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2013-2014 Officers President Greg Mason The Energy Cooperative 2702 S. Sixth St. Coshocton, OH 43812 (330) 466-4283 [email protected] Vice President Mac Swinford 1563 Broadview Terrace Columbus, OH 43212 (614) 205-8489 [email protected] Secretary Amy Lang Forman Energy, Ltd. P.O. Box 340346 Columbus, OH 43234 (614) 717-9262 [email protected] Treasurer Martin Shumway MacKenzie Land & Exploration, Ltd. 137 E. Dublin Granville Rd., Ste. E Worthington, OH 43085 (614) 785-1682 [email protected] Past President John Wicks J L Wicks Exploration 148 E. Liberty St. Wooster, OH 44691 (330) 466-4283 [email protected]
The Newsletter of the Ohio Geological Society Fall/Winter 2013
An Affiliate (1963) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
The Ohio Geological Society
16th Annual Winter Gala
Friday, January 31st, 2014
Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington 7007 N. High St., Worthington, OH 43085
Sponsorships available!
STUDENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – FREE REGISTRATION
Please contact Amy Lang at [email protected] or (614) 717-9262.
Link to DOE final publication for the Arches Simulation report presented by Joel Sminchak to OGS on November 7th…… http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/1110321 SIMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGIC CO2 STORAGE ALONG ARCHES PROVINCE OF MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES. This report contains geotechnical information collected as part of a project to evaluate CO2 storage potential for the Mount Simon formation in the ‘Arches Province’ of the Midwest U.S.
The Ohio Geological Society cordially invites all geologists, associates, and friends to a gala winter celebration!
Friday, January 31st, 2014
6:30 pm
Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington 7007 N. High St., Worthington, OH 43085
Cost: $25 per person
Sponsorships - $50
Dinner, drinks and music by Bill Foley!
Please RSVP by January 28th to: [email protected] or (614) 717-9262
and mail your check to The Ohio Geological Society, P.O. Box 14304, Columbus, OH 43214
Hotel room reservations should be made directly with the Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington, (614) 436-0700. A block of rooms will be held until January 15th, 2014. The rate is $79.00.
Thursday, February 20th Lunch at 11:30, talk at 12:30 pm
Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington 7007 N. High St., Worthington, OH 43085
**Please RSVP for the lunch and/or meeting to
Mac Swinford at [email protected]**
What's Shaking in Ohio? Using Earthquake Waveform Similarity to Investigate Whether They Are Caused by Deep Wastewater Injection Wells
Mike Brudzinski – Miami University (with assistance from Brian Currie, Robert Skoumal, Stephen Holtkamp, and Chris Grope) From March to December 2011, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Seismic Network (OSN) recorded 11 earthquakes in Youngstown, leading to speculation that the earthquakes were caused by wastewater injection. In fact, this occurred during a dramatic rise in small to moderate seismicity in the central and eastern United States over the past decade that is thought to be due primarily to an increase in natural gas and oil production activities that has led to large volumes of wastewater. Pumping near Youngstown stopped after a local network was installed in December 2011 and showed earthquakes near the injection point. To further investigate whether a causal relationship exists between injection and the earthquakes, we developed a multiple station template matching (waveform cross correlation) algorithm, which can detect events ~10x smaller than traditional techniques. Utilizing only existing regional broadband seismometers 50-250 km from the earthquake source, we have now detected over 400 earthquakes in the sequence. Nearly all earthquakes occur during the commercial injection, and the cumulative number of earthquakes is remarkably proportional to the cumulative injection volume. A combination of relative and absolute relocation of earthquake hypocenters shows the first events occurring close to the injection well and propagating WSW (consistent with the focal mechanism of the largest earthquake in the sequence) at a rate of 1-2 km/y. Individual families of events show delay times of 1-6 days between injection volume fluctuations and seismicity rate variations, proportional to distance from the well, which we interpret to represent diffusivity in the now saturated fault zone. We envision that injection-related pore-fluid pressure increased in discontinuous permeable zones of an ancient basement fault system, reduced effective normal stress and permitted fault slip to occur. Key to this interpretation is fact that the Youngstown injection well was drilled ~200 feet into the Proterozoic crystalline basement and was completed “open hole” thus providing a direct pathway for injection fluids into the basement fault zone. While state records indicate there are currently over 210 wastewater injection wells in Ohio, only 34 have been drilled into Precambrian igneous/metamorphic rocks (23 completed “open hole”). The locations of the 34 deep wells were compared with locations of recent seismic events catalogued by OSN. Other than the Youngstown sequence, we have identified only four earthquakes located within 10 km of a currently permitted deep injection well. Using our waveform matching algorithm, we can confirm that these are essentially isolated earthquakes that do not form a sequence similar to Youngstown. However, a potential earthquake sequence of interest is a series of 6 earthquakes near Marietta detected by OSN between November 2010 and September 2012. While there is no well injecting into the basement in this region, there are several nearby injection wells including that among the largest volumes in the state. Preliminary investigation with our waveform matching algorithm reveals over 50 earthquakes in this sequence, suggesting another potential relationship between seismicity and wastewater injection.
April 22, 2013
Amy Lang Ohio Geological Society Forman Energy, Ltd. P.O. Box 340346 Columbus, OH 43234
Dear Amy,
On behalf of the Expanding Your Horizon's planning committee, I would like to thank the Ohio Geological Society for its generous support of this year's conference. I have enclosed a thank you from the girls who attended and two articles about the event.
This year we had a record attendance of 152 girls! We also had great volunteers, including 17 presenters and 20 College of Wooster students who delivered participants to the correct workshops and
assisted presenters with hands-on activities.
It is always interesting to watch the girls leave quietly and tentatively for their first workshop then return for the lunch break chattering excitedly. Your support allows us to provide a top quality program at minimal or, if needed, no cost, so that every 51
h and 61h grade girl in the area has the opportunity to
attend.
We look forward to your continued support.
Best regards,
77! Mary H. Wicks
THANK YOU FIELD TRIP SPONSORS!!!
Stratigraphy and Depositional Setting of Upper Devonian Ohio Black Shale Divisions and the Overlying Bedford/Berea Sequence in Northeastern Ohio: Dynamic End-Devonian Paleoclimatic Events, Sea-Level Changes, and Tectonism Interpreted from Outcrop, Core, and Wireline Logs – May 2013
Bass Energy, Inc. J L Wicks Exploration Northern Ohio Geological Society (NOGS) Northwood Energy Corporation ODNR Division of Geological Survey Precision Geophysical, Inc. Weatherford Laboratories
Brian Currie – Miami University
Thank you for your gift to the Ohio Geological Society Scholarship Fund
Welcome New Members!
Jared Grubaugh The Ohio State University – Columbus, OH Bradley Ratliff Denison University – Eldersburg, MD
Thanks to the 2013 OGS Golf Outing Sponsors!
2013 Ohio Geological Society Golf Outing
Chapel Hill Golf Course Mount Vernon, Ohio
HOLE 1 Longest Drive Nathan Presley
HOLE 2 Longest Drive LADIES Brooke Stull
HOLE 3 Closest to Pin Jerry Lane
HOLE 4 Straightest Drive Rick Eyman
HOLE 5 Closest 2nd Dennis Finnegan
HOLE 6 Longest Drive Amy Lang
HOLE 7 Closest 2nd Doug Wilson
HOLE 8 Longest Putt Dirk Neff
HOLE 9 Longest Putt Jim Raab
HOLE 10 Longest Drive Kari Mackenbach
HOLE 11 Longest Putt Matt Whitehead
HOLE 12 Closest to Pin Jim Hicks
HOLE 13 Closest 2nd Pat Brennan
HOLE 14 Closest 3rd Ryan Becker
HOLE 15 Closest to OGS Sign David Crecelius
HOLE 16 Closest to Pin Pete Donofrio
HOLE 17 Longest Putt Steve Brown
HOLE 18 Longest Drive Joe Pastor
1ST PLACE TEAM (59) – Scott Jackson, Steve Shepard, Doug Amtsberg, Doug Wilson
2ND PLACE TEAM (60) – Ralph Haefner, Ken Pendley, Matt Whitehead, Ray Petering
DRIVER WINNER – Don Lang
THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!! – Marissa Dessert, Duana Guinty, Amy Lang, Greg Mason,
Brad Moon, Clark Scheerens, Marty Shumway, Mac Swinford, John Wicks
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January OGS 16th Annual Winter Gala 31 Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington – Worthington, OH www.ohgeosoc.org February OGS Meeting 20 Mike Brudzinski - Department of Geology and Environmental Earth
Science, Miami University Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington – Worthington, OH
www.ohgeosoc.org March 2014 OOGA Winter Meeting 5-7 Hilton Columbus at Easton – Columbus, OH www.ooga.org March OGS Meeting 20 Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington – Worthington, OH www.ohgeosoc.org April OGS Meeting 17 Brian Mott – DLZ Ohio, Inc.
Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington – Worthington, OH www.ohgeosoc.org May State Science Day 10 The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH http://ohiosci.org/ May OGS Meeting 23 Horace R. Collins Laboratory – Delaware, OH www.ohgeosoc.org September OGS Golf Outing 18 Chapel Hill Golf Course, Mount Vernon, OH www.chapelhillgolfcourse.com September 42nd Annual Eastern Section AAPG Meeting 27-30 London, Ontario, Canada www.esaapg2014.org/
Visit www.ohgeosoc.org for all upcoming events
The Ohio Geological Society P.O. Box 14304
Columbus, OH 43214 www.ohgeosoc.org
President Greg Mason Vice President Mac Swinford Secretary Amy Lang Treasurer Martin Shumway Past President John Wicks Trustees Don Jennings Frank Majchszak Clark Scheerens Nicole Venteris Steve Zody AAPG Delegates Larry Wickstrom Steve Zody Alternate Paul Archer John Wicks Webmaster Jim McDonald
Ohio Geological Society Publications
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].