GCAGS Journal. A Publication of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (A Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists)

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1 GCAGS Journal A Publication of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (A Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists) Volume Editor Barry Jay Katz Managing Editor James J. Willis Associate Editors Thomas Dunn, Thomas E. Ewing, Ling Gao, R. P. Major, and Jean-Philippe Nicot

2 GCAGS Journal, Vol. 4 (2015) Copyright 2015 Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies All rights reserved. ISBN Printed September Special Fair Use Permission If you want to use a single figure, a brief paragraph, or a single table from the GCAGS Journal in a paper in another publication, GCAGS considers this to be fair usage, and you need no formal permission. In that case, you should print a copy of this document and present it to your publisher. You are, however, required to provide proper citation (see Condition of Grant of Permission below). Permission for more extensive reproduction of GCAGS material can be requested from the Executive Director or Managing Editor (see Condition of Grant of Permission As a condition of the grant of permission contained under the single use only or multiple item usage, GCAGS requires: 1) a full citation in your bibliography for each GCAGS publication from which a table or figure or text is taken; and 2) a statement or citation in figure and title captions, including a) the author name(s) and year of original publication, followed by b) the phrase reprinted by permission of GCAGS, whose permission is required for further use. Cover: Photomicrographs of Crassostrea virginica from the Chapel Midden/Shell Ridge, Historic Spanish Point, Florida (see Villarreal et al. herein). PPL indicates that the photomicrograph was taken in plane-polarized light, and XPL indicates that it was taken in cross-polarized light.. ii

3 C Factors Controlling Permeability Variation in Onshore, Deep Paleogene Wilcox Sandstones in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin: Targeting High-Quality Reservoirs... 1 Shirley P. Dutton, Robert G. Loucks, and William A. Ambrose Low-Thermal-Maturity (<0.7% VR) Mudrock Pore Systems: Mississippian Barnett Shale, Southern Fort Worth Basin Robert M. Reed and Robert G. Loucks The Diagenesis of Shell Middens along the Gulf Coasts of Texas and Florida Nicole M. Villarreal, Henry Chafetz, and John Meredith Sequence-Stratigraphic and Depositional Controls on Reservoir Quality in Lowstand Incised-Valley Fill and Highstand Shallow-Marine Systems in the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Tuscaloosa Formation, Louisiana, U.S.A William A. Ambrose, Robert G. Loucks, and Shirley P. Dutton Chronostratigraphic Relationships of the Woodbine and Eagle Ford Groups across Texas Arthur D. Donovan, Rand D. Gardner, Aris Pramudito, T. Scott Staerker, Matthew Wehner, Matthew J. Corbett, Jason J. Lundquist, Andrea M. Romero, Lindsey C. Henry, Jon R. Rotzien, and Kenneth S. Boling Analysis of Pore Networks and Reservoir Quality of the Upper Cretaceous Woodbine Sandstone in the High-Recovery-Efficiency, Giant East Texas Field Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, and William A. Ambrose Using Electric Logs to Estimate Groundwater Salinity and Map Brackish Groundwater Resources in the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer in South Texas H. Scott Hamlin and Luciana de la Rocha Using Fault Kinematics to Evaluate the Relationship between Cenozoic Fault Activity, Sedimentation Rates, and Salt Movement in the Gulf of Mexico: A Comparison between Southwestern and Southeastern Louisiana Abah P. Omale and Juan M. Lorenzo Integrated Fault and Hazard Analysis in Downtown Houston, Texas Jingqiu Huang, Don Van Nieuwenhuise, and Shuhab D. Khan iii

4 GCAGS Executive Committee ( ) President... Charles Sternbach Vice President... Brent Hopkins General Chairman... Larry Bartell Treasurer... Steve Hill Past President... Mary Broussard Executive Director... Kate Kipper Editor Barry Jay Katz, Chevron, Houston, TX Associate Editors Thomas Dunn, Chevron, Houston, TX GCAGS Journal Editorial Board ( ) Thomas E. Ewing, Frontera Exploration Consultants, San Antonio, TX Ling Gao, Houston, TX R. P. Major, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia Jean-Philippe Nicot, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX iv

5 GCAGS sincerely acknowledges the substantial financial support of Shell Energy Resources Company. v

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