2010-2011 Officers President John Wicks J L Wicks Exploration 148 E. Liberty St. Wooster, OH 44691 (330) 466-4283 [email protected]Vice President Bill Arnholt Northwood Energy Corp. 941 Chatham Lane Columbus, OH 43221 (614) 457-1024 [email protected]Secretary Amy Lang Forman Energy, Ltd. P.O. Box 340346 Columbus, OH 43234 (614) 717-9262 [email protected]Treasurer Alison Nutter Elite Seismic Processing, Inc. 1927 Tamarack Rd. Newark, OH 43055 (740) 788-8836 [email protected]The Newsletter of the Ohio Geological Society April 2011 50 th Anniversary 1961-2011 OGS APRIL MEETING TO FEATURE MICHAEL CAMPBELL SPEAKING ON THE URANIUM AND NUCLEAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES Happy springtime to all, do you feel it yet? Our meeting last month at the OOGA Winter Meeting drew record attendance. By all accounts, Jim Coleman’s Marcellus talk was informative and stimulating. While some described it as “big picture,” there was a little consternation among some attendees over Jim’s perceived cavalier treatment of the Ohio Utica Shale hydrocarbon production potential. As key production tests are still not public, the potential remains unknown, but momentum appears to be growing in the Utica as more producers are coming to Ohio to stake acreage positions. Devon Energy hosted a technical presentation last month in Columbus where some Ohio producers were encouraged to sell Devon portions of their leasehold. Prior to the presentation, Devon had obtained positions in over 70,000 acres. You will not want to miss this month’s meeting on April 21 st where Michael Campbell will discuss the state of the 2011 uranium industry and issues surrounding the nuclear energy debate. Michael is a member of the OGS and the current president of the Energy Minerals Division of the AAPG. He is well-known nationally and overseas for his work as a consultant and lecturer in hydrogeology, mining, and associated environmental and geotechnical fields. His talk is particularly timely and it will be interesting to hear Michael’s perspective on the recent disaster at Fukushima. Space may be limited, so contact Bill Arnholt for a reservation ([email protected]). Further details on the meeting are provided elsewhere in this newsletter. State Science Day will be held Saturday May 7 th at the French Field House, The Ohio State University. OGS sponsors some of the awards and pays out over $1,000 in prize money to authors of worthy geosciences projects. We are looking for a few good minds within our ranks to decide how to distribute the prize money. Take this opportunity to see firsthand the geoscientists of the future and witness the extraordinary creativity of young minds. These judge positions are highly sought after, so don’t hesitate to contact Amy Lang to sign up ([email protected]). Congratulations to OGS members Tom Atha and Doyle Watts for recently being approved for active membership in the AAPG! We are still encouraging our members to join and become Active Members of AAPG as it gives us better representation in the larger organization. Check out our ad in the April issue of the AAPG Explorer magazine. This complimentary ad is just one example of the benefits of our AAPG association. We were pleased by the response last month to our call for committee chairs and members for the 2012 Eastern Section Meeting which OGS will host. There are still plenty of spots open for your participation. Being active in putting together a successful, high quality event such as this is both rewarding and fun. Get involved now by contacting Pete MacKenzie or Steve Zody ([email protected], [email protected]). As usual, thanks for your continued participation in OGS. John Wicks An Affiliate (1963) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
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2010-2011 Officers President John Wicks J L Wicks Exploration 148 E. Liberty St. Wooster, OH 44691 (330) 466-4283 [email protected] Vice President Bill Arnholt Northwood Energy Corp. 941 Chatham Lane Columbus, OH 43221 (614) 457-1024 [email protected] Secretary Amy Lang Forman Energy, Ltd. P.O. Box 340346 Columbus, OH 43234 (614) 717-9262 [email protected] Treasurer Alison Nutter Elite Seismic Processing, Inc. 1927 Tamarack Rd. Newark, OH 43055 (740) 788-8836 [email protected]
The Newsletter of the Ohio Geological Society April 2011
50th Anniversary 1961-2011
OGS APRIL MEETING TO FEATURE MICHAEL CAMPBELL SPEAKING ON THE URANIUM AND NUCLEAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES
Happy springtime to all, do you feel it yet? Our meeting last month at the OOGA Winter Meeting drew record attendance. By all accounts, Jim Coleman’s Marcellus talk was informative and stimulating. While some described it as “big picture,” there was a little consternation among some attendees over Jim’s perceived cavalier treatment of the Ohio Utica Shale hydrocarbon production potential. As key production tests are still not public, the potential remains unknown, but momentum appears to be growing in the Utica as more producers are coming to Ohio to stake acreage positions. Devon Energy hosted a technical presentation last month in Columbus where some Ohio producers were encouraged to sell Devon portions of their leasehold. Prior to the presentation, Devon had obtained positions in over 70,000 acres. You will not want to miss this month’s meeting on April 21st where Michael Campbell will discuss the state of the 2011 uranium industry and issues surrounding the nuclear energy debate. Michael is a member of the OGS and the current president of the Energy Minerals Division of the AAPG. He is well-known nationally and overseas for his work as a consultant and lecturer in hydrogeology, mining, and associated environmental and geotechnical fields. His talk is particularly timely and it will be interesting to hear Michael’s perspective on the recent disaster at Fukushima. Space may be limited, so contact Bill Arnholt for a reservation ([email protected]). Further details on the meeting are provided elsewhere in this newsletter. State Science Day will be held Saturday May 7th at the French Field House, The Ohio State University. OGS sponsors some of the awards and pays out over $1,000 in prize money to authors of worthy geosciences projects. We are looking for a few good minds within our ranks to decide how to distribute the prize money. Take this opportunity to see firsthand the geoscientists of the future and witness the extraordinary creativity of young minds. These judge positions are highly sought after, so don’t hesitate to contact Amy Lang to sign up ([email protected]). Congratulations to OGS members Tom Atha and Doyle Watts for recently being approved for active membership in the AAPG! We are still encouraging our members to join and become Active Members of AAPG as it gives us better representation in the larger organization. Check out our ad in the April issue of the AAPG Explorer magazine. This complimentary ad is just one example of the benefits of our AAPG association. We were pleased by the response last month to our call for committee chairs and members for the 2012 Eastern Section Meeting which OGS will host. There are still plenty of spots open for your participation. Being active in putting together a successful, high quality event such as this is both rewarding and fun. Get involved now by contacting Pete MacKenzie or Steve Zody ([email protected], [email protected]). As usual, thanks for your continued participation in OGS. John Wicks
An Affiliate (1963) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
and Vice President and Chief Geologist/Hydrogeologist
I2M Associates, LLC Houston and Seattle
Abstract In this presentation, I will first briefly discuss the recent activities of the Energy Minerals Division of AAPG and of its various commodity committees. I will then discuss a range of topics involving uranium exploration and nuclear power. This will range from the pros & cons of nuclear power to public concerns, and to exploration, development and production practices and anticipated yellowcake prices. I will then discuss the typical concerns still expressed by many anti-nuclear groups and by the media serving them, including various unrealistic expectations they hold, various forms of mis-information they believe, and various half-truths they circulate. With the above as background, I’ll summarize current conditions and our expectations on the energy picture over the next 30 years, specifically to generate electricity in the U.S., in terms of both small- and large-scale nuclear plants, and in terms of the future source of nuclear fuel (yellowcake) produced in the U.S. and overseas, where new deposits are being discovered at an increasing rate, and perhaps even from the Moon in the foreseeable future.
Historic Newsletters and Membership Directories Online The Ohio Geological Society has been preparing for the 50th Anniversary of the Society for the last few years. From 2006-2008, the Society and AAPG teamed together on a project to scan and archive all the Society's publications on CD-ROM. This past year, the Society has started scanning all the archive newsletters and membership directories. These projects are currently ongoing. If you look at the OGS web site, under the Newsletters page: http://www.ohgeosoc.org/newsletters.html you can see that newsletters have been scanned and placed on the web site going back to August 1983. I've included a paragraph from the August 1983 newsletter, written by Ralph Bernhagen, giving a brief history of the Ohio Geological Society (figure 1).
Figure 1 – Portion of the August 1983 OGS Newsletter describing the history of the Ohio Geological Society. The Historical Membership Directories have their own web page: http://www.ohgeosoc.org/memberdir.html The Society has membership directories going back to 1964. One of the more interesting items in the older membership directories is that they contain the members photos (figure 2).
igure 2 – Pages 9 and 10 of the 1964 OGS Membership Directory. F
If you happen to look at the newsletters web page, you will notice that we are missing a number of months worth of newsletters. More importantly, we are missing any newsletters that go back beyond August 1983. If you happen to have any newsletters that are missing from our list, or have any newsletters that are older than August 1983, please consider lending us
e original newsletters. We will scan the loaned newsletter, return your original, and place the scanned copy on the web site. th As for the membership directories, we have a pretty complete collection that is in the process of being scanned. But that does not mean that the collection is complete. If you happen to have a membership directory that has not been scanned and is not listed on the web site to be scanned, please consider lending us the membership directory. We will scan it and return the
riginal back to you. o If you have any newsletters or membership directories you would like to loan, please contact Jim McDonald, email: [email protected], phone (614) 265-6601.
Friday, May 20th 12:00 pm, lunch will be provided
Horace R. Collins Laboratory 3307 South Old State Road
Delaware, OH 43015
Please RSVP for the lunch and/or meeting to Bill Arnholt at [email protected] or 614-457-1024
Historical Vignettes of Ohio Geology
Mark J. Camp – University of Toledo Ohio has a long history, far beyond its rise to statehood in 1803, far beyond its first European settlers, Native Americans, and paleo-indians. Great masses of ice once spread slowly, back and forth, across all but the southeastern hills, shaping the state as we know it. Rivers and streams adjusted themselves to the new terrain—the Teays disappeared; the Ohio developed. Other great rivers carved new channels and sometimes reversed directions. Hidden and disguised by the glaciers is evidence of more ancient times when swamp forests and fields of scouring rushes carpeted the shore of an inland sea and distant rising mountains shed clastics across what is now eastern Ohio; when sail-back reptiles and large salamander-like amphibians were at the top of the food chain; when reefs flourished in shallow sub-tropical waters; and when volcanoes spread ash and lava flowed from fissures.
This is just a sampling of what made the compiling of Roadside Geology of Ohio such a rewarding accomplishment. It was written with an emphasis on history, not just geologic time, but continuing to the scientific study of the state’s geology and our use of geologic resources. The book presents the geology in geologic order of the bedrock and surficial sediments, starting with a discussion of the western till plains underlain by the oldest strata and proceeding to the Upper Paleozoic strata of the Allegheny Plateau, and finishing with Lake Erie’s shoreline and the Ohio Valley. Along the way the reader will discover noteworthy mineral and fossil localities such as Linton and Clay Center, Ohio’s first oil well dating to 1814, centers of building stone production including Amherst, Buena Vista, and McDermott, early grindstone manufacture at Berea and Marietta, brick and tile plants and potteries utilizing Ohio’s diverse clay and underclay deposits, mines and quarries, Ohio’s obscure natural bridges, notable caves, glacial grooves, seismic centers including Anna and Ashtabula, and some Ohio residents that left a legacy in geology.
Mark J. Camp completed the writing of Roadside Geology of Ohio in 2005. The Associate Professor of Geology in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Toledo had been compiling historical files and photos of Midwest geology since the 1970s when an opportunity came to author Roadside Geology of Indiana in the 1990s. Mark’s interest in Indiana geology came during his two year stay at Earlham College’s Geology Department from 1974-1976, his first academic position. The successful completion of the Indiana book in 1998 with help from co-author G.T. Richardson led logically to the Ohio book.
Mark’s early research focused on Pleistocene nonmarine Mollusca, but in later years his interest has been in the history of geology and building stone use. He has interwoven his other interest--railroad depots—into his geologic studies by compiling data on the use of dimension stone in railroad construction. He currently serves the Ohio Academy of Science as Director of Northwest Ohio District 2 Science Day and maintains the website of the Railroad Station Historical Society as a National Director. He received a M.S. in geology from the University of Toledo in 1972 and a Ph.D from The Ohio State University in 1974. He lives in Toledo with his wife Pamela.
James Anderson URS Corporation – Cleveland, OH James Bauder Bauder Certified Earth Sciences, Inc. – Canton, OH Kevin Coffman Protégé Energy II LLC – Tulsa, OK Charles Cutter Cutter Oil Company – West Salem, OH Chris Figge Westerville, OH Ryan Frank Eastern Kentucky University - Loveland, OH Mark Freshwater OGIA Insurance Agency – Grove City, OH Ababu Gelaye CTL Engineering, Inc. – Columbus, OH Larry Graves L.S. Graves Associates, Inc. – Columbus, OH Steven Grubbs Bauder Certified Earth Sciences, Inc. – Canton, OH Duana Guinty Golden Acres Farm – Arkansas City, KS Patrick McGonagle Appalachian Geophysical Services – Columbus, OH Kevin Miller EnerVest – Charleston, WV Rodney Sheets U.S. Geological Survey – Columbus, OH Steven Sigler Buckeye Oil Producing Co. – Wooster, OH James Thomka University of Cincinnati – Cincinnati, OH Edmund Wagoner Edmund L. Wagoner, Esq. – Gans, PA Kevin Weese Interden Industries, Inc. – Lakeville, OH
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Geological Survey, has launched its new online store: www.OhioGeologyStore.com. Geologists, engineers, industry, public agencies, educators, and rock hounds of all types will find many useful products, including maps, guidebooks, technical reports and geologic investigations, books, and posters. Customers can browse selected publications, featuring images and descriptions of each product, from the comfort of a home or office. Customers also can easily move from the online store to the division’s website to access free downloads, interactive maps, and additional news and information about Ohio’s geology. While publications still can be ordered by phone or by visiting the Geologic Records Center on the ODNR main campus in Columbus, the Ohio Geology Store provides a valuable, modernized means of accessing more than 170 years of geologic information and data.
April 21 OGS Meeting Michael Campbell - I2M Associates, LLC Ramada Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, Columbus, OH www.ohgeosoc.org May 7 State Science Day The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH www.ohiosci.org May 20 OGS Meeting Historical Vignettes of Ohio Geology Mark Camp – University of Toledo Horace R. Collins Laboratory, Delaware, OH www.ohgeosoc.org June 23-25 Oil History Symposium Marietta, OH http://petroleumhistory.org/ August 1-2 OOGA Summer Meeting Zanesville Country Club, Zanesville, OH www.ooga.org September 15 OGS Golf Outing Chapel Hill Golf Course, Mount Vernon, OH www.chapelhillgolfcourse.com September ES AAPG Meeting 25-27 Hyatt Regency-Crystal City, Washington D.C. www.gswweb.org
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President John Wicks Vice President Bill Arnholt Secretary Amy Lang Treasurer Alison Nutter Trustees Don Jennings Frank Majchszak Clark Scheerens Nicole Venteris Steve Zody AAPG Delegates John Forman Larry Wickstrom Alternate Paul Archer Steve Zody Webmaster Jim McDonald
The in-print publications of the Ohio Geological Society may be purchased from the Ohio Division of Geological Survey. Members of the Society receive a discount; the member price is in parentheses (M:). For more information on the Society, write the Ohio Geological Society, P.O. Box 14304, Columbus, OH 43214. OGS 4. Clinton sandstone papers presented at the Ohio Oil and Gas Association Winter Meetings 1961 to 1978 (abridged reprint of 1980 volume). 228 p., 1985. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 5. The new Clinton collection--1985, edited by Jack Gray, Andy Maslowski, Warren McCullough, and W. E. Shafer (2nd printing). This edition includes a transcript of "Deeper Clinton-Medina drilling in southeastern Ohio" from a March 1986 Ohio Geological Society meeting. 257 p., 1985. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 7. Computer-aided analysis of geologic data, edited by Lawrence H. Wickstrom. A collection of papers from a seminar presented at the 1987 AAPG Eastern Section meeting. 100 p., 1987. $15.00 (M: $12.00). OGS 8. Maps and cross sections of the Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of central Ohio, by G. G. Shearrow. 31 p., 8 pls., 1987. $12.00 (M: $10.00). OGS 10. The Ohio Geological Society anthology, the Morrow County, Ohio "oil boom" 1961-1967 and the Cambro-Ordovician reservoir of central Ohio, edited by William E. Shafer. 452 p., 1994. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 14. Ohio Geological Society Fifth Annual Technical Symposium. Proceedings from the November 1997 technical symposium held in Akron, Ohio. 11 papers. 117 p., 1997. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 15. Petroleum seismology in the digital age. Course notes from the Ohio Geological Society's 3-D Seismic Seminar presented at the 1998 AAPG Eastern Section meeting. $20.00 (M: $15.00). OGS 17. Into the new millennium: The changing face of exploration in the Knox play. Proceedings from the Sixth Annual Fall Symposium held in Akron, Ohio, October 1999. 16 papers. 120 p., 1999. $25.00 (M: $20.00). To order any of the Society's publications contact: The Geologic Records Center, Ohio Division of Geological Survey, 2045 Morse Road, Columbus, Ohio 43229-6693. Telephone (614) 265-6576. FAX: (614) 447-1918. E-mail: [email protected].
