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This issue of Mississippi Geo/ogycompletes ten vol The list of back issues, in addition to showing availa umes of publication. The Index to Mississippi Geology, bility, gives the date each issue was actually mailed (bulk Volumes 1-10 , contains an author index and a title index mailing) and the number of copies mailed. The original to the articles appearing in all40 issues. Also included mailing list developed in 1980 was continuously added to is a list of the back issues, showing which are available as people and libraries requested subscriptions. After or out of print. These indexes indicate the diversity of several years the distribution exceeded 2000 , but many subjects and authors contained within the journal's first copies were going to old addresses of people who had decade of publication. They include some 100 articles moved and there was some duplication. In 1988 we written by 75 authors representing 31 different institu updated the mailing list by printing a subscription re tions in 11 different states and 2 foreign countries. The newal notice in the June issue. The old list was dis number of articles contributed by outside authors and carded and a new list created from those renewal notices the steadily increasing subscription list are indications of that were returned. We accomplished our purpose of the success of the journal. We are proud of this success paring down the mailing list to those who truly wished to and appreciate our many authors and subscribers. receive the journal. The number of subscribers is The Author Index is an alphabetical listing of au steadily increasing. thors, including junior authors, of all articles for which an author's name was printed. The Title Index is an alpha AUTHOR INDEX betical listing of article titles; it can be used to locate an article or subject of interest. The numbers at the end of Bellomy, Anne, compiler, 1980, Selected references on each entry in the indexes give the volume, number, and the Smackover Formation, 1(2), 8-9. page numbers for that article. For example: 1(2) , 1-3 Bellomy, Anne, compiler, 1981, Selected references on signifies Volume 1, Number 2, pages 1 through 3. the southern Appalachians, Alabama and Tennes- see, 1(3), 1-4. Case, Gerard R., 1986, The bony fishes (teleosts) of the Be~omy , AMe, 1981, Mississippi Bureau of Geology Li Tuscahoma and Bashi formations, early Eocene, brary, 1(4), 14-15. Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, 6(4), 6-8. Bellomy,Anne, compiler, 1981 , Selectedreferenceson Copeland, Chartes W., Jr., see Dockery, David T. the Black Warrior Basin-stratigraphy and hydrocar Day, Lee, 1988, Depositional environments and strati bon potential, 1(4), 17-19. graphy of the Catahoula Formation sandstones of Bishop, Gale A. , 1981, The lobster Linuparuspreserved southeastern Mississippi, 8(4), 6-13. as an attachment scar on the oyster Exogyra costata, Devery, Dora M., 1980, The Lower Tuscaloosa of south Ripley Formation (Late Cretaceous), Union County, em Mississippi, 1(2), 6-7, 12. Mississippi, 2(1 ), 2-5. Devery, Dora M., 1981 , Hosston and Sligo formations in Blackwell, Will H ., 1989, Fossil palm stem from Bayou south Mississippi, 1(4) , 1-3, 20. Pierre, Copiah/Ciaibome oounties, Mississippi, 9(3), Devery, Dora M., 1982, Highlights of 1981 oil and gas 9-13. exploration in Mississippi, 2(3), 14. Blackwell, Will H., and George H. Dukes, 1981 , Fossil Devery, Dora M., 1982, An overview of oil and gas po wood from Thompson Creek, Yazoo County, Mis tential in Mississippi, 3(2), 6-10. sissippi, 2(2), 1-6. Devery, Dora M., 1987, Oil and gas exploration in Mis Blackwell, Will H., and George H. Dukes, 1982, Fossil sissippi - first half of 1987, 8(2), 9. hop- hornbeam wood from Rankin County, central Dockery, David T., 1980, Color patterns of some Eo / Mississippi, 2(4), 10-14. cene molluscs, 1 (1 ), 3-7. Blackwell, WiiiH.,andJoeH.Marak, 1989, The scientific Dockery, David T., 1981, Upper Eocene Carcharodons investigation of fossil wood, 10(1), 1-9. in Mississippi, 1 (4), 6. Blackwell, Will H., and Martha J. Powell, 1982, Fossil mi Dockery, David T., 1982, Lesueur's Walnut Hills fossil croalgae (coccolithophorids) in the Yazoo Clay expo shells, 2(3), 7-13. sures at Thompson Creek, Yazoo County, Missis Dockery, David T., 1984, Crisis events for Paleogene sippi, 3(2), 1-5. molluscan faunas in the southeastern United States, Blackwell, Will H., Martha J. Powell, and George H. 5(2), 1-7. Dukes, 1983, Fossil wood from Bayou Pierre and Dockery, DavidT., 1985, TarpodsfromtheYazooCiay White Oak Creek, southwest- central Mississippi,4(2), (upper Eocene) at Cynthia, Mississippi, 5(4), 1-3. 1-6. Dockery, David T., 1985, PALSTRAT: A biostratigra Bograd, Michael B. E., 1981 , Earthquakes in Mississip phic computer program for Paleocene and Eo pi, 1(4), 4- 6. cene mollusks, 6(2), 18-19. Bograd, Michael B. E., compiler, 1985, Index to Mis Dockery, David T., 1987, Petrified palm "wood" from sissippi Geology, Volumes 1-5, 6(1), 7-14. ThompsonCreek, YazooCounty, Mississippi, 8(2), Bograd, Michael B. E., 1989, Mississippi place-names 10-11 . trivia, 9(3), 14-15. Dockery, David T., 1988, Bulletin on Upper Cretaceous Bograd, Michael B. E., 1989, Publication series of the gastropods in progress at Mississippi Bureau of Ge Mississippi Bureau of Geology, 10(1), 10-11. ology, 9(2), 18-19. Bograd, Michael B. E., compiler, 1990, Index to Missis Dockery, David T., Charles W. Copeland, Jr., and Paul sippi Geology, Volumes 1-10, this issue. F. Huddlestun, 1984, Reply to a revision of the Byerly, Gary R., Joseph E. Hazel, and Charles McCabe, Hatchetigbee and Bashi formations, 4(3), 11-15. 1988, A new late Eocene microspherule layer in cen Dockery, David T., and Delbert E. Gann, 1984, Botryoi tral Mississippi, 8(4), 1- 5. dal goethite from the Citronelle Formation (Plio Carpenter, Kenneth, 1982, The oldest Late Cretaceous cene- Pleistocene) in Lincoln County, Mississippi, dinosaurs in North America?, 3(2), 11-17. 5(2), 8-10. Carpenter, Kenneth, 1983, Thoracosaurus neocesari Dockery, David T., and Stephen P. Jennings, 1988, ensis (De Kay, 1842) (Crocodylia: Crocodylidae) Stratigraphy of the Tupelo Tongue of the Coffee from the Late Cretaceous Ripley Formation of Mis Sand (upper Campanian), northern Lee County, sissippi, 4( 1 ), 1-10. Mississippi, 9(1 ), 1-7. Carpenter, Kenneth, and David T. Dockery, 1985, " ... And Dockery, David T., and John E. Johnston, 1986, Exca the bones came together, bone to his bone." Ezekiel vation of an archaeocete whale, Basilosaurus cetoi 37:7, The making of a state fossil, 6(1), 1-6. des (Owen}, from Madison, Mississippi, 6(3), 1-10. Carpenter, Kenneth, and David White, 1986, Feeding in Dockery, DavidT., and Earl M. Manning, 1986, Teeth of the archaeocete whale Zygorhiza kochii (Cetacea: the giant shark Carcharodon auriculatus from the Archaeoceti), 7(2), 1-14. Eocene and Oligocene of Mississippi, 7{1), 7-19.

MISSISSIPPI GEOLOGY 2 Dockery, DavidT., and Robert K. Merrill, 1984, Lower Hansen, Thor A. , see Elder, Susan R. Devonian (Helderbergian} trilobites from the Ross Harrelson, Danny W., 1981 , Igneous rocks of the Jackson Limestone in Mississippi, 5(2}, 11-15. Dome, Hinds-Rankin counties, Mississippi, 1( 4}, Dockery, David T., and William G. Siesser, 1984, Age of 7-13. the upper Yazoo Formation in central Mississippi, Harrelson, Danny W., William D. Easom, and Willis H. 5(1}, 1-10. Johnson, 1980, The Bureau of Geology's electrical Dockery, David T., and Gary S. Zumwalt, 1986, ptero Jogging program, 1(1}, 8-10. pods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the upper Yazoo Harrelson, Danny W., see also Johnson, W. Howard Formation {Eocene) at Cynthia, Mississippi, 6(4), 9- Harris, W. Burleigh, and Paul D. Fullagar, 1987, Rb 13. Sr age of glauconite from the Eocene Moodys Dockery, David T., see also Carpenter, Kenneth Branch Formation, Hinds County, Mississippi, 7(4), Dockery, David T., see also Gann, Delbert E. 5-11 . Dockery, David T., see also Harry, Harold W. Harry, HaroldW., and DavidT. Dockery, 1983, Notes on Dockery, David T., see also Manning, Earl the lower Oligocene oysters of Mississippi, 4(2), 7- Dockery, David T., see also Nolf, Dirk 14. Dockery, David T., see also Robinson, John E. Hazel, Joseph E., see Byerly, Gary R. Dockery, David T., see also Siesser, William G. Hersch, James B. , 1987, Lower Tuscaloosa "ash" - a Dolin, Cyrille, Luc Dolin, and Pierre Lozouet, 1985, Pale misnomer, 7(4}, 1-4. oecology of some classic Tertiary localities in the Huddlestun, Paul F.,see Dockery, David T. Aquitaine and Paris basins of France, 5(4), 4-13. Jennings, Stephen P., see Dockery, David T. Dolin, Cyrille, see also Dolin, Luc Johnson, Wendell B., 1986, Richard Randall Priddy Dolin, Luc, and Cyrilla Dolin, 1981, Sphaerocypraea (August 31 , 1906-April12, 1986), 6(3}, 15. jacksonensis (Johnson} from the Moodys Branch Johnson, W. Howard, 1982, The Waynesboro Sand, Formation (Eocene}, Mississippi, 2(2), 17-19. 2(4}, 1-8. Dolin, Luc, see also Dolin, Cyrilla Johnson, W. Howard, and Danny W. Harrelson, 1981, Dukes, George H., see Blackwell, Will H. Geohydrology of the Local Aquifer. Tatum Dome, Dukes, George H., see Blackwell, Will H. 2(2). 7-15. Dukes, George H., see Blackwell, Will H. Johnson, Willis H., see also Harrelson, Danny W. Easom, William D., see Harrelson, Danny W. Johnston, John E., see Dockery, David T. Elder, Susan R., and Thor A. Hansen, 1981 , Macrofos Keady, Donald M., see Pettry, D. E. sil assemblages of the Moodys Branch Formation Kelley, Patricia H., see Swann, Charles T. (upper Eocene}, Louisiana and Mississippi, 2(1 }, 6- Knox, S. Cragin, and Sue Pitts, 1984, Excavation of a 11. mastodon at Vicksburg, Mississippi, 4(4), 1-10. Estes, Charles (Chuck}, 1980, Mississippi surface min Kopp, Otto C., see Reeves, Daniel K. ing and reclamation - a working example, 1 (2), 4-5. Lozouet, Pierre, see Dolin, Cyrille Estes, Charles (Chuck}, 1981 , Mississippi lignite - ener Manning, Earl, David T. Dockery, and Judith A. Schiebout, gy for the future, 2(1 }, 1-2. 1985, Preliminary report of a Metamynodon skull Fisher, Ramsey, and Kevin Ward, 1984, Paleoenviron from the Byram Formation (lower Oligocene) in Mis mental reconstruction of the Vicksburg Group (Oligo sissippi, 6(2}, 1-16. cene}, Warren County, Mississippi, 4(3}, 1-9. Manning, Earl M., see also Dockery, David T. Frazier, Michael K., 1980, Archaeocetes: whale-like Marak, Joe H., see Blackwell, Will H. mammals from the Eocene of Mississippi, 1 (2}, 1-3. Marble, John C., see Gann, Delbert E. Froelicher, Franz, and Frank Pescatore, Jr., 1982, 1nfra Mather, Bryant, 1981 , Minerals in Mississippi, 1 (3), 4- red spectrographic and petrographic analysis of the 11. Wilcox lignites in Mississippi (abstract), 3(1 }, 6-7. McCabe, Charles, see Byerly, Gary R. Fro elicher, Frank, and Michael Wright, 1982, Petrogra Mellen, Frederic F., 1982, Letter, 2(4), 15. phic and fluorescent analysis of Wilcox lignites in Mellen, Frederic F., 1982, Notes on Middle Ordovician, Lauderdale County, Mississippi (abstract), 3(1 ), 7- Mississippi and Alabama, 3(1 ), 1-5. 8. Mellen, Frederic F., 1983, Fred Endom (1905-1983), Fullagar, Paul D., see Harris, W. Burleigh 4(2},15. Gann, Delbert E., David T. Dockery, and John C. Mellen, Frederic F., 1984, A review-Petroleum potential Marble, 1987, A new borate mineral from the upper of the Niobrara Formation in the Denver Basin: Co Louann Formation in the northern Gulf, 8(1 ), 1-11 . lorado and Kansas, 5(1 }, 13. Gann, Delbert E. , see also Dockery, David T. Mellen, Frederic F. , 1986, Cretaceous chalks - a recom-

3 JUNE 1990 mended symposium, 6(3), 11-14. terence on the Geology of the Woodbine and Merrill, Robert K., 1983, Source of the volcanic precur Tuscaloosa Formations, 1(3), 12. sor to Upper Cretaceous bentonite in Monroe Russell, Ernest E., 1987, Gravel aggregate in Missis County, Mississippi, 3(4), 1-6. sippi - its origin and distribution, 7(3), 1-7. Merrill, Robert K., 1988, Lithostratigraphy and thickness Saunders, James A., 1988, Occurrence and origin of trerds of the Tuscaloosa Group in Tishomingo Courty, native sulfur in caprock from Tatum Salt Dome, Mis Mississippi, 9(2), 1-10. sissippi, 8(3), 1-5. Merrill, Robert K., see also Dockery, David T. Saunders, James A., 1989, Ground-water geochemis Metzger, Ann G., 1983, The northeast Mississippi earth try as a guide to aquifer interconnection above T a quakesof29January and 5 February, 1983, 3(4), 8- tum Salt Dome, Mississippi, 9(3), 1-8. 9. Schiebout, Judith A., see Manning, Earl Meyer-Arendt, Klaus J., 1989, Estuarine marsh loss in Seal, Michael C., 1986, Investigation of ground-water Mississippi, 1956-1985, 9(4), 9-11. contamination in a shallow aquifer at Benton, Mis Monroe, Watson H., 1986, Examples of the replacement sissippi, 6(4), 1-4. of limestone by clay, 7(1), 1-6. Seal, Michael C., 1987, A history and methodology of Moody, JackS., 1989, Exploration on Mississippi's salt waste disposal site evaluations bythe Mississippi domes, 10(2), 3-7. Bureau of Geology, 7(3), 13-14. Moody, Jack, 1990, Clear Creek Field aftertwoyearsof Siesser, William G., and David T. Dockery, 1985, Cal production, 10(3), 15. careous nannoplankton biostratigraphy of selected Moody, Jack, 1990, Mississippi's first horizontal well Tertiary localities in the Paris, Adour, and Beam completions, this issue. basins of France and their correlation with the North Moore, Tim, 1983, The geology of Oakvale Field, 3(3), American Gulf Coast Tertiary sequence, 5(3), 9-19. 1-8. Siesser, William G., see also Dockery, David T. Moore, William H., 1989, Introduction of Frederic F. Smith, Schaun M., and Gary S. Zumwalt, 1987, Gravity Mellen on the occasion of the celebration of the 50th flow introduction of shallow water microfauna into Anniversary of the discovery of Tinsley Field and deep water depositional environments, 8(2), 1-8. the 50th Anniversary of the Mississippi Geological Sundeen, Daniel A., 1981 , Report on the Annual Meet Society, 10(2), 1-2. ing of the Geological Society of America, South Nolf, Dirk, and DavidT. Dockery, 1990, Fish otoliths from eastern Section, 1(4), 16. the Coffee Sand (Campanian) of northeastern Mis Swann, Charles T ., and Patricia H. Kelley, 1985, Resid sissippi, 10(3) , 1- 14. ual color patterns in mollusks from the Gosport Otvos, Ervin G., 1987. Late Neogene stratigraphic prob Sand (Eocene), Alabama, 5(3), 1-8. lems in coastal Mississippi and Alabama, 7(3), 8-12. Switzer, R. E., see Pettry, D. E. Otvos, ErvinG., 1988, LateHolocenebarrierand marsh Tarbutton, R. J., 1980, Coal resources ofthe Pennsylva land evolution, southwest Mississippi, 8(3), 5-11 . nian Pottsville Formation in northeastern Mississip Pescatore, Frank, Jr., see Froelicher, Franz pi, 1(1 ), 1-2. Pettry, D. E., R. E. Switzer, and Donald M. Keady, Ward, Kevin, see Fisher, Ramsey 1988, Landslides in coastal plain soils of Mississippi, White, David, see Carpenter, Kenneth 9(2), 11 -17. Woodley, Carolyn, compiler, 1982, Recent acquisitions, Pitts, Sue, see Knox, S. Cragin Bureau of Geology Library, 2(3), 15. Powell, Martha J., see Blackwell, Will H. Woodley, Carolyn, compiler, 1982, Recent acquisitions, Powell, Martha J., see Blackwell, Will H. Bureau of Geology Library, 2(4), 9. Reeves, Daniel K., and Otto C. Kopp, 1989, The chemis Woodley, Carolyn, compiler, 1983, Recent acquisi try and mineralogy of the upperYazoo Formation tions, Bureau of Geology Library, 3(4), 7. (upper Eocene) at the Cynthia Pit, Hinds County, Wright, Michael, see Froelicher, Franz Mississippi, 9(4), 1-7. Zullo, Victor A.. 1982, A new species of the turtle barna Robinson, John E., 1983, New and interesting Eocene cle Chelonibia Leach, 1817, (Cirripedia, Thoracica) molluscan species from the Moodys Branch Forma from the Oligocene Mint Spring and Byram forma tion, 3(3), 9-12. tions of Mississippi, 2(3), 1-6. Robinson, John E., and David T. Dockery, 1981, New Zullo, Victor A., 1982, A new species of Balanus Da occurrences of molluscan species in the Moodys Costa, 1778, (Cirripedia) from the upper Oligocene Branch Formation at Jackson, Mississippi, 1 (3), 13- Chickasawhay Formation of Mississippi and Ala 15. bama, 3(1), 9-14. Russell, Ernest E., 1981, Report on the Research Con- Zumwalt, Gary S., see Dockery, David T.

MISSISSIPPI GEOLOGY 4 Zumwalt. Gary S., see Smith, Schaun M. Fossil hop-hornbeam wood from Rankin County, cen tral Mississippi, 2(4), 10-14. TITLE INDEX Fossil microalgae (coccolithophorids) in the Yazoo Clay exposures at Thompson Creek, Yazoo County, Age ofthe upper Yazoo Formation in central Mississippi, Mississippi, 3(2), 1·5. 5(1), 1· 10. Fossil palm stem from Bayou Pierre. Copiah/Ciai " ... And the bones came together, bone to his bone." bome counties, Mississippi, 9(3), 9·13. Ezekiel37:7, The making of a state fossil, 6(1 ), 1-6. Fossil wood from Bayou Pierre and White Oak Creek, Archaeocetes: whale-like mammals from the Eocene of southwest- central Mississippi, 4(2). 1-6. Mississippi, 1 (2), 1-3. Fossil wood from Thompson Creek, Yazoo County, Mis Bony fishes (teleosts) of the Tuscahoma and Bashi for sissippi, 2(2), 1-6. mations, earfy Eocene, Meridian, Lauderdale County, Geohydrology of the Local Aquifer, Tatum Dome, 2(2), Mississippi, The, 6(4), 6-8. 7-15. Botryoidal goethite from the Citronelle Formation (Pii· Geology of Oakvale Field, The, 3(3), 1-8. ocene- Pleistocene) in lincoln County, Mississip Gravel aggregate in Mississippi · its origin and distribu pi, 5(2), 8-10. tion, 7(3). 1· 7. Bulletin on Upper Cretaceous gastropods in progress at Gravity flow introduction of shallow water microfauna Mississippi Bureau of Geology, 9(2), 18-19. into deep water depositional environments, 8(2), 1- Bureau of Geology's electrical logging program, The, 8. 1( 1), 8-10. Ground-water geochemistry as a guide to aquifer inter· Calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy of selected connection above Tatum Salt Dome, Mississippi, Tertiary localities in the Paris, Adour. and Bearn ba 9(3), 1-8. sins of France and their correlation with the North Highlights of 1981 oil and gas exploration in Mississippi, American Gulf Coast Tertiary sequence. 5(3), 9-19. 2(3), 14. Chemistry and mineralogy of the upper Yazoo Forma History and methodology of waste disposal site eval tion (Upper Eocene) at the Cynthia Pit, Hinds uations by the Mississippi Bureau of Geology, A, County, Mississippi, The, 9(4), 1-7. 7(3), 13-14. Clear Creek Field after two years of production, 10(3), Hosston and Sligo formations in south Mississippi, 1 (4), 15. 1-3, 20. Coal resources of the Pennsylvanian Pot1sville Forma Igneous rocks of the Jackson Dome, Hinds - Rankin tion in northeastern Mississippi, 1 (1 ), 1-2. counties. Mississippi, 1(4), 7-13. Color patterns of some Eocene molluscs. 1(1), 3-7. Index to Mississippi Geology, Volumes 1-5, 6(1), 7-14. Cretaceous chalks- a recommended symposium. 6(3), Index to Mississippi Geology, Volumes 1-1o. this issue. 11 -14. Infrared spectrographic and petrographic analysis of Crisis events for Paleogene molluscan faunas in the the Wilcox lignites in Mississippi (abstract), 3(1 ). 6- southeastern United States, 5(2), 1· 7. 7. Depositional environments and stratigraphy of the Cata Introduction of Frederic F. Mellen on the occasion of the houla Formation sandstones of southeastern Mis celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the discovery sissippi, 8(4), 6-13. of nnsley Field and the 50th Anniversary of the Mis· Earthquakes in Mississippi, 1 (4), 4-6. sissippi Geological Society, 1 0(2), 1-2. Estuarine marsh loss in Mississippi, 1956-1985, 9(4), 9- Investigation of ground-water contamination in a shal· 11 . low aquifer at Benton, Mississippi, 6(4), 1·4. Examples of the replacement of limestone by clay, 7(1 ), Landslides in coastal plain soils of Mississippi, 9(2), 11 · 1-6. 17. Excavation of a mastodon at Vicksburg, Mississippi, Late Holocene barrier and marshland evolution, 4(4), 1-10. southwest Mississippi, 8(3), 5-11 . Excavation of an archaeocete whale, Basilosaurus ce Late Neogene stratigraphic problems in coastal Missis toides (Owen). from Madison, Mississippi, 6(3), 1- sippi and Alabama, 7(3), 8-12. 10. Lesueur's Walnut Hills fossil shells, 2(3), 7-13. Exploration on Mississippi's salt domes, 10(2), 3-7. Lithostratigraphy and thickness trends of the Tuscaloosa Feeding in the archaeocete whale Zygorhiza kochii Group in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, 9(2), 1- (Cetacea: Archaeoceti), 7(2), 1-14. 10. Fish otoliths from the Coffee Sand (Campanian) of Lobster Linuparus preserved as an attachment scar on northeastern Mississippi, 10(3), 1-14. the oyster Exogyra costata, Ripley Formation (late

5 JUNE 1990 Cretaceous}, Union County, Mississippi, The, 2(1), Petrified palm "wood" from Thompson Creek, Yazoo 2-5. County, Mississippi, 8(2), 10-11. lower Devonian (Helderbergian} trilobites from the Petrographic and fluorescent analysis of Wilcox lignites Ross limestone in Mississippi, 5(2), 11 -15. in lauderdale County, Mississippi (abstract), 3(1), lower Tuscaloosa "ash" - a misnomer, 7(4), 1-4. 7-8. lower Tuscaloosa of southern Mississippi, The, 1(2}, 6- Preliminary report of a Metamynodon skull from the 7, 12. Byram Formation (lower Oligocene) in Mississippi, Macrofossil assemblages ofthe Moodys Branch Forma 6(2), 1-16. tion (upper Eocene), l ouisiana and Mississippi, Pteropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the upper Ya 2{1}, 6-11. zoo Formation (Eocene) at Cynthia, Mississippi, Minerals in Mississippi, 1 {3), 4-11 . 6(4), 9-13. Mississippi Bureau of Geology library, 1(4), 14-15. Publication series of the Mississippi Bureau of Geology, Mississippi lignite - energy for the future, 2(1}, 1-2. 10( 1 }. 1()-1 1. Mississippi place-names trivia, 9{3}, 14-15. Rb-Sr age of glauconite from the Eocene Moodys Branch Mississippi's first horizontal well completions, this issue. Formation, Hinds County, Mississippi, 7(4), 5-11. Mississippi surface mining and reclamation - a working Recent acquisitions, Bureau of Geology library, 2(3), example, 1 (2), 4-5. 15. New and interesting Eocene molluscan species from Recent acquisitions, Bureau of Geology library, 2(4), 9. the Moodys Branch Formation, 3(3), 9-12. Recent acquisitions, Bureau of Geology library, 3(4), 7. New borate mineral from the upper louann Formation in Reply to a revision of the Hatchetigbee and Bashi forma- the northern Gulf, A, 8(1 ), 1-11 . tions, 4(3), 11 -15. New late Eocene microspherule 'layer in central Mis Report on the annual meeting of the Geological Society sissippi, A, 8(4}, 1-5. of America, Southeastern Section, 1(4), 16. New occurrences of molluscan species in the Moodys Report on the Research Conference on the Geology Branch Formation at Jackson, Mississippi, 1 {3), 13- of the Woodbine and Tuscaloosa Formations, 1 {3), 15. 12. New species of Balanus Da Costa, 1778, {Cirripedia) Residual color patterns in mollusks from the Gosport from the upper Oligocene Chickasawhay Forma Sand (Eocene}, Alabama, 5{3), 1-8. tion of Mississippi and Alabama, A, 3{1), 9-14. Richard Randall Priddy {August 31, 1906 - April 12, New species of the turtle barnacle Chelonibia l each, 1986), 6(3), 15. 1817, (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Oligocene Scientific investigation of fossil wood, The, 1 0(1 ), 1-9. Mint Spring and Byram formations of Mississippi, A, Selected references on the Black Warrior Basin - strati 2{3), 1-6. graphy and hydrocarbon potential, 1{4), 17-19. Northeast Mississippi earthquakes of 29 January and 5 Selected references on the Smackover Formation, 1(2), February, 1983, The, 3(4), 8-9. 8-9. Notes on Middle Ordovician, Mississippi and Alabama, Selected references on the southern Appalachians, Ala 3(1 ), 1-5. bama and Tennessee, 1{3), 1-4. Notes on the lower Oligocene oysters of Mississippi, Source of the volcanic precursor to Upper Cretaceous 4(2), 7-1 4. bentonite in Monroe County, Mississippi, 3(4), 1-6. Occurrence and origin of native sulfur in caprock from Sphaerocypraea jacksonensis (Johnson) from the Tatum Salt Dome, Mississippi, 8{3), 1-5. Moodys Branch Formation (Eocene), Mississippi, Oil and gas exploration in Mississippi- first half of 1987, 2(2), 17-19. 8(2), 9. Stratigraphy of the Tupelo Tongue of the Coffee Sand Oldest late Cretaceous dinosaurs in North America?, (upper Campanian), northern lee County, Missis The, 3{2), 11-17. sippi, 9(1}, 1-7. Overview of oil and gas potential in Mississippi, An, 3(2), Tar pods from the Yazoo Clay (upper Eocene) at Cyn 6-10. thia, Mississippi, 5(4), 1-3. Paleoecology of some classic Tertiary localities in the Teeth of the giant shark Carcharodon auriculatus from Aquitaine and Paris basins of France, 5(4), 4-13. the Eocene and Oligocene of Mississippi, 7(1 ), 7- Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Vicksburg 19. Group (Oligocene), Warren County, Mississippi, Thoracosaurus neocesariensis (De Kay, 1842) (Croc 4(3), 1-9. odylia: Crocodylidae) from the Late Cretaceous PAlSTRAT: A biostratigraphic oomputer program for Ripley Formation of Mississippi, 4(1), 1-10. Paleocene and Eocene mollusks, 6(2), 18-19. Upper Eocene Carcharodons in Mississippi, 1(4), 6. Waynesboro Sand, The, 2(4), 1-8.

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MISSISSIPPI GEOLOGY 8 MISSISSIPPI'S FIRST HORIZONTAL WELL COMPLETIONS

Jack Moody Mississippi Bureau of Geology

Perhaps the biggest buzzword in the oil patch these Austin Chalk trend one can expect to pay $1 ,000,000 for days is horizontal drilling. The application of this tech a completed 7000 foot verticaV2500 foot horizontal well. nology is being utilized in a number of geographical The rule of thumb in that trend is horizontal wells cost areas of the U.S. and throughout the world. The biggest about twice that of vertical wells. The cost can start off domestic play at present would have to be the Austin even higher, and problems can jump the expense sub Chalk of Texas. Here the advantage of drilling sideways stantially. Once some experience is gained the cost can has allowed operators to encounter multiple fracture be reduced; some cases have resulted in horizontal zones. These fracture zones parallel each other and drilling cost only 1.3 times that of vertical wells. Also each is a separate producing reservoir. Thus horizontal remember that horizontal wells do not change the reser drilling allows for multi-zoned completions within the voirs; they are a way to reach those reservoirs. If you drill same stratigraphic horizon. With vertical wells one into a depleted zone you'll get a well performance which could easily drill in between fracture systems or just reflects the degree of depletion. In other words, horizon catch a few fractures and either end up with a clean dry tal drilling is not magic as I am sure some promoters will hole or, worse, a very poor completed well. portray it. An unusual quirk in the Austin Chalk play is the fact In areas where the conditions are right the use of that the well is allowed to produce while the well is horizontal drilling is and will be rewarding. It can be the continuing to drill. This is a result of drilling the wells with "right tool for the right job." an underbalanced mud weight. When the bit cuts Not everyone is thinking just fractured reservoirs for through an oil-bearing fracture, the pressure in the this technology. Take for instance Mississippi's first fracture is greater than the hydrostatic head and the horizontally completed wells, the Amoco #17 USA-Mc zone flows into the bore hole. This not only solves lost Kenna and the #18 USA- McKenna. These two Amoco circulation problems but it can yield some early produc wells were not drilled in the chalk, they were in the tion. A number of wells have produced 6000 to 7000 Wilcox. Now one needs to understand that the Wilcox is barrels of oil before the well reached total depth! Of about as far away in rock quality from fractured chalk as course an operator has to be very safety conscious one can get. So what was Amoco doing in the Wilcox? when drilling and producing at the same time. The first This is a case where a new technology is being applied serious blow-out and fire in a horizontal Austin Chalk well to varying problems. In the Wilcox the problem is the occurredonMay8, 1990. Therigwaslostandthreemen coning of water around vertical wells. The Wilcox reser were injured but fortunately there were no fatalities. voir quality is about as good as it gets. There is very high Another big play is in the Bakken Shale of North porosity and permeability so the fluids move easily to the Dakota. The Bakken is a fractured shale. There are bore hole. The bane of this situation is the fact that some very nice completions being made, e.g. 1362 water will move more easily than oil. As a well is being BOPD (barrels of oil per day) in an area where nearby produced a cone of water may develop near the perfo vertical wells produce around 50 BOPD. Both the Austin rations. If the water reaches the perforations the well will Chalk and the Bakken Shale are producing from natural experience an increase in water relative to the oil. If the fractures. Due to the publicity these plays have re water volume becomes too high the operator may have ceived, there is a national search for plays which would to abandon the well. Abandonment under this scenario apply horizontal drilling techniques to fractured reser would leave unrecovered reserves between the old pro voirs. ducing wells. If you happen to have a field where there All the excitement surrounding the horizontal com is oil on water and your wells are making 98% water and pletions is a refreshing and needed encouragement to 2% oil, you are probably close to either plugging the the oil patch. Yet, amid all this excitement one must production or trying something in hopes of improved re remember that the whole idea of exploring and drilling is covery. to make money. Horizontal drilling is not cheap. In the This was the situation which Amoco recently studied

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at Clear Springs Field in Franklin County, Mississippi. for two weeks before the water began to increase. After There they had 14 feet of oil on the top of a 200-foot sand. six weeks of production each well was being produced The field was making 200 BOPD and 12,000 BWPD from at a rate of about 300 barrels of fluid per day. The #17 ten wells. If one believed that water coning was a had a 70-75% oil cut or approximately 210 BOPD and 90 problem in this field then perhaps some experimentation BWPD. The#18hada45%oilcutor135BOPDand 165 could be financially justified. With such a case in Clear BWPD. As of July 1990 the #17 well was flowing 140 Springs Field, Amoco chose to apply horizontal drilling in BOPD (54% oil cut) and 120 BWPD on a 12164" choke what would otherwise appear to be a depleted field. The with 220# T.P. The#18 was down for a workover; it has plan was to drill a medium radius well with approximately been plagued with problems from the beginning. Al 500 feet of horizontal section. The true vertical depth though Murphy's law seems to have influenced the #18 would be about 4700 feet but the drilled depth would well Amoco is pleased with the #17 well's performance. approach 5300 feet. Amoco drilled and completed two If it continues to produce well there will probably be a few horizontal wells, the #17 USA-McKenna and the #18 more horizontal wells drilled in the field. The #17 well is USA-McKenna. While in the horizontal phase of drilling a tremendous improvement over the vertical wells in the Amoco was able to keep the vertical drift or high-low to field. 5 feet in one well and 3 feet in the other. In other words, There is another very important factor to consider, they could drill right across the top 5 feet of the zone in the cost. As mentioned before, Amoco did a lot of experi one well and the upper 3 feet in the other well. The wells mentation on these wells so their cost would not reflect were perforated through cemented casing. normal horizontal drilling cost. In general, one might Throughout their operations, Amoco was perform expect that the cost may run two to three times that of a ing a number of experimental procedures, which added vertical well. In the Clear Springs area, a vertical well to the very high cost of the initial wells. The wells were might cost $200,000 so one would approximate $600,000 perforated, one over a 300- foot interval and the other for a completed horizontal well. If one assumes a over a 188-foot interval. The initial potentials were $600,000 well cost, 25% royalty, 7% severance tax. and reported: #17 USA flowing 320 barrels of oil, 103,400 cu. 5% operating expense, it will take approximately 64,000 ft. of gas and 20.9 barrels of water per day through a 18/ BO to reach payout. As one can see the jury will be out 64" choke; #18 flowed 472 barrels of oil and 43,500 cu. for a while before we know if Amoco's experiment proves ft. of gas through a 15/64" choke. The Southeastern Oil to be commercial, i.e., makes money. Certainly the Review reported on April 23, 1990, that "considerably state should be grateful that companies like Amoco are higher flow rates were reported to have been gauged at willing to invest the necessary funds to experiment and both wells with rates in excess of 700 barrels of oil per develop the technology which will increase Mississippi's day recorded." These initial potentials are certainly recoverable reserves. Let's hope that Amoco's efforts encouraging, but how have the wells performed over and investment are handsomely rewarded. time? The better well of the two is the #17. It produced

MISSISSIPPI GEOLOGY 10 MMRI RESEARCH GRANTS

The Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute annu mal Energy Extraction - Dr. B. K. Hodge, Mississippi ally makes funds available in the form of small grants to State University. further mineral resources investigations in Mississippi. The funded research listed below will be conducted at Investigation of the Commercial Feasibility of Ash Re Mississippi State University, the University of Southern moval from Lignite by Density Separation - Dr. W. Glenn Mississippi, the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Jackson Steele and Dr. Charles Bou.chillon, Mississippi State State University/Millsaps College, and the University of University. Mississippi. Development of Coalbed Methane in Mississippi War MMRI Research Grants for FY 1990-1991 rior Basin - Dr. Rudy Rogers, Mississippi State Univer sity. Establishing a Stratigraphic Framework and Mapping Potential Hydrocarbon/Ground Water Reservoirs and Modeling Mississippi Oil Production- Dr. Rudy Rogers, Aggregate-Rich Deposits, Coastal Mississippi; Ground Mississippi State University. work for South Mississippi Portion of New Geological State Map - Dr. Ervin G. Otvos, Gulf Coast Research Assessment of Mississippi Clays - Dr. Nolan Aughen Laboratory. baugh, the University of Mississippi.

Geologic and Economic Feasibilities of Selected Clay, GeographidGeotechnical Engineering Data Base and Sand and Gravel, Heavy Mineral, and Associated De Information System for the Mississippi Gulf Coast- Dr. posits in Mississippi- Dr. Bruce Davis, Jackson State AI VanBesien, the University of Mississippi. University and Dr. Ed. Schrader, Millsaps College. Exploration for Heavy Minerals in Ancient Strand Une Characterization of Boracite Group Minerals Associated Sands of Mississippi- Dr. William Reynolds, the Univer with the Subsurface Evaporite Formations in an Eight sity of Mississippi. County Area in East - Central Mississippi and West Central Alabama- Dr. Daniel Sundeen, the University Mineral Resource Potential of the Jackson Dome- Dr. of Southern Mississippi. James Saunders, the University of Mississippi.

Engineering Geologic Evaluation of Surface and Near Upgrading Mississippi Lignite by HydrothermaVChemi Surface Clay Resources in South - Central Mississippi cal Pretreatment -Dr. Clint Williford, the University of Dr. David Patrick, the University of Southern Missis Mississippi. sippi. Natural Resources Law Program - Dr. Laura Howorth, Development of a Model for the Transient Thermal Be the University of Mississippi. havior for Fractured Dry Granite Beds During Geother-

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