R

C O N V E N T I O N A N D B U D G E T ! !

Y o u ' l l h e a r f r o m m e n e x t m o n t h

. . .Jesse L. George, J r .

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DEPARTMENT O F GEOLOGY

GEORGE C. HARDIN, JR., Next Continuing Education Speaker

On Wednesday, February 15, and Wednesday and Thursday, March 15 and 16, f rom 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 p. m., the next A. A. P. G. Continuing Education Program will be sponsored by the Houston Geological Society. The subject will be "Economics for Oil and Gas Explorationists," presented by Mr . George C. Hardin, J r . , a member of this society now with Kerr-McGee Corporation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The month between the f i rs t two l e c t u r e s i s intended to allow time for participants to complete assigned reading and home- work!

This se r i e s will be held in the auditorium in the basement of the Humble Building, with box supper provided by the Brass Rail ca t e re r s in the nearby cafeteria, under arrangements s imi lar to those for Dr . C. Crowell 's s e r i e s in September. It i s expected, too, that the fee will be the same, $10, despite inflationary pressures! This i sposs ib le only because of the fine response from members and friends of the society. Additional details will be presented in future Bulletins, a s the t ime for Mr . Hardin 's timely s e r i e s approaches.

6 N O T E S

0 PALEO-STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

S AND

C APPLICATION OF LATTER STRUCTURAL TILTING

I by

E Arthur S. ~ ick inson '

N Consultant, Goldrus Drilling Company, Houston, Texas

A B S T R A C T

It i s reasonable to conclude that hydrocarbons begin to form soon after the organims from which they a r e derived a r e buried with the sediments that constitute both source rock and reservoir bed. Therefore, any structural mapping method used to define likely areas of accumulation should be an attempt to reconstruct the geologic history from time of deposition by analyzing both the initial structural growth and the later structural tilting that influence the migration and entrapment of the hydrocarbons.

The s t r u c t u r a 1 mapping method commonly in use today tends. to locate "structure" a s it appears today without due regard for (1) initial local structural. uplift which influenced the hydrocarbons a s they began to migrate initially or (2) later structural tilting which tended to breach the original " paleo-structural" t rap and possibly have moved the original accumulation to another place. Therefore, it i s possible, using the customary structural mapping method, to properly map a "h igh that has no accumulation because no t rap existed at the critical time of initial migration. Likewise, it i s also possible that the initial structural closure has no accumulation today because it had been breached by la ter structural tilting.

Therefore, the purpose of this paper i s (1) to set out a logical method of paleo-structural mapping by use of carefully selected isopach intervals and (2) to define later structural tilting and present a practical method of applying it in order to better understand and define likely a reas of accumulation.

Examples of application a t North Francitas Field. Jackson County, Texas, and a t Rayne-Bosco-North Ossum Fields, Acadia a n d Lafayette Parishes, Louisiana a r e presented.

Presented orally a t the Society's meeting of October 10,1966. The paper will be published in its entirety in the GCAGS Transactions for 1966.

Hope you saw the pictures of Je r ry Wheeler, Toni Wise, and Louise Moulton, in papers on October 23rd when they saluted all the women's organizations. The Auxiliary, Geo-Wives, and the Geo Ladies a l so received nice background write ups, in which all officers were named.

Surely no one missed the party a t the lovely new J r . League building! So many ladies al l aglow over fall festivities beginning anew. The chairmen for this wonderful party were M r s . J e r ry J. McCauley and Mrs . John B. Williams, The Lamar Choralettes sang all our favorite songs and the brunch was delicious.

The Geo Wives and their husbands enjoyed an evening of dinner and bridge on Saturday, October 22nd. Party chairmen were Shirley Haworth and Wanda Knapp .

Mrs . Kindel McNeill i s the new notification chairman for Geo Wives, and there'll be a n announcement from her committee soon concerning baby sitting facilities a t part ies.

Next Geo Wives party i s to be on November 16th a t the Geo Club, where the a r t of making Christmas decorations will be discussed and demonstrated.

On Sunday, December 4th a "Football Brunch" will be given a t the Petroleum Club by H.G.A.

The D. R. Scherer ' s son Donald i s recuperating from surgery. Izora Wade is still in room 627 Hermann Hospital, and Would appreciate c a r d s o r notes, we a r e su re . No visi tors, though, please.

Virginia Edgecomb, g i r l repor ter , is in California attending a n Assistance Guild confab. She is local president of that organization.

Inez and A1 Hintze recently returned from a month's motor t r ip through the northwest, during which t ime they visited their daughter and he r family in Olympia, Washington.

Marybelle Clark's s i s t e r and brother-in-law, the Furstenbergers, were he re for a brief visit from Oklahoma.

Convention Notes next month!

. . . Grace Chambers

NEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OF AAPG

A. A. P. G. DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE REPORT

The By-Laws of A. A. P. G. state . . . . ."The business committee shall consist of the executive committee, the incoming officers, not more than five members a t l a rge appointed annually by the president, two members elected by and f rom each technical division, and the DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES. "

The distr ict representatives a r e listed a s the final component of the Business Committee but a r e by no means the least important. The Business Committee ac t s a s a council and advisory board to the Executive Committee. Under the present administration, the distr ict representatives sha re an integral par t in determining the policies of the Association.

One o r more Distr ict Representatives a r e elected for overlapping t e r m s of two yea r s f rom each of the various distr icts . Thus the Distr ict Representative represents the interests of individual members and i s the appropriate channel through which the individual members can bring influence to bear a t a national level. In many ways they se rve a s a balance of power in governing the a f fa i r s of A. A. P. G. It might be considered that the distr ict representatives serve , through their representation, a s a house of representatives and the Executive- Committee se rves a s a senate in assist ing the President with the policies and problems of the organization.

These distr ict representatives a r e electedand represent geological communi- t ies on the bas is of local geographical a reas . Each distr ict i s entitled to one representative for the f i rs t 25 members of the Associationand to one additional representative for each additional 75 members . These representatives a r e a lso responsible for the affairs of AAPG a t the local level and welcome your suggestions regarding the affairs of the Association. Anelectionof replacement distr ict representatives will be held in the near future and your suggestions for nominees will a lso be welcomed. The two-year t e rmof office gives the Distr ict Representative an opportunity for continuity of experience in national affairs often g rea te r than that of members of the National Executive Committee.

The geographical a rea represented by the Houston Distr ict covers Railroad Commission Distr ict 3 with the exception of Lee, Burleson and Fayette Cos. but a l so i n c 1 u d e s Angelina, Houston, Jackson, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine and Shelby Cos.

I N M E M O R I A M

Albert E rnes t Hartwig, J r (1922 - 1966)

Albert E . Hartwig, J r . , 43, succumbed to lung cancer May 17, 1966 in Houston, Texas . He i s survived by h is wife Milba Kilgore Hartwig; four daughters, Alicia Ivey, 14, Barbara Anne, 12, Candace Kate, 3, Deborah Marguerite, 2, all of Houston; his mother Mrs . Alice S. Hartwig of Lawrence, Massachusetts; and a s i s t e r M r s . Edith Shapiro of Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

A1 was born in Methuen, Massachusetts , and attended Harvard from 1940 t o 1943 before entering the serv ice . He received a BA in geology f rom Colgate in 1949 and a n MA in geology from the University of Texas in 1952.

While training a s a navigator in the U. S. Army Air Fo rce in 1944, A1 me t h is devoted wife Milba. Commissioned a s a Second Lieutenant, he served in the Pacific until he was discharged in 1947.

Al's en t i re professional c a r e e r was with the Humble Oil and Refining Com- pany. Beginning a s a surface geologist in E a s t Texas in 1952, he was to become bes t known for his work in th is field. After four y e a r s of sur face mapping with the a id of the c o r e dr i l l , A1 turned h is attention to subsurface mapping in Humble's E a s t Texas Division office in Ty le r .

Two y e a r s la te r , in 1958, A1 joined a n advance guard of sur face geologists for Humble in Anchorage, Alaska. He re he spent two and one-half y e a r s mapping and heading up surface par t ies in the remote in ter ior of Alaska. Returning to Houston in September of 1960, he continued on Humble 's "Alaskan project" fo r two more yea r s .

Work to which A1 contributed while in Alaska was incorporated in a paper which appeared in the September, 1966 i s sue of the Bulletin of the AAPG - - "Middle and Late Paleozoic Stratigraphy, Alaska - Yukon Border Area Between Yukon and Porcupine Rivers" by Lowell R. Laudon, A. E . Hartwig, Dean L . Morgridge, and John B. Omernick.

Entering a new phase in h is c a r e e r , in 1962 A1 became a production geologist in Humble's Rosenberg Dis t r ic t . He re he worked a t subsurface and wellsite geology until his health began t o fail in the fall of 1965. While undergoing therapy for l ungcance rbe worked in Humble's Houston Area Exploration office until short ly before h i s death on May 17, 1966.

Aside f rom his accomplishments a s a geologist, two things stand out when one thinks of A1 Hartwig - - his Christ ian faith and h is devotion to h is wife and children. A fo rmer Senior Warden of St. James Episcopal Church in Houston, he was highly regarded a s a n Episcopal Layman. His faith in God gave him extraordinary strength and courage in the waning days of h is l i fe . Few men have displayed more love, derived m o r e obvious happiness, and shown more dedication t o t he i r families than Al.

What g r e a t e r legacy could a man leave than love?

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