2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM
Session No. 346 Thursday, 9 October 2008
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, George R. Brown Convention Center: 342AD

T119. The Science of Oil Shale (Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)

Alicia Sánchez and John Kaszuba, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
346-18:00 AM Thermal Properties of Green River Oil Shales: GREBOWICZ, Janusz, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown, 1 Main Street, Suite N813, Houston, TX 77002, grebowiczj@uhd.edu
346-28:15 AM Chemotaxonomy of Oil Shales: OLCOTT, Alison N., Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lindley Hall, Rm 120A, Lawrence, KS 66045, olcott@ku.edu and MARSHALL, Craig P., Department Of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006, Australia, C.Marshall@chem.usyd.edu.au
346-38:30 AM Correlation between chemical structures of kerogen and thermal maturity investigated by advanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy: MAO, Jingdong1, FANG, Xiaowen2, SCHIMMELMANN, Arndt3, MASTALERZ, Maria4, XU, Ling5, and SCHMIDT-ROHR, Klaus2, (1) Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23508, jmao@odu.edu, (2) Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, (3) Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-1405, (4) Indiana Geological Survey, Bloomington, IN 47405-2208, (5) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807
346-48:45 AM A New Parameter to Predict Successful Oil Shale Retorting: MARSHALL, Craig P., Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006, Australia, c.marshall@chem.usyd.edu.au and OLCOTT, Alison N., Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
346-59:00 AM Lacustrine Reconstruction of Green River Oil Shale Cyclicity: Characterization and Understanding Variations In Oil-Yields: TEERMAN, Stan C., Chevron, 1500 Louisiana, Houston, TX 77022, steerman@chevron.com, FISCHER, Al G., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, and GRIPPO, Alessandro, Geological Science, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330-8426
 9:15 AM Break
346-69:30 AM Controls on Oil Shale Deposition in the Green River Formation: BRISTOW, Thomas F.1, KENNEDY, Martin2, and MORRISON, Keith2, (1) Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92521, tbris001@student.ucr.edu, (2) Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
346-79:45 AM Mechanistic Control of Organic Matter Preservation Governed by Mineral Surface Area in Laboratory and Natural Samples from the Eocene Green River Formation: MORRISON, Keith D.1, KENNEDY, Martin2, and BRISTOW, Tom2, (1) Earth Sciences, University of Califronia Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92521, kmorr001@ucr.edu, (2) Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
346-810:00 AM Modeling Tools Available for Estimating Ecotoxicity of Oil Shale Constituents: REDMAN, Aaron1, MCGRATH, Joy1, PARKERTON, Thomas2, KIPKA, Undine3, and DI TORO, Dominic3, (1) HydroQual, 1200 MacAurthur Blvd, Mahwah, NJ 04370, aredman@hydroqual.com, (2) ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Annandale, NJ 04370, (3) University of Delaware, Newark, DE 04370
346-910:15 AM Back to Basics: The Importance of the Carbonate Buffer in Multi-Phase (CO2-H2O) Water-Rock Systems - Critical Considerations for Predictions, Experiments and Field Applications: NEWELL, Dennis L., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop J514, Los Alamos, NM 87545, dnewell@lanl.gov, KASZUBA, John, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop J514, Los Alamos, NM 87545-0001, VISWANATHAN, Hari, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop T003, Los Alamos, NM 87545, SÁNCHEZ, Alicia, Chevron Energy Technology Co, care of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop J514, Los Alamos, NM 87545, and MAZZOLENI, Lynn, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop D469, Los Alamos, NM 87545

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