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Relationship Between Anticlinal Folding and the Evolution Of HGS Volume 57, Number 8 BulleHoustont Geologicalin Society April 2015 Election Issue Relationship between Anticlinal Folding and the Evolution of Mechanical Stratigraphy, Rock Mechanics Properties and Reservoir Quality in the Tensleep Sandstone at Alcova Reservoir, Central Wyoming, USA Page 21 An Overview of Kurdistan: One of the Last Onshore Frontiers of Huge Hydrocarbon Potential Page 31 TheBulletin Houston Geological Society Volume 57, Number 8 April 2015 In Every Issue Technical Meetings 5 From the President 21 HGS General Dinner Meeting by Ken Nemeth Relationship between Anticlinal Folding and the Evolution of Mechanical Stratigraphy, Rock Mechanics 7 From the Editor Properties and Reservoir Quality in the Tensleep by Dave Miller Sandstone at Alcova Reservoir, Central Wyoming, USA 48 GeoEvents Calendar 29 HGS Environmental and Engineering Dinner Meeting 65 HGS Membership Application Don’t Get Hurt! How to Stay Safe When You’re Working in the Oil Fields. 66 HPAC page 21 31 HGS International Dinner Meeting 67 Professional Directory An Overview of Kurdistan: One of the Last Onshore Frontiers of Huge Hydrocarbon Potential Houston Geological Society OFFICERS 37 HGS North American Dinner FigureMeeting 1. Location and structural context of the Alcova reservoir study area in central Ken Nemeth President Chronostratigraphic Relationships of the Woodbine Deborah Sacrey President-elect and Eagle Ford Groups Across Texas John Jordan Vice President Ashley Garcia Secretary page 31 Joe Lynch Treasurer 43 HGS General Luncheon Meeting 85 Larry Quandt Treasurer-elect Ammonite Inoceramid CC NW SE NE Managing “Big Data”Stage andZones FindingZones theZones “Sweet Spots”: San Big Lozier South Dave Miller Editor Marcos Austin Waco Dallas Bend Canyon Texas Arch Principal Component M.Analysis crenelatus- Scaphites depressusand Neural Analysis Jon Blickwede Editor-elect M. subquadratus 15 U. V.involutus - Scaphites ventricosus LO: L. Grillii of Seismic AttributesConiacian to the Rescue V.koeneni 14 DIRECTORS M. LO: M.decussata C.crassus crassus C.deformsi dobrogensis Austin C.crassus inconstans Scaphites preventricosus Jim Beck L. C.deformis erectus 89.8 Scaphites mariasensis ~HO: H. turoniucs; B. furtiva * C.waltersdorfensis 13 90 M.Scupini Scaphites niaricollensis Jim Grubb M.incertus Prionocyclus germari I.dakotensis Scaphites whitfieldi K72SB K72SB I.perplexus Scaphites wyomingensis I.dimidius ~HO: E. moratus; LO: L. septanarius Allen Mattis U. I.aff.dimidius Prionocyclus macombi Upper Member Other Features Prionocyclus hyatti Inoceramus howelli, K70SB M. Inoceramus n. sp., Collignoniceras praecox Penny Patterson Mytiloides hercynicus, Mytiloides subhercynicus Collignoniceras woollgari 11-12 Eagle Upper Kurten Turonian HO: Q. octopetalus Mammites nodosoides Eagle Ford Fm. Sands M. mytiloides - Vascoceras birchbyi LO: E. moratus Ford HGS OFFICE STAFF M. puebloensis Pseudaspidoceras flexuos um L. Watinoceras devense HO: H. chiastia; R. asper: 93.9 Nigericeras scotti Group 12 Candidates for the* 2015–2016Mytiloides hattini HGS ExecutiveLO: Q. gartneri; E. Octopetalus Board Lower Member Neocardioceras juddii South HGS Office Director Inoceramus pictus, Burroceras clydense HO: C. kennedyi; A. biramisulatus Andrea Peoples C1Beds Euomphaloceras septemseriayum Bosque Inoceramus ginterensis Vascoceras diatianum K65SB K65SB Metoicoceras mosbyense 10 HO: G.nanum; L. acutum Bouldin 95 Inoceramis prefragilis steph. Upper Member U. Calycoceras canitaurinum K64SB Lower Eagle Ford Fm. Office Management Plesiacanthoceras wyomingense cobbani Christina Higginbotham Inoceramus prefragilis stephensoni Inoceramus rutherfordi Acanthoceras amphibolum Lower Member Bluebonnet/Cloice Inoceramus arvanus, Acanthoceras bellense Plesiacanthoceras muldoonense K63SB K63SB M. 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