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GSA 2017 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
T79. Geologic Energy Research T83. Unconventional Energy Resources: Advances
and Evolution in Tight Reservoir Assessment
Cosponsors: GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA Environmental and Production
and Engineering Geology Division
Cosponsors: GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA Sedimentary
Disciplines: Energy Geology, Geochemistry Geology Division
Advocates: Laura Ruhl; J. Fred Mclaughlin; Marc L. Buursink; Disciplines: Energy Geology, Economic Geology, Sediments,
Brett J. Valentine Clastic
This is the general session of the GSA Energy Division and Advocates: J. Fred Mclaughlin; Marc L. Buursink; Laura Ruhl;
highlights research into geologic based energy resources. Topics Brett J. Valentine
include coal geology, petroleum geology, geothermal, uranium,
and the environmental impacts from energy utilization. Unconventional oil and natural gas represent a tremendous
resource in the U.S., but can be geologically complex systems
T80. Geothermal Energy to understand and develop. This session will present research
as these resources move into maturity.
Cosponsors: Washington Division of Geology and Earth
Resources; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology .SEDIMENTS, CARBONATES/CLASTIC
Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
T84. The Dynamics of Stratigraphy and Sedimentation
Disciplines: Energy Geology, Tectonics/Tectonophysics (Posters)
Advocates: Corina Forson; Dave Norman Cosponsors: GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society
for Sedimentary Geology)
This session highlights recent geothermal exploration and
development projects. Share the innovative techniques that help Disciplines: Sediments, Carbonates, Sediments, Clastic, Marine/
us find and harness geothermal resources, generating energy Coastal Science
when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine.
Advocate: Gary L. Gianniny
T81. Oil and Gas Waste Waters: Characterization,
Treatment, Injection, Uses, and Impacts This session welcomes student scientific contributions on sedi-
mentary geology. Topics can range broadly from studies of ancient
Cosponsors: GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA Hydrogeology to modern sediments, carbonates to clastics, sedimentary processes
Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division and their products in the geologic record.
Disciplines: Energy Geology, Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology T85. Clear as Mud: Stratigraphic, Diagenetic, Sedimentologic,
Geomechanical Analyses, and Modern Analogs of Ancient
Advocates: Madalyn S. Blondes; Mark A. Engle; Tanya J. Gallegos Mudrock Systems
This session brings together the engineers and scientists work- Cosponsors: GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Energy
ing on treatment, injection, and uses of oil and gas waste waters Geology Division
with those studying their sources, composition, and impacts who
can help inform these new technologies. Disciplines: Sediments, Clastic, Stratigraphy, Geochemistry
T82. Pacific Northwest Energy: Resources, Advocates: Bryan W. Turner; Shannon A. Dulin
Opportunities, and Adaptability in a Changing
Energy Environment New techniques enable efficient and accurate analyses of
mudrock properties at fine-scales, allowing precise descriptions
Cosponsors: GSA Energy Geology Division; Northwest Energy and interpretations of this subtle lithology. This session highlights
Association (NWEA); American Association of Petroleum new studies of sedimentology, stratigraphy, and diagenesis of
Geologists (AAPG); GSA Environmental and Engineering mudrock dominated systems.
Geology Division
T86. Controls, Geomorphology, and Depositional Architecture
Disciplines: Energy Geology, Economic Geology, Tectonics/ of Fluvial-Tidal Sediments through Space and Time
Tectonophysics
Cosponsors: GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society
Advocate: Paul Oldaker for Sedimentary Geology)
Presentations on interactions of geoscience with providing Disciplines: Sediments, Clastic, Geomorphology, Stratigraphy
affordable energy to a growing population in the Pacific
Northwest, including historical and emerging fossil fuel and Advocates: Shahin Exton Dashtgard; Stephen M. Hubbard
renewable energy resources in an active convergent tectonic
province. Presentations in this session will explore depositional, morpho-
logic, and stratigraphic variations at the intersection of fluvial and
tidal environments.
28 22–25 October 2017 • Seattle, Washington, USA
