post-convention Field Trip #11
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
Comanchean Carbonate Shelf Margin: Unconventional Play Concepts
- Date:
- Thursday, April 24, 7:30 a.m. — Friday, April 25, 7:00 p.m. (departs from and returns to Convention Center)
- Leaders:
- Robert Scott (The University of Tulsa and Precision Stratigraphy Associates, Cleveland, OK); Lowell Waite (Pioneer Natural Resources, Dallas, TX) and Charlie Kerans (Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
- Fee:
- Professional: $345
- Student: $100 (limited number available)
- Includes:
- Transportation, one night lodging based on double occupancy, refreshments, two lunches and field guide
- Limit:
- 37 persons
- Content:
- 16 PDH, 1.6 CEU
Comanchean outcrops and cores
Photo courtesy of Robert Scott
This two-day trip will combine outcrop study with core examination to compare and contrast small-scale rudist buildups on the shelf with large-scale coral-rudist buildups at the shelf margin. The analysis of facies, depositional environments, diagenesis and porosity formation and sequence stratigraphy of the Glen Rose Formation in south central Texas provides a model for new play concepts of the Stuart City - “Edwards” Formation in the subsurface. High-resolution outcrop stratal geometries will be compared with subsurface flow units.
- Day 1
- Thursday. Drive to Pipe Creek, Bandera County, Texas – 2 hr. Stop 1 – Examine the Glen Rose/Walnut/Edwards formations succession. Box Lunch at outcrop. Stop 2 – Examine roadcut at intersection of Loop 360 and Texas 2244 at Bee Caves Road in Austin. Spend night in Austin.
- Day 2
- Friday. Examine StuartCity/“Edwards” Formation cores at the Bureau of Economic Geology in Austin. Cores to be viewed are from the Pioneer Schroeder, Shell Tomasek and Shell Leppard wells, which illustrate the shelf margin to interior shelf trend. Trip ends at 5 p.m. in Austin. Bus will take participants back to San Antonio.
There are a limited number of sponsored registrations available for students on a firstcome basis. If you wish to register for one of the sponsored spots, please register online at www.aapg.org/sanantonio/registration.cfm. If sponsored space is no longer available, you can register at the full fee and/or you can place your name on the waiting list for a sponsored space in the field trip.
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- Field trip enrollment is limited and reserved on a first-come basis. Registration must be accompanied by full payment.
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