The Society for Organic Petrology

16th Annual Meeting, September 26-30, 1999

The Cliff Lodge at Snowbird Conference Center, Snowbird, Utah

Please join our mountain rendezvous to swap research results,
hear what your colleagues have been working on, and meet
new friends who think about organic matter in rocks.

 

PROGRAM

Sunday, September 26, 1999
Pre-meeting Short Course:
Palynofacies and Organic Facies: New Approaches for the Millennium
Instructor: Richard Tyson

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Short Course Registration and Coffee
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Short Course -- Maybird Room
         10:30 Break
         12:30 Box Lunch
           2:30 Break


4:00 - 7:00 p.m. General Registration
5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Poster set-up -- Wasatch Room
6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Reception -- Golden Cliff Room
8:00 - 12:00 midnight Outgoing Council Meeting -- Board Room
 

Monday, September 27, 1999
 Technical Session -- Wasatch Room

7:30 a.m. General Registration and Coffee
8:30 a.m. Welcome
8:35 a.m. Richard V. Tyson
Keynote Address: Reinventing Palynofacies for the 21st Century.

9:15 a.m. Ben Follows*, R. V. Tyson
Predictive Organic Facies Analysis.

9:40 a.m. Richard Doyle*, R.V. Tyson
Organic Facies Cycles in the Type Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Dorset, U.K.

10:05 a.m.
Coffee Break

10:20 a.m. N.T. Akpulat, Cindy Riediger, L. R. Snowdon
Initial Results of Kinetic and Maturity Modeling of Hydrocarbon Source Rocks from Southern Alberta, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.

10:45 a.m. David A Wavrek., D.M. Jarvie, J.D. Burgess
Characterization of Solid Reservoir Bitumen: Insights to Origin, Timing, and Correlation.

11:15 a.m. Judith Potter
A Genetic Approach to the Characterization of "Microbitumens"; implications for thermal maturity determinations.

12:00 p.m.
Luncheon and TSOP General Meeting Golden Cliff Room

2:00 p.m.
Technical Sessions Wasatch Room

2:00 p.m. Neil Sherwood, J. Kurusingal, N. Zhong
Advances in Microfluorescence and FAMM Analyses for Source Rock Evaluation

2:25 p.m.
Posters and Demonstration** Wasatch and Board Room

Poster 1
Rupert S. Adams*, R.M. Bustin
The Effects of Surface Area, Grain Size and Mineralogy in Organic Matter Sedimentation and Preservation Across the Modern Squamish Delta, British Columbia.

Poster 2
Takashi Iguchi
Relationship Between Degradinite Content and Source Rock Potential of Tertiary Coals of Hokkaido, Northern Japan.

**Demonstration
Joeseph Kurusingal, Neil Sherwood
FAMM Demonstration

Poster 3
Mark Obermajer, M.G. Fowler, L.R. Snowdon
Organic Geochemistry of Crude Oils and Source Rocks from the Silurian Strata in Southern Ontario, Canada.

Poster 4
Cornelia Panaitescu, A. Meghea, G. Predeanu
Coal Characterization Using Spin Electronic Resonance Spectroscopy.

Poster 5
Cornelia Panaitescu, G. Predeanu
Relations Between Specific Structural Characteristics of Romanian Coking Coals.

Poster 6
Zhang Songlin, Cui Mingzhong, Li Zhenxi, Li Jinggui, Fan Pu
Distribution and Composition Features of Fatty Acids from Recent Salt-Lake Sediments in Qaidam Basin.

Poster 7
Zhang Songlin Cui Mingzhong, Li Zhenxi, Wang Youxiao, Fan Pu
Composition and Distribution Features of Fatty Acids in Salt-Lake Immature Oils.

Poster 8
Cole R. Robison
Natural Mixing of Crude Oils from Different Sources in the Bohai Bay Basin, China.

3:15 p.m.
Break

3:30 p.m.
Technical Sessions Wasatch Room

3:30 p.m.
J.R. Gibbins, John C. Crelling, M. Seitz, S. Kennedy
BRICCS: Bireflectance Imaging of Coal and Carbon Specimens

3:55 p.m.
Lila W. Gurba, C. Weber, M. Bunny, C. Ward
The Effects of Igneous Intrusions on Coalbed Methane Potential of the Gunnedah Basin, NSW, Australia.

4:20 p.m.
Rachael Walker*, M. Glikson
Relations Between Coal Petrology and Gas Content in the Upper Newlands Seam, Central Queensland, Australia.

6:00 p.m.
Dinner -- Magpie A Room

8:00 p.m.
Incoming Council Meeting -- Board Room

 

Tuesday, September 28, 1999
 Technical Session -- Superior Room

7:30 a.m. General Registration and Coffee
8:30 a.m. Announcements

8:35 a.m.
Colin R. Ward, J.C Taylor, C.E. Matulis, L.S. Dale
Quantitative Mineralogical Analysis of the Argonne Premium Coals using Rietveld-based X-ray Diffraction Techniques.

9:00 a.m.
Lila Gurba, C.R.Ward
Elemental Carbon and Vitrinite Reflectance: Application of Electron Microprobe Technique in Regional Rank Studies.

9:25 a.m.
Zhiwen Han
Artificial Coalification Study of Two Permian Coals.

9:40 a.m.
Coffee Break

9:55 a.m.
Tim A. Moore, J.C. Shearer, K.N. Bassett, A. Nicol
Can Braided Rivers and Peat be Intimate?

10:20 a.m.
Raphael A.J. Wüst*, R.M. Bustin
Low Ash Peat Deposits From a Denedritic, Intermontane Basin in the Tropics: A New Model For Good Quality Coals.

10:45 a.m.
James C. Hower, D.A. Williams
Further Examination of the Ragged Edge of the Herrin Coal Bed, Webster County, Western Kentucky Coal Field.

11:10 a.m.
Group Photograph

11:30 a.m.
Lunch (on your own)

1:00 p.m.
Awards Presentation and Technical Session Superior Room

1:10 p.m.
Arthur D. Cohen, C.M. Prince, A.M. Bailey, C.S. Ho, W.C. Riese, S. Thibodeaux
Analysis of Microcracks in Artificially Coalified Peats.

1:35 p.m.
Richard Sykes, K.M. Bartram, M.J. Dow, R.P. Suggate
Enhanced Petroleum Potential of Marine-influenced Coals in Mangahewa Formation, Taranaki Basin.

2:00 p.m.
Jin Kuili
Source Rock Organics and Reservoir Rock Facies Related to Oil in Coal Measures.

2:25 p.m.
Break

2:40 p.m.
Maria Mastalerz, C. Souch, G. FilipPelli, N. Dollar, S. Perkins
Anthropogenic Organic Matter in the Great Marsh Area and its Implications.

3:05 p.m.
Shifeng Dai, Yuegang Tang, Suping Peng, Huimin Hou
Abundance, Distribution and Origin of Sulfur in Coals in Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, Northern China.

3:30 p.m.
Jeffrey C. Quick
Carbon Dioxide from Coal Combustion: Variation with Maceral Content.

3:55 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Instructions for Field Trip

 

Wednesday & Thursday, September 29 & 30
Post-Meeting Field Trip (SOLD OUT): Uinta Basin rocks and hydrocarbons; Utah coalfields.

 DAY 1 -- Wednesday 29 September

8:00 a.m.
Load Vans

8:30 a.m.
Depart Snowbird

Soldier Summit
Lunch (provided)
Hardscrabble Canyon
Gentile Wash
6:00 p.m.
Lodging in Price Utah (provided)

Dinner (on your own, area restaurants)


DAY 2 -- Thursday 30 September

Breakfast (on your own)

8:30 a.m.
Depart Price Utah

Willow Creek Canyon
Asphalt Ridge Tar Sands
Lunch (provided)
American Gilsonite Co.

6:00 p.m.
Salt Lake City area, drop off at:
       Airport
       Snowbird Convention Center
       Other area lodging

 

MEETING REGISTRATION

Use this link to view and print the Registration Form (31K Portable Document Format file, 99tsoprg.pdf) for registration information on the conference and pre-meeting workshop. The preregistration period has passed, and the field trip is sold out. Participants may also register at the conference.
You must make your own hotel reservations. The meeting is being held at the Cliff Lodge at Snowbird. The reservation phone number is 800-453-3000, fax 801-947-8227. Be sure to mention the TSOP convention when making your reservations.

 

MEETING LOCATION

The 16th annual TSOP meeting will be held at the Cliff Lodge, Snowbird Conference Center, 45 minutes from Salt Lake City International Airport. Airport shuttle service to and from the convention center is available.

The Cliff Lodge, Snowbird Conference Center is nestled between two 11,000 foot mountains in Little Cottonwood Canyon. The full-service conference center has restaurants, pubs, heated pools, spas and shops, all surrounded by the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.

Salt Lake City's central location to many of the west's scenic wonders makes pre- or post- meeting travel and recreation attractive and affordable. Salt Lake City also offers the Utah Symphony, Utah Opera, Utah Ballet, Repertory Dance Theater, and Pioneer Theater Company. In addition it is the world headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Tours of the church's temple grounds are possible as are visits to the Salt Lake City Family History Library (request a genealogical research package in advance for this self-guided activity).

 

CO-SPONSORS NEEDED

Organizations or individuals who are interested in supporting the 16th Annual TSOP Meeting should contact the Fund Raising Chair: MaryAnn Love Malinconico, phone 610-252-8944, fax 610-330-5717, e-mail < love@ldeo.columbia.edu >.

 

Meeting Organizers

Jeff Quick
Utah Geological Survey
1594 West North Temple, Suite 3110
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6100
USA
ph: 801-537-3372
fax: 801-537-3400
E-mail: nrugs.jquick@state.ut.us

David A. Wavrek
Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering
The University of Utah
160 South Central Campus Drive (104 EMRO)
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
USA
ph: 801-322-2915
fax: 801-322-2916
E-mail: wavrek@eng.utah.edu

Dave Tabet
Utah Geological Survey
1594 West North Temple, Suite 3110
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6100
USA
ph: 801-537-3373
fax: 801-537-3400
E-mail: nrugs.dtabet@state.ut.us

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