February, 1976 BULLETIN I HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY HOWsTCM DIPLODOCUS, MWSEUM OF NATURAL SMENCE (we article on page 4) ' Courtesy Edd R. Turner HGS FEBRUARY CALENDAR J. R. Jackson, Jr., Exxon Company, U.S.A. "IndepmdenVMajor Roles iin Exploration for Oil and Gas" Cocktails-5:15, Dfnner--%:I 4 Meding-7:00 Res~rvatlons must be made (or cancelled) by Friday. February 6. R. T. Terriere, Cities'Service Company "Gsmlogy of the Fairway FRW, East Texas" Cacktmils- 7 7:39, Luncheon and Meeting- 7 2:OO ReWB~atiOns m s t be made (or cancelled) by Monday, Februmy 23.
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February, 1976
BULLETIN
I HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
HOWsTCM DIPLODOCUS, MWSEUM OF NATURAL SMENCE (we article on page 4) ' Courtesy Edd R. Turner
HGS FEBRUARY CALENDAR
J. R. Jackson, Jr., Exxon Company, U.S.A. "IndepmdenVMajor Roles iin Exploration for Oil and Gas" Cocktails-5:15, Dfnner--%:I 4 Meding-7:00
Res~rvatlons must be made (or cancelled) by Friday. February 6.
R. T. Terriere, Cities'Service Company "Gsmlogy of the Fairway FRW, East Texas" Cacktmils- 7 7:39, Luncheon and Meeting- 7 2:OO
ReWB~atiOns m s t be made (or cancelled) by Monday, Februmy 23.
HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 234 Esperson Building Houston, Texas 77002
223-9309
OFFICERS
President First Vice-president Second Vice-president Secretary Treasurer Past President
Walter A. Boyd, Jr. (7-1-76) B. C. Phillips (7-1-76) Clyde G. Beckwith (7-1-77) W. L. Tidwell (7-1-77)
Publications Special Publications Directory Bulletin Awards & Student Loans Public Relations Remembrance Historical Finance Advertising Research & Study Academic Liaison Continuing Education Personnel Placement Ballot Entertainment Boy Scouts Library Exhibits Environmental Transportation Field Trip (Co-chairmen)
Membership
Advisor, Museum of Natural Science GCAGS Representative GCAGS Alternate AAPG Group Insurance AAPG Delegate Chairman
Anthony Reso, Tenneco Oil Company 2243122 Stewart Chuber, Consultant 2248395
Martha Lou Brousaard, Rice University 527-4882 Cecll R. Rlves, Independent 467-4088
Dean Grafton, Cities Service Oil Company 6249700 Sabln W. Marshall, Texas Gas Transmission 236-8181
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Columbia Gas Development Corporation 626-8090 Phillips Petroleum Company 797-0066
Continental Oil Company 627-5297 Houston Oil 8 Minerals 236-1212
COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
Gay C. Helm, Jr., Ranger Oil Company Dorls M. Cwrk, Shell Development Company
Wllllam K. Peebks. Houston Pipe Line Company Donald W. Lane, Consultant
Albert Erxleben, Exxon Company, U.S.A. Kenneth Durham, Pennzoil Company
Bllly E. Maxwell, Exxon Company, USA. George H. Gore, Texas Gas Exploration Corporation
lrvlng L. Snider, Newmont Oil Company Kenneth W. Toedter, J. M. Huber Corporation
Cyrus Strong. Shell Oil Company Dan C. Edwards, Ashland Oil, Inc.
W. Tom Spurlock, Tenneco Oil Company Robert A Hank, Mitchell Energy
Albert C. Rassch, Exxon Company, U.S.A. Jeffery V. Morrlo, Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corp.
Tom W. Penn, Penntex Petroleum Company George Carver, Ashland Oil, Inc.
Matthew W. Daura, Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corp. Msrtln M. Sheets, Consultant
Wllliam W. Woolfolk, Marathon Oil Company George W. Hlnds, Photogravity Co., Inc.
Thomns A. Bay, Jr., Shell Development Company Cnlg C. Barclay, Texas Oil and Gas Corp.
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES
Edd R. Turner, Jr., Getty Oil Company Ben J. Sorrell,, Superior Oil Company
Sabln W. Marshall, Texas Gas Transmission John Bremsteller, lnsurance Consultant
John J. Amoruso, Consultant
HGS Bulletln Staff Advertlrlng Prices Per Year
Editor
Donald W. Lane Consultant 461-1837
Advertising Professional Card $ 50.00 W Page $120.00
Kenneth W. Toedter X Page $200:00 J. M. Huber Corp. 'h Page '$360.00
621-8750 Full Page $700.00
BALANCING THE BUDGET
The H.G.S. Executive Committee voted at its January 8, 1976, meeting to ask the membership to amend Section 1, Article IV, of the By-Laws to provide that annual dues shall be $10.00 per year. All active members will receive a mail ballot for this purpose. If an affirmative vote is received, the increase in annual dues will take effect in the fiscal year July 1, 1976-June 30, 1977.
In considering how one might vote, I ask that you take into account the following points:
1) The decision to raiseduesfor next year isaserious matter. Your Executive Committee debated this issue for many months. Financial problems have occupied the majority of time spent at all Executive Committee meetings during this Administration, and thedecision to raisedues was based upon many comprehensive exhibits and financial analyses presented by the Finance Committee and the Treasurer.
FEA FINAL REPORT OIL & GAS RESERVES
The United States had proved reserves of 38.0 billion barrels of crude oil and 240.2 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas as of December 31, 1974, according to the Final Report on Oil and Gas Resources, Reserves, and Productive Capacities released by the Federal Energy Administration.
The FEA report is based on a year-long survey of operators of oil and gas fields in the United States. Responses were received f rom nearly 12,000 active operators representing 97 percent of oil and 95 percent of natural gas production in the Nation.
The report also provides summaries of engineering studies of 59 major domestic oil and/or gas fields represent- ing over half the Nation's proved crudeoil reserves and about 30 percent of U.S. natural gas reserves. These studies were made as an independent check of the reserve estimates submitted by operators.
2) The Society incurred an operating deficit of Information in the report is required under Section 15(b) $1,157.00 last Year, and the latest data project a deficit of of the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974. Additional about $3,500.00 this year. copies are available to the public and may be obtained at the
FEA Press Room, Room 3138, 12th and Pennsylvania 3) Annual dues havenot been increased forsix years. Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
During this time, consumer prices have increased nearly 40 percent. Postage, for example, has increased 116 percent.
4) The proposed annual dues of $10.00 is average compared with the dues required by other local geological
ANNOUNCEMENT
societies. Annual dues to the Dallas Geological Society is AAPG SOUTHWEST SECTION MEETING $10.00; the West Texas Geological Society, $12.00; and the South Texas Geological Society is $15.00, for example. The annual meeting of the Southwest Section of AAPG
will be held in Wichita Falls, Texas, from Sunday, February 28
5) lt is believed that an increase in dues to $10.00 per to Tuesday, March 2, 1976. The theme of the session will be
year will not require any further increase for at least three "Basins of the Southwest-Phase 11." For information con-
years. tact:
This Society cannot sustain its purposeand objectives to promote the advancement of the geological science and communication among geologists in the Houston area with continued financial deficits. I trust that the membership will vote in favor of the proposed increase in dues.
ANTHONY RESO, President Houston Geological Society
SOCIETY CALENDAR FOR MARCH
Chas. E. Davis General Chairman
1025 Oil & Gas Bldg. Wichita Falls. Texas 76301
PERSONNEL PLACEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT
The Society is sponsoring a meeting place for interviews between employers and would-be employees at the 10th Annual Meeting, South-Central Section, of the Geological Society of America. The Convention will be held February 26 and 27 at the Geology Building on the Rice Campus. Numerous placement coordinators are expected to be available.
March 8 Max G. Pitcher Continental Oil Company Interested applicants should bring a resume. Most "Technological Forefronts of Explora- interviews will be held Thursday afternoon. tion."
ROBERT A. HARRIS, Chairman March 31 To be announced Personnel Placement Committee
Houston Geological Soclety Bullet~n. February 1976 1
EVENING MEETING FEBRUARY 9, 1976
J. R. JACKSON, JR. - Biographical Review
Mr. Jackson holds a BSDegree in Geology fromTexas A&M University, andan MA Degree in Geologyfrom University of Texas.
He has had technicaland managerial assign-ments in Venezuela and inmost areas of the UnitedStates and has been in-volved with offshore petro-leum since the start of itsmodern era.
He is a member ofnumerous scientific, pro-fessional, and environmen-
tal organizations. Has served as an officer in the AmericanAssociation for Petroleum Geologists and is currentlyChairman of their Strategic Committee on Public Affairs. Heis past Chairman and current member of the ExecutiveCommittee of the Offshore Technology Conference and isChairman of the American Petroleum Institute AtlanticOffshore Committee.
His current assignment is Manager, Exploration Environ-mental Affairs, Exxon Company, U.S.A., located in Houston,Texas.
INDEPENDENT/MAJOR ROLES INEXPLORATION FOR OIL AND GAS(Abstract)
by: J. R. Jackson, Jr.
Since 1969, the independent segment of the petroleumindustry has drilled about nine out of every ten New FieldWildcat wells in the United States. Significant exploratorysuccesses during this same period were about two percent,or about one out of every 50 wells drilled.
Independents made 75 percent of the New Field Wildcatdiscoveries; however, to obtain a complete picture ofexploration during this time period, the results must bemeasured in the light of reserve additions. Their 75 percentdiscovery rate of New Field Wildcats yielded slightly morethan one-half of the oil and gas reserves found in the UnitedStates during the past five years. The majors with only 25percent of all successful New Field Wildcats discoveredslightly less than one-half of the oil and gas reserves. Thisdoes not include all of the large reserves found by majors at
Prudhoe Bay. Most of the majors' exploration occurred in the
high-cost and high-risk environments of offshore Arctic andultra-deep inland drilling where the average discovery sizehas been substantially larger.
It is clear that both independents' and majors' efforts arevital in oil and gas exploration. Each segment contributes
approximately equal shares of reserves discovered whileexploring in somewhat different environments of risk andcosts. Thus, legislative discrimination against either segmentwill ultimately harm the entire industry and the consumer. Tobegin to meet national goals of greater self-sufficiencyrequires maximizing oil and gas exploration and discoveries.This can best be accomplished by the petroleum industry(which is both independents and majors) as a whole, and notby individual segments.
RECENT DEATH
Dwight J. Edson, President Edson Petroleum Company,died January4, 1976-79 years.
HOUSTON AREA NOMINEESAAPG HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The Houston Geological Society's nominating commit-tee made the following 27 nominations concerning electionof Society delegates and alternates to the AAPG House ofDelegates.
NAME
Anderson, Royce E.Anneler, Joy J.Archer, David C. Jr.Baird, Chester A. Jr.Barclay, Craig C.Bartell, J. Denny
Brinkley, Charles A.Daura, Matthew W.Fleming, Randall J.Fowler, William A. Jr.Guerrero, Richard G.Harris, Jim B.Harris, Robert A.Keprta, George L.Martin, Gene B.McTague, Stephen B. Jr.Norris, Robert P.Null, Dalton L.Osborne, Merton
(Ozzie) M.Rabenold, John K.Rudkin, George H.Scherer, Donald R.Spencer, William H.Suderman, Collis
Peter Jr.Tompkins, Keith V.Tysor, R. ChanUdden, Sam M.
Houston Geological Society Bulletin, February 1976
NOON MEETING FEBRUARY 25, 1976
DR. ROBERT T. TERRI ERE -
Biographical Review
Dr. Robert T. Terriereis employed in the Explora-tion/Production ResearchLaboratory of Cities Ser-vice Company in Tulsa,Oklahoma. Currently, he isa Research Associate withthe additional assignmentof research in sedimentol-ogy, petrology, and geo-chemistry. He received hisacademic training at CalTech, B.S.; Penn State,M.S.; and the University ofTexas, Ph.D. Dr. Terrierebegan his professional
career with the USGS but has been with Cities Service inresearch assignments since 1958. He has worked on avarietyof geological problems, most of them concerned withcarbonate rocks.
GEOLOGY OF THE JAMES LIMESTONE,FAIRWAY FIELD, EAST TEXAS(Abstract)
by: Robert T. Terriere
The Fairway.Field of Anderson and Henderson Counties,Texas, is a major oil field in a reef and reef-associated faciesof the Lower Cretaceous James Limestone. This is an
unusually good example of a subsurface reef, undolomitizedand with a variety of depositional textures well preserved,though the trap itself is partly structural.
From the texture and fossil content recognizable in coresit is possible to classify the limestone into several types. Mapsof the distribution of these rock types during successivestages of reef development show that the reef proper,characterized by corals, stromatoporoLds, algae, and rudists,grew initially in the northwest part of the field. Subsequentlythis center of growth spread over a larger area and satellitereefs appeared in the south and west. A distinctive faciescharacterized by large bivalves occupied much of the areabetween the reefs. The south-central part of the area of thepresent field was the site of persistent accumulation ofcarbonate sand and gravel. Carbonate muds and muddysands were the dominant sediments elsewhere.
Porosity and permeability are present in all the limestonetypes and are slightly higher, on the average, in some reef-associated limestones than in the reef proper. The porosity is
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mostly secondary, though initial porosity has partly con-trolled leaching.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
A nine hour course titled "Exploration Economics" willbe presented by Mr. R. E. Megill on March 9,10, and 11 in theExxon Building Auditorium from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. This issponsored by the Houston Geological Society as part of itsContinuing Education Program for 1976. Cost is $20 forstudents, $25 for participants that pre-register, and $30 forregistration at the door. (Seeenclosed pre-registration form.)This will include a copy of the text, "Introduction toE;'~loration Economics" by R. E. Megill, which will be used inthe course. Only the first 500 registrations will be accepted.
Mr. Megill is Coordinator of Planning in the Analysissection of Headquarters Exploration for Exxon Company,U.S.A. He has served in various capacities in his 32 years withExxon, including posts in economics as well as DivisionPlanning Manager for two of Exxon inland divisions.
The object of "Exploration Economics" is to provide atruly introductory course in the economics of the search forhydrocarbons. Cash flow analysis, present value concepts,yardsticks for investment selection, and risk analysis arereviewed. The course is not for the expert, but for thebeginner who wants to learn about the application ofeconomics, mathematics, and geology to making the bestinvestments in the search for oil and gas.
W. T. Spurlock, ChairmanContinuing Education Committee
GCAGSANNOUNCEMENTS
The 26th Annual Meeting of the Gulf Coast Associationof Geological Societies will be held in Shreveport, Louisiana,October 13-15, 1976.
The Awards Committee is pleased to announce thefollowing recipients of the Best Paper Awards at the 1975G.C.A.G.S. Convention in Jackson, Mississippi:
First Place Award: W. L. Seal and J. A.Gilreath:Vermilion Block 16 Field, Irregular Reser-voir Performance.
Second Place and A. I. Leverson Award:John Myers:Petroleum Geology of Choctaw County,Alabama.
Third Place Award: Bruce Baganz, JohnHorne and John Ferm:
Carboniferous and Recent MississippiLower Delta Plains.
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HOUSTON DIPLODOCUS
BY: EDD R. TURNER1
The Houston Diplodocus, who roamed a warm coastal swamp in the Powder River area of Wyoming about 140,000,000 years ago during the late Jurassic Period, has traveled farther in the past 74 years than in all the eons prior. This magnificent reptile now stands ensconced in the Alfred C. Glassell Hall of the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Hermann Park. Its formal debut was observed in November by museum members and visitors who attended the presentation ceremony at which Dr. Waun Langston, Uni- versity of Texas professor of geological sciences, announced his completion of the five-year task of reconstructing and assembling the skeleton for display.
world. Its lively pose may dispel the notion, long fostered in textbooks, that Diplodocus was a sluggish beast of the swamps and marshes. However Diplodocus may have once lived, it is now a center of attraction in the Houston Museum of Natural Science."
"Dinosaurology" dates back only to 1825, when the first dinosaur bone was recognized by Dr. Gideon Mantell, an English physician, who named it lguanodon because its teeth resembled those of a huge iguana lizard. In 1842 another English physician, Dr. Richard Owen, proposed the term Dinosauria to include lguanodon and a few other giant reptiles that had been recently discovered.
Houston's dinosaur was collected in 1902 by a Carnegie Museum sponsored expedition. Diplodocus, pronounced di- plod-o-cus, was crated and shipped back to Pittsburgh where it languished in storage until acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in 1956. In 1965 the Junior League of Houston gave $15,000 for the purchase of bones which were still in their original packing crates. Finally in 1969, when the Houston Museum moved into its new building in Hermann Park, there was for the first time room to spread out the bones and thereby to learn that the total length of the animal was 70 feet.
The first dinosaur remains discovered in the United States were scattered teeth and toe bones from Montana and South Dakota which were described in 1856 by Dr. Joseph Leidy of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Two years later a duck-billed dinosaur skeleton was found in New Jersey, and Dr. Leidy named it Hadrosaurus. These bones were mounted in the Academy in 1868.
In the latter part of the 1800's great beds of dinosaur bones were discovered in Wyoming, and in 1909 Earl
Dr. Langston, who in addition to his professional duties is Director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the University of Texas Balcones Research Center and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology for the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin, moved the entire skeleton to the Balcones Center in 1970 and began the reconstruction of damaged and missing bones. Although designated as Specimen CM 662, in its present assembled state the left femur of the dinosaur is from CM 94 and the skull is a cast of CM 1161.
Dr. Langston also designed the metal framework which supports the skeleton, a unique feature of the Houston mount, since a minimum of steel is visible. Two posts, one between the front and the other between the hind legs, support the entire weight of the axial skeleton, approximately 2 tons. Unlike other large dinosaur mounts elsewhere, there are no distracting props beneath the neck and tail.
Douglass, as a member of a Carnegie supported search, found the first dinosaur remains in a cliff in eastern Utah, an area which was set aside as Dinosaur National Monument in 1915 by President Woodrow Wilson.
Although there are a number of dinosaur skeletons mounted in museums around the world, there are only five of the Diplodocus. Examples of the reptile, which stood about 12feet tall at the hipsand weighed 10to 12 tons, aredisplayed by the Smithsonian Institute, the Carnegie, Denver, and Houston museums in the United States; the fifth specimen is in a German museum.
The name Diplodocus means double-beam and refers to the unusual double spines that extend upward and outward from the neck and vertebrae. The double spines were undoubtedly an adaptation for increasing the effectiveness of the powerful neck muscles.
"To assure adequate strength in the beam holding the long neck, a computer was used to check the stresses and to select the pattern for the steel framework. During final construction, when the neck bones were placed in position on their supporting beam, the head sagged less than an inch," Dr. T. E. Pulley, Director of the Houston Museum of Natural Science has pointed out, adding, "The new Diplodo- cus in the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Hall has been acclaimed by dinosaur specialists as the best displayed mount in all the
Diplodocus remains in Texas are found only in Dallam County at the tip of the Panhandle, but a state park has been established near Glen Rose in Somervell County where a number of dinosaur tracks and trails are evident. Dinosaur tracks are found in other parts of Texas as well; some of the better preserved ones are located in Bandera County. It therefore seems most appropriate that we should have this handsome specimen in the Houston Museum.
'Getty Oil, Houston, Tx. The author is most grateful to Dr. T. E. Pulley, Director of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, for supplying much of the background data for this article.
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ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE REPORT
The following statement was included as part of the record of the E.P.A. Hearing on Hazardous Waste Manage- ment held at the Holiday Inn Medical Center, Houston, Texas, December 9, 1975.
Geologists of the Houston area are very concerned about the subject problems and feel that they can make a useful contribution to their solution. To that end, they submit the following statement:
Storage, general: As far as practical, storage of hazard- ous wastes should be confined to topographically undrained basins, so that any spills which occur could not find their way into the ocean. Such basins are common in the western U.S.
In areas such as the Gulf Coast and all other salt basins, salt deposits may provide the most versatile and safest medium of storage.
Where useful and practical, it is suggested that wastes should be converted to pellets, heavy mud slurries, or mixed in cement in order to immobilize such wastes.
Regarding sites: All plants producing and/or storing hazardous wastes should be located far away from streams, rivers and oceans, because spillage into a river or the ocean would be absolutely uncontrollable.
Geological aspects of subsidence and active surface faulting: In the Gulf Coast, and no doubt many other areas, surface faults are actively moving. Such movement may result in rupture of pipelines, storage tanks and other surface handling facilities. It could also cause railroad derailments and damage to other modes of transportation.
Near sea level, subsidence of the land surface makes storage and handling facilities more vulnerable to damage from hurricanes and other storms. Such surface subsidence is occurring in the Houston vicinity and many other areas and will continue to be a problem.
Such geologic problems are not peculiar to the Gulf Coast and no doubt also apply to a greater or lesser degree in many other areas. It is recommended that consultation with a thoroughly trained and experienced local geologist be made part of every project.
Disposal: We would agree with some others that, where practical, the best method of disposal should include detoxification and recycling.
Monitoring: All phases of hazardous waste management should be very carefully and continually monitored. Consid- eration should be given to making non radioactive wastes slightly (but not dangerously) radioactive to facilitate monitoring. It would seem that the transportation phase of the hazardous waste management problem is perhaps the most difficult to monitor, and at the same time the area in which the greatest improvement is needed. Two truck trans- porters presented ideas at this hearing, but no representa- tives of any railroad or barge company presented any statement. All such people should be pressed into service to help solve the problems. All present regulations regarding transportation should be rigorously enforced.
Penalties: Waste disposal management is a very serious responsibility, in some cases involving great risks. It is extremely important that violations be eliminated and violators apprehended. To that end it is recommended that very severe penalties be imposed, perhaps scaled according to the severity of the hazard orthe resulting possibledamage. In this regard it is imperative that all persons involved be thoroughly educated as to the seriousness of the problem.
MARTIN M. SHEETS Chairman
NEWS OF MEMBERS
HAROLD BAKER, recently with Texaco has accepted a position with Western Oceanic as planning geologist, as of January 5th.
BRUCE DICE, formerly with Odeco in New Orleans, has accepted position as Chief Geologist Offshore with Transco Exploration as of the first of the year.
E. D. (DOUG) HAYMOND, formerly Gulf Coast Manager with Sundance Oil Co., has opened an office as independent Petroleum Geologist at 442 The Main Bldg. Phone is 236- 8496.
CLYDE HARRISON has resigned from Conoco to open an office for Burns Exploration.
DON LANE has opened an office as consulting geologist at 12214 Mossycup Drive. Phone is 461-1637. He was formerly Manager of Exploration Geology for Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. in Houston
RICE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY WEDNESDAY SEMINARS
Room 106, E,
February 4
February 11
February 18
February 26
Donald W. Lane, Consultant Phosphoria-Goose Egg stratigraphy in Wyoming
Gary Lofgren, NASA Basalt: an experimental crystallization study of a dynamic system
Hal H. Bybee, Conoco Our Energy problem and theenvironmen- tal concern
NO seminar (South Central GSA Meeting)
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IN MEMORIAM HUGH ALLEN BERNARD 1914-1975
Dr. Hugh Allen Bernard, a member of the Houston Geological Society for nearly twenty-five years, died at his home in Houston on October 24, 1975. He was 60 years old.
Hugh Allen was born in New Iberia, Louisiana-along the banks of Bayou Teche. Upon completion of his high school education in New I beria he attended Southwestern Louisiana lnstitute in Lafayette for a brief period; then he transferred to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in geology at LSU prior to World War 11. When the war came along he was working on his doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin. He immediately joined the Navy as a Lieutenant j.g. After a brief assignment in New Orleans he was transferred to the Navy Hydrographic Office in Washington D.C. where he spent the entire war.
While Hugh Allen was in Washington he met a very lovely Wave from St. Louis, Missouri by the name of Laverne Forchee. They were married on March 25, 1944.
Following the war he joined the Geology Faculty at SLI and resumed his studies for his doctorate. Under the guidance of Dr. H. N. Fisk he mapped the geology of Jasper and Newton Counties in southeast Texas and obtained his PhD at LSU in 1950.
In 1950 Shell Oil Company wasvery fortunate to be able to employ Dr. Bernard as a Consultant. Two years later he and oneof his favoritestudents, Blair S. Parrott, joined Shell's Exploration Research Staff in Houston. Dr. Bernard con- ducted research on Recent Sediments for over 15 years. By the late fifties he had already attained international recogni- tion as one of the world's foremost authorities on alluvial point bar, deltaic and barrier island sedimentation.
The results of his research had a very significant impact on Shell's exploration activities. He conducted seminars and field trips on clastic sedimentation for hundreds of Shell geologists in Houston and The Hague. His great ability as a teacher enabled him to share his knowledge with nearly every geologist within the Shell Group in North America and abroad. He was known, admired and respected by several hundred Shell geologists.
Barney was a member of AAPG, GSA Fellow and SEPM. He represented Shell on several committees and was on the editorial board of Marine Geology.
Barney really enjoyed life. I thinkoneof thethings that he enjoyed the most was to spend his vacations in Bayou Teche Country-especially in the Atchafalaya Swamps. No one can deny that he did not get his fair share of Louisiana crayfish and shrimp every year. The members of our Society will always remember the evening when his friends from New Iberia came to Houston to cook about 300 gallonsof gumbo in a large sugar pot. The affair was was known as "THE BIG POT GUMBO".
Hugh Allen Bernard had more close friends than most of us and he was known by a variety of names. During his early days at SLI his friends called him Flat. At LSU we all called him Boo. His Navy friends in Washington called him Barney. While he attended the University of Texas he was known as Hugh. His Shell assistants respectfully called him Doctor B. Members of his family in Teche Country called him Allen. Thus, since I had the great privilege of knowing him for over forty years I had the options to call him as Flat, Boot, Barney, Hugh, Allen or Hugh Allen. My favorite name was, of course, Boo-a name given to him by Professor Hal Fisk during our early days at LSU. Laverne preferred to call him by his Navy name, Barney.
The members of this Society, the geological profession, the petroleum industry and the Bernard family and friends suffered a great loss when Dr. Hugh Allen Bernard passed away. We lost a brilliant scientist, a dedicated teacher and a great personality.
Barney is survived by his wife, Laverne, four daughters, one son, four grandchildren, his mother who is 94 years old, one sister, three brothers and hundreds of friends.
R. J. LeBlanc December 1975
IN MEMORIAM BASIL B. ZAVOICO 1899 - 1975
Basil B. Zavoico, Consulting Geologist and Petroleum Engineer in New York City, died in Doctors' Hospital, New York on April 11, 1975. He was buried in the Russian Cemetary in New York.
Basil was born in 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He attended the First College of St. Petersburg and the Moscow lnstitute of Technology after which he became Major in the White Russian Army during 1917-1918. He immigrated to the United States of America and was naturalized a United States Citizen and was graduated as a Petroleum Engineer by Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology in 1924.
His professional career began with Sinclair Oil and Gas Company from 1924-1928; then was a Consulting Geologist, Engineer & Economist from 1928-1936 in Tulsa, Houston, and New York City. From 1936-1943 he acted in the same capacity for the Chase National Bank in the Department of Petroleum Economics in Houston and New York City. In 1943 he became Assistant Director. Reserves and Programs Division, Petroleum Administration for War in Washington, D.C. Basil returned to Houston in 1944 as a consultant; he then moved to New York City in 1952. In his professional capacity he had been responsible for oil and gas discoveries in California, Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma and Texas.
Basil, in 1925, joined the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He was also a member of the American lnstitute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers; American Petroleum Institute; American Chemi-
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cal Society; Society of Exploration Geophysicists; Western UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, Oil & Gas Association; Independent Petroleum Association DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY of America; American Association for the Advancement of TUESDAY AFTERNOON SEMINARS Science; American Geological Institute; American Geo- physical Union; Houston Geological Society; South Texas All Presentations Will Be at 12:OO Noon Geological Society; Shreveport Geological Society, and New Orleans Geological Society. February 3
Basil is survived by his wife, Irina, at their home Cronamere, 106 Beachside Avenue, Greens Farms, Con- necticut and also two sons and one daughter; Basil, Jr., George and Vera.
AAPG Professional Building AIPG 10405 Town & Country Way GS A Houston, Texas 77024
DONALD U'. LANE
February 10
February 17
February 19
February 24
Dr. Peter R. Vail, Exxon Production Research, "Eustatic Cycles Interpreted from Seismic Data" Room 634 Science and Research Building
Dr. Fred Hilterman, Department of Geol- ogy. University of Houston, "Seismic Modeling-A Method of Interpretation" Room 634 Science and Research Building
Dr. David Criswell, Lunar Science Insti- tute, Houston, Texas, "Booming Dunes" Room 315 Science and Research Building
ASeries of Three 15-Minute Presentations (A Prelude to the South Central GSA Meeting)
Mr. David King, Department of Geology, University of Houston, "Depositional Environments of the Cambrian System of Central Texas"
Dr. Henry Chafetz, Department of Geolo- gy, University of Houston, "Depositional Environment and Diagenesis of Carbon- ate Lenses in the Lion Mountain Sand- stone, Riley Formation, Central Texas"
Mr. Bob Robinson, Department of Geolo- gy, University of Houston, "Stratigraphy and Sedimentary History of Member 9 (Informal) of the Rawls Formation, Pre- sidio County, Texas"
Room 315 Science and Research Building
A Seriesof Three 15-Minute Presentations Room 315 Science and Research Building (A prelude to the South Central GSA Meeting)
Dr. Max F. Carman, Department of Geol- ogy, University of Houston. "Petrology and Alkali Feldspars of the Lake Ament Microsyenite Plug, Big Bend Region, Texas"
Mr. Celal Sengor, Department of Geology, University of Houston, "Rift Valley Forma- tion as a Combined Result of Parting and Uplift"
Mr. David S. Pettus, Department of Geology, University of Houston, "Ultra- mafic Nodules from a Basalt Flow near Llera. Tamaul~pas, Mexico"
Houston Geolog~cal Soclely Bullet~n. February 1976 7
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Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists, ann. mtg. Oklahoma City. (C.W. Smith, 2309 First National Center, Oklahoma City 73102).
I (Deadline for advance registration is February 12)
I I 10th Annual Meeting of the South-Central Section I The Geological Society of America I February 26-27, 1975 I William Marsh Rice University, Houston. Texas I
Feb. 22-26 I
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgi- cal and Petroleum Engineers, ann. mtg. Las Vegas. (AIME headquarters, 345 East 47th St., New York 10017). I NAME
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I I Feb. 26-27 South-Central Section, Geological Socie- ty of America, ann. mtg. Houston. (Fred Handy, Geological Society of America, 3300 Penrose Place, Boulder, Colorado 80301).
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Cl TY S T A T E & ZIP I I I I Feb. 29/Mar. 2 I I I I
REGISTRATION FEES Southwest Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, ann. mtg. Wichi- ta Falls, Texas. (AAPG headquarters, Box 979, Tulsa 74101).
Advance registration.
Regularfee . . .
Student fee w ~ t h current ID card
Banquet Thursday Feb 26, Race Campus Speaker Lt Gov W ~ l l ~ a r n P Hobby of Texas
I I March 22-26 TOTAL Federal interagency sedimentation con-
ference, Denver. (John N. Holeman, Soil Conservation Service, U.S.D.A., Room 5247, South Agriculture Building, Wash- ington, D.C., 20250) (October, December '74)
I I I I I I I March 25-27 I
Make all checks payable to SOUTH-CENTRAL SECTION, GSA.
Pleare fill in name and address only. D o not detach. Northeastern & Southeastern sections, Geological Society of America, ann. mtg, Arlington, Va. (Fred Handy, GSA head- quarters, 3300 Penrose Place, Boulder, Colo., 80301)
I 0 Adv. registr $ N A M E I
I 0 Regularfee $- I ADDRESS
I 0 Student fee $- I
I 0 Bansuet $- C I T Y I
I 0 Field trip 1 $ STATE & ZIP March 28-31 Rocky Mountain Section, American Asso- ciation of Petroleum Geologists, ann. mtg, Billings, Mont. (AAPG headquarters, Box 979, Tulsa, 74101)
I 0 Field t r ~ p 2 $- I Payment in US. dollars.
I O Field trip 3 $ No refunds o n advance registration. I I I I TOTAL $ I I April 12-16 I I
American Geophysical Union, ann. mtg, Washington, D.C. (AGU headquarters. 1909 K St. NW, Washington, D.C., 20006) I Clip out and return this form with payment to John A. S. Adams, I
Local Committee Chairman, Department of Geology, Rice Univer- , I rity, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77001. I I April21-24 I - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I
Pacific Sections of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Economic Paleontologists & Mineralo- gists, Society of Exploration Geophysi- cists, ann. mtg, San Francisco. (Pacific Section AAPG, Box 17486, Foy Station, Los Angeles, 9001 7)
ANNOUNCEMENT RESOURCES TALK
BRIAN SKINNER, Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, will lecture on "Mineral Resources from a Finite Earth" at The Houston Oaks Hotel, February 20, in a program sponsored by The Yale Club of Houston. The lecture is in Consort I at 5 p.m. For further details, call Nick Tingley (656-6510).
Houston Geolog~cal Society Bulletin. February 1976
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