Pacific Petroleum Geologist

PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST

NEWS LETTER OF THE PACIFIC SECTION AMERICAN ASSOClAf 86N OF PETROLEUM GEOQOGESTS-

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Volume 24 January-February, 1970 Number 1-2

ASSQGIATION ACTIVITIES

PACIFIC SECTION CANDIDATE SLATE OFFICIAL RESULTS OF ELECTION LOS ANGELES BASIN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY The following Pacific Section members are the 1970-71 AFFILIATED, PACIFIC SECTION A.A.P.G. candidates for executive offices1 OFFICERS. LOS ANGELES BASIN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: PRESIDENT - PRESIDENT: John H. Marshall JOHN F. CURRAN - Consultant, Santa SECRETARY-TREASURER: Orville D. Hart Barbara VICE PRESIDENT & PROG. CHAIR.: Don H. Hallinger RICHARD L. HESfER - Marine Resources Santa Monica DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL A.A.P.G. 'oHOUSE OF DELEGATES" TERM JULY 1, 1970. TO JUNE 30. 1971 VICE PRESIDENT - 1. *Ted L. Bear CARL HELMS - Std. Oil Co., Bakersfield 2. *Dorm S. Gorsline ARTHUR 0. SPAULDING - Petroleum 3. *William G. Gussow Administrator, City of Los Angeles ALTERNATES: SECREPARY- DONALD E. HALLINGER - Pacific Light. 1. Rex J. Young Service IL Supply Co. 2. Orville L. Bandy 3. Lowell E. Redwine VINCENT F. SCURY - Brazos Oil IL Gas, Bakersfield TERM JULY 1. 1971. TO JUNE 30. 1972 TREASURER - 1. %~ohnForrnan WILLIAM A. ADENT - State Lands Division, 2. "Thomas L. Wright Long Beach 3. George Rudkin MARIE J. CLARK - Atlantic Richfield, 4. Gerald H. Rickels Long Beach -. ALTER NATES: Remember when you receive your ballot only Pacific Section AAPG members are eligible to vote. 1. John N. Terpening 2. Robert R. Knapp 3. Roy W. Turner EDWARD C. DAPPLES ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SEPM 4. James B. Anderson DONN GORSLINE EDITOR J.S.P. "Presently in office as A.A.P.G. representative Edward C. Dapples, Professor of Geology at Northwestern University. Evanston. Illinois, has been elected President of 1970 OF FlCERS the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, an SACRAMENTO PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION international organization with headquarters in Tulsa, Okla. Newly elected officers of the Sacramento Petroleum Other officers elected are Vice-President Gerald M. Fried- Association for 1970 are: man, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NewYork; President: ROLAND J. BAIN Secretary-Treasurer James A. Peterson, University of Montana, Registered Geologist Missoula; Editors of the JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY Petroleum Consultant Raymond L. Ethington and Raymond E. Peck, University of Missouri. Columbia; and EDITOR of the JOURNAL OF SEDI- Vice- KIRKWOOD S. PLATT MENTARY PETROLOGY DONN S. GORSLINE, UNIVERSITY President: Atlas Chemical Industries OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES. These officers, Secretary- CHARLES LUNDGREN together with the incumbent Councilors DonaldF. Toomey, Pan Treasurer Exploration Logging, Inc. American Petroleum Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Robert J. Dunham, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, and REGISTRATION OF GEOLOGISTS REVIEW present Resident Lloyd C. Pray. University of Wisconsin, Madison, will comprise the nine-member Council of this over During the March AAPG Convention in Newport Beach 3,000-member Society. They will assume office at the close of M.K. Wilferd Peak will present a formal review of the the 44th Annual Meeting which will be held in Calgary next REGISTRATION OF GEOLOGISTS IN CALIFORNIA BILL June. and the implications of this bill to practicing geologists. Mr. Peak would like the members to write him well in advance AWARDS TO USGS GEOLOGISTS of the meeting with any specific questions or comments so he can prepare his paper to answer as many of them as possible. Director William T. Pecora of the USGS announced that The members should write: awards for "superlative preformancev' have been made to Robert Lantz, Thane McCulloch and Keith Yenne for their J. Mr. Wilferd W. Peak ' work during the January 1969 "blow-out and resultant "oil 8332 Willowdale Way spill'vn the Santa Barbara Channel. Fair Oaks, California 95628 'aae 2

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. PACIFIC SECTION BCRi PATTERSON AMERICAN ASSOC. OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS A TESTIMONIAL J. D. Traxler ...... President: by Robert N. Hacker ...... Vice President Anth~nyE. L. Morris James M. Saunders .,...... - ...... Secretary John W. Bedford ...... Treasurer Louis J. Simon ...... Past President Robert 0. Patterson was a California geologist. He was Peter J. Fischer ...... Editor boni, trained academically, worked and. four and one half years Tom W. Redin ...... Los Angeles Delegate Bruce Robinson, Jr. ._...... San Joaquin Delegate ago died here. These facts, not remarkable by themselves, be- Frederic R. Kelley ...... N. Calif. Delegate come important because he was a special person. D. E. Ritzius ...... Coastal Delegate Every geologist who has worked in California since 1945 Vern C.. Jones Sacramento Delegate ...... probably met Bob at some stage of his career. The contact Chas. G. Mull ...... Alaska Delegate could have been only a cheerful work or thoughtful advice; it might have been on a job that you knew would be done care- PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST fully and competently. Published monthly by the Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologist. He touched those he never met during his life and those CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Subscription and memberkhip new to the profession since his death through his selfless inquiries should be addressed to: dedication of time to the advancement of the geological pro- Membership Secretary, Pacific Section MPG fession. During the chaotic formative years of legislation P.O. Box 17486, Foy Station professional registration and through constant efforts to Tm- Los Angeles, California 90017 prove the effectiveness of well logging Bob worked to help all of us. MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATION and requests for missed copies should be addressed to: Viewed objectively Bob's life could be considered one Peter J. Fischer, Department of Geology, of tragedy and hardship. He was orphaned very young, worked Whittier College, Whittier, California 90608 any and everywhere he could to completely finance his education. Bob paid for everything in the only coin he knew - EDITOR ...... Peter J. Fiacher hard, honest work. Assistant Editor ...... Keith E. Green Selected Bibliography ...... Lucy Birdsall Bob married Peggy after the war (met her on one of his CORRESPONDENTS first wellsite jobs) and they were blessed first with Gary Alaska ...... Gene Tripp and later Linda. Bob always regarded his children as his Coast ...... Thomas K. Bjorkland greatest achievement and only monument. Four and one-half Los Angeles ...... Dennis R. Wiley years ago when Bob died we though this was the final tragedy, Northwest ...... Gerald W. Thorsen however, January 17th Peggy died after a brief but agonizing Sacramento illness. San Francisco ...... Charles M. Cross Sen Joaquin ...... Rod Nahama Untimely death wrecked his estate planning, Gary 19 and Membership Secretary ...... Judy Hughes Linda 17, are by themselves now and need help. They don't think they do and have not asked but what do you think? In our last issue we advertised a "new" P.P.G. We need The Patterson Memorial Fund is intended to be a5 infowl YOUR help to make this a reality. We have had exactly one concrete offer to help - thanks to Bennie Troxel. as possible. Its purpose is to give Gary andLinda the neces- Articles or items of interest from the "Petroleum Industry" sary help. It will be administered at no cost to the Fund and reached an all time low in late December and January. Hence the Trustee would welcome any constructive ideas, scholar- our combined Jan.-Feb. issue. Please write or ....? ship information, service grants, employment opportunities P.J.F. and, of course, contributions. Bob Patterson Memorial Fund 3114 Club Drive Los Angeles 90064 "

BRUER APPOINTED NEW CHIEF RADLMSKI NEW uses ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR CALIFORNIA DIViSION MINES AND GEOLOGY William A. Radlinski has been appointed Associate On December 17, 1969, Director James G. Steams of the California State Department of Conservation appointed Mr. Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Wesley G. Bruer as Chief, Division of Mines and Geology. Interior. it was announced today. The 48-year old research Mr. Bruer will serve on a temporary authorization pending engineer succeeds Dr. Arthur A. Baker, who was the first civil service examination procedures. appointee to the position of Associate Director, and who held the post for 13 years. Dr. Baker, recently retired, will con- For the past year Mr. Bruer has held the position of pro- tinue to serve as a Special Assistant to the Director in an gram Development Officer in the Department of Conservation advisory capacity. at Sacramento. Rior to that appointment he was a consulting petroleum geologist and served as manager of Richard S. During his 20-year period of service with the USGS, Rheem andco., Bakersfield. Mr. Bruer holds a bachelor's Radlinski was assigned to the Survey's Topographic Division, degree (1950) from Oregon State College, Corvdlis, Oregon. mostly in a research and development capacity. He'helped develop photogrammetric instruments and techniques, includ- Bruer is a member of the American Association of ing the twin-photography systems, the ER-55 projector.- - and Petroleum Geologists and served a term a few years ago as the orthophotoscope. He becam the Survey's ~ssocia& presidept ofthe San Joaquin Geological Society. Bruer and Chief Topographic Engineer in.1968. In recognition of his State Assemblyman William Ketchurn were leaders in securing contributions to the Antartic mapping program, Mt. Radlinski. passage of the Registration of Geologists Act during the 1969 Antarctica. was named for him. He also holds the Department session of the Legislature. of the Interior's highest honor, it Distinguished Service Award. Page 3 CALENDAR

GEOLOGY FORUM-USC COASTAL HOLIDAY DINNER DANCE Eighty members and guests attended the Coast Geological Talks at noon in Stauffer Lecture Hall 102 each Tuesday. Dinner Dance held on Dec. 19th at the Ventura Women's Center. Feb. 10. Dr. Alex Baird, Pomona College Le Roy Andrews provided tuneful music amid the traditional "Chemical Variation in Batholithic Rocks of ~oppingof the corks. Dick Haines, Chairman, wishes to Southern Californiav' acknowledge the following firms and consultants who gener- Feb. 17, Dr. Everett C. Olsen, UCLA ously contributed to success of the delightful affair: "Permian Paleoecology and Evolution" Anderson and Nicholeris Thurs. U.S.C. presents Mr. Jack Gallagher, the president Baroid Well Logging Services Feb. 19. of Dome Petroleum Borst and Giddens Logging Service "New North American Oil Policy, including Arctic Cook Testing Company Oil Potential" Core Laboratories, Tnc. Feb. 24. 'Dr. Eli Silver, Scripps Institute of Oceanography Exploration Logging "Tectonics of the Mendooino Triple Junction" Geological Exploration Inc. Mar. 3. Dr. Hans G. Lindenberg, Wissenschaftlicher Goudkoff and Hughes Assistant, Univ. of Bochum, Germany Munger Information Service "Phylogenetic versus Ecologic Interpretation of Pacific Oil Well LoggingInc. Morphological Trends in Fossil Benthic Peter Bawden Drilling Inc. Foraminifera" Schlumberger Offshore Services Mar. 10. James S. Booth, Graduate Student, USC Welex "Sediments in Relation to Current Patterns in Western Offshore Drilling the Northern Channel Islands" L.A. BASIN CHRISTMAS DANCE COASTAL SOCIETY During early December (1969) the annual AAPGSEPM- Coast Geological Society dinner meeting will be held on SEG Holiday Dinner Dance proved to be a great success. Tuesday, February 24, 1970 at the Jet Room, 1994 Thompson Blvd. in Ventura (Cocktails at 6 PM) Approximately one hundred Pacific Section members and wives gathered at the beautiful Dodger Stadium Club to dine, Dr. Preston Cloud, Jr. of the Department of Geological dance and visit with old and new friends. Sciences UCSB will speak on the "Primitive Earth and the Origin of the Earth-Moon Systemoe. Dr. Cloud is a principle Committee Chairman Ed H~llof Union Oil, aided by investigator of the first moon rock samples. several of his fellow minute me^, put together the ingredients Reservations: Call Tom Bjorlund (805) 648-2751 for this very enjoyable evening. The event was sponsored by the Los Angeles Basin Geological Society and backed by SEMINAR IN TECTONICS numerous service companies. Dr. Mason L. Hill will be giving a seminar in the tectonics of western North America at Whittier College. First All members and guests attending extend their thanks to meeting. Tuesday, February 19th, 7 p.m. (late registration until 21 February). Interested graduate students please con- the following contributing companies: tact Peter J. Fischer at the Geology Department. Whittier Borst and Giddens College or phone (213) 693-0771, ext. 265. Bums Geological Exploration, Inc. 1972-PAC1FIC SECT !ON Continental Graphics Core Lab The Alaska Geological Society with the cooperation of Exploration Logging, Inc. Alaska Methodist University is sponsoring an Alaska Tec- General Oceanographics, Inc. tonics Symposium to be held February 23-25, 1970. Speakers and participants include: Michael Churkin, USGS; George Gryc, Geological Engineering Service, Inc. USGS; H. W. Menard, Scripps Institute of Oceanography; John Global Marine Inc. D. Moody, Mobil Oil Corp.; Robert Stoneley, British Petroleum GTS Corporation IMC Drilling Mud Exploration, Inc.; and J. Tuzo Wilson, University of Toronto. Hoven and Company, Inc. Please make checks payable.to the Alaska Geological Mercury Christenson Company Society and send with your name, address, and affiliation to: Munger Oilogram W. W. Barnwell, U.S. Geological Survey, 218 E Street, Offshore Navigation, Inc. Anchorage, Alaska 99501. Registration fees are $10 ($3 for O'meara and Rogers Construction Corp. students). Pac Sic-Oilwell Logging Petty Geophysical Meetings will be held from 7:00 - 10:OO P.M. in Grant Schlumberger Hall, Alaska Methodist University, Anchorage, Alaska. R. F. Smith Corporation Tryad Service Corporation LlNlVERSlTY OF ALASKA United Geophysical The University of Alaskais offering two graduate-level Welex courses in geology at their South-central Regional Center id CONTINENTAL RIFT? Anchorage . Rumor has it that our friend Jean Senteur de Boue is in "Clay and Shale Petrology'' is being offered for the first the vicinity 'of Agadir, Morocco workingon a stadling new time. "Frontiers of Geology 2" is a continuation of a course theory of sea floor spreading and continental drift. Struck by presented for the fist time last year. Itconaists of weekly seesions to discuss recent concepts in geology and geophysics. - Cont'd. on Page 4 Page 4 NEW MEMBERS - Cont'd. from Page 2 K. A. Gorton David A. Phoenix the resemblance of the topography, climate, local flora, fauna Mobil Oil Corp. 331 Waverley Ave. 612 S. Flower St. Menlo Park, Cal. 94025 and indigenous population with that of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal. 90054 he is attempting to rotate the continents to achieve a best F. D. Pruett possible fit between Southern Morocco and Southern California. Herbert Mann 144 Cragrnont Dr. To date. his only real difficult is that the geology and rock Shell Oil .Co. Walnut Creek, Cal. 94598 types do not quite match. This is only a momentary problem P.O. Box 3397 and based upon the brilliance of his past performance, we can Los Angeles, Cal. 90054 Charles T. Snyder expect "proofs" of the new theory shortly. U.S.G.S. James W. Gourley 345 Middlefie ld Rd. (from Wm. Emerson, Malaysia, correspondent) SM. Oil of Calif. Menlo Park, Cal. 94025 P.O. Box 606 La Habra, Cal. 90631 David A. Webster U.S.G.S. CHANNEL ISLANDS 345 Middlefield Rd. Donald Weaver's GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN CHANNEL ISLANDS is available - price $13.50 postpaid. This comprehensive publication should be on every Pacific Coast geologist's CHANGEOF ADDRESS bookshelf. Order your copy from King Nash at Mobil (Santa Fe Lon D. Cartwright W. C. Barnard, Jr. Springs) or Don Hallinger at Pacific Lighting(L.A.) 4600 Ocean Dr. Corpus Christi, Texas 78412 Bar-Hi1 Enterprises In a forthcoming issue Dr. R. S. Yeats of Ohio University P.O. Box 98 will review this work for the PPG. C. F. Guion Caliente, Cal. 93518 Humble Oil & Refg. Co. P.O. Box 440 C. H. Ramsden Anchorage, Alaska 99501 5062 Lakeview Ave., Apt. 25 Yorba Linda. Cal. 92686 ALASKA PIPELINE ROUTE J.C. Threet UNDERCLOSE GEOLOGICAL STUDY Shell Development (Australia) John A. Kruppenbach Pty. Ltd. P.O. Box 5308 Geological feasibility studies and core drilling are cur- 155 William St. Inglewood, Cal. 90310 rently underway at critical portions of the proposed route for Melbourne Vic. 3000 the pipeline. Australia Hardy Barbarick A preliminary report by Dr. Arthur H. Lachenbruch, senior P.O. Box 1647 geophysicist with Interior's Geological Survey, concludes on William T. Bradford Bakersfield, Cal. 93301 the basis of computer studies that oil at high temperature in a C/O Skelly Oil Co. buried pipeline can have significant effects on the security of Calgary 1. Alberta John N. Thomson the pipeline. His formal report is expected to be issued in a Canada 3713 Barbara Ave. few weeks. Bakersfield, Cal. 93309 R. H. Angerer Dr. William T. Pecora, Director of the Geological Survey, P.O. Box 606 W. A. McCracken has reported to the Secretary that placing a hot pipeline below La Habra, Cal. 90631 259 Pettis Ave. the ground in Alaskan permafrost terrain faces problems which Mountain View, Cal. 94040 were not recognized when the pipeline was first proposedby the A. C. Austin Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). 7744 Federal Bldg. John G. Troster "Our studies now show it is imperative that extensive 300 No. Los Angeles St. 82 Bellbrook Way drill core samples are made in the critical soil areas so that Los Angeles, Cal. 90012 Atherton, Cal. 94025 safeguards can be designed into the engineering system," Dr. Pecora reported. "This is the only way we can be sure the Roy W. Turner R. Rothermel pipeline can be protected from excessive thawing of the 24448 Martha St. P.O. Box N permafrost. " Woodland Hills, Cal. 91364 Taft. Cal. 93268

PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST PACIFIC SECTI,ON, A.A.P.G. k.0. BOX 17486, FOY STATION LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017 PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST @ NEWS LETTER OF THE PACIFIC SECTION AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS

Volume 24 March, 1970 Number 3 FLASH 7886. The Qeology Ehnd is hereby abolished. On the efFec- SENATE BILL No. 330 tive date of this section, the nnencnmbered balance of any funds in the Geology Fnnd shall be transferred on order of the State Controller, to a separate account in the Professional Introduced by Senator Song Engineer's Fnnd. The funds in such account shall be used to carry out the purposes of this chapter. February 9,1970 The Honorable Alfred Song. Senator 28th District . BEFEBBED M CD- ON BUGINESS AND PBO~ONS Room 2044 State Capitol Sacramento. California 95814 SEC. 50. Section 7801 of the Business and Prnfessions Code is amended to read: ~e.arSenator Song: 7801. "Board," as used in this chapter, means the State Eaed ef &gh%&e~ ik i&sle&& State Board of Registra- S.B. 330 reorganizing the Department of Professional and tion for Pr~fesswnalEngineers. Vocational Standards has been received. The following are SEC. 51. Section 7810 of the Business and Professions Code comments pertinant to the Geologist's Board: is repealed. (a) Increasing political recognition of the existence of geolo* gic hazards as evidenced by enactment of local ordinances *ckpa&m&TkeBertt.8W&&se~.ert~~ requiring geological reports and establishment of local ~*~~~&~WBe~~~qualifying boards to determine competence of geologists beP&&ef~~be~ preparing such reports. Note that these boards were not SEC 52. Section 7810 is added to the Business and Profes- combined with existing boards, but rather were established sions Code, to read: as distinat entities. (Counties of Los Angeles, Orange and 7810. The State Board of Registration for Professional En- Ventura and the City of Los Angeles.) ,&eers shall administer the provisions of this chapter. (b) The named governmental entities supported the enactment SEC.53. Section 7811 of the Business and ProfdnsCode into law. AB 600. and the establishment of the Board in its present form. (c) The same governmental entities have indicated intent to dissolve their qualifications boards in favor of thestate Board and have also indicated that any weakening of the State Board would preclude such action. (d) At the time AB 600 became law, several other counties were in the process of enacting local ordinances but did not complete their actions because of the establishment of the Geologist Board in its present form. Should this SEC. 55. Section 7813 of the Business and Professions Code Board be weakened in any way, there is no doubt that is repealen these counties would return to their former course as a %x& be^ protection to the public. p&&e&+--a4- (e) The Geologist Board is self-supporting and is paid for by *Q?ie~~~&~~~the licensees only. There is no cost to the public at large. (f) The existence of the Board in its present form assures the public of uniform standards of competency throughout the State, as judged by men competent in the field of geology. The Baldwin Hills disaster in Los Angeles in 1963 cost five lives and millions of dollars worth of damage. A few years previous, a large landslide in the Palos Verdes Hills at Portuguese Bend created untold human suffering and 7885. The board shall report each month to the State Con- property damage. The St. Francis Dam disaster in 1929 troller the amount and source of all revenue received by it above Piru and Fillmore cost over 400 lives and millions pursuant to this chapter ~ndat the same time pay the entire of dollars in damages. amount thereof into the State Treasury for credit to the In each of these cases geologic advice which might have &elegy R~+B&&-& is d Professional foretold the disasters was available, but was buried in Engineer's Fzd. the files of engineers who wouldnot listen to the geolo- SEC.71. Section 7886 of the Business and Professions Code gists who worked for them. Submerging the regulation of is repealed. geologists beneath the Engineers Board will certainly set ~.Tke~~~~~~Cee&xi-back recent strides towards eliminating this long existing ettss.~~&3Mte~C~&&e~problem at great detriment to the public of California. eP*e SEC. 72. Section 7886 is added to the Business and Profes- (g) Geology is a scientific discipline peculiar unto itself. sions Code, to read: It is not, as many people think, an engineering discipline *Senator ALFRED H. SONG, Democrat, District 28 2337 S. Garfield Monterey Park, 91754 Senator MILTON MARKS, Republican, District 9 J. D. Traxler ., ...... - ...... President Robert N. Hacker .-...... Yice President Room 2045 James M. Saunders ...... -.....-...... -. Secretary State Building John W. Bedford ...... Treasurer 350 McAllister St. Louis J. Simon ...... -...... -... Past President San Francisco, 94102 Peter J. Fischer ...... Editor *Senator ALFRED E. ALQUIST, Democrat, District 13 Tom W. Redin ...... Los Angeles Delegate 777 North 1st St. Bruce Robinson. Jr. .-...... San Joaquin Delegate San Jose, 95112 Frederic R. Kelley ...... N. Calif. Delegate D. E. Ritzius ...... Coastal Delegate Senator ANTHONY BEILENSON. Democrat. District 26 Vern '. Jones .-...... Sacramento Delegate 1122 S. Robertson Blvd. Chas. G. Mull ...--...... ,...... Alaska Delegate Suite 14 Los Angeles. 90035 *Senator GORDON COLOGNE, Republican, District 36 PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST I I P.O. Drawer 1270 Published monthly by the Pacific Section American Indio. 92201 Association of Petroleum Geologist. I I *Senator.WILLIAM COOMBS, Republican, District 20 CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Subscription and membership 223 South Riverside Ave. inquiries should be addressed to: Rialto. 92376 Membership Secretary, Pacific Section AAPG P.O. Box 17486. Foy Station Senator ALAN SHORT, Democrat. District 6 Los Angeles, California 90017 2626 N. California St. Stockton, 95204 MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATION and requests for missed copies should be addressed to: *Senator LAWRENCE E. WALSH. Democrat. District 30 Peter J. Fischer, Department of Geology, 6055 East Washington Blvd. Suite 629 Commerce, 90022 EDITOR ...... Peter J. Fischer *Senator JAMES E. WHETMORE, Republican, District 35 Assistant Editor ...... Keith E. Green 13163 Brookhurst Selected Bibliography ...... Lucy Bedsall Garden Grove, 92640 CORRESPONDENTS *Senators who have remained on the Committee during the Alaska ...... ;; ...... -..... Gene Tripp recent chunge in chairman. Coast ...... ,...... ,...... -... .3homas K. Bjorkland Los Angeles .....-.....,...... -...... Dennis R. Wiley Northwest ...... Gerald W. Thorsen BEBNIER. SHIRLEY & ASSOCIATES

I E"F~~~~sco.. ~ ~ ...... chiles M. Cross I Legislative Services & Public Relations San Joaquin Rod Nahama ...... -...... -...... JANUARY 26, 1970 I Membership Secretary ...... Judy Hughes I SACRAMENTO LEGELATWE REPORT any more than it is a medical discipline. Only geologists 1970 SESSION BEGINS are qualified fully to establish professional standards for other geologists, to administer and regulate the practice The State Senate started the 1970 legislative year outwardly of geology, and to investigate, register, and discipline serene while the Assembly became involved in partisan debates other geologists. To have others unknowledgeable in the immediately after the session got underway. While the Assembly field of geology perform these functions would be monu- traditionally is the more partisan body, partisanship is expected mentally ineffective and would greatly jeopardize public to be even more in evidence since theAssembly Democratic safety. leader, Jess Unruh, is a gubernatorial candidate this year.

I Any partisan legislation in either the Assembly or Senate is (h) Pollution control is high on the list of items deemed in expected to have difficult going since the division on bath houses I ' the public interest. Many pollution problems (particularly is so close. The 80 member Assembly is split 41 Republicans water) are geologically oriented. Regulation of geologists and 39 Democrats. and the Senate lineup is 21 Republicans and by geologists in this area will certainly serve the public 19 Democrats. . ' :rll:.F_.-. I interest more effectively. Assemblyman Robert T. Monagan (R-Tracy) was re-elected No other state has a board licensing geologists. Those Speaker but only after the Democrats forced the Republicans to states licensing "geological engineers" do so under their round up every GOP Assemblyman. The final vote was 41 for engineering boards, because geological engineers are engi- Monagan and 39 for Assemblyman Vincent Thomas (D-San Pedro). neers with only a smattering of a knowledge of geology. Again serving in the posts of Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore and The relattionship of a geological engineer (or any engineer. Assembly Majority Floor Leader are Charles Conrad (RSherman in fact) to a geologist is comparable to that of a psychologist Oaks), and Craig Biddle (R-Riverside). to a brain surgeon. Both know something about the human mind and body, but the scope and degree of knowledge is . The Democrats named Unruh to continue as Minority Leader. obviously quite different. -and George Zenovich (D-Fresno) as Assembly Democratic California will not be able to have resciprocity with caucus chairman. other states until they develope similar geologist regis- On the Senate side. Howard Way (R-Exeter) was unanimously tretion laws to ours. Geologists could never be registered --elected Resident Pro Tempore. The Republicans and Demo- as geologic engineers under the Board of Engineers because crats named as their respective caucus chairmen, Clark L. Brad- they do not have the proper education or experience require- ley (R-San Jose), and bfervyn M. Dymally (D-Los Angeles). The - .. ments in the engineering profession. Geologists are not Senate Democrats selected George Moscone (D-San Francisco) engineers and engineers are not geologists. as Minority Leader. \.{J POLLUTION CONTROL The pollution control bandwagon is Moil your letters to Senator Song with copies to other rolling in Sacramento and just about everyone is trying to climb members of B 8 P listed in next column. aboard. Page 3 Dozens of pollution control bills ulready hnve been intro- through the Senate. At the same time. the Adn~inistrution duced during the first dnys of the 1970 SLote legislntive session. personnel who fnvored the original reorgenizntion plan The total is expected to reach several hundred before the session to abolish the Geology Bond are expected to lend their support to Song's proposal. It may be some time before ends with the bulk of this legislatim concerned with nirpollution. ,e the final form of Song's legislation is known. In order to expedite the flow of this legislation. Assembly Speaker Monagan (R-Tracy) has named a "select committee" to LEGISLATION INTRODUCED The following bill is of set up guideline! for handling the flowof pollution bills. Serving particulnr interest to the geology profession. on the committee are Assemblymen John Briggs (R-Orange AB-100 (Warren) -Increases to two the public members County). William Ketchum (Ran Luis Obispo County), Peter on nll State boards and agencies. Schabarum (R-Los Angeles County), Pete Wilson (R-San Diego). John Foran (D-San Francisco). John Knax (D-Conira Costa County), Carley Porter (D-Los Angeles County) andGordon 1970 OFFICERS Duffy (R-Tulare County). LEGISLATNE OUTLOOK The close division of both houses and the fact this is an election year prompts most capitol observers to feel there will be a limited amount of controversial Newly elected officers of thesacramento Petroleum Associn- legislation appioved this session. Major tax changes and budget tion for 1970 are: items require a twdhirds vote. However, in the field of environ- President: ROLAND J. BAIN mental control and consumer protection this should be a big year. Registered Geologist If partisanship can be temporarily set aside, there undoubtedly Petroleum Consultant will be enacted this year the strongest pollution control legisla- Vice-President: KIRKWOOD S. PLATT tion in the history of California. Atlns Chemical Industries GEOLOGY BOARD The Governor's Reorganization Plan #2 Secretary-Treasurer: CHARLES LUNDGREN was presented to the Little Hoover Commission without any Exploration Logging. Inc. reference to abolition of the Geology Board. In preliminary drafts of this plan, there was a clause calling for elimination of the REGISTRATION OF GEOLOGISTS REVIEW Board. However, because of pressures from various sources. it was removed before the plan was officially presented to the Corn-. During the March AAPG Convention in Newport Beach M.K. mission. Such reorganization plans are pursuant to legislation Wilferd Peak will present a formal review of the Registration of enacted in 1967. Under this legislation. the Governor can reor- Geologists in California Bill and the implications of this bill to practicing geologists. Mr. Peak would like the members to ganize the executive branch of government by executive decree write him well in advance of the meeting with any specific unless his plan is rejected by the Legislature. questions or comments so he can prepare his pnper to answer as It is important to note that such reorganization plans cahnol many of them as possible. The members should write: be amended by the Legislature. and if the Legislature fails to MR. WILFERD W. PEAK take action, they automatically become law. Since such plans 8332 H'illowdnle Way camat be modified by the Legislature. it is essential that any Fair Oaks. California 95628 changes in reorganization programs must be brought forward before they are presented to the Legislature. On January 17, Reorganization Plan #2 was presented to the PERSONAL ITEMS Little Hoover Commission by Leighton Hatch. Director of the Department of Professional and Vocational Standards. Several Continentnl hr~sndded James Brown and Robert Haynie to Commission members questioned Hatch as to why aboliton of their geological stnff in Anchornge. Both are from Midland. the Geology Board was not included in the plan. Hatch said that he. as well as other members of the Administmiion. favored Standnrd in Anchornge hns 11 new District Geologist for elimination of the Board, but because of "pressures" brought to their Norlhwest District. Bill Crain. from New Orleans. bear. it was decided not to pursue that matter a1 this time. There replnces Joe Schweitzer who is going to Bnkersfield. was some discussion by certain Commission members that they Bob Ruse. geologist from Cnsper, nnd Chuck Bitgood. themselves might sponsor legislation to abolish the Bonrd. This geologist from Midland, are recent nrrivnls in Anchornge for matter probably will be discussed further nt the Commission's Union. Pat Aoffnran, geophysicist. is lenving the Grent Lnnd next meeting. for Bakersfield in the Grent Valley. ADDITIONAL PUBLIC MEMBERS Under the Governor's Re- Lack of snow is cnusing painful posterior bruises on snow- - -...,.. organization Plan to be submitted to the Legislnture. a number mobilers in the cold country. Dick Akhison. Mlimthon. hns been- of licensing and registration boards. including the Geology promising to put his part-lndinn nncestory to use performing 11 Board. would have one of their licensee members replaced by a snow dance. Ernie Lian. who is something less thnn a snow public member. It isasserted that the additional public member bunny. threatens to counter with a rain dnnce to melt the white staff. on the boards would result in "greater objectivity" in the regula- tory process. Byron Magbee hns joined ARCO's geologicall stnff in Anchornge. He is from Long Bench. MERGER LEGISLATION Legislation presently is being Phillips hns trnnrrferred two geologists to r\lnska~: Bill drafted by the Legislative Counsel which would mere the Geology Evans from Denver and Don Prince from Snnh Bilrbunl. Board with the Engineering Board. Under this proposed legisln- - - John H. Marshall hns been trnnsferred to Anchornge tion. there would only be two geologist members on the re-consti- i~flerservingone month'ns President of Los Angeles Bmin tuted Board. This legislation would be introduced by Senator (;eologicnl Society. Alfred Song. fonnerly chninnan of the Senate Business and Pro- Ilarold 'Diz' Deane is the new Senior Devrlopn~entI*:ngineer fessions Committee. and now the committee vice-chairman. The in the SLnndnrd Oil lnglewood Production Office. .Darrell committee's new chairman is Senator Alfred Alquist (DSnn Jose). Gallear hns been trnnsferred to Snntn Balrb11r.1 in u simil;~r Since he has just taken over as committee chuirmnn. his views on lmsition. Diz's 90 mile/dny commute is lialiting his fcw,tb;~ll @ this matter nre still unknown. Senntor AIquiat is n strong conscr- ccu~chingefforts. vationist and has token hard stnnds on the unti-pollution issues. Jim Payne. Standard-Midlae~d Texas. hi~sIn-en rrl~lz~rrd;IS Presently. Senator Song is nttempting to persunde the entire t'resident of the (SJirSCX:H) Si~nJonquil1 \'a~llc-gScwiety of Senate Business and Professions Committee to co-c~uthorhis Geuphysicnl Golfers. by Ilcnw Engman, Slc~~id~inlOildi~lr. merger legislation. If he is su~cessfulin hl~vingthis legislation Henry. the new Llivision (;rophysiris~ is frcu~~(';lnrrd;~ rrnrl is become a committee bill. it wcruld almost gunrnntee pr~~salgc in the process of verifying his h~l~idic.r~ptc~I!.S.(;.X. stt~ntla~rds. 2 Page 4 PACIFIC SECTION TEN YEAR FINANCIAL HISTORY PACIFIC SECTION STATUS The Pncific Sect ion. AAPG hns heen irdminrhly fulfilling its pri~nnryohjective. nnmely the provision for "the discussion crf suhjects nnd problems coming within the scopeof the professions....". Over the past decade we have prinled one or two guidebooks each yetlr. rve hnve published five cross sections outlining the strntigrnphy in variousCalifornia Bnsins nnd we e ither supported or pub1 ished eleven miscel lnneous pltpers including the most recent Weaver report on the "C;eology of the Chnnnel Islnnds". Financial support to the local scrcieties hns mnde possible monthly meetings in specific cities where "grass roots communicntions" can function at its best. Kecentiy the responsibility of the Continuing Education and Distinguished Lecture Program has been delegated to the locnl societies. As I havediscussed in previous newsletters. we con not mnin- kin the primary ohjectives of the association without ndequi~te financing. It is apparent from-the adjoining chart "The Pacific Section 10 year Financial History". our gradunl increase in cost of performing Pacific Section objectives. In my opinion, this cost increase is due to the inflntionary forces we are experiencing. To "bnlance the budget" this fiscal yenr. we hnve reduced the number of newsletters to ten ($700.00 annual savings). we have ohtai~edpermission from the Lloyd Corporation for space to store publications ($1200.00 annual savings) and we have delnyed the revision of the Membership Directory for one yenr. Additional re- trenchment of activities will adversely effect the primary mission of our association. It is necessary that we increase our income just to stay abreast of the cost spiral. Therefore. at the annual WS: ' EXPENDITURES: business meeting Friday afternoon, Marcy 20 at the Newporter Inn, a motion to establish the Pacific Section dues for 197CL1971 1. 1970 Expendilures and Income w Associotiw Bosiness at five dollars ($5.00) will be presented. This is in accordance Estimated W Nersletters with Article V, Section 1 of our Constitution. (The Pacific 2 Deficits Mode Uo From Affiliated Socielies Section Constitution is reprinted elsewhere in the P.P.G.). It Convention 8 ~u~icolionFond is imperative that all members concerned about our financial INCOME: future discuss the motion and exercise their vote at the business meeting. DOUG TRAXLER

increase in the price d oil. lgnoring the security n~mifici~tionrc3 February 17. 1970 of being dependent ugcrn foreign oil, the balance of pryments >- -2 problem of pnying fc~rtlir foreign nil und the disruption lrf 11 The HONORABLE RICHARD M. NIXON large segment of the domrstic oil industry. who would ply for Resident of the United States the proposed policy changes'? You nnd I! It will. by necessity. The White House be included in the price of the consunled petroleun~prrdwts. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue \Vashington, D. C. 20500 In conclusion, we urge thitt you support 11 fonvcrrd locrking policy thnt will incre~tseour N~~ticmn'sdonwstic esplonrticrn Dear Mr. Resident: effort so thnL gcole~gislswill Iw nble to meet the future lwtrtr leum requirements of our Nz~tic~n. The membership of Pacific Section, American Association of \'ew truly yours. Petroleum Geologists is opposed to any government action that will bring about a rapid reduction in domestic oil production rates. -J. D. TllASLER In fact. we are applying our professional knowledge to increase I'residrnt. I'i~cific Srrt ism domestic production in order to supply the increasing energy re- tL\ l'( : quirements of the United States. Recent newspaper articles state that your ~ask'~orceon Oil Import Controls has recommended the abolishment of controls on the importation of foreign oil. This in turn would permit the entry DISTINGUISHED LECTURE of large quantities of foreign oil and force a reduction in the price Los Angeles Basin Geological Society will present Mr. of domestic crude oil. James 0. Lewis, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, on March The consequences to the domestic petroleum industry of only 12, 1970 12 Noon at the Rodger Young Auditorium. Mr. a ten percent price reduction in oil \vould be severe to sny the Lewis will discuss "Practical Computer Usage for Sub- least. First. it would crippledomestic production by making mar- surface Geologists". ginal \veils uneconomical and forcing the early nbnndoment of - - thousands of stripper wells. In addition, the abnndonment of these wells would terminate any chance for the recovery. by ATTENDANCE AT ALASKA NORTH SLOPE SEMINAR secondary methods, of some portion of the large volumes of oil left in the ground. Second. it would place many small inlnnd refiners in n short crude oil supply position and permit the cons- tnl refiners ttccess to large volumes of cheap foreign oil. Thud, due to the Ic~wercrude oil price structure it would reduce the overc~lldo~~lestic explornlion effort. New disciverics much needed to replnce the consumed reserves would be curtrriled. By creating n decrease in domestic crude supplies. the United Stntes would become dependeat upon n fc~cignoil source. At that tin~ewe crln predict with cc~nfidencen shnr11 PROGRAM SUMMARY

PACIFIC SECTION A.A.P.G. - S.E.P.M. -S.E.G. 1970 ANNUAL MEETING NEWPORTER INN, NEWPORT BEACH, .CALIFORNIA

WEDNESDAY EVENING: OLD MEXICO ICE BREAKER, 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.

THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1970 JOINT SESSIONS - MONTE CARL0 ROOM

9:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS - KENNETH H. CRANDALL, PRESIDENT, A.A.P.G.

9:30 DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF NORTHERN ALASKA - BROSGE and TAILLEUR

10:OO GEOLOGIC DATA PROCESSING - AN EFFECTIVE EXPLORATION TOOL - WALKER

10:30 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF PETROLEUM WASTE - McKEE

11:15 CALIFORNIA GEOLOGIC REGISTRATION - WHERE DO YOU FIT? - PEAK

JOINT LUNCHEON - CAROUSEL ROOM

SPEAKER: DR. LLOYD C. PRAY, PRESIDENT, S.E.P.M.

JOINT SESSION - MONTE CARL0 ROOM S.E.G. - PALMER ROOM

2:00 GEOPHYSICS AND THE FUTURE OIL POTENTIAL - MILTON B. DOBRIN, ..,. PRESIDENT, S.E.G.

2:30 COMPUTER SIMULATION OF MARINE SEDIMENTATION - HARBAUGH

3:30 STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTATION OF 3:30 MULTICHANNEL FILTERING - JOIDES HOLES OFF THE CALIFORNIA LINDSETH COAST - WESER -

4:00 DlAPlRS AND DIAPIRIC-LIKE STRUCTURES, SOUTHEASTERN BERING SEA - SCHOLL

NO HOST COCKTAIL HOUR - CAROUSEL ROOM - 6:30 - 8:00 Page 6 FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1970 S.E.G. - CAROUSEL ROOM A.A.P.G. - MONTE CARL0 ROOM S.E.P.M. - PALMER ROOM 8:30 Huygus Migration Program - 8:45 Fossil Diatoms and Silicoflagel- Twombley 8:45 Economic Advantages of lates - studied with the Scanning

Subsea Production Methods - Electron Microscope -Wornardt, J r. ' Walker 9:10 Occurrences of Silicoflagellates 9:00 Limitation of the Reflection from Central North Pacific Seismic Method: Lessons 9:30 Statistical Analysis of Calci- Cores - Ling From Computer Simulations - silites from the Bird Spring 9:35 Benthic Foraminifera1 Trends in Taner Group, Mountain Springs, Nev. - the Pacific-Antarctic Basin - McDougall and Osborne Theyer 1O:OO Pleistocene-Hdlocene Boundary 10:OO New Dimensions: Amplitude 10:OO Beach Sand Transport Along in the Southwestern Indian and Frequency Mapping - the Santa Barbara Channel Ocean - Vincent , Lindseth Coast - Kolpack 10:25 Late Quaternary Biostratigraphy of Cores from Beneath the 10:30 Interactive Computer Graphics California Current - Morin and the Fault Problem - Peikert 10:50 A .Preliminary Reevaluation of the Late Miocene Bi~stratigraph~11 :00 Automigration of Seismic 11:OO California Digital Mapping of California - Pierce Data - Lindsey Proiect - Chambers I 11:15 Foraminifera and Rugose Coral Zones of the Mi-ssissippian- Pennsylvanian Lisburne Group, 11:30 Sediment Dispersion in the Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska - Northern Channel Island . Armstrong Passages - Booth

12:OO COLLEGE LUNCHEONS (See Ticket for Room Assignment) . 1:30 Semblance and Other 2:00 Lunar Regolith at 2:OO Tertiary Climatic Change in the Coherency Measures for San Joaquin Basin, California: Tranquility Base Multichannel Data - - Evidence from Shallow-Water Shoemaker Mollusks - Addicott Neidell

225 Cyclicity in Upper Tertiary Basin Margin Deposits of the 230 Detailed Geophysical Study 2:45 Building andusing a California Coast Ranges - of the Northwest Norton Computerized Well Course File Stanton, Jr. Basin, Bering Sea Shelf, in an Offshore, Geologically 2:50 Supratidal Dolostones: An Alaska - Greene Complex Field - Ehring, Overemphasis on their Significance in the Geologic Thomas, Sweeney, Vantiehl Record? - Zenger 3:W Multichannel Mapping 3:15 Geothermal Exploration in 3:15 Geomorphology and Sedimentary Techniques - Imperial Valley - Character of the Redondo Lindseth Meidav and Rex Submarine Fan - Haner

3:40 TheMagnetic Grain Fabric 3:45 Sedime~olo~yof Southeast of Sedimentary Rocks - Pacific Ocean Deep-Sea i lorwerth Cores - Manera I 4:05 Paleocurrent and Basin Analysis of the Late Cretaceous "Chico" 4:15 Pacific Section Business Formation, Simi Hills, Calif. - Meeting Rodine and Colburn j - 4:30 S.S. Manhattan Film - 4:30 Bio~trati~raphyof Leg 5, Humble Oil and Refining JOIDES Holes, Off the California Company Coast - Milo

CHAMPAGNE DINNER DANCE, CAROUSEL ROOM - 7:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. SATURDAY: FIELD TRIP. BUSES LEAVE FRONT PARKING LOT AT 8:00 A.M. Poge 7 CONSTITUTION these officers shall be those customary for-. their respective offices. They shall assume these duties at the Pacific Section Meeting PACIFIC SECTION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF next following their election as hereinafter PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS provided. Their term of office shall be for one year or until their respective successors Adqted September 1924 are elected. During the absence of the Pres- Last Amended February 1966 ident, the Vice-president shall assume his duties. In the event of the death or resign- ARTICLE I ation of the President, the Vice-President shall succeed to the office and title of Pres- Name dent. Should the Vice-President be unable - to serve in this capacity, the duties and This organization whose title of President shall be assumed by (First) area of interest comprises the Pacific Coast- the Secretary or (Second) the Treasurer. In al Region, shall be known as "~acific Section the event any officer, other that the Pres- of the American Association of Petroleum Geo- ident, shall be unable to complete his term, logists" and is hereinafter referred to as the Executive Committee shall appoint a mem- "this Section". ber to fill the vacancy and assume the title of Vice-President, Secretary or Treasurer. In making such an appointment the Executive Committee shall give due consideration to appointing a member from the slate of nom- Object inees at the last previous election. Sec. 1 The object of this Section Sec. 2 There shall be an Ex- shall be to provide for discussion of subjects ecutive Committee consisting of the President, and problems coming within the scope of the Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Retiring profession and by. such intercourse, to pro- President, Editor of the Pacific Petroleum mote the advancement and aims of The American Geologist and one Representative each selected Association of Petroleum Geologists as set by such other cooperating geological societies forth in its Constitution, by-laws and code (including the Coast Geological Society and of ethics. the San Joaquin Geological Society) as are at any time approved by the then existing Ex- Sec. 2 The Pacific Section is a ecutille Cormnittee. non-profit organization, and no portion of the financial assets inures to the benefit of any private individual or member. ARTICLE v --Funds Sec. 1 The Executive Committee Membership shall review the financial position of the Section and have a current financial state- Sec. 1 A member, in any classi- ment available at each annual business meet- fication, of The American Association of Pet- ing. Annual dues of the Section shall be roleum Geologists in good standing shall be payable in advance in an amount established eligible for membership in this Section. by the membership at the annual business meeting. The Executive Cmittee shall Sec. 2 Annual payment of the not have authority to levy assessments dues of this Section by any person qualified against the membership and shall not have the above shall be a declaration of Active mem- authority to increase annual dues. bership in this Section. Sec. 2 The funds of this Section The Executive Conrmittee shall be deposited to the credit of Pacific may honor the accomplishments of one or more Section of The American Association of Petro- members each year by designating "Honorary leum Geologists in any federally insured de- . - Life Members". Honorary Life Members shall pository selected by the Treasurer but not be exempt from all future dues. to exceed the limit insured by the Federal YL Deposit Insurance Corporation. Whenever nec- I ~ec.-3- Other persons not members essary, the President shall certify to the au- . of The American Association of Petroleum Geo- thority of the Treasurer in administering logists who are in the activities of this Set- such account by prwiding the depository - 3 'tfon, may subscribe to the publication of bank with a notice of the Treasurer's election the Section "pacific Petroleum Geologist" and with a true copy of th6s Constitution. subject to the approval of the Executive The Treasurer shall have Committee. Non-member subscribers shall authority to issue checks against the bank ac- not have the right to vote or hold office count so established, on his sole signature, but may otherwise participate in all ac- -.. but in khe went of his absgnce or incapacity tivities of this Section. to act due either to sickness or death, with- drawals or payments by check may be made on a, - . .j .' - the signature of the President during the con- ARTICLE IV tinuance or the absence or incapacity of the Treasurer, in which went the identify and Officers authority of the President and the circum- stances relating to the absence or incapacity Sec. 1 The officers of this sec- of the Treasurer shall be certified to by the tion shall be a President, a Vice-President, Executive Committee if so required by the ! a Secretary and a Treasurer. The duties of depository. Page 8 ARTICLE Vf prior to the election. Additional nominations may be made by written petition of twenty- Meetings five or more members of the Pacific Section in good standing, received by the Secretary Sec. 1 Pacific Section meetings within two weeks following the publication shall be held annually or at other times on of the nominating committee slate of can- r)-'-%> call of the President. didates. The Executive Committee shall have the authority to name an additional nominee Sec. 2 The time and place of in case of necessity, to assure two candidates Pacific Section Business Meetings shall be for each office. Votin shall be by mailed bal- determined by the Executive Committee. lot. The Secretary shah set a date for count- ing ballots and shall mail ballots to all members not less than three weeks prior to this date. Sec. 2 In matters pertaining ARTICLE VII solely to the business of this Section, all active mem5ers of the Section may vote. In Election: matters pertaining to the official business and the selection of business representatives Sec. 1 The President of the or other officers of The American Association Pacific Section of The American Association of Petroleum Geologists only active members of Petroleum Geologists, with the approval of the Association shall be qualified to of the Executive Committee, shall appoint- vote. a nominating committee at least three months prior to the Business Meeting of the Pacific Sec. 3 This Constitution may Section, consisting of five (5) members, be amended by a mail ballot. Ballots con- two (2) of whom shall be past officers of cerning constitutional amendments shall be the Pacific Section. The nominating com- mailed upon the authority of the Executive mittee shall select two (2) candidates Committee or upon receipt by the Secretary for each of the following offices: (1) of a Petition for Amendment signed by fifty President, (2:Vice-President, (3) Sec- or more members in good standing. A two- retary, and (4),Treasurer. The slate of thirds majority of the ballots returned with-. candidates shall be announced in the Pacific in three weeks following mailing to the member- Petroleum Geologist at least five weeks ship shall be required to pass any amendment..

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NEWS LETTER OF THE PACIFIC SECTION AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS

Volume 24 April, 1970 Number 4

ASSOCIATION ACT IVlTlES

PACIFIC SECTION'S NEW OFFICERS to Senate Committee on Local Government, set for hearing March 31. JOHN F. CURRAN. Santa Barbara, Calif., consultant, has AB-324 (Ketchurn) Geology - extends the period for register- been elected president of the Pacific Section of the American ing as a Geologist under the Geology Act until June 30, 1970. Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). He succeeds Approved by Assembly Commerce and Public Utilities Committee, J. D. TRAXLER. Signal Oil & Gas, Los Angeles. Other new passed Assembly, referred to Senate Business and Professions officers are: ARTHUR SPAULDING, petroleum administrator, Committee, no hearing date set. Los Angeles, vice-president; VINCENT F. SCURY, Texaco AB-393 (Unruh and Sieroty) Public Resources Oil and Gas - Inc.'s Bakersfield office, secretary; and MARIE J. CLARK, would prohibit any present or future oil or gas drilling in the Atlantic Richfieldes Long Beach office. treasurer. Santa Barbara Channel. Approved by Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and Conservation, referred to Assembly Ways and Means Committee, no hearing date set. GEOLOGY BOARD - SONG'S SB-330 Senator Alfred Song introduced legislation which is of AWARDS FOR THE crucial importance to the Geology profession. SB-330 is a re- 1976 JOINT ANNUAL MEETING organization plan for the Department of Professional and Voca- tional Standards. It differs in many respects from the Governor's The Best Paper Award Committee for the 1970 Joint Annual Reorganization Plan Number 2, as SB-330 provides for the mer- Meeting (George H. Rudkin, Chairman) has announced three ger of the Geology Board with the Engineering Board. Our P.R. awards: The Levorsen Memorial Award, The Best Pacific Section representatives have delayed reporting full details as to the Paper and the "Sweepstakes" award. progress of SB-330 because very delicate negotiations have The A.I. Levorsen Memorial Award went to Dr. John W. occurred behind the scenes with members of Senator Song's Harbaugh, Dept. of Geology Stanford University for his "Com- staff, the staff of the Senate Business and Professions computer Simulation of Marine Sedimentation." This award is pre- mittee, and representatives of the Administration who are sented at regional and sectional meetings to the best paper of concerned with Reorganization Plan Number 2. However, the the convention judged on creative thinking, organization, delivery, negotiations have been successful and Senator Song has agreed visual aids, with special emphasis on creative thinking toward to eliminate hom SB-330 all references to the Geology Board new ideas in petroleum exploration. The Levorsen Memorial is and to any proposed merger of the Geology Board and the under the sponsorship of the National AAPG. Engineering Board. The best Pacific Section A.A.P.G. paper award ($25.00) Amendments to this effect are being drafted in Legislative went to Mr. Theodore W. Ehring and his co-authors at Signal Oil Counsel and the bill will be so revised prior to any hearing by and Gas Co. Los Angeles for "Building and Using a Computerized the Senate Business and Professions Committee, which will be Well Course File in an Offshore, Geologically Complex Field." the initial policy committee to consider SB-330. Thanks to all This paper particularly suited the meeting's theme of "West Coast AAPG members for their patience while these negotiations were Exploration in the Computer Age." in progress and in particular to those Geologists who responded Because of its special popularity, Dr. Eugene M. Shoemaker's individually. (CIT, Pasadena) "The Lunar Regolith at Tranquillity Base" was NEW LEGISLATION INTRODUCED awarded special "Sweepstakes" recognition. His presentation AB-100 (Warren) State Agencies - adds one public member scored extremely high in all categories judged. to each State Board (including the Geology Board) to be appointed This year's convention was attended by some "650 paid by the Governor and to serve under the same terms and conditions registrants." A special vote of thanks to General Chairman as the other members. Referred to Assembly Government Adminis- John K. Cassell and his staff is in order. tration Committee, no hearing date set. AB-150 (MacGillivray et al) Oil andGas Leases - would pro- NEW EARTH SCIENCE STAFF - BAKERSFIELD STATE hibit oil or gas leases in the Santa Barbara Channel. Referred to Assembly Natural Resources and Conservation Committee, ap- Dr. John R. Coash, dean of the school of natural scrences proved in committee, and referred to Assembly Ways and Means and mathematics at California State College, Bakersfield, an- Committee, set for hearing March 31. nounced the appointment of the staff of the college's department of earth sciences. AB-213 (MacGillivray et al) Geothermal Energy - specifies new standards for the protection of the public in the exploration DR. DANIEL J. JONES will serve as a professor of geology and development of geothermal resources. Requires the State Oil and chairman of the department. The staff will include Dr. Edward and Gas Supervisor to enforce such regulations,. Approved by the Laskowski, associate professor of geology; Dr. John C. Manning, Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and Conservation, professor of geology; and Dr. William H. Wake, associate professor approved by the Ways and Means Committee, passed Assembly, of geography. referred to Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee, no "The curriculum in earth sciences at the college, while pro- hearing date set. viding a broad background suitable to day's interest in the en- SB-294 -(Rodda) Subdivision Conditions - requires subdivi- vironment as a whole, will also serve $ose students seeking sion soil condition reports include the findings and opinions of options in specific fields such as geology, geography, hydrology, a registered Geologist qualified in Engineering Geology. Referred paleontology and soils," Dean Coash said. Page.2 A number of the papers to be presented deal with the problems of log analysis of shaly sands. This is very appropriate for EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, PACIFIC SECTION a conference held in California where the shaly sand problem is AMERICAN ASSOC. OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS of major importance. J. D. Traxler ...... President Registration for the 1970 Symposium will begin at 2:00 p.m. 1 Robert N. Hacker ...... Vice President Sunday, May 3. Technical sessions will begin at 9:00 a.m. on James M. Saunders ...... Secretary Monday and continue until noon Wednesday. Special events are John W. Bedford ...... Treasurer planned for the members' wives who are in attendance. The Louis J. Simon ...... President annual business meeting and luncheon will be held at noon Peter J. Fischer ...... Editor Monday. and the annual awards banquet will be held Tuesday Tom W. Redin ...... Los Angeles Delegate evening. The banquet program will feature the well known Bruce Robinson, Jr. San Joaquin Delegate ...... entertainer, Mr. Ray Stanish. Frederic R. Kelley ...... N. Calif. Delegate D. E. Ritzius ...... Coastal Delegate Costs are to be: $15.00 (members or non-members) for Vern c. Jones ...... Sacramento Delegate registration only; and $20.00 (members) and $25.00 (non- Chas. G. Mull ...... Alaska Delegate members) for registration and the published symposium of the papers presented at the meeting. I PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST I CARBONATE FIELD TRlP Published monthly by the Pacific Section American Dr. Robert N. Ginsburg of the School of Marine and Association of Petroleum Geologist. I I Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, will lead a CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Subscription and memberijhip carbonate facies field trip to the Bahamas and Florida Keys inquiries should be addressed to: during the week of 29 May - 6 June, 1970. For further details Membership Secretary, Pacific Section AAPG contact Dr. Ginsburg in Miami. P.O. Box 17486, Foy Station Los Angeles, California 90017 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SPRING FIELD TRlP MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATION and requests for - missed copies should be addressed to: A members, wives, and guests field trip along the northern Peter J. Fischer, Department of Geology. trace of the San Andreas fault will be held on May 16th. Leaders Whittier College, Whittier, California 90608 for the trip are Allan J. Galloway (Calif. Ac. Sci.) and Robert D. Brown, Jr. (USGS). The route will follow the fault from Menlo EDITOR ...... Peter J. Fischer Park to Stinson Beach and the Pt. Reyes National Seashore by Assistant Editor ...... Keith E. Green bus. Lunch will be a picnic stop (BYO) at historic Drake Beach Science Editor ...... Bennie W. Troxel with wine provided. After lunch visits to the spectacular Paleo- Selected Bibliography ...... Lucy Birdsall cene-Mesozoic outcrops at the Pt. Reyes Lighthouse. the pillow lavas at Nicasio Dam, and the French Cheese Factory are on CORRESPONDENTS the agenda. Dinner will be at Tiberon at the dock overlooking Alaska ...... Gene Tripp San Francisco Bay. Coast ...... -....!l'homas K. Bjorkland Cost: $12.00 per person for transportation, wine, and Los Angeles ...... Dennis R. Wiley dinner - a bargain! Only 43 seats are available according to the Northwest ...... a W. Thorsen Field Trip Chairman. Robert D. Carter (USGS, 345 Middlefield Sacramento Road. Menlo Park. CA 9-4025). Early reservations are suggested. San .Francisco ...... Charles M. Cross Contact Bob at the USGS for further details. San Joaquin ...... Rod Nahama Membership Secretary ...... Judy Hughes SPRING PICNIC Charles Lee of Conoco reports that the SPRING PICNIC will be held at Elkins Ranch Golf Course in Fillmore on Friday CALENDAR June 5, 1970. PANEL ON S.B. CHANNEL - L.A. HARBOR GEOLOGY FORUM - USC Dr. James Slosson, Professor of Geology at Los Angeles Lectures are scheduled for noon each Tuesday in the Stauffer Valley College, will moderate a panel discussion on the topic, Stauffer Lecture Hall (102). "Petroleum Geology - LOBAngeles Harbor and Santa Barbara Channel". The panel will be composed of: April 28 Dr. Richard O'Connell. California Institute of Tech. "Phase Change in the Upper Mantle" Dr. Donald Weaver, Professor of Geology May 5 Dr. Robert P. Sharp, California Institute of Technology University of California at Santa Barbara "Mars Geology from Mariner Flights" Tim Terry J. May 12 Edith Vincent, Graduate Student. USC Board of Directors of GOO "Foraminifera1 Evidence for Late Quaternary Robert R. Knapp, Geologist Paleoceanographic Variations in the Mozambique Standard Oil Company Channel" Arthur 0. Spalding, Petroleum Administrator City of Los Angeles GEOLOGY SPEAKERS FORUM - CAL STATE, L.A. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. on April 30th in the Talks are scheduled for 4:00 P.M. Mondays in room 268 of Field House of Valley College, which is located on Ethel Ave. the Science Building. Parking is available in Lot E next to the between Burbank Blvd. and Oxnard St. in Van Nuys. It will be Science Building. open to the public at no charge. April 20 Dr. Clifford A. Hopson, University of California, Santa Barbara WELL LOGGING SYMPOSIUM "Emplacement of Plutons - Cascade Mountains, Washington" California oil men will be interested in the eleventh annual Well Logging Symposium to be held at the International Hotel in May 11 Dr. Dale Jackson, U. S. G. S., Menlo Park Los Angeles, May 3 -May 6, 1970. This will be the first of "Xenoliths in Hawaiian Basalts" these symposiums held in California. Theme of the symposium May 18 Dr. Robert Rex, University of California. Riverside will be "Well Logging in Exploration". "Deep Sea Drilling Project in the Atlantic" Keynote speaker will be Mr. John E. Waistrom of the Stand- For additional information call: ard Oil Company of California. Mr. Walstrom is well known to the industry and was a pioneer in well logging in California. Dr. Perry Ehlig, Chairman. Geology Department, 224-3388 Page 3 POLLUTION AND PETROLEUM FACTS: (a) Oil from the wells is transported ashore through pipe- As emphasized by Dr. Jack E. McKee of Caltech in his lines on the sea floor. The oil is driven by PRESSURE talk, concerning pollution, which was presented at the New- PRODUCED BY PUMPS ON THE PLATFORMS. If port meetings last month, oil pollution is a problem, but NOT pressure in the pipelines drops it indicates a leak or an overwhelming one. However editorials. cartoons, and the break and automatic devices are supposed to stop guest speakers at the local women" clubs are presenting a operations. black picture indeed. Here are some dissident views. which During the December 1969 pipe break and spill safety we in or near the oil industry should be prepared to answer. devices did not work. By the time the leak was detected These statements were posted at San Jose State College 50 square mile slick covered the Channel. When the leak (anonymously). was finally detected, an estimated 36 hours after occur- ence, the pipeline was shut off and pumping from wells SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL OIL OPERATIONS stopped. - I FACTS AND FALLACI ES (b) Local observation from aircraft and boats does not sup port either the "timing" statements by the oil companies I 1) FALLACY: nor the allegation that the massive oil slick resulted . The nation is in dire need of oil, therefore it must be from "over-pressure" seepage. drained from the reserves in the Santa Barbara Channel. (c) "Such operations may produce pollution of the offshore FACTS: waters from blowouts of the wells, dumping of oil-based (a) An adequate supply of oil can be obtained by encourag- drilling muds and oil-soaked cuttings, and losses of oil ing a higher rate of production from existing landwells. in production, storage, and transportation. A pollution (b) Instituting programs for recovery of oil from shale threat is also posed by the pipelines laid on the ocean deposits. floor from the offshore platforms to storage.facilities. (c) Liberalizing oil import quotas which are presently sub- These lines are subject to rupture by storms and the sidizing marginal U.S. oil production; net cost to every dragging of ships' anchors." ("Oil Pollution", a Report family of 4 in U.S. is $100 per year. to the President by the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Transportation, February 1968). 2) FALLACY: 6) FALLACY: The oil companies have paid for leases in the Channel, The major pollution of sea and beaches is caused by therefore there is nothing the government can do to rescind natural seepage from Coal Oil Point which has been going the leases legally, or without incurring a tremendous on from time immemorial. expense. FACTS: FACTS: (a) The usual flow from seeps off Coal Oil Point is out to (a) Terms in the leases include provision against pollution. sea. It occasionally comes ashore on Goleta Beach and The government could terminate the leases due to abro- Hope Ranch Beach, but never as far down as Santa gation by the oil companies of this provision. Barbara's public beaches. (b) Leases could be exchanged for use of Elk Hills Naval reserves and the ChanneI's oil deposits held in "escrow" (b) If natural seepage were the problem as is claimed, then as recommended in the Second Report of the President's Santa Barbara could never have become the tourist Panel on Oil Spills.. attraction it has been over the years, nor developed its beach and sea oriented economy. I (c) Cost to taxpayers at present is $5 billion per year with I present quota system. Refundinglease costs andliberal- I A timely panel discussion at Valley State on May 30th will I izing quotas means a one time repayment to oil companies undoubtedly prove worthwhile. (See Calendar --Ed.) of $800 million. ($800 million ONCE versus $5 billion EVERY YEAR.) 3) FALLACY: PERSONAL ITEMS Platforms, rigs, barges, and other oil operations are NOT hazards to navigation, to pleasure craft, and to commer- I cia1 fishing fleets. RON BARTLEY, formerly of Shell Oil Co. is now living in I Ashland (Southern) Oregon and engaged in consulting. FACTS: I (a) Unlit buoys and underwater obstructions have already KEN COHICK of Shell Oil Co. has retired effective March 31st after 33 years of service to the4'Pecten". I damaged pleasure craft. i (b) "While industry has been compelled to remove damaged BUS and HELEN IVANHOE have returned to California I structures from drilling sites, components which have after spending the past year in Libya, Europe and Mexico. They 1 settled elsewhere for the most part remain. The large say they are experiencing ''the cultural shock of the super pieces of debris are in fact menaces to surface naviga- markets and freeways.'" tion. Vessels have been damaged and sunk in collisions MIKE MOUND formerly of Chevron is now consulting in with drilling installations ." ("Oil Pollution", a Report Costa Mesa. to the President by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Transportation, February 1968).

I 4) FALLACY: Remedial drilling and pumping is necessary to reduce pres- BIBLIOGRAPHY sure causing the present seep from fissures in the ocean floor. OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS I FACTS: (a) Although production has doubled since July. the amount NORTH SLOPE REFERENCES of oil from the leak has NOT diminished. Operations are A bibliography entitled "Geological literature on the North not relieving pressure. Slope of Alaska" by J.C. Maher and W.M. Trollman was released 5) FALLACY: for sale at the recent successful North Slope Seminar sponsored Technological advances have made Channel oil operations by the Pacific Section. A.A.P.G., and the Northern California fool-proof. When a pipeline ruptured in December cessation Geological Society in Palo Alto. It contains approximately of operations to repair the pipe caused increased seepage 1,300 references with a simple index and a serials list. Approxi- from the ocean floor leak due to pressure build-up. The mately 100 copies remain for sale by mail at $5.00 a copy (25% pipe break was caused by abnormal pressure from oil in the discount to A.A.P.G. members) from the American Association wells. of Petroleum Geologists, P.O. Box 979, Tulsa, Okla. 74101. Page 4 JOSEPH ELO, JR. DAVID R. BUTLER CHANGE OF ADDRESS Cities Service Oil Co. 2757 Firethorne Ave. 223 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Fullerton, Cal. 92631 HERBERTDEEADAMS JAMES R. COX Thousand Oaks, Cal. 91360 153 El Monte RICHARD S. DREESSEN, JR. 2011 - 18th St., #12 DONALD W. HAGEN Ventura, Cal. 93003 Amerada-Hess Pet. Corp. Bakersfield, Cal. 93301 Texaco Expl. Co. JOHN R. BEACH 550 So. Flower St. DONALD R. EDMONSTON P.O. Box 3333 Los Angeles, Cal. 90017 P.O. Box 1165 6501 Mt. Shasta Dr. Calgary, Alberta Bakersfield, Cal. 93302 Bakersfield, Cal. 93309 Canada DON FIFE Div. Mines & Geology RICHARD BEH HARRY FEDER AUGUST J. KELLER Cities Service Oil Co. 17341 Irvine Blvd. #207 2920 H. Street Cit~esService 011 Co. 223 Thousand Oaks Blvd. - Tustin, Cal. 92680 Bakersfield, Cal. 93301 223 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Thousand Oaks, Cal. 91360 Thousand Oaks, Cal. 91360 WILLIAM H. HAWKINS RONALD C. BARTLEY GEORGE W. HUNTER JACK B. MILLS Box 17126, Foy Stn. ,1192 Beswick Way 6408 Friant Dr. 1218 Willowgreen Ct. Los Angeles, Cal. 90017 Ashland, Oregon 97520 Bakersfield, Cal. 93309 Westlake Village, Cal. 91360 J. H. HAFENBRACK W. STANLEY KNOUSE HENRYWALROND VINCENT F. SCURY Humble Oil & Refg. Co. General Delivery Suite 4, Norris Oil Co. Bldg. Dow Chemical-Brazos DIV. 1800 Ave. of the Stars Glide, Oregon 97443 924 Truxton Ave. P.O. Box 2186 Los Angeles, Cal. 90067 Bakersfield, Cal. 93301 Bakersfield, Cal. 93303 EDWARD H. OGIER COURTNEY F. ISSELHARDT 1200 Ray P. Oden Bldg. W.G. Calkins JAMES L. STEIDLEY 7348 So. Milton Ave.. #15 Shreveport, Louisiana 71101 P.O. Box 5278 Cities Service Oil Co. Whittier, Cal. 90602 Oildale, Cal. 93308 223 Thousand Oaks Blvd. MRS. HERDIS MCFARLAND W. W. WELCH, JR. JOHN STEWART KELLEY Thousand Oaks, Cal. 91360 1606 Broadway Box 7-839 489 April Way RICHARD D. STEWART Alameda, Cal. 94501 Anchorage, Alaska 99501 Los Gatos, Cal. 95030 Union International Oil Div. NEAL SMITH PAUL E. MCGOVNEY K. H. CRANDALL P.O. Box 7600 Box 399 2748 Mendoza Dr. 209 Crocker Ave. Los Angeles, Cal. 90054 Twain Harte, Cal. 95383 Costa Mesa, Cal. 92626 Piedmont, Cal. 94610 JERRY WILSON CLARKSON P. MOSELEY JOHN S. SHELTON WARREN A. CEBELL P.O. Box 3357 Box 17126, Foy Stn. C/O E.B. Films, Inc. 1503 S. Bunbury Dr. Ventura, Cal. 93002 Los Angeles, Cal. 90017 6519 Fountain Ave. Whittier, Cal. 90601 Rl$X J. YOUNG Hollywood, Cal. 90028 TOR H. NILSEN RICHARD H. DAWSON Cities Service Oil Co. U.S.G.S. EDWIN B. EDWARDS Cities Service Oil Co. 223 Thousand Oaks Blvd. 345 Middlefield Rd. 1092 Elkgrove Ave. Thousand Oaks, Cal. 91360 Menlo Park, Cal. 94025 Venice, Cal. 90291 223 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Thousand Oaks, Cal. 91360 LEW G. SCHROEDER DON J. HALL NEW MEMBERS J. E. DRYDEN Std. Oil Co. of Cal. McCullough Services STANLEY C. BOICOURT P.O. Box 606 P.O. Box 58726 Std. Oil Co. of Cal. 1834 Chevy Chase Way Los Angeles, Cal. 90058 P.O. Box 151 RALPH E. SMITH Huntington Beach, Cal. 92648 Bakersfield, Cal. 93306 OTTO HACKEL U.S. Geol. Survey A. E. EHM DEWEY BUSHAW Route 1, Box 564-A 345 Middlefield Rd. Cities Service Oil Co. Humble Oil & Refg. Co. Bakersfield, Cal. 93308 Menlo Park, Cal. 94025 223 Thousand Oaks Blvd. 1800 Ave. of the Stars L. F. NANHOE Thousand Oaks, Cal. 91360 Los Angeles, Cal. 90067 3828 Brvn MRwr Dr.

PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST PACIFIC SECTION, A.A.P.G. P.O.. BOX 17486, FOY STATION LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017 PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST

NEWS LETTER OF THE PACIFIC SECTION AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS

Volume 24 May-June, 1970 Number 5 - -

ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES

SACRAMENTO LEGISLATIVE REPORT LEGISLATION INTRODUCED A.I.P.G., CALIFORNIA SECTION SB-660 (Moscone) Natural Resources. Authorizes and provides for proceedings for preservation and potection of environment from destruction, pollution, ar irreparable impairment. Set for May 12 in the Senate Judiciary Committee. SB-966 (Deukmejian) Oil and Gas Leases. Establishes The deadline for the unlimited introduction of bills by legis- lators has passed. It will now require a two-thirds vote of appro- procedure for partition of rights and interests of persons nego- val before any more legislation of any nature can be introduced tiating oil and gas leases which restrict with or interfere with in e'ither house of.the legislature. It will be several days before surface rights. Set for hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee all the bills that have thus far besn introduced are in print and May 19. assigned to the appropriate committee for hearing. SB-1139 (Song) Licentiates. Requires licentiates post sign There are currently 4.529 bills and resolutions pending with statement that customer complaints may be submitted to before the legislature. This represents a significant increase of licensing adhority and with address of such authority. Makes 20% over the same period during the 1969 legislative session. noncompliance grounds for suspension or revocation of license. Of this total there were 2.839 Assembly bills and resolutions Referred to Senate Committee on Business and Professions. no and 1.690 Senate bills and resolutions. hearing date set. GEOLOGY BOARD AB-447 (Ketchurn) Geology. Makes various changes in the 0.-- Geology Act, including. among others, providing for the issuance - SB-330 (Song) was amended in thesenate on April 6, 1970 of specialty seals, providing for a registration fee and renewal to remove all of the objections of the A.I.P.G. As we reported fee for specialty geologist, eliminating the minimum fees due in our previous bulletins, this measure originally intended to under the act and making various technical changes. Passed merge the Geology Board with the Engineering Board under the Assembly Committee on Commerce and Public Utilities; no reorganization of the Department of Rofessional and Vocational hearing scheduled in Assembly Ways and Means Committee. Standards. AB-1272 (Badham) Professional Engineers. Prohibits a These amendments would not have been made without the partnership, firm or corporation name %om including the name help of the letters written by members of the A.I.P.G. and of a geologist who is not registered under the Geologist Act A.A.P.G. Our thanks and commendations go out to all of you as well as prohibiting the inclusion of the name of a person who participated in this successful endeavor. who is not registered in a branch of professional engineering SB-330 is still in the Senate Business and Professions or as an architect. Referred to Assembly Commerce and Public Committee and will not be set for hearing until either the later Utilities, no hearing scheduled. part of this month or the.early part of June. The Governor's AB-2002 (Bill Greene) Conflict of interest. Prohibits Reorganization Plan Number 2 is still in Rules and has' not as officer or employee of executive branch agency which licenses yet been assigned to a committee. Undoubtedly it will be or regulates business activity from accepting employment with assigned to the Senate Business and Professions Committee. a business licensed or regulated for a period of two years after CURRENT STATUS OF BILLS PREVIOUSLY termination of employment with the public agency. Referred to the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee, no hearing REPORTED scheduled. Bills which have not had any change since our last AB-2293 (Sieroty et al) Public Members. Revises the mem- bulletin are not reported here. bership of various boards411 the Department of Rofessional and SB-161 (Lagomarsino) Oil and Gas Conservation - Passed Vocational Standards by adding public members in sufficient Senate, set for hearing May 13 in the Assembly Natural Re- numbers so that they and not the licensee members are in the sources and Conservation committee. majority. Referred to the Assembly Commerce and Public SB-294 Utilities Committee, no hearing scheduled. (Rodda) Subdivision Conditions - Held in the Senate - - Local Government Committee. AB-150 (MacGillivray et al) Oil and Gas Leases - Passed Assembly Natural Resources and Conservation Committee and Assembly Ways and Means Committee, amended on third read- i ing, still pending on Assembly Floor. 1970 A.A.P.G. NATIONAL AB-213 (MacGillivray et al) Geothermal Energy - Passed CONVENTION GROUP FLIGHT @ Assembly and Senate, awaiting Governor's action. AB-324 (Ketchurn) Geology, Extends Geologist Registration Plans are being formulated for an A.A.P.G. Group flight Period - Passed Assembly and Senate. signed into law by the from Los Angeles International to Calgar~,Saturday morning. Governor. June 20, 1970. .Western Airlines; Round-trip - S14S.20. Please AB-393 (Unruh andsieroty) Public Resources, Oil and Gas - contact Gretchen May, Western Airlines - (213) 277-3093 or Passed Assembly Natural Resources and Conservation Commit- write P.O. Box 92005, Los Angeles, California 90009 for I tee, set for hearing in Assembly Ways and Means May 19. reservation particulars. Page 2

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, PACIFIC SECTION LOS ANGELES BASIN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY AMERICAN ASSOC. OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS The monthly Bar-B-Que was held on April 15, 1970 at the J. D. Traxler ...... Resident Standard Oil Company's Northam Station in La Mirada. As usual. - Robert N. Hacker ...... -.,.. Yice Resident an evening of good food and fellowship prevailed with 74 in James M. Saunders ...... -. Secretary attendance. Mobil Oil Company Exploration hosted the evening. f?-- John W. Bedford ..-..-...... -I...... -.- ..-.....--..Treasurer topped by the paper of Dr. Jack Green, Douglas Advanced Re- Louis J. Simon ...... Past Resident search Laboratories, Huntington Beach. ACOUSTICAL HOLOGRAPHY AS A GEOLOGICAL TOOL by Jack Green Douglas Advanced Research Laboratories Huntington Beach, California 92647

The scale of geological structures varies within wide limits PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST and depending on the resource sought, the closer the range, the Published monthly by the Pacific Section American finer the resolution. The problem is to trade off what is "holo- Association of Petroleum Geologist. graphically*' wdhwhile at what scale against conventional methods of detection. The areas of interest for holographic CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Subscription and membership analysis involve five fields (petroleum geology, mining geology, inquiries should be addressed to: marine geology, engineering geology including hydrology. and Membership Secretary. Pacific Sction AAPG volcanology). P.O. Box 17486, Foy Station Los Angeles. California 90017 In oil geology the detection of folds, domes. anticlines, fracture reservoirs and stratigraphic tra'ps may be possible using acoustical holography. Emphasis should be concentrated on the interpretation of fold ratios which appear to have specific values in oil provinces. Mining geology, ip a way, is similar to oil geology as far as holographic mthods are concerned, because of the need to detect voids. And if not voids, the need to identify EDITOR ...... Peter J. Fischer zones of lower density. In marine geology, subsea holographic Assistant Editor ...... Keith E. Green aensars suspended a giiren distance below oceanographic exploration vessels would permit a much firer degree of resolution Selected B~bliogra~~hy.....,.....-.,,....- Lucy Birdsall of seafloor structures in three dimensions than present day con- CORRESPONDENTS ventional surface acoustic techniques. In engineering geology, the "best" use of holographic methods may be realized, if only Alaska Gene Tripp ...... in the area of damsite analysis. Finally. acoustical holography es ...... Dennis R. Wiley as applied to volcaxiology has practical applications in geother- ...... Gerald W. Thorsen mal field analyses. Fracture reservoirs and their geometry can c3 be projected in three dimensions. For prediction of volcanic eruptions, an acoustical holographic system to monitor the in- flation-deflation characteristics of near-surface magma chambers (as at Kilauea) would supplement the tiltmeters and seismometers already in use. The detection and analysis of voids including fractures is a prime application of acoustical holography because of the maximum density contrast between 5ock and air (or water). The second prime application is the detection and analysis of lesser density contrasts (rock-melt ; anhydrite-gypsum, ore-breccia. etc .) A short range look is best for enhancing these lesser density UCLA TO OFFER SHORT COURSE IN contrasts. In these cases, acoustical holography will work best at shallow depths of detection. Finally, the view angle for OFFSHORE PETROLEUM certain applications can be the most significant. In holwaphy, it is often all how you look at it.

A one-week course in offshore petroleum exploration and BIBLIOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF DR. JACK GREEN 1 -v - L development will be given August 31--September 4 by UCLA Engineering and Science Extension. The course is a survey EDUCATION: 1950 BS in Geology from Virginia Polytechnic of the offshore fkom a' geological,..geophysical. engineering. Institute and economic viewpoint, and will emphasize new develop 1953 Ph.D in Geology from Columbia University ments. EXPERIENCE: F'rincipal instructor is Robert S. Yeats, Associate Ro- 7 years with Chevron Research feseor of Geology, Ohio University. formerly with Shell in Los 7 years with North American Aviation Angeles. Guest lecturers will include Doh Gorsline. Univer- Sice 1965 with Douglas Advanced Reseerch Lab. sity of Southern California (geological exploration on sea floor), M. B. Dobrin, United Geophysical Corporation (offshore Has been and still is active in lunar and Martian - - geology. geophysics), R. C. Crwke, Global Marine (offshore drilling), and C. J. Lakey, Mobil Oil (offshore production engineering and ecoaomics). The course includes a oneday field trip to visit a platform in the Santa Barbara Channel, and examine U.S.G.S. CLOSES ELK H lLLS OFFICE representative geological structures and reservoirs on the southern California coast. The USGS field pffice which has been maintained on Naval - The course is designed for individuals with a general Petroleum Reserve No. 1 at Elk Hills for several yeara has beerL. technical background at the bachelors degree level, particu- moved to Menlo Park. Robert J. Lantz, geologist in charge at larly engineers, scientists, or managers concerned with off- Elk Hills, describes the move as a consolidation of professional shore petroleum problems. and administrative personnel with other members of the project Fmther information is available from G. S. Bond, UCLA stationed at the USGS Pacific Coast Center. Lantz and geolo- Extension, 6115 Math Sciences Building. Los Angeles, gist William M. Berryman will join the project headquarters at California 90024. 830 Menlo Avenue. Menlo Park. OFFICERS ELECTED HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE AAPG TULSA, April 12 - William H. Curry, Jr., an independent TULSA. Okla. - Five faithful servants of geology. includ- geologist from Casper, Wyo., has been elected 1970-71 President ing three former Presidents of The American Association of of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, incumbent Petroleum Geologists, have been named honorary members of President Kenneth fI;-Crandall announced today. the AAPG, President Kenneth H. Crandall announced. They are Orlo Childs, president of the Colorado Mr. Cimy will assume the office July 1. Dr. E. School of Mines, Golden. Colo.; Dr. Frank B. Conselman. For the fiist time, AAPG members also chose a President- director of the International Center for Arid & Semi-Arid Land elect who will assume the office on July 1, 1971. He is Dr. Studies at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. Texas; Dr. Sherman A. Wengerd. Professor of Geology at the.University of Robert E. King, president of Resources Exploration Interna- New Mexico and Geological Consultant. tional, Ltd.. New York; John E. "Brick" Elliott, retired inde- John M. Browning, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Tenneco pendent petroleum geologist; and Dr. Grover E;Murray. Oil & Minerals. Ltd., Calgary, Alverta, Canada. was elected president of Texas Tech University. Lubbock. The awards Vice President. will be presented at the AAPG's 1970 annual meeting in Calgary, Alberta. Canada, in June. James R. Jackson. Jr.. District Exploration Manager for Humble Oil & Refining Company. Houston, was elected The AAPG constitution established honorary memberships Secretary. - that may be conferred by the Association on "persons who Dr. Peter T. Flawn, Director of the Bureau of Economic have contributed distinguished service to the cause of Geology at Austin, Texas. and Professor of Geological petroleum geology." Sciences at the University of Texas, was elected to a two- year term as Treasurer. EXAMINATION COMMITTEE Dr. John D. Ham, Professor of Geology at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, and consultant with Barlow and Ham, Inc., The California State Board of Registration has selected an was elected without opposition to his fourth one-year term as Examination Committee consisting of Dr. Orville L. Bandy, Mr. Editor of the AAPG Bulletin. Ted L. Bear, Mr. Otto Hackel, Dr. Blakemore E. Thomas and Mr. Ernest M. Weber. The Committee met for the fiist time, TULSA, Okla. - James 0. Lewis. a consulting geologist April 13, in Los Angeles and began the planning for the exami- from Houston, has been elected President of the Professional lations that will be given all geologists that wish to become re- Division of The American Association of Petroleum Geologists gstered in California after the "grandfathering" is complete AAPG President Kenneth H. Crandall announced. The first examination is planned for October 9 and 10, 1970, He succeeds Dr. George R. Gibson of Medland, Texas. therefore it is important that the Examination Committee secures John Sistrunk, a Dallas consultant, is the newvice Presi- the material necessary to prepare the examination. It is tenta- dent andBernold M. Hanson, a Midland, Tex.. consultant, is tively planned to hold the registration examination on the first Secretary-Treasurer. day 9-12 and 2-5 and follow this the next day with the certifica- The new officers' terms begin July 1. tion examination. tg?J tg?J We are contacting all the Universities and Colleges in California and requesting the committee questions to be used NEW OFFICERS S.E.P.M. in the examination. We nowvisualize the morning session to be a multiple choice examination hdthe afternoon session New officers for the Pacific Section of S.E.P.M. will take will consist of map and geological problems. This is your office July 1, 1970. They are: chance to get your questions on the examination. Each school King Nash, President, Mobil Oil Company, 10737 SO. should have some representation on the examination. Would Shoemaker, Santa Fe Springs, California. you kindly poll your department and forward to us all the type Jim Taylor, Vice President, Shell Oil Company, 196 So. questions that you feel would be important for this of examination. We hope to exhaust all sources of material. First Street, Ventura, California. Jim Ingle, Secretary, Department of Geology. Stanford The registration examination questions should consist of University;Stanford, California. problems and multiple choice questions derived from the basic geologic courses. Lets confine these to Physical Geology, Roderick McLeunan, Treasurer, 9645 So. Santa Fe Historical Geology. Mineralogy, Petrology. Field Geology Springs Road, Santa Fe Springs. California. and Structural Geology. Please subrnit.your questions and problems as soon as possible. Om next meeting is May 13. GEORGE C. MATSON AWARD but send thtt in after this date if you find it impossible to make it before. TULSA, Okla. - Dr. Arthur A. Meyerhoff. publications Remember that this is your opportunity to have your manager of The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, representative questions on the examination. It consists of is the 1970 recipient of the George C. Matson Award. The work right now, but we are certain that your students will award is made annually by the AAPG to honor the best techni- appreciate your efforts. cal paper presented at the previous year's AAPG convention. EXAMINATION COWTTEE Dr. MeyerhofPs paper, "Continental Shelf Positions During Geologic Times," was given in April, 1969, in Dallas. He will receive the award at the AAPG convention in Calgary. Alberta, Canada, this June. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL - - In makingthe announcement, the awards committee SOCIETY FIELD TRIP stressed it does not either endorse or deny the validity of the arguments presented in the paper. But. "at a time when most Society members and their wives, 50 in all, spent the public statements are in support of the idea of continental hottest day of the year. May 16, on a cool trip to Pt. Reyes. drift; Dr. Meyerhoff has done the profession a distinct service Field trip leaders Alan Galloway and Robert D. Brown, Jr., by so effectively arguing the contrary view and in so doing traced the 1906,break of the San Andreas fault and described -?-'providing perspective to the whole discussion." the geology of the R. Reyes peninsula. John Ritter, U.S.G.S., @ Dr. Meyerhoff, 41, is currently a Director of the Assoeia- told of some of the results of his sedimentation study of the tion of Earth Science Editors. which he previously served as Stinson BeachBolinas Lagoon area. president, and is president-elect of the Tulsa Science Founda- Between the cool brews provided by Ken Crandall and the tion. natural air conditioning at Pt. Reyes lighthouse. 'the group The George C. Matson Award has been given annually managed to swive the heat and finally reached the oasis of since 1957. THE DOCK at Tiburon at the end of the trip. Page-4 REVIEW OF A NEW PUBLICATION interpretation was changed in the wrap-up paper, but not in the GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN CHANNEL ISLANDS paper presenting the basic information. by Donald W. Weaver 3. Detailed paleocurrent and paleoslope data on Miocene rocks, including Catalina Schist-bearing formations such as the (3 Special Publication. Pacific Sections. AAPG; SEPM (1969). San Onofre Breccia. are reported on Santa Cruz Island by 200 p., plus geologic maps of Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Bereskin and Edwards and on Santa Rosa by Avila and Weaver.

Miguel Islands. $13.50, including maps. , These data indicate a southwest-facing paleoslope. Yet on This volume is a collection of papers by Dr. Weaver and p. 121-122, Weaver concludes that "the shedding of the (Catalina Schist) debris toward the north extended along a his associates, mostly at the University of California, Santa Miocene shore line that reached from north of Carrington Point. Barbara, organized by Weaver "to present the subject matter - on Santa Rosa Island, eastward toward Point Dume along the from oldest to youngest, followed by a discussion of the geo- Santa Monica coast line." etc. This northward paleoslope is physics and structure, and finally with the paleogeographic based on subsmface data mentioned on p. 96 from m unnamed implications and conclusions as to the historical geology of and unlocated offshore well north of Santa Cruz Island and the area." Although Weaver is listed as the author, he is in enables Weaver to cling to the old view that the Cdalina part an editor; in addition to contributions on stratigraphy and clasts in the islands came from the south. despite the outcrop paleontology by Weaver and his students. there is a paper on data. gravity of the Channel Islands by J. D. Rietman and J. K. Aldrich and a discussion of San Miguel beachrock by D. L. Discussions of the major throughgoing faults is confusing Johnson. The geologic mapping is principally the result of as to the age of faulting. the amount of strike-slip, and the corre- UCSB summer field camps in geology in 1964 and 1965, masters* lation of faults. On page 115, Weaver refers to a "Santa Monica- theses by D. P. Doerner. F. A. Avila, S. R. Bereskin. L. N. Santa Rosa Island fault" and a LLMalibu-SantaRosa fault system," Edwards, and G. L. Meyer, and subsequent mapping by .Weaver leaving the impression that the Santa Rosa Island fault, the and others. Santa Cruz Island fault. and the Santa Monica (or Malibu Coast) fault are one and the same. However, on p. 9, Weaver questions The timeliness of the volume cannot be questioned. Industry the correlation of the Santa Rosa Island and Santa Cruz Island interest in California is now expanding from the Santa Barbara faults. and in the plate entitled "Structural Setting," the two Channel southward to the basins beyond the Channel Islands. faults are clearly not the same. On the plate, the Malibu Coast And yet. until the appearance of this paper, few areas in fault splits into three strands, one af-whiich is the Santa Cruz California were more poorly known geologically than the Channel Island fault but none of w-ould be the Santa Rosa Island Islands. fault unless the dern-most strand is offset 16 milesright- The maps and cross-sections are well-prepared and. where laterally by fault in SantaCruz submarine canyon. checked by the reviewer and others, appear to be reasonably Clearly, the identification of individual faults in this region accurate. The stratigraphic sections and faunal lists are My is ambiguous based on present knowledge. But on p. 115, the located on the maps, permitting their direct use as%sk data "Santa Monica-Santa Rosa Islaad fault" is said to have possibly in paleogeographic studies. as much as aten mile offset," based apparently on the discussion The many proofreading errors are an annoyance but not a by Rietman andAldrich (p. 110) of the left-lateral offset of a hinderance to use. More troublesome is the'fact that the figmes Bouguer gravity high across the Channel Islands and the offset are not numbered, yet figure numbers are used in the text (a of a distinctive facies of a Miocene volcanic unit .'a few miles" fj single exception is the San Miguel beachrock paper by Johnson). left laterally across the Santa Rosa Island fault (p. 117). Using Also, none of the three wells on Santa CNZ lsland is located on Fig. A of Rietman and Aldrich (p. 109). the fault along yhich the gravity high is offset is the southermost strand of the Malibu the map. although all three are discussed extensively. Coast fault of the "Structural Setting" plate. The ten mile offset Errors in editing abound and in some cases result in serious is based on the assumption that this strand is the offset continu- contradictions and in interpretation not supported by the basic ation of the Sauta Rosa Island fault together with the assumption data. Several of these are identified below. that the gravity highs were once continuous across this southern 1. Weaver has published the descriptions of Santa CNZ strand. Neither assumption is demonstrated by the evidence pre- Island basement rocks from the Ph. D. thesis of W. W. Rand sented. Furthermore, the Santa Rosa Island fault shows left- (1933). a much-needed service because of the difficulty of lateral offset of stream drainage (Anderson and others, 1949) access to this thesis. Weaver reports a radiometric age of. and "offset of the major physiographic outline of the island" 145 +- 5 m.y. of the Willows Diorite determined by Mobil Oil (Weaver, p. 117). implying Quaternary movement. The 16-mile Corporation. However. on p. 119, Weaver bases his discussion right lateral fault in SantaCruz Canyon offsets this Quaternary on the assumption that the Alamos Tonalite. not the Willows fault and therefore must be very recent! Diorite, is dated at 145 m.y. The Alamos Tonalite intrudes the On p. 118, a photo showing an offset fence line in Santa Santa Cruz Island Schist and is locally metamorphosed to Cruz Island is presented as evidence af Recent fault movement. sericite schist, whereas the Willows Diorite is relatively un- The fence offset was field-checked by Ron Teissere of UCSB. 'I' -" - metamorphosed. Weaver then concludes that the age of the who foundno evidence of Recent movement (R. F. Yerkes,-' ' ' " "" intrusion is comparable to that in the Sierra Nevada, whereas personal commun.). the 145 my. Willows Diorite is actually much older than the Perhaps the major criticism of the volume, and in particular plutonic rocks of the Peninsular Ranges, the Salinian block, and the chapter on "Paleogeographic implications and geologic much of the Sierra Nevada. The plutonic rocks and the Santa CNZ history" is in Weaver's failure to cite previous work relevant Island Schist may bear more resemblance to rocks of the Klamath to the area under discussion. In addition to the sedimentology Mountains than any rocks of the Coast Ranges farther south. a studies of Merschat and Cole discussed above, Weaver fails to major problem in California tectonics unrecognized by Weaber mention the Poway Conglomerate clast studies of A. 0. Woodford. apparedly because of the editing error. R. H. Merriam, Gordon Gastil, and their students. The 'Eocene 2. On page 45, Weaver and Doerner note that the "entire -congloraerate clasts of the islands are of Poway type, as vood- Eocene sequence on San Nicolas Island, with its gross rhythmic ford and others have pointed out for San Miguel and San Nicolas graded nature of conglomerates, sandstones, and shales as well Islands. Their data on possible terranes for these clasts might as numerous small scale graded beds - - is inferred to be almost have influenued Doerner's interpretation on p. 18 that the Santa entirely of turbidite origin." But on p. 120, Weaver concludes Cruz Island basement terrane contributed to these conglomerates, that the depositional mechanism for these beds "involved a and Weaver's conclusion on p. 120 that the source area for the sequence of mass flows - - The sediments have many of the mass Eocene sediments on Santa Cruz Island was a short distance to flow characteristics such as thick ungraded beds with sharp the northeast. The'discussions on paleogeography do not con- '3 margins, 'rip ups,' dish structures -". In the latter conclusion, sider the possibility that a palinspastic restoration of various -- Weaver cites the pioneer work by P. Stauffer'(1967) in the Santa Transverse Range blocks taking into account strike-slip and/or Ynez Range, but does not cite W. R. Merschat's published rift-slip displacement may be necessary prior to describing abstract on Santa Cruz Island (AAPG Bull., vol. 53. p. 461) and original basin configurations. A rather large body of literature M. R. Cole's field data on San Nicolas Island pointed out to on this subject. including the landmark Hill and Dibblee 1954 Weaver during the summer of 1969. Apparently the flow regime paper, was not consulted in Weaver's synthesis. Page 5 The volume. claims to be a regional study because of the - inclusion of a structural map and cross sections (p. 116 and BIBLIOGRAPHY pocket) of the Santa Barbara Channel. Yet no reference is made to the U.S.C. studies on the Santa Barbara Basin (J. Hulsemann OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS K. 0. Emery). San Miguel Gap (F. F. Wright), the igneous es west of San Miguel Island (Harold Palmer), Santa -Cruz PROFESSIONAL PAPER 543-1: Tectonics of the March 27, 1964, Bas in (Robert Gaal), and Santa Monica Basin (Donn Gorsline). Alaska earthquake, by George Plafker $2.50 These papers present valuable data relevant to Miocene- Quaternary geologic history and should have been considered PROFESSIONAL PAPER 623: Chronology of emplacement of in the discussion on p. 123-124. Alternatively. the Channel Mesozoic batholithic complexes in California and western cross-sections and map and the discussion about oil and gas Nevada, by J. F. Evernden and R. W. Kistler $1.25 seeps near ktaBarbara. because they do not pertain to the Channel Islands, could have been published separately. PROFESSIONAL PAPER 624: Geology and coal resources of the Cumberland. Hobart. and Maple Valley quadrangles, King One of the most interesting papers in the volume is by D. L. County, Washington. by J. D. Vine 02.00 Johnson on San Miguel beachrock. Johnson describes Quaternary beach materials which have become carbonate-cemented by sub PROFESSIONAL PAPER 643-A: Species of Aquilapolleni~es aerial diagenesis as a result of relative lowering of sea level. and Fibdapollis from two Upper Cretaceous localities in Beachmck may be formingtoday from carbonate-saturated ground- Alaska; by B. D. Tschundy $1.00 water. The intriguing feature of Johnson's paper is the description of the conversion of a transgressive sand to sandstone prior to PROFESSIONAL PAPER 643;B: Nonmarine ostracodes of Early burial. The beachrock formation process may be important in the Cretaceous age from Pine Valley quadrangle, Nevada, by forpation of shallow marine transgressive sandstones such as I. G. Sohn 35Q the Vaqueros of the Santa Barbara coast and the "Schist- conglomerate" of the Los Angeles basin. Beachrock is rather PROFESSIONAL PAPER 643-D: Some Jurassic ammonites from common in tropical regions (West Indies, Mediterranean, Indian central Saudi Arabia, by R. W. Imlay 55Q Ocean, etc.); Johnson's paper includes several references to studies elsewhere in the world. This problem deserves more PROFESSIONAL PAPER 643-F: Two new pollen genera (Late study by petroleum geologists. Cretaceous and Paleocene) with possible affiity to the In summary, .the Weaver volume does, for the most pa*, an Illiciaceae, by R. H. Tschudy 50Q excellent job presenting the surface geology, biostratigraphy. PROFESSIONAL PAPER 647-A: Structural and stratigraphic and paleoecology of the three large Channel Islands. andit is certainly now the standard reference work on the area. The significance of the Buchia zones in the Colyear Springs - interpretations are, unfortunately, diminished in value because Paskenta area. Calif., by D. L. Jones. E. H. Bailey and of the author's limited references to the literature. Fortunately, R. W. Irnlay 556 the data are presented in such a way that the reader may do his own interpretation, which speaks well for the paper as a refer- PROFESSIONAL PAPER 648: Vegetation of Amchitka Island, ence work. The questions raised about Weaver's handling of Aleutian Islands, Alaska, by H. T. Shacklette and others $1.00 he data could not have been raised unless the data had first BULLETIN 1271-F: Geologic interpretation of reconnaissance aeen published. The material presented here will add important aeromagnetic survey of northwasteti Alaska, by W. P. Brosge, insight to the tectonic syntheses about coastal California that are proliferating at the present time. The Pacific Sections of E. E. Brabb, and E. R. King $3.25 AAPG and SEPM are to be commended for their sponsorship BULLETIN 1288: Surficial geology of Mount Rainier National and fmncial support of this publication. Park, Wash., by D. R. Crandell $1.25 ROBERT S. YEATS Athens, Ohio MAPS: GQ 820: Geologic map of the Unionville quadrangle, Pershing County, Nev., by R. E. Wallace. D. B. Tatlock. N. J. Silber- PERSONALS ling..W. P. kwiil $1.00 RUFUS E. COOK has joined the Roy M. Huffiigton Inc. GQ 821: Geologic map of the Buffalo Mountain quadrangle. Oil Co. of Houston Texas, after 20 years as a geologist wi.& Pemhing and Chmchill Counties, Nev., by R. E. Wallace. Standard bf Calif. He served in Iran with Standard from 1x7 N. J. Silberling. W. P. Irwin and D: B. Tatlock $1.00 to 1965 and is now serving Hufflngton as a geologist inl Pelane- bang, Sumatra for two years. GP 680: Aeromagnetic map of parts of the Kramer and Boron Pacific Section SEPM Best Paper Award to AUGUSTUS quadrangles, southeastern Calif. 50Q K. AlWSTRONG of USGS, Menlo Park. California for: OPEN FILED REPORTS (Inspection only) 1 Foraminifera and Rugose Coral Zones of the Mississippian- '- - Bedrock-surface map of central San Francisco Bay by Paul R. - Pennsylvanian Lisburne Group, Brooks Range, Artic Alaska. , -w Carlson and David S. McCulloch. 1 sheet, scale approx. 5 '7 SAGE OIL COMPANY,' INC. is pleased to announce their 4" equal 1 mile. I new Executive Office at 3243 Wilshire Boulevard. Los Angeles, California 90005. Preliminary geologic map of the Point Dume quadrangle. Los Angeles County, ~alif.,'byR. H. Campbell, B. A. Backerby, SPA members got a real surprise when Art Hawley appeared at a weekly Wednesday luncheon at Scheidel's. Art's future en- R. F. Yerkes. J. E. Schoellhamer, P. W. Birkeland, andG. M. deavors are uncertain at this time. 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REGISTRATION NO. 1 AB 2464 (SIEIOTY AND WAREWN) Oil and Gas: Sanctuary. Prescribes limitation on the leasing, cooperative development, or operation of tide and submerged lands for the conduct of any oil and gas development or extraction within certain areas of Los Angeles County. Received an amend and do pass recom- mendation from Assembly Natural Resources and conservation. Approved by Assembly Ways and Means. Passed by Assembly 6/27. Approved by Senate Governmental Organization. Set in Senate Finance for 8/18. SB 949 (LAGOMARSINO) Protection of Ocean Resources. Re- quires Resources Agency to contract for study of oil leaks in Santa Barbara Channel, as specified. Approved by Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife and by Senate Finance. Passed by Senate July 27. Received an amend and do pass recommen- dation from Assembly Natural Resources and Conservation. Approved by Assembly Ways and Means, awaits vote on Ass- embly Floor.

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Mr. Wesley G. "Wes" Bruer (left), a Pacific Section A.A.P.G. member received the Number 1 Certificate for California Registered Geologist from Assemblyman William M. Ketchum (center). Mr. Wilfred-W. Peak (right) is President of the State Board of Registration for Geologists. Mr. Bruer is Chief Geologist for California, a member of Pacific Section A.A.P.G. and National A.A.P.G., a charter member of A.I.P.G. and was very active in writing the Geo- logists Act. Assemblyman Ketchum of Paso Robles and representative of the 29th Assembly District sponsored the Geologists Act through the State Legislature. The Act became effective July 1, 1970. It is now illegal to sign a geologic report in California unless you are a Registered Geologist.

NEW LEGISLATION INTRODUCED

AJ3 1587 (IMcCABTHY) Oil Depletion Allowance. Limits deduc- tion for depletion of oil and gas wells to give times the adjusted San Joaquin Geological Society has elected new officers for cost of the taxpayer's interest in such property. Under submis- term 1970-71. sion in Assembly Revenue and Taxation. Left to right, back row: Leon J. Earnest, treasurer; John A. AB 1600 (BRATHWAITE) Discrimination. Makes every person Carver, Pacific Section Representative; Bruce Robinson, Jr., secretary. licensed under the Business and Professions Code subject to disciplinary action if he refuses to perform his licensed activity Front row: George H. Webb, president; Harry R. Feder, Vice because of race, color, religion, ancestry, or national origin. president. Approved by Assembly Commerce and Public Utilities. Held in Assembly Ways and Means. AB 1664 (BAGLEY) Tideland Grants. Suspends for one year the effectiveness of provision requiring State Lands Commission PATTERSON MEiMORlAb FUND to survey a plat and a metes and bomds description of various tidelands granted by legislative enactment within two years The progress of the BOB PATTERSON Memorial Fund as of following effective date of the act. Under submission in June 22nd has been good, but additional contributions are Assembly Natural Resources and Conservation. requested. Maria Morris reports a total balance.of $585.00. Page 2 NOON LECTURE SERIES - USC All lectures are given in Room 100, Science Lecture Hall immediately east of the Geology "barracks" and offices. JOHN F. CURRAN ...... PRESIDENT ARTHUR 0. SPAULDING ...... VICE PRESIDENT October 6 Mr. Frank Hess, Dept. of Geol. Sci. - USC VINCENT F. SCURY ...... SECRETARY "Rare Earth Element content of Red Sea Geo- MARIE J. CLARK ...... TREASURER thermal Deposits" J. DOUGLAS TRAXLER .-...... PAST PRESIDENT PETER J. FISCHER ...... 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Box 17486, Foy Station Reducing Environment" Los Angeles, California 90017 MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATION and requests tor missed copies should be addressed to: SEISMIC INTERPRETATION TECHNIQUES PETER J. FISCHER, Department of Geology Whittier College, Whittier, California 90608 S.E.G. Symposium, October 20th & 21st LOCATION: Casa Royale, 251 S. Union Ave.. Bakersfield, California 93307. SCIENCE EDITOR ...... BENNIE W. TROXEL Emphasis will be placed upon California Geology and SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ...... LUCY BIRDSALL Seismic data with latest techniques in both processing and CORRESPONDENTS Interpretation. ALASKA ...... GENE TRIPP COAST ...... HOMAS K. BJORKLAND REGISTRATION: 9:00 A.M., Tuesday, October 20th. LOS ANGELES ...... DENNIS R. WILEY Topics during Tuesdays sessions will include dip effects NORTHWEST ...... GERALD W. THORSEN on velocity determinations, migration stack, diffraction CO ...... CHAR theory. vibroseis and lithologic interpretation, among others...... -...... 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The field trip June 5, 1970. 308 delicious steak dinners were sewed. 80 guidebook will ipclude road logs and geological information people stood amazed at San Miguelito amphitheater on the for the three highways leading from Ensenada northward to field trip and 149 golfers toured the links. San Diego. It is hoped that at least some of the points of interest along these routes can be manned by geologists Bob Lindblom andLane Howell tied for first place in the familiar with the local problems to guide participants re- Golf Tournament with gross scores of 76. turning northward independently on Sunday. The influence of several landman and petroleum engineer Persons not members of the Pacific Section of AAPG. guests was much in evidence is the prodigious quantity of of SEG, or SEPM, please write to Allison for pre-registration alcoholic beverage consumed. The count was 2373 cans of forms (immediately) which will be required for field trip beer not including that sewed on the fieldtrip. participation. There are several individuals who sewed at busy behind- Ned Allison, Dept. Geology the-scenes tasks other than the Chairmen of the three events San Diego State College San Diego, Calif. 92115 - Cont'd on back page PUBLICATIONS Page 3 Pacific Sec :tion, A.A.P.G. & Affiliated Societies GUIDEBOOKS CROSS SECTIONS ($2.00, each)

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Geol. of the North Channel Islands and Santa Maria Basin (1 sheet) 1959. From Southern California Borderlands (AAPG- ~llN/R34Wto T5N/R34W. SEPM) 1969. Sacramento Valley-North-South (1 sheet) Geol. and Oilfields of Coastal Areas, 1960. From T29N/R2W to T3N/R2E. Yentura and the Los Angeles Basins, Los Angeles Basin (1 sheet) 1962. From California (AAPG) 1969. T15S/R15W to T8S/RlOW, SBB6.M. Spring Field Trip, Tehachapi Mountains Sacramento Valley-Central (1 sheet) 1967. Crossing of California Aqueduct (AAPG) From T4N/RlW thru T4N/R7E. 1968. Sacramento Valley-Northerq San Joaquin (1 Field Trip Guide to Santa Rosa Island sheet) 1967. From TJS/R~OEthtu TBNIR~E. (AAPG-SEPM) 1968. San Joaquin Valley Kingsburg-Tejon Hills Field Trip Guide to the Fillmore Areas (1 sheet) 1969. From T16S/R26E thru (AAPG) 1969. (Sespe Creek) ~11~1~18~. Guidebook to the Southeastern Rim of SAN ANDREAS FAULT-CROSS SECTIONS 1964 the Los Angelea Basin (AAPG-SEPM-SEG) (SA 1-10 $6.00) (SA 1-11 $9.00) 1970. $ 4.00 SA 1. Pacific Ocean to Gulf of Farallones $ 2.00 Spring Field Trip, Ventura Avenue and SA 2. Gulf of the Farallonee to Biel- Sen Mimelito Oil Fields (AAPG) 1970. $ 2.00 waski Mountain $ 2.00 REPRODUCED GUIDEBOOKS SA 3. Bielwaski Mt. to Hollister $ 2.00 GB 1-A. Guidebook to Gaviota Pass Refugio Pass SA 4. Hollister to Bgtterwater Valley $ 2.00 $ 1.00 SA 5. Bitterwater Valley to Parkfield $ 2.00 I GB 2-A. Field Trip Guide to Ventura and San SA 6. Parkfield to ~odi~ake I Miguelito Fields (AAPG-SEPM-AIME) 1956. SA 7. Soda Lake to Santiago Creek I GB 2-B. Spring Field Trip, Huasna Basin. San SA 8. Santiago Creek to Sawmill Mt. Luis Obispo County (AAPG-SEPM) 1956. SA 9. Sawmill Mt. to Valyermo I GB 2-C. Guidebook, hico Martinez Creek Area SA 10. Valyermo to Mexican Border (SJGS) 1959. SA 11. San Andreas Composite Cross GB 3-A. Spring Field Trip, Panoche Hills Section Summery of SA 1 thru (SEPM) 1960. SA 10 on one section GB 3-B. Spring Field Trip, Geol. and Paleon- MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS tology of the Southern Border of the EPP 1. San Andreas Fault Bibliography San Joaquin Valley (AAPG-SEPM-SEG-SJGS) (AAPG) 1962. 1961. MP 3. Selected Papers Presented to the GB 3-C. Guidebook to Geol. of Carrizo Plains and San Joaquin Geol. Society Vo1.2, Sen Andreas Fault (AAPG-SEPM-SJGS) 1962. 1964. GB 3-D. Spring Field Trip. Devil's Canyon Area MP 4. Selected Papers 'Presented to the (MG-SEPM) 1963. San Joaquin Geol. Society Vol. 3, GB 3-E. Guidebook to the San Andreas Fault Zone 1965. from the Temblor Mountains to Antelope MP 8. A Symposium of Papers Presented Valley Southern California (AAPG-SEPM- at the 40th Pacific Section AAPG SJGS) 1964. Convention (AAPG) 1965. GB 4-A. Guidebook to Western Santa Ynez Moun- MP 11. Proceedings of North Slope Seminar tains (CGS-SEPM) 1965. (AAPG) 1970, Palo Alto, California GB 4-B. Guidebook to Placerita Area (AAPG) DIRECTORY 1965. D 1. Directory Binder 64 8-A. Spring Field Trip, Santa Sueam Mountains (AAPG) 1966. 1967 Convention Field Trips GB 9-B. Pliocene Seaknoll, South Mountain, ORDER FORM Ventura County $ 2.25 GB 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 GB 9-D. Stem Injection-Wilmington Oil Field $ .50 GB 1-A 2-A 2-B 2-C 3-A 3-B 3-C 3-D 3-E 4-A 4-B GB 9-8. Whittier Oil Field, Northeast Los 8-A 9-B 9-D 9-E 9-G 9-H 9-1 9-J 9-K 9-L Angeles Basin $ .75 CS 6 7 8 9 10N 10s 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 GB 9-G. Central Santa Monica Mountains Strati- SA1234567891011 graphy and Structure $ 1.25 MP134811 GB 9-H. Structural Complexities, Eastern D 12 Ventura Basin $ 2.00 GB 9-1. Loa Angeles to Death Valley $ 2.50 Name GB 9-J. Santa Catalina Island $ 2.00 Address GB 9-K. Hall Canyon and Wheeler Canyon $ 1.50 GB 9-L. Underwater ri-ld Trip $ 3.50 w8/5/70 Checks Payable to: Publications Committee, Pacific Section AAPG C/O Donald E. Hallinger, 720 West Eighth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90017 that I would like to acknowledge. Art Bull from Union Oil Service, Burns Geological Exploration Inc.. Byron Jackson Co. prepared an elaborate contributors acknowledgement Inc., California Production Service, Core Laboratories Inc., plaque using the donors trademarks. A lot of effort was re- Deep Oil Technology Incorporated, Dresser Atlas, Dresser quired. Hugh Platt with Phillips, Jack Cooper with Conoco Magcobar, Drilling Control Corp.. Elkins Ranch Company. and Buzz Welch with Sun Oil Company sold barbeque tickets, Exploration Logging Inc., General Oceanographics, Inc., field trip tickets and guidebooks. Don Padick, Pacific Well Geologic Engineering Service, Inc., Geophysical Service Logging, although mortally wounded, manned the breach Inc., Global Directional Services. Grover Collins Inc., at the golf table for hours. As a football player, he's a fine Hoven & Co. Inc., IMC Drilling Mud. Julian Well Logging ticket salesman. Lane Howell, Tenneco and Pat Ames. Service, MercuryChristensen Co., Munger Oil Information Conoco aided in scoring the tournament. Without their aid Service, Inc., O'Meara and Rogers Construction Corp., Charley Elliott wouldn't be through yet. It paid off for Lane Pacific Log Exchange, Inc., Petty Geophysical, Reese since he won half of first place. He slipped up somewhere. Sales Co.. Republic Supply Co. of California. Rotor-Aids The function would not have been possible. at the nomi- Inc., Schlumberger Well Services (plus Offshore) Shaffer nal fee, without the generosity of 40 contributors (listed below) Tool Works, R. F. Smith Corp., Sperry-Sun Well Surveying who granted $1.067.50 toward the function. Co., Thompson Drilling Company, United Directional Services, United Geophysical Co., Vetco Offshore PACIFIC SECTION 1970 A.A.P.G. SPRING PICNIC Industries, Inc., Welex, Western Geophysical Co. of CONTRIBUTORS: America, Western Offshore Drilling Exploration Co. Peter Bawden Drilling Co., Borst and Giddens Logging OUR THANKS TO ONE AND ALL! PERSONAL ITEMS JOE LE CONTE - Arco's foremost sea-sampler did just that WAYNE and NANCIE ELLIOTT are off to Europe for six this summer in the Gulf of Alaska, when it wasn't blowing weeks. They returned from a trip to Mexico not too long too hard. ago. Wayne "retired" from Arco in June. He now is a RAY PEARSON, ex-Arco district geologist, has opened an consulting paleontologist when he isn't on the golf course office in Long Beach for Tiger Oil Company. or travelling. STAN CONRAD, ex-Arco district geologist in Midland has LES BROCKETT. District Geologist North Slope for Arco left the dust of Midland for the rare air of Denver and joined and family vacationed "out" in Hawaii and California. Gryusberg and Associates. WALTER WINFREY, Division Exploration Manager in WALT RECORD, V-P of Iricon Agency, was here from London Bakersfield for Shell has left California for a similar long enough to give lovely daughter Terry away in marriage. assignment in the lush verdant Midland area. Rod Crosses' many friends wish him a speedy recovery from JIM JACKSON, Area Manager for Shell in Los Angeles is quite a bout with pneumonia. currently operating from Houston, Texas. However, Jim now W.W. (BILL) RAND and bride have left Santa Barbara for "owns" most of the western U.S. rather than just the residence in the Bay area. Congratulations Bill. Pacific coast. SPENCE FINE, ex-Arco Sydney, Australia has opened an office for Texfel Pacific Gorp. in Singapore. Most recent HAL CLIFFORD, DON COLLINS and CONRAD HOWARD, visitor was Tom Rothwell, ex-Arco Paleontologist now all from Shell's "deceased" Bakersfield office are now consultant. ED GRIBI has been working- out of Sinea~ore-. happily working in Shell's downtown Los Angeles office. for Gulf and Western. ,

PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST PACIFIC SECTION, A.A. P.G. P.O. BOX 17486, FOY STATION LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017 PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST

1 NEWS LETTER OF THE PACIFIC SECTION 1 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS

Volume 24 NOVEMBER, 1970 Number 7

ARCTIC GEOLOG rancisco, California FEBRUARY 1-4, 1971 1 SAN FRANCISCO HILTON HOTEL HOUSEOFDELEGATESOFTHE AAPG The Second International Symposium on Arctic The House of Delegates is a newly created legis- Geology will be held in San Francisco on February 1-4, lative group elected from each of the geological socie- 1971. This important and timely meeting is being spon- ties which are affiliated with the AAPG. The House was sored by the Pacific Section of AAPG, SEG and SEPM created July 1 this year under a new constitution and and hosted by the Northern California Geologic Society. by-laws of the Association. The symposium will be held at the downtown San Elected chairman of the House of Delegates is Dr. Francisco Hilton Hotel and will have for its theme George R. Gibson of Midland, Texas, an independent "THE INTEGRATION OF THE REGIONAL GEOLOGY geological consultant. "This gives the AAPG member- OF THE ARCTIC PROVINCES." Important papers en- ship a new, top-level voice in the governing affairs of compassing geology, biostratigraphy, geophysics, engi- the Association," Dr. Gibson said. As chairman, he is neering geology and economics will be presented by a voting member of the AAPG Executive Committee and numerous prominent international authorities. Coverage presents the legislation passed on by the delegates. of the arctic regions of the Soviet Union, Alaska, Canada, The House of Delegates will hold its first official Greenland, Iceland and the Scandinavian countries will meeting in conjunction with the AAPG 56th annual con- be included in this program. vention in Houston, Texas, March 29-31. The AAPG has Papers concerning regional geologic relationships 15,000 members and is the world's largest professional will be presented during each of the morning sessions of geological association. this four-day conference. There will be no schedule con- flicts, and auditorium facilities at the hotel will allow PAC1 FIC SECTION DELEGATES ample seating for everyone attending. In the afternoon sessions, Special Topics dealing with exploration, bio- ALASKA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Charles E. Kirschner, stratigraphy, geophysics, geologic engineering and eco- Anchorage, Alaska; Marvin D. Mangus, Anchorage, Alaska. nomics will be discussed. The SEG will hold separate COAST GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Richard B. Haines, afternoon sessions on February 3rd and 4th. Ventura, California; James C. Taylor, Ventura, California. Two field trips in the Bay Area are being tentatively organized, the details of these will be announced later. LOS ANGELES BASIN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Ted L. Bear, Recording Secretary, Los Angeles, California; John A "no-host" Ice Breaker cocktail party will be held A. Fonnan, Los Angeles, Calif.; Donn S. Gorsline, Los on Sunday night from 7:OO-9:00 P.M. on the Ballroom Angeles, Calif.; William C. Gussow, Fullerton, Calif.; level of the Hilton Hotel. There will be a ladies' hospi- Gerald H. Rickels, Los Angeles, Calif.; George H. Rud- tality room open throughout the four-day period. kin, Los Angeles, Calif.; Thomas L. Wright, Fullerton, Modern and sophisticated scientific equipment will Calif. be on display by industry exhibitors on the Ballroom level. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Since this symposium is one of the most important Edward C. Doell, San Francisco, Calif.; John C. Maher, Menlo Park, Calif.; Gordon B. Oakeshott, Sacramento, functions ever sponsored by the Pacific Section of the Calif. AAPG, SEG and SEPM, it is being held in lieu of the regular Spring Convention. There will be no Pacific SACRAMENTO PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION: Charles Section business meeting; however, the Annual Awards H. Breitsprecher, Sacramento, Calif. Luncheon will be held, as will the traditional President's SAN JOAQUIN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Robert C. Cocktail Party. A pre-convention "Flyer" and hotel Blaisdell, Oildale, Calif.; Leon J. Earnest, Oildale, reservation forms will be mailed very soon to members Calif. of the AAPG, SEG and SEPM. Page 2 'I 2) The proposed 1970-71 Pacific Section budget for EXECUTNE COMMITTEE PACIFIC SECTION AMERICAN ASSOC. OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS operations is: JOHN F. CURRAN ...... PRESIDENT Income ARTHUR 0. SPAULDING ...... VICE PRESIDENT VINCENT F. SCURY ...... SECRETARY Dues ...... $6,600 MARIE J. CLARK ...... TREASURER J. DOUGLAS TRAXLER ...... PAST PRESIDENT Interest ...... 300 PETER J. FISCHER ...... EDITOR Mallory Account ...... 225 TOM W. REDIN ...... LOS ANGELES DELEGATE JOHN A. CARVER SAN JOAQUIN DELEGATE $7,125 ROBERT J. LANTZ ...... N. CALIF. DELEGATE DANA B. BRAISLIN ...... NORTHWEST DELEGATE Expenditures D. E. RIT ZIUS ...... COASTAL DELEGATE VERN C. TONES ...... SACRAMENTO DELEGATE Association Business* ...... $2,160 DEAN L. MORGRIDGE ALASKA DELEGATE Newsletter (10-issue) ...... 2,200 PACIFIC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST Distribution to Local Societies .... 2,600 Published monthly by the PACIFIC SECTION AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST. ' $6,960 CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Subscr~pt~onand membership In- qlurles should be addressed to: Anticipated Surplus ...... $ 165 MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY, Pacific Section AAPG (*All-Section mailings and ballots, Membership P.O. Box 17486, Foy Statlon Los Angeles, Calltomla 90017 Secretary, insurance, legislative representative, MATERIAL FOR PUBLI'CATION and requests for mlssed stationery, telephone, etc.) coples should be addressed to: PETER J. FISCHER. Department of Geology 3) The Treasurer will notify each local society of its Whlttler College, Whltt~er.Califomla 90608 annual allocation (based on its area's Section membership on January 1) and, quarterly, its unexpended 1 EDITOR ...... PETER J. FLSCHER ASSISTANT EDITOR ...... KEITH E. GREEN balance. SCIENCE EDITOR ...... BENNIE W. TROXEL I SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ...... LUCY BIRDSALL CORRESPONDENTS BANDY SEPM PRESIDENT ALASKA ...... GENE TRIPP COAST ...... 0 K. BJORKLAND ORVILLE L. BANDY, Chairman and Professor of LOS ANGELES ...... DENR. WILEY NORTHWEST ...... GERALD W. THORSEN Geological Sciences at the University of Southern Cali- SACRAMENTO fornia, Los Angeles, has been elected President of the SAN FRANCISCO ...... CHARLES M. CROSS SAN JOAQUIN ...... ROD NAHANIA Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY ...... JUDY HUGHES ORVILLE BANDY was born in Linden, Iowa, on December issue deadline: November 20th March 31, 1917. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Oregon State University, and in 1948 a Ph. D. from PACIFIC SECT1QN Indiana University. From 1948 to the present he has BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE taught at the University of Southern California, advanc- ing from assistant professor to professor and chairman The Pacific Section Executive Committee has of the geology department. established a Budget and Finance Committee composed of several past Section Treasurers and the present Trea- Dr. Bandy has published extensively in the fields surer and Publications Chairman to provide continuity of of micropaleontology, paleoecology, and foraminifera1 Section financial procedures, recommend the annual bud- ecology. He has been an active member of the SEPM get, and periodically review Section financial operations. since 1946, and has served as a member of the nominat- Committee members are J. W. Bedford, W. R. Brown, Marie ing committee and the publications committee. Addition- Clark, D. E. Hallinger, and T. L. Wright (Chairman). The ally, he has served two three-year terms on the Society's Committee met on July 23, and its report was accepted Research Committee acting as Chairman for the year by the Executive Committee on July 29. A summary of 1966-1967. In this capacity he prepared and was respon- that report follows: sible for the Research Symposium entitled, "Radiometric dating and paleontological correlation," which was pre- 1) Pacific Section finances involve three distinct cate- sented at the Los Angeles, 1967, Annual Meeting of the gories Section operations, publications, and the - SEPM. He was one of the SEPM Councilors in 1963-1964 annual convention - and the accounts for these should and served as Vice-President of the Society for the be maintained separately. Transfers between funds 1969-1970 term. will require approval of the Executive Committee. The Publications Fund has already been established and is functioning smoothly; it will handle Directory SLATE OF OFFICERS FOR 1971 FOR THE LO9 financing and sales. Financial aspects of each pro- ANGELES BASIN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY posed publication should be reviewed by a Publica- tions Committee which would include the Section The offices of President and Vice President - Program Treasurer. Chairman: Orville Hart of Standard Oil and Fletcher The Pacific Section's share ($3,690) of the 1970 McCutcheon of Texaco. Convention surplus shouldbe placed in a separate Highest vote count will be President, runner up Vice savings account as a reserve and drawing account President. for future conventions. For Treasurer: Bob Wagner of Mobil Oil and Bill The existing checking and savings accounts provide Wendall of Union Oil. the Operating Fund from which routine Section For Secretary: Ed Berg of Humble Oil and Jim operations are paid. Schroeder of Standard Oil. Paae 3 Nominations for Delegates to the National AAPG ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BlNNER DANCE "House of Delegates" are: Lowell Redwine of Union Oil, Orville Bandy of U.S.C. and Dave Shoemaker of The Los Angeles Basin Geological Society Annual Shell. Holiday Dinner Dance will be held on SATURDAY, The three alternates are Don Sutton of Standard, NOVEMBER 21, 1970. (NOTE: Corrected Date) Jim Maytum of Texaco and Howard Kinzey of Shell. PLACE: Aboard the S.S. Princess Louise, Berth Ballots will be mailed to all L.A. Basin Society 236, Terminal Island members during the month of November. Cocktails: 7:30 P.M., Donated by Service Companies Dinner: 8:30 P.M., Brochette of Beef CALENDAR Dancing: 9:30 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. - To the Music of Deadline for the DECEMBER issue will be November 20th. the "Tunetimers" Price: $18.0b per Couple (NOTE: Please submit your Calendar Items as far in Tickets: Contact Mr. J. S. Isom, c/o Humble Oil advance as possible. For early publication and noti- & Refining Company, 1800 Avenue of the fication a projected schedule would be desirable.-Ed. ) Stars, Los Angeles, California 90067 The next meeting of the Los Angeles Basin Geolo- Phone: 879-2700 gical Society will be Wednesday, November 18, 1970 at Group Reservations: For groups of PO, table the Standard Northam Station, La Mirada. DIRECTIONS: reser-~ationsare available. Take Santa Ana Freeway to Valley View, North to Although mailed invitations will be sent only to Los Alondra, East 3/4 mile to park. Social hour is until Angeles Basin Geological Society and SEG members, 6:30 P.M. (free beer) and dinner at 7:00 P.M. - $4.00. we sincerely invite all AAPG, SEG and SEPM members, The program consists of a presentation by Dr. Floyd wives and friends to attend. The beautiful harbor atmos- Sabins of Chevron Research Company on "Remote phere for this occasion should be stimulating and excit- Sensing" and reservations may bemade by calling ing to all. Let's comeand make it a successful event. Orville Hart, Standard Oil Company, 691-2251, Ext. 293 before 10:OO A.M., November 12, 1970.

- WANTED: CONTRIBUTORS!!! - SOUTHERN CALI FBRNIA - BAJA TECTONICS - AT WHITTIER COLLEGE - DISASTER RELIEF NEEDED November 9, 8 PM A fellow member and consulting geologist, located Dr. Robert S. Yeats will discuss the tectonic evo- in Malibu, lost all his maps, records, logs, files, books, lution of the Southern California - Baja region in Room (25 years of work) etc. in the recent fire. If you have any 102 of the Stauffer Science Center Monday evening, duplicate maps, pubs., books, logs, etc. that are taking November 9th at 8 P.M. The public is invited. (The Science Center is located on Earlham Drive just east up needed filing space - here's your chance to help of Painter in Whittier.) another and yourself as well. All contributions gratefully received. Please ship collect to: FREDERICK L. NOON LECTURE SERIES - USC STEAD, 23901 Malibu Knolls Rd., Malibu, Ca. 90265. All lectures aregiven in Room 100, Science Lecture Hall immediately east of the Geology "barracks" and offices. HARDTOTOPDEPARTMENT- NOVEMBER 10 Dr. DavidCummings, Dept. of Geology, Occidental The new firm of Hazzard, Morris & Associates, College - Lunar Stratigraphy: Principles and Problems petroleum and mineral consultants, represents a combined total of 100 years experience in our profession!!! A NOVEMBER 17 mightly enviable record. The three partners (John C. Prof. James A. Edinger, Dept. of Meteorology, Hazzard, A. E. L. "Tony" Morris and Stanley G. Wissler) UCLA - Vertical oxidant distribution over the Los most definitely qualify as world travelers since all three Angeles Basin - Studies on Air Pollution have spent a good portion of their L'company" years working (?) in almost every part of the world. The NOVEMBER 24 address for the firm is Suite 515 Petroleum Building, Dr. John D. Bukry, USGS., La Jolla - Calcareous 714 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 90015 Nannoplankton and the Deep Sea Drilling Project and the phone number is 749-5309. DECEMBER 1 Dr. Lorence Collins, Dept. of Geology, San Fernando State College - Metasomatic Origin of JOHN KOCH, Socal, Anchorage, in early October Magnetite Deposits in New York and New Jersey married ex-ARC0 exploration secretary Rita Watton at Lincoln, Nebraska. Family prospects are brighter and DECEMBER 3 (Thursday) more rewarding than others, he reports. Dr. Tanya Atwater, Dept. of Geophysics, Stanford University - Random Topics in Plate Tectonics

DECEMBER 8 Time: Saturday Evening, Nov. 21 st Dr. John Suppe, Dept. of Geology, UCLA - - Note Correction - Ed. Franciscan Tectonics Page 4 PAClFlC SECTION MEMBERS OF PRlNClPAL GORDON OAKESHOTT APPOINTMENT STANDING AND The Joint Committee on Seismic Safety of the SPECIAL COMMITTEES OF THE AAPG California Legislature announced this week that Gordon ALASKA B. Oakeshott has accepted appointment as Vice Chair- man of the Committee's Advisory Group on Engineering ANCHORAGE: Richard E. Church, Stratigraphic Considerations and Earthquake Sciences. He is presently Correlations Committee; William C. Penttila, Boy Scout serving as the group's ActingChairman in the absence Committee. of Karl V. Steinbrugge. COLLEGE: Frederick F. Wright, Marine Geology Committee. Gordon B. Oakeshott isDeputy Chief of the Calif. State Division of Mines and Geology and has been with CALI FORNIA the Division since 1948. A Phi Beta Kappa from the BAKERSFIELD: William F. Edmondson, Member- University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Oakeshott is ship Committee. a member and past officer of several professional BREA: Edward W. Scott, Research Ccgnmittee. societies. He has written over fifty significant papers FULLERTON: Thomas L. Wright, Environmental on the California geological environment and is the author of a recently published book, CALIFORNIA'S Geology Committee. CHANGING LANDSCAPES - - A GUIDE TO THE LA HABRA: Donald Asquith, Field Trip Research GEOLOGY OF THE STATE. & Coordination Committee; Robert R. Knapp, Committee on Statistics of Drilling; John E. McCall, Research The 74 Advisory Group members to the Joint Com- Committee. mittee were picked from California's leading experts LA JOLLA: Joseph R. Curray, Marine Geology in fields concerned with seismic effects. The Joint Committee; Elizabeth Lee Gealy, Marine Geology Committee, chaired by State Senator Alfred E. Alquist Committee; Leo R. Newfarmer, Research Committee. (San Jose) and Vice Chairman Assemblyman James A. Hayes (Long Beach), has the task of organizing exist- LONG BEACH: Stanley G. Wissler, Chairman, ing information on earthquake hazards and recommending AAPG Commissioners or; the American Commission methods to improve disaster and recovery operations. on Stratigraphic Nomenclature. LOS ANGELES: Ray A. Burke, Industrial Advisory Committee; Rollin Eckis, Industrial Advisory Commit- BETTERS TO THE EDITOR tee; DOM Gorsline, Research Committee; John R. Dear Editor: McMillan, Industrial Advisory Committee; Anthony E. On a recent oceanographic trip to Greece and the ad- L. Morris, Publication Committee; Arthur 0. Spaulding, jacent of the Mediterranean Sea, I retrieved a Environmental Geology Committee. marble tablet from 68 fathoms of water off the island of MENLO PARK: Gene A. Rusnak, Marine Geology Zakynthos. On it was inscribed the following proof that Committee; Irvin L. Tailleur, Stratigraphic Correlations not only 1 = 1, but that 2 = 1 also: Committee; Holly C. Wagner, Stratigraphic Correlations Committee. PIEDMONT: J. Donald Weir, AAPG Representa- tives to American Geological Institute House of Representatives. SACRAMENTO: Gordon Oakeshott, Chairman, Dis- tinguished Lecture Committee. SAN FRANCISCO: Ian Campbell, Continuing Edu- cation Committee and Committee on the Preservation It seems incredible, but these ancients appear to have of Samples and Cores; Lawrence W. Funkhouser, In- proved us wrong all these years. What do you think? dustrial Advisory Committee; Peter W. Gester, Indus- Fraternally, trial Advisory Committee. /s/ SAN MARINO: A. Theodore Lee, Committee on the Jean B. Senteur de Boue Preservation of Samples and Cores. Ingenieur Geologue SANTA BARBARA: Laurence Brundall, Research Member Charteur, PacSec AAPG Committee; Donald W. Weaver, Environmental Geology One's first thought may be that Monsieur de Boue re- Committee. turned too rapidly from the 68 fathoms; however, such SARATOGA: R. Maurice Tripp, Chairman, Boy facetious thoughts must be quelled as careful examination Scout Committee. of the mathematics by those conversant with the "new STANFORD: Richard H. Jahns, Industrial Advisory math'' indicates the ancients to be correct. Any additional comment will be appreciated, but please reply in the ex- Committee. emplary scientific precedent established. STUDIO CITY: John C. Hazzard, Chairman, AAPG Representatives to the American Geological Institute House of Representatives. TARZANA: Andrew G. Alpha, Academic Advisory Commit tee. ARCTIC GEOLOGY VAN NUYS: Robert R. Knapp, Membership Com- SPONSORS: Pacific Sections AAPG, SEG, SEPM mittee and Stratigraphic Correlations Committee. DATES: February 1-4, 1971 WHITTIER: John E. Sherborne, Academic Advisory Committee. Page 5 Dick is a panel member of the Geochemical Ocean COLLEGE CORNER Section Studies (GEOSECS, or as it is more familiarly During the next nine months the PPG will attempt known, GEOSEX) project initiated in 1969. His current to give equal billing to the "geology" departments of research interest is the geochemistry and diagenesis of Pacific Coast colleges and universities. We are solicit- mid-ocean ridge sediments, in cooperation with Jim ing contributions from all Pacific Coast geology depart- Bischoff, and trace element distribution in seawater ments. Send your department's "news release" to the and particulate matter. editor - on a first come, first published basis. RICHARD 0. STONE: Dick continutes to teach Geomorphology, Pleisto- U.S.C. - DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES cene and Deserts, several undergraduate non-major Last year the Association of American Universities courses, and is involved in a number of research pro- - the most esteemed organization of academic institu- jects. The largest of the research studies involves tions - elected U.S.C. to membership. Of the 1,647 examination of subaerial and subaqueous ripple marks four-year educational institutions in the United States, for the Office of Naval Research. Dick is now heading only 46 are members of the Association of American the National A.G.I. Education Committee, which is a Universities. Included are such institutions as Harvard, monumental task in itself. Dick was also our S.C. Yale, Columbia, California, Berkeley, University of correspondent for this preliminary effort to bring industry Chicago, Stanford and Princeton. and the colleges more closely together. During the past two years the department has nearly LEON TA-LIANG TENG: doubled its number of faculty. Although the "new" Working together, Leon and Tom Henyey, will building has not materialized (yet) a completely reno- install the first modern seismological station on the vated 1st floor and basement of the "old Science Hall" U.S.C. campus. Such a station will be very important in will soon house the former "Barracks-staff" and the monitoring local earthquakes in the Los Angeles Basin departmental offices. area where earthquake hazards are well-known. Currently the teaching load is 3 courses per year, Preparatory work has been undertaken on the geo- leaving the staff more research time. Due to student physical truck, a generous gift to the Department from demand, Dr. Harold Sullwold is offering an evening Western Geophysical Company through Mr. Tom SIavin course in petroleum geology at SC this semester. and Mr. Pres Prestine. This truck, mounted with com- A share of the University's $400,000 Sea Grant is plete electronic equipment for 24-channel seismic recording, magnetic tape recording and playback, is a beautiful funding marine research this year by Drs. Bandy, piece of equipment. It is to be used in the Applied Geo- Gorsline, and Kolpak. physics course. ORVILLE L. BANDY - Chairman: DR. AND MRS. THOMAS CLEMENTS: In addition to his duties as Chairman of the Depart- Dr. Thomas Clements and his associates have had ment, OFfille and his associates are continuing their jobs dealing with the entire geological spectrum, ranging studies of foraminiferans as indices of environments, of from mining and mineral investigations to engineering the relationships between the paleomagnetic scale and geology for Universal Motion Picture Studios. microfossil zones generally. Tom is also the project geologist at the archeological JAMES L. BISCHOFF: site in the Calico Mountains near Barstow. This work was Jim has just completed his first year with the de- started under the auspices of the National Geographic partment and is presenting courses in Geochemistry, a Society and is now supervised and supported by the San Geochemistry Seminar and the Introductory Oceanography Bernardino County Museum, the Leakey Foundatiop and course. His research interests are concerned with the the University of Pennsylvania. The dig has received Red Sea Geothermal system and the Geochemistry of considerable publicity since it also has the services of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey of South Africa, famed archeo- logist and anthropologist. GREGORY A. DAVIS: Much of the research time has been devoted to con- BIBLIOGRAPHY tinued study of thrust faulting in the eastern Mojave block with the development of a new synthesis of OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS Mesozoic orogenesis in the southern cordilleran orogen The new Proceedings of the Geological Seminar on of California. the North Slope, a volume of 212 pages of text and illustrations, is now available from the Pacific Section, AAPG, THOMAS L. HENYEY: Publications Committee. The price is $10 and orders At the beginning of last year Tom obtained two should be sent to Donald E. Hallinger, Chairman, Publi- National Science Foundation grants, one for geophysical cations Committee, 720 West EigHth Street, Los Angeles, work in the Continental Borderland region of southern California 90017. California and the other a joint project with Donn This volume contains the complete papers presented Gorsline, for geophysical and sedimentological studies at the North Slope Seminar in February, 1970 in Pa10 Alto, in Lake Tahoe. California, plus all illustrations used at the Seminar and RICHARD KU: all discussions held after each presentation. Dick joined the department in September 1969, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, vol. 269, no. 1, June coming to U.S.C. from Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti- 1970 tution. Since then he has been teaching a course on Morphometric analysis of pediments and associated land- Chemical Oceanography and setting up a radioactive forms in the western Mojave Desert, Calif., by Ronald age-dating laboratory. U. Cooke BOOKS Apollo 6 photomaps of the west-east corridor from the SCIENTISTS IN CONFLICT: The beginnings of the oil Pacific Ocean to northern Louisiana $1.50 industry in California, by Gerald T. 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Vol. 24 DECEMBER, 1970 - JANUARY, 1971 No. 8 IAN CAMPBELL HONORED PROFESSIONAL DIVISION DIRECTORY IAN CAMPBELL, recently retired State Geologist of Again, another publication long in the making . . . the California, became the second recipient of the Ben H. Professional Division Directory containing photos and Parker Memorial Medal at the Seventh Annual Meeting of backgrounds on our 1,200 Certified Petroleum Geologists. the American Institute of Professional Geologists. LVO Corporation's Kraftbilt Products Division has under- written the project with a $20,000 budget, and the cost to The Ben H. Parker Memorial Medal, the highest award members of the Division is $3.00 each. This is to be pub- of the Institute, is given only to individuals who have contributed "outstanding service to the profession of lished in January. If you are not a Certified member, and want a copy, better get your order in $25 each. geology". Dr. Campbell was the unanimous choice of . . . the Institute for this honor. CURRENT BUDGET In September, the Executive Committee approved an 2nd international Symposium on operating budget of $810,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971. On the basis of $840,000 estimated in- Arctic Geology, Peb. 14, 1971 come, we hope to have a net operating surplus of about A REMINDER: The Symposium is to be held this year in $30,000. I can tell you this: there is no end to pressures lieu of the regular Pacific Section Annual Convention-Ed. to provide more and better services, and it is difficult to As of December 10, 1970 Mr. Jim Higgins, Housing hold the line. For what we are tying to do for our member- Chairman, reported that 544 rooms have been reserved for ship, it costs $65 per member to operate our business; $22 the Symposium and that reservations were arriving at the of it coming from members' dues. Other sources are adver- rateof 85 t-o 90 per week. Over 400 of the reservations tising, publications, and subscription sales, plus conven- are in the Hilton Hotel where 700 rooms had been set tion income. We're limping along when we should be runn- aside for this event. ing in many areas. As leaders, we must face up to this For those persons, especially students, desiring less problem and solve it before the opportunities to to some- expensive accomodations, such accomodations will be body else. available in the residence halls at San Francisco State College. The residence halls and the College are lo- AGI SUPPORT cated adjacent to Lake Merced in southwestern San The Executive Committee approved doubling (from $1 to Francisco about six miles from the Hilton Hotel, site $2) our support of the American Geological Institute, in of the Symposium. Public transportation is available response to AGI's recent dues increase. This means AAPG nearby on Nineteenth Street. will contribute $20,848 instead of $12,500 to AGI since ? The cost for visiting studentsand faculty is $3.00 per our contribution is figured on the basis of 10,424 domestic night and for others $6.00 per night. Soap and towels are active members of AAPG. We solicit AAPG leadership and $0.50 extra. Meals are available at the rates of $1.00 membership feelings about this. breakfast, $1.50 lunch and $2.00 dinner. For reservations or further information, please contact: THREE NEW AWARDS ~ Mr. Raymond Sullivan Soon to make their debut at AAPG National Convention Associate Dean, School of Natural Sciences are some brand new awards that will give recognition to San Francisco State College outstanding people, and which, in turn, will bring new 1600 Holloway Avenue recognition of AAPG . . . San Francisco, Calif. 94132 *Distinguished service to AAPG *Meritorious contributions to the Association's AAPG EXECUTIVE REPORT program "Dedication to public service leadership In an effort to keep themembership better informed on *Contributions to human needs the diversified activities of AAPG, President William H. "Journalistic achievement for geology Curry has instituted a new publication called the AAPG Executive Report. This four page "news-letter" will be edited by each AAPG president and distributed every ETHICS three to four weeks to the AAPG Executive Committee, The Executive Committee heard a report from our legal the Advisory Council, Past Officers, Delegates, Founda- counsel that at least six members mtxy be summoned be- tion Trustees, Committee Chairmen, Officers of Divisions, fore the Ethics and Discipline Committee of the Advisory Officers of Sections and Presidents of affiliated local Council. If alleged unethical conduct is proven, the mem- societies with the expectation that pertinent information bers may be recommended for reprimand, suspension, or will be passed on to the members. The following are expulsion, depending on the seriousness of their ethics exerpts from Vol. 1, No. 1: violations. Page 2

Dear Editor: Re: Senteur de Boue's Math Problem: JOHN F. CURRAN ...... PRESIDENT ARTHUR 0. SPAULDING ...... VICE PRESIDENT X=y VINCENT F. SCURY ...... SECRETARY MARIE J. CLARK ...... TREASURER x2 =xy J. DOUGLAS TRAXLER ...... PAST PRESIDENT PETER J. FISCHER ...... EDITOR xz - yz = xy - yz TOM W. REDIN ...... LOS ANGELES DELEGATE (x + Y) (H= ~(4 2~ =Y 2=1 Please be advised that steps 4-5 involve division by zero on both sides, a difficult although not impossible task. The result is 'undefined' (sometimes called by the name 'infinity' by beginners) and thus the last line of the problem should read: Two times 'undefined' = one times 'undefined' which seems like a pretty reasonable statement to me. N and requests tor missed The greeks probably had a word for it, too, but Senteur can figure that one out for himself. Respectfully, Standard Oil's GE Time-sharer Computer ...... Oildale, California T EDITOR ...... EDITOR ...... _...... B SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ...... LUCY BIRDS ***** CORRESPONDENTS To: Pacific Petroleum Geologist ALASKA ...... GENE TRIPP COAST ...... HOMA K. BJ ORKLAND Re: Higher Mathematics LOS ANGELES ...... DENNIS R. WILEY NORTHWEST ...... DERAL W. THORSEN Proving 2 is equal to 1 providesus with considerable SACRAMENTO fun, however N. de Boue should return to Trona because hls equations are 100% bologna! He wouldhave to be a dedicated sot to forget you can't divide by nought! A. Einstien, President LETTERS 88 THE EDITOR Alaska-Sikiria Math Society He must have been in calculus-Ed. (A letter to John F. Curran, Pacific Section President) ***** Dear John, ABOUT ROCKS One of the problems of the Pacific Section, A.A.P.G., is the general feeling of members outside of the Los (The following exposition on geology by the late Murray Angeles area that they cannot be active in the affairs, Pease, sometime Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of policy decisions and operations of the Pacific Section. AH, was discovered among his papers, eventually find- They are like corresponding members of some societies ing its way into the records of meetings of the Interna- except that they pay full dues. I know that you are trying tional Institute for the Preservation of Historic and to change this and have made some progress. Artistic Works-American Group. Courtesy of John Gettens, of the Freer Gallery, Washington.), One suggestion is offered in the matter of two-way communication. Why not have a page in the Pacific Petro- Geology is mostly about rocks. There are three kinds leum Geologist devoted to opinions from the local societies of rocks. Ignominious, Sedentary, and Metaphoric. Igno- on the purpose, policies, and operations as they effect the minious rocks can be taken for granite. Sedentary rocks local societies? Or even a Letters-to-the-Editor page. How are mostly chalk, which comes in cliffs or small round else can the opinions and suggestions of widely scattered sticks and sandstone, about which the less said the members be known by other members? Writing to the officers better. Metaphoric rocks are more interesting. One kind is only a partial solution, particularly with the present is marble, which comes in little round balls, flat slabs, geographic distribution of officers. Perhaps 'a request to and shapes that look likenaked people without arms, each local society for a contribution for a certain month which are kept in museums. Another kind is slate, which would help bring a sense of unity. We need to clearly de- is for geologists to write on with chalk. The only other fine the purpose, functions, and relationships of the local kind worth mentioning is steatite, or soapstone, which is societies and the Pacific Section. found in the shape of ash trays and old-fashioned kitchen John C. Waher, Geologist sinks. Branch of Organic Fuel &, Stones come in a lot of different periods. These were Chemical Resources invented by geologists, who have to have something to do and they are the only ones who can remember which is Our Letters-to-the-Editor section welcomes contri- which. The only one I can remember is the Plasticene butions, opinions and criticism(?). We would certainly Period, which is when man first learned to model and get welcome contributions from local societies and could oil stains on his romuers. handle these in a manner similar to the new College You have to sort of get used to geologists. At first Comer section OR as "letters" if short. lust send us they seem to have nothing but rocks in their heads, and something! ...... EDITOR when they talk about beds, they don't mean what you Page 3

think. But underneath they are almost normal. When they Dr. Frank E. Kottlowski, senior geologist and assist- " go on field trips with their little hammers, they sit ant director, New Mexico State Bureau of Mines and around the evening fire on their terminal moraines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, is unopposed as candidate sing just like anybody else, songs like "Lava Come for Editor. Back to Me," "Shale be Cambrian 'Round the Mountain," At the conclusion of his presidential term on June 30, "Fossil I Do When You Are Far Away?" "You'd Be So 1971, Mr. Curry will becomechairman of the AAPG House Gneiss To Come Home To," and "When the Chalk is on of Delegates. the Greensands I'll Come Huronian Back to You in My New Red Marl." When you meet a geologist, be nice to PRESIDENT-ELECT NOMINEES: him; he may be somebody's mammal. MR. HESTON is a native of Stillwater, Oklahoma, from John C. Maher and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in geology. He joined Cities Service in 1933 as a geologist and petroleum engineer. During World War I1 MEMBERSHIP he was assistant director of production with the Petro- leum Administration for War. From 1960 to 1968 he CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY served as president of Cities Service Oil Company in An invitation to join the Pacific Section AAPG has Bartlesville and Tulsa. Two years ago he was named been sent to various agencies throughout the Pacific president of the parent company in NewYork, serving Coast area. The letter was accompanied by membership also as a director andmember of the executive commit- applications and a sample page of the current Directory. tee. He is currently a member of the AAPG industrial Over 1000 applications were distributed to 165 offices. advisory committee. If you have a geological associate, friend or employee MR. WILSON is a native of McKinney, Texas, and a who is presently unaffiliated with the Pacific Section graduate of Texas A & M with a B. S. in geological AAPG, contact your local Society officer, Delegate or engineering. He joined Shell Oil in 1938 as a field AAPG member for a membership form and sign up a new geologist. From 1942-45 he served in the U. S. Army, member. and rejoined Shell in 1946. He has served as Shell's Membership applications may also be obtained from vice president for exploration and production in the following sources: Houston, New Orleans, and Denver. In 1950-51 he Miss Judy Hughes, Membership Secretary served as a district AAPG representative. Los Angeles Basin Geological Society: G. H. Rickels, Union Oil Co., Los Angeles VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES: San Joaquin Geological Society: MR. BARBER is a native of Plainview, Texas and a Bruce Robinson, Tenneco Inc., Bakersfield graduate of Texas Christian University with B. A. and Northern Calif. Geological Society: M. A. degrees in geology, John C. Maher, U.S.G.S., Menlo Park World War I1 - U. S. Navy. Pan American Petroleum - i Coast Geological Society: 1946-1959. Michel T. Halbouty - 1959 - present. AAPG R. B. Haines, Continental Oil Co., Ventura since 1958. Member of industrial advisory committee. R. G. Colvin, Membership Chairman, Mobil Oil Corp., MR TAYLOR is a native of Oklahoma City and a Los Angeles graduate of the University of Oklahoma with B. S. and 1 Over 400 present members have not paid the current M. S. degrees in geological engineering. r dues, so if you received such notice, return your fee and Shell, geologist - 1946-1948. Instructor, University application promptly. Current mailings will cease to un- af Oklahoma 1948-1949. Magnolia Petroleum Co. 1949- i paid members after November 30, 1970. 1965. District exploration manager Mobil 1960-1965. 1 Consulting geologist 1965-present. AAPG since 1956 he has served in numerous capacities. Member of NABBONAb AAPG Board of Certification. ELECTION SLATE SECRETARY NOMINEES: MR. BEAR is a native of Elsinore, California and a Two major oil company executives who are veteran graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles geologists have been nominated for the 1972-73 helm of with an A. B. in geology. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. World War 11 - Navy veteran. Instructor UCLA - 1940- AAPG's 15,000 members will cast their votes for 1941. Consulting geologist 1941-present. Bear and J. Edgar Heston, president and chief operating officer Kistler - 1957-present. Member State Board of Registra- of Cities Service Co., New York City, or James E. tion for geologists. AAPG since 1950 he has served in Wilson, vice president of exploration and production, numerous capacities: Pacific Section president 1967-68. Shell Oil Co., Denver, to serve as AAPG president- Secretary, House of Delegates. elect, starting July 1, 1971. The presidential term will MR. RUE was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He begin one year later. received his A.B. degree in geology from Berea College Nominees for AAPG 1971-72 vice president are Thomas and an M. S. in geological engineering from the Colorado D. Barber, general manager for Michel T. Halbouty, School of Mines. Houston, and John A. Taylor, a consulting geologist in World War I1 - Navy veteran. Magnolia Petroleum Oklahoma City. Corp - four years. Consulting geologist - present. AAPG For secretary, Ted E. Bear, partner in Bear 86 Kistler, active since 1954 in various capacities: AAPG represen- consulting geologists, Los Angeles, will face Edward E. tative - American Geological Institute house of represen- Rue, consulting geologist, Mt. Vernon, Ill. tatives. Page 4 I CALENDAR GEOLOGY SPEAKERS FORUM CALIFORNIA SPATE ? COLLEGE, LOS ANGELES BAJA FIELD TRIP The recent field trip to Baja California sponsored by Monday, Jan. 18 - Dr. Benjamin M. Page, Stanford Univ. the Pacific Section SEPM was a smashing success. It Oceanic Crust Remnant on Land Near San Luis Obispo, California was a most unusual and enjoyable experience for all, including the wives and children who came along for the Monday, Jan. 25 - Dr. Robert Bereskin, Fresno State ride. But if you missed this hip, don't despair. There College were so many people unable to make the first trip be- Aspects of Diagenesis in the Sultan Limestone cause of the gread demand and limited accomodations, (Devonian) S.E. Calif. & S. Nevada that a second run of the same field trip has been sche- Monday, Feb. 1 - Dr. John Crowell, University of duled for the weekend of January 15-17, 1971. If you are California, Santa Barbara interested in getting in on thisnext trip get your name Causes of Glaciation: History of Ice Ages on and address on the list with the Secretary, Pacific Earth Section SEPM: Monday, Feb. 8 - Dr. James Valentine, University of Dr. James C. Ingle California, Davis Department of Geology Plate Tectonics and the History of Life Stanford University Palo Alto, California 94305 Monday, Mar. 1 - Dr. G. Brent, Dalrymple Branch of You will be contacted personally with preregistration Regional Geophysics, U.S.G. S., Menlo Park details as soon as they have been worked out. The Ar40 - Ar39 Technique: A Recent Advance Whether or not you are able to make the trip you will in K/Ar Dating want a copy of the very fine guidebook which is one of the very few comprehensive published works on Baja The Speakers Forum meets in Physical Science, California and the adjacent area of Southern California. Room 273 at 4:00 p.m. Extra guidebooks are available now through the Treasurer of Pacific Section SEPM: USC NOON LECTURE SERIES Rod D. McLennan Union Oil Company Tuesday, Jan. 12 - Dr. Robert H. Osborne, Geological 9645 S. Santa Fe Springs Road Sciences, USC Santa Fe Springs, California 90670 Analysis of Typical Cincinnatian Sedimentation The cost of extra guidebooks is $4 each plus 266 by use of a regular ergodic Markov chain postage. Make checks payable to Pacific Section SEPM. Tuesday, Jan. 19 - Dr. Donald Zenger, Department of Geology, Pomona College Some aspects of Dolomitization

~~m-~6'si-um,Q.; pl. sym-po'si-a (L., from Gr. Lectures are given in Room 100, Science Lecture Hall svmposion, a drinking party, from sympinein, to drink (Adjacent to Geology Barracks) together; z,together, and pinein, to drink) 1. A drinking party; a merry feast 2. A collection of articles on some important topic, in which several contributors express their views A NEW YEAR'S EDITORIAL: in succession;. as a symposium on the Geology of the Arctic HEARTBREAK OF THE "HANOI HILTON" FROM: Webster's new Twentieth Century Dictionary Presently, there are some 400 American servicemen of the English Language known to be prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. In addi- c < ; You pays your registration fee, and you takes your tion, nearly 1,000 U.S. men are missing in action. Re- i choice" gardless of your feelings concerning the war, theplight SAN FRANCISCO FEBRUARY 1-4, 1971 of these men transcends politics, philosophy and com- I mands all of us to take a few minutes from our busy, luxury-filled lives, to assist these men and their fami- I lies. 500 men have been missingor held prisoner for 2 SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARCTIC years or more andover 200 have been prisonersof miss- 1 GEOLOGY - ing for 3% yearsor longer. This is longer than any U.S. Sponsored by THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF serviceman was held prisoner during World War 11. One i PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, Tulsa Oklahoma, U.S.A. U.S. flier has been in theaHanoi Hilton" for 7 years. ,1 This tragedy is compounded by Hanoi's refusal to 1 Presented and Hosted by THE PACIFIC SECTIONS identify all those it holds prisoner, or to permit the OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM free exchange of mail. (During the past 5 years, only GEOLOGISTS, THE SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC PALEON- about 100 prisoners have been allowed to write, and TOLOGISTS & MINERALOGISTS, THE SOCIETY OF they are permitted less than 2 letters per year.) EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS and THE NORTHERN Imagine the heartbreak of wives and children who do CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY not know whether hope still exists, or whether they February 1-4, 1971, HILTON HOTEL, San Francisco, must now begin new lives. All it would take to relieve California, U.S.A. the anxiety and sorrow would be for Hanoi to honor Paae 5

the terms of the Geneva Convention it signed in 1957. COLLEGE CORNER Yet Hanoi refuses, and continues to use thesemen for its own propaganda and policy ends. U.S.C. - DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES In the large "Hanoi Hilton" camp, prisoners are (To the "missing" faculty in Nou. our apologies-Ed.), wakened between 5 and 6 a.m. by a gong, followed by a 30-minute Radio Hanoi propoganda broadcast. Later, JAMES L. BISCHOFF: the men are allowed to empty their toilet buckets. At The study of rare earths on lunar samples from Apollo 11 a.m., 17 to 19 hours after they last ate, they are fed 11 and 12 missions is completed and Jim has turned his a meal of pumpkin or squash, pork fat, a veg.etable re- major efforts to the problem of ocean resources in the Red sembling wild onion tops and bread or rice. Then pris- Sea geothermal system. He is applying geochemical tech- oners "nap" on their bare board bunks until 2 p.m. at niques to find similar deposits on the East Pacific Rise which time a half-hour of Radio Hanoi is programed. and in the Gulf of California. During the past year the Between 4 and 6 p.m. they get their second and last neutron activation laboratory in Stauffer Hall of Science meal of the day. These men havenothing to do and was set up and is in full operation. yet they are more fortunate than those who are held indefinitely in footblocks and handcuffs, kept in GREGORY A. DAVIS: solitary confinement for more than one year, hung from Greg will be taking a one-semester leave from U.S.C. ceilings with ropes, burned with cigarettes, or paraded (starting in January) to serveas a visiting professor at through streets and stoned while suffering from serious wounds. the University of Washington. Our government has tried diplomatically to relieve WILLIAM H. EASTON: this suffering. Hanoi has not listened. Now the struggle is open, President Nixon declared last November 11th W. H. Easton retired in November as President of to be Prisoner of War Day. During this next week, will the Paleontological Society, having finished one year each of you write a letter to Paris? Also, if you can in this office and another as President-Elect. He write to Hanoi and to those additional sources shown presided at the Council and Annual Meeting during the below to whom Hanoi will hopefully listen. ALSO, will convention of the Society in Milwaukee in December. you please solicit your employers, fellow employees, During the coming year he will be finishing business companies to whom you pay your bills, friends and as Past-President which was started during his tenure. acquaintances to join in this effort. Council actions during his presidency were to raise the dues, start revision of the Constitution, investi- Your letters are important, because Hanoi IS sensitive gate the professional goals and training of paleonto- to world opinion. In your letters, request the following: logists, authorize a pamphlet on paleontology as a 1. Release of names of all prisoners. profession, a visiting lectureship and a catalog of 2. Immediate release of sick and wounded prisoners. tvpe collections in North America. 3. Impartial inspections of POW facilities. 4. Proper treatment for all prisoners. DONN S. GORSLINE: 5. Regular flow of mail. Donn Gorsline closed out his term as Editor of 1 6. Release of ALL prisoners. Marine Geology in December and then assumed the Your letters will help more than anything else. Send duties of Editor of the Journal of Sedimentary Petro- the original to the North Vietnamese in Paris(Xuan logy and also membership on the SEPM Council. In Thuy), with copies or separate letters to the others if addition he served as a founding member and possible. Write to: councillor of the American Quaternary Association and also sewed on the Nominations Committee. Minister Xuan Thuy (20~- '/z ounce postage) Delegation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam In the lab and on the Valero a number of graduate c/o Prisoner of War Campaign students are workingon research topics under Donn's Annapolis, Maryland 21412 guidance. His Excellency RON KOLPACK: Hubert de Besche Ron has finished themarine geology-oceanography Embassy of Sweden section of the soon to be published WOGA sponsored 2249 R Street N.W. study of the Santa Barbara Oil slick. He and his staff Washington, D.C. 20008 are currently directing the vigorous USC sea grant program for geology. The President Democratic Republic of Vietnam Hanoi, North Vietnam RICHARD H. MERRIAM: In addition to his hard rock and engineering geology His Excellency courses, Dick is a Research Associate at the Los Anatoly Dobrynin Angeles County Museum and a member of the Construc- Embassy of the USSR tion Materials Committee in the Engineering Geology 1125 - 16th St., N.W. Division of the Geological Society of America. His Washington D.C. 90026 major research involves mapping of 8,700 square miles EDITOR'S NOTE: - This editorial has been adapted of northwest Sonora which is of particular interest from the original written by an attorney friend for his owing to studies in the Gulf of California regarding the church. Many concerned organizations are conducting East Pacific Rise, transform faulting and strike slip an intensive campaign to free these prisoners - let's faultirig on the San Andreas System. A second project, join in this "fight.'. in conjunction with the County Museum, is a study of the Cenozoic sediments in the Salton Trough. Page 6

ROBERT H. OSBORNE: J. G. SEAY: The Geology of the Northern Piceance Under Bob's guidance Donald McDougall completed Creek basin, northwestern Colorado, M.S. thesis, 1970. a first-rate petrographic study of the Bird Springs Group W. R. MERSCHAT: Paleocurrent study of Paleogene near Mountain Springs, Nevada for his master's theisis, of Santa Cruz Island, Calif. (manuscript in progress). which will be submitted for publication in the near future. R. KNAPP: Eocene paleocology, Tepetate Formation, A new IBM 36065 computer system is now fully opera- Baja California Sur (work in progress). tional at the University Computer Center and time-sharing R. M. PARSLEY: Cretaceous-Eocene paleocurrent capabilities are under development. study, San Miguel Island, Calif. (work in progress). The highpoint of this year for Bob and his wife was the W. S. HUANG: Basement petrology, northeast Los birth of a second son, Todd Stuart, last February. Angeles basin, Calif. (manuscript in progress).

The Department has 8 faculty, some 60 undergraduate U.C.S. FACULTY ('AN ADDENDUM') and 16 graduate majors, plus earth science and hydro- geology majors, who combine geology with education and Donald Palmer received his Ph. D. from Princeton, civil engineering, respectively. There is a rather heavy 1968 and has been teaching mineralogy and graduate emphasis on environmental geology; currently studies in petrology. Recently he has been setting up a new pro- acid mine drainage, landslides, and land management gram in economic geology. Recent research topics in- are in progress. Majors are urged to take geology plus clude the investigation of a new mineral from Mount some other field of interest, such as business, inverte- Lassen with Dick Merriam, the study of conditions of brate zoology, civil engineering, chemistry, or physics. me:amorphism in the Mojave desert, and studies of rock A sound background in basic sciences, mathematics, diffusion in igneous processes. and field geology is required.

USC MlCROQUAKE STATION Dr. Leon Teng received a grant to install a seismolo- HOLIDAY DINNER DANCE gical station on the campus to record and measure weak earthquakes (of less than 2.5 magnitude). Earlier attempts The Annual Holiday Dinner Dance of the Los Angeles to set up a micro-quake station near the downtown Los Basin Geological Society was held on the S. S. Princess Angeles area have been unsuccessful because of the Louise, November 21, 1970. One hundred and seventy- interference of traffic vibrations. Improved electronic four people were in attendance to enjoy the festivities. equipment made the station practicable. Artificial vibra- The success of this year's occasion can be attributed to tions, differing in frequency from those of earthquakes, the following committee members and contributors: can be eliminated from the recording. Eventually three Committee Chairmen or four of the microquake seismological stations will be installed in the Los Angeles Basin. Data from these Arrangements - Bill Hunter, THUMS, Long Beach - & very weak earthquakes will be used to learn more about Tickets Jim Isom, Humble Oil Refining Co. ea-thquake hazards in the heavily populated Los Angeles Contributions - Bob Knapp, Standard Oil Company of area. California Contributors (who generously donated cocktails and hors d'oeuvres) PPCIFIC COAST GEOLOGY AT OHIO UNIVERSITY Borst & Giddens Oil Well LoggingService, Inc. ATHENS, QHIQ Calada Materials Current activities of the Department of Geology in the Comet Reproduction Service Core Laboratories, Inc. Pacific Coast region include a summer field camp in White Pine County, Nevada, and student and faculty Dresser Industries research in several areas. Research projects and their Dresser Magcobar Drilling Control Corporation status are summarized below: Exploration Logging, Inc. G. W. SMITH (faculty): Late Quaternary deglaciation General Oceanographics in southern British Columbia (work in progress, Geologi- Geological Exploration, Inc. cal Survey of Canada). Geologic Engineering Service R. S. YEATS (faculty): Oak Ridge and Newport- IMC Inglewood fault studies, California (work in progress). Mercury Christensen Structural evolution of central and southern Ventura Munger Oil Information Service (also donated publicity) basin, California (work in progress). Offshore Islands, Offshore Navigation, Inc. Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur (work in progress Pacific Towboat & Salvage Company with J. A. Forman and J. A. Minch). K-Ar ages, North Reese Sales Company Cascades plutons (in press, U.S.G.S., with Joan Engels). R. F. Smith Corporation Tertiary geology of North Cascades between Darrington Santa Fe Drilling Company and Skykomish (manuscript in progress with J. A. Vance Schlumberger Offshore Services and M. Heath). Mt. Angeles quadrangle, Washington (in United Directional Services press, U.S.G.S., with R. W. Tabor and M. Sorenson). Western Offshore Drilling & Exploration Company M. R. COLE: Paleocurrent and basin analysis on San On behalf of the Society, under the guidance of Don Nicolas Island, California. M. S. thesis, 1970 (open file, Hallinger, we wish to thank all of those who contributed Calif. Division of Mines). and participated. Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS BWANSlTlON MARY McNEIL wishes to advise all her friends and DR. G DALLAS HANNA colleagues of her new assignment. She is Managing Dr. G Dallas Hanna, for many years Curator of Geology Director of Westwood Research, Inc.'s new Brazilian at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, affiliate, which is offering services to both the Petroleum Calif. and one of the earliest practicing micropaleonto- and Mining Industry in Brazil. In this part of the world logists in the state, died of a brain hemorrhage Friday they are also offering the Geophysical Services of Dames night, Nov. 20, 1970. & Moore. Dr. Hanna was paleontologist for the Associated Oil ***** Co. (Later Tidewater Oil Co.), from 1923 to 1948. He was Vice President of the Sociery of Economic Paleontolo- DAVE BERRY and DICK BROOKS are "transferring" gists and Mineralogists in 1928-29 and President in to Arcos Anchorage office (from the Long Beach 1932-33. He published numerous papers on Geology, "Cherry Street Tomb") Paleontology and Malacology but his greatest contribu- ***** tion was in the field of fossil Diatoms. For the past few B. BRKK ROBINSON writes that he has completed years and up until the day of his death, he was working his assignment at Shell Development's Research lab in on a large diatom flora from a deep sea core from the Houston and has been transferred to the production south Atlantic Ocean. geology section of Shell's offshore division in New On May 8th of this year he was awarded an honorary Orleans. degree of Doctor of Sciences by the University of Alaska. ***** In 1959 the University of Kansas, his alma mater, con- JIM E. SCOTT, Development Geologist with Union, ferred on him the "Erasmus Haworth Distinguished has been transferred from Anchorage, Alaska to Ven- Alumni Honors in Geology1' and in 1967 the Calif. Aca- tura. Jim will be involved in the development of the demy of Sciences bestowed on him the Fellows' Medal, Santa Barbara channel dos Cuadras field. the most distinguished award of the Academy for ***** Scientific achievement. The office furniture of petroleum consultant RODMAN K. CROSS RODMAN K. CROSS is to be disposed of immediately. Rodman K. Cross passed away last November 30th. This equipment can be seen at 3591 Long Beach Blvd, Contributions in memory of Rod may be made to the Long Beach by appointment. Call (213) GA 7-8228. Pomona College Alumni fund, Claremont, Calif. 91711. ***** BOB LINIBLOM "NO LONGER AVAILABLE" STATUS OF THE The social event of the season was the evening BOB PATTERSON MEMORIAL FUND wedding of ARLENE WICK and ROBERT (Boom-Boom) W.B. Barker ...... $ 15.00 LINDBLOM, Oct. 17, 1970, St. Josephs Church, Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Rickels ...... 10.00 Bakersfield. In a veil of white, the bride was both Morris Petroleum Inc...... 25.00 radiant and lovely, while the groom was dressed in Mr. Joe Parmenter ...... 100.00 honor of the occasion in a black rux over a formal Pauley Petroleum ...... 200.00 powder blue Arnold Palmer sweater, Pacific ail Well Logging, Inc...... 100.00 Mr. H. G. Dohlen ...... 10.00 Honeymooning Sunday in Apple Valley (contrary to Mr. J. C. Creed ...... 25.00 reports that the groom was seen on Huntington Beach Mr. F. C. Porter...... 50.00 Golf Course that day) they traveled to Mammoth to watch Mr. P. H. Gardett ...... 15.00 the snow fall and Tahoe to watch the chips fall. A large Keno win b the groom added zest to what might other- Mr. Bob Ferguson ...... 100.00 wise have geen a routine weekend. Mr. D. R. Lindsay ...... 5.00 The young couple have returned to their new home in Mr. J. J. O'Brien ...... 5.00 Belmont shore to await the patter of big and little feet Mr. D. D. Bruce ...... 50.00 (visitors of all ages). Mr. S. A. Wengard ...... 10.00 Mr. J. P. Webb ...... 10.00 Mr. J. L. Fish ...... 10.00 Anonymous ...... 50.00 b. A. BASIN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS Mr. & Mrs. A1 Kerr ...... 10.00 Mr. & Mrs. Jim Anderson ...... 25.00 The Los Angeles Basin Geological Society held its Mr. J. Hazzard ...... 10.00 annual election of officers and delegates to National Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Traxler ...... 50.00 AAPG during the first week of December. Mr. W. W. Porter 11...... 100.00 The new officers are as follows: Stuart Ross Smith ...... 30.00 President ...... Orville D. Hart TOTAL $625.01 Vice President ...... Fletcher McCutcheon (Three house trailer payments have been made from Treasurer ...... Robert Wagner the fund) Secretary ...... Edgar L. Berg Delegates to National AAPG: Alternate Delegates NURSERY NEWS Orville Bandy Donald Sutton A NEW BERRY Lowell Redwine James Maytum Dave and Romona Berry are the proud new parents David Shoemaker Howard Kinzey of Lara Anne (7 lbs. of girl baby). Page 8

BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN, vol. OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS 81, no. 9, Sept. 1970. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The Uralides and the motion of the Russian and Siberian Platforms, by Warren Hamilton. Professional Paper 700-C: Geological Survey Research Serpentinite flows on Joaquin Ridge, Southern Coast 1970, Chapter C $3.25 Ranges, California, by D. S. Cowan and C. F. Bulletin 1266: Bibliography of North American Geology, Mansfield. 1966 $4.75 Seismic refraction study of crustal structure in the Bulletin 1267: Bibliography of North American Geology, Western United States, by Claus Prodehl. 1967 $4.25 Thrusted Paleozoic rocks in the Northern and Central Bulletin 1312-H: Geology, mineral deposits and geo- HD Range, Northeastern Nevada, by John Riva chemical and radiometric anomalies, Serpentine Hot GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN, Springs area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, by C. L. vol. 81, no. 10, October 1970 Sainsbury, Travis Hudson, Reuben Kachadoorian, and Thomas Richards $1.00 Earthquake recurrence intervals on the San Andreas Water Supply Paper 1972: The Lake Tahoe basin, Cali- Fault, by Robert E. Wallace fornia-Nevada, by J. R. Crippen and B. R. Pavelka The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary, Italy and Calif. $ .40 by 0. L. Sandy andJ. A. Wilcoxon Circular 601E: Sediment problems in urban areas, by Sub-loess basalt topography in the Palouse Hills, H. P. Guy Free Southeastern Washington, by Don Ringe. Circular 639: Preliminary report on the geologic events Magnetic reversals and sedimentation rates in the associated with the May 31, 1970 Peru earthquake, Arctic Ocean, by David L. Clark. by G. E. Ericksen and George Plafker (USGS) and A MiddleMiocene age for the Rosarito Beach Forma- J. F. Concha, (Lima, Peru) Free tion in Northwestern Baja California, by J. A. Minch, K. C. Schulte, andG. Hofman. OPEN FILED REPORTS (Inspection only) San Jacinto Fault zone in the Northern Imperial Valley, Geologic map of the Conconully quadrangle, Okanogan California, by M. J. Bartholomew County, Washington, by C. Dean Rinehart and Kenneth F. Fox. Jr. WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL Geologic map of the Oroville quadrangle, Okanogan RESOURCES (P.O. Box 168, Olympia, Washington 98501) County, Washington, by Kenneth F. Fox, Jr. Bulletin No. 61: Lead-zinc deposits in the Kootenay Preliminary geologic map of the central Santa Cruz Arc, northeastern Washington and adjacent British Mountains, California, compiled by Earl E. Brabb Columbia (various authors) $2.00 (Map (scale 1:62,500) and explanation (total, 3 OREGONDEPARTMENTOFGEOLOGYANDMINERAL sheets.) INDUSTRIES (1069 State Office Bldg., Portland, Oregon Preliminary geologic and gravity maps of the Santa CNZ- 97201) San Juan Bautista area, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Bulletin 67: Bibliography of the geology andmineral Monterey, and San Benito Counties, Calif. by Joseph resources of Oregon (Fourth Supplement), C. Clark. Maps, explanation (1 sheet) scale 1:125,000. compiled by Miriam Roberts $2 -00

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