Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis Project

Gulf of Mexico Basin
Depositional Synthesis Project
Fall 2015
NEXT GBDS MEETING
January 13-14, 2016
Austin, Pickle Research Campus, ROC 196
GBDSGIS Workshop, Jan 13, 2016, 1-4 pm
GBDS Social, Jan 13, 2016, 4-6 pm
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GBDS Project Update
Contents:
Project Update ---- 1
Recent Grads ------ 2
Postdoc Info ------- 2
Awards -------------- 3
Publications -------- 3
Students ------------ 4
Staff Update ------- 5
2016 Perkins ------ 6
GBDS 11 plans --- 7
Contacts:
John Snedden
[email protected]
William Galloway
[email protected]
Patricia Ganey-Curry
[email protected]
With the fall 2015 semester nearly complete, we
are preparing to wrap up another phase of the
GBDS project, now in its 20th year. We are
preparing our maps for the Phase 10 final atlas and
for presentation at our January 2016 meeting here
in Austin. Significant progress has been made in
Phase 10, particularly in advancing our understanding of the Mesozoic depositional systems and
related source rock facies but also in updating our
maps to reflect continuing drilling and success in
the Cenozoic plays of the Gulf of Mexico. Two MS
students (Caroline Bovay and Jason Sanford)
completed their GBDS-supported thesis projects
and have graduated to jobs in the petroleum
industry. One undergraduate, Keelan Umbarger,
completed his senior thesis project on the post-KPg
carbonate slope deposits near the Florida
Escarpment and is publishing his results before
starting graduate school. The GBDS project
currently has three graduate students, Luciana de
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home page and link to our data site at:
http://ig.utexas.edu/energy/gulf-ofmexico-basin-depositional-synthesis/
la Rocha who is studying Mexico Cenozoic deepwater systems, Jie Xu who is working Lower
Miocene source-to-sink reconstructions and
Enrique Arce who did his undergraduate studies in
Geophysical Engineering from the Faculty of
Engineering at the National Autonomous University
of Mexico (UNAM). Enrique will be co-supervised
by Dr. John Snedden and Dr. Bill Fisher on his
research focused on the Mexican GOM.
Notable progress that will be discussed at our
meeting in January includes Smackover and
Norphlet paleogeographic maps, restored for both
salt rafting and plate tectonic motion, combined
with seismic mapping of
thickness
and
structure.
New GBDS Mesozoic paleogeographic maps will include
Haynesville-Buckner
(HVB),
Austin Chalk (AC), Navarro
Taylor (NT), and updates of
other Mesozoic key units. The
Mesozoic interval also contains the bulk of the GOM
source rocks and Robert (Bob)
Cunningham, consultant for
the GBDS project, has made
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UT Austin
Institute for Geophysics
PRC Bldg. 196(R2200)
10100 Burnet Road
Austin, TX 78758-4445
GBDS Data points in the
January 2016 release.
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considerable progress with source rock analysis
(deltaLogR) from well logs to build cross-sections in the
onshore Eagle Ford and Tuscaloosa Marine Shale
Plays. In Phase XI, Bob will turn his attention to Wilcox
and pre-salt source facies mapping among other
objectives.
We have made significant changes and additions to the
GBDSGIS with major increase in our digital database of
wells, with over 280 new wells added, over 370
references added, and numerous thickness maps
developed from seismic and well data. At our January
meeting, Craig Fulthorpe and Bill Galloway will discuss
the modified Cenozoic maps, including ideas on new
discoveries in the inboard Paleogene and subsalt PlioMiocene plays.
We also include the goals for Phase XI listed later in this
document. This list includes plans to investigate the Gulf
of Mexico pre-salt stratigraphy, depositional systems,
and source rocks. Our new Buffler post-doc, Chris
Lowery (U. Mass), started this summer and will lead this
effort, as well as mapping the Glenrose (GR), BexarPine Island, Rodessa and Ferry Lake along with John
Snedden and students. Mexico continues to be an
important objective and we are interacting with Mexican
organizations on a regular basis, including multiple trips
there in recent months. We would appreciate any
feedback on these research plans.
Inaugural
Richard T. Buffler Post-Doc
The University of Texas at Austin
Institute for Geophysics Richard T.
Buffler
Post-Doctoral
Fellowship
inaugural awardee has been selected
and began working with the GBDS
project for a 2-year period beginning
August 2015. Richard T. Buffler was
one of the founding researchers of the GBDS Project.
Chris Lowery is a micropaleontologist specializing in
planktic
and
benthic
foraminifera. His research
interests
lean
toward
paleoceanography, with a
focus on the response of the
marine biosphere to climatic
and
oceanographic
perturbations like oceanic
anoxic events and the end
Cretaceous mass extinction.
As the Richard T. Buffler
Postdoctoral
Fellow
at
GBDS, Chris is working on
several projects related to
the Mesozoic evolution of the
Gulf of Mexico, including
mapping the distribution and
depositional environments of
the Aptian Glen Rose
carbonate system around
the GoM, the pre-salt
paleonvironments of the Gulf Basin. He will also study
the recovery of marine microorganisms following the
KPg mass extinction through his participation in the
upcoming IODP Exp. 364 to drill the Chicxulub impact
crater, led by UTIG research professor Sean Gulick.
Chris grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and got his BS in
Geology from the University of Mary Washington, an
hour to the north in Fredericksburg, VA, in 2009. He
earned both his MS and PhD, the latter in the spring of
this year, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
where he worked with Mark Leckie on understanding the
development of anoxia in the US Cretaceous Western
Interior Sea, principally in the Niobrara and Eagle Ford
Formations, work he hopes to extend across the Gulf
Basin while at GBDS.
The funding for this fellowship comes from monies
received from a royalty on the sale of the derivative of
reprocessing of Gulf of Mexico multichannel seismic
data acquired, processed and owned by the University
of Texas at Austin. IONGEO reprocessed from the
original field records and marketed the data as the
YucatanSPAN dataset. Depth imaged seismic data from
the dataset has been provided to the GBDS project for
use in our GOM-wide seismic interpretation. The funds
received will be endowed to support future Richard T.
Buffler Fellowship recipients.
Recent Graduates
Caroline Bovay, M.S.
Caroline Bovay completed her M.S. in Geological
Sciences from the UT Austin Jackson School of
Geosciences in May 2015. Her thesis, New Models of
Early Cretaceous Source-to-Sink Pathways in the
Eastern Gulf of Mexico, was supervised by John W.
Snedden, Ronald J. Steel and David Mohrig. She began
her geoscientist position with Chevron in Covington, LA
this summer.
Revised map from Bovay thesis provided to GBDS sponsors .
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Jason C. Sanford, M.S.
Jason Sanford completed his M.S. in Geological
Sciences from the UT Austin Jackson School of
Geosciences in August 2015. The GOM chapter of his 2
-part thesis titled, The
Cretaceous-Paleogene
boundary deposit in the Gulf of Mexico: Oceanic
basin response to the Chicxulub impact, was
supervised by John Snedden and Sean Gulick. Jason
has resubmitted his manuscript on the Gulf of Mexico
basin's response to the Chicxulub impact to the Journal
of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. The paper builds
off of Jason's regional mapping project of the
Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary deposit in the Gulf of
Mexico for the GBDS as a component of his M.S.
degree. Jason is working with Chevron in Houston.
2015 Awards:
The Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis Project
GCAGS 2015
John W. Snedden, William E. Galloway, GBDS Team,
Mike Blum, Kristy Milliken, The Geologic History of
Submarine Fans in the deep GOM: Mesozoic to
Modern (Education Forum)
GSA
Keelan F. Umbarger, 2015, Delineation of Post-KPG
Carbonate Slope Deposits as a Sedimentary Record
of the Paleogene Linkage of De Soto Canyon and
Suwannee Strait, Northern Gulf of Mexico (Poster)
AGU 2015
Keelan F. Umbarger, John W. Snedden, 2015,
Delineation of Post-KPG Carbonate Slope Deposits
as a Sedimentary Record of the Paleogene Linkage
of De Soto Canyon and Suwannee Strait, Northern
Gulf of Mexico (Poster)
The 2014 AAPG Gulf Coast Section A. I. Levorsen
Memorial Award was presented to John Snedden,
Ian O. Norton, Gail L. Christeson, and Jason C. Sanford,
Dashtgard, S. E., J. W. Snedden, and J. A.
Interaction of Deepwater Deposition and a MidMacEachern, 2015, Unbioturbated sediments on a
Ocean Spreading Center, Eastern Gulf of Mexico
muddy shelf: Hypoxia or simply reduced oxygen
Basin, USA.
saturation?: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology v. 425, p. 128–138.
The 2014 Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of
Presentation Award: 2nd Place: Craig Fulthorpe,
Damuth, J. E., and H. C. Olson, 2015, Latest
William E. Galloway, John W. Snedden Patricia E.
Quaternary sedimentation in the northern Gulf of
Ganey-Curry, and Timothy L. Whiteaker for their paper,
Mexico Intraslope Basin Province: I. Sediment facies
New Insights into Cenozoic Depositional Systems of
and depositional processes: Geosphere, 11, 1–30,
the Gulf of Mexico Basin.
doi: 10.1130/GES01090.1.
Publications:
Luciana de la Roha was awarded the JSG Duchin
Olson, H.C., Snedden, J.W., and Cunningham, R.,
Endowed Presidential Scholarship for 2015-2016
2015, Development and application of a robust
chronostratigraphic framework in Gulf of Mexico
Mesozoic exploration: Interpretation, Vol. 3, No. 2
(May 2015); p. 1–20. doi: 10.1190/INT-2014-0179.1.
GBDS Presentations:
JSG MS Day 2015
Caroline Bovay, New Models of Early Cretaceous
Source-to-Sink Pathways in the Eastern Gulf of
Mexico (Poster)
AAPG 2015
Jie Xu, John W. Snedden, Craig S. Fulthorpe, and
Daniel F. Stockli, 2015, Provenance of the Lower
Miocene Interval in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Basin: Insights From Detrital Zircon U-Pb and
(U-Th)/He Double Dating (Poster)
Ian Norton, Harm Van Avendonk, Gail Christeson,
John Snedden and Drew Eddy, Formation of the
Gulf of Mexico Salt Basin (Presentation).
John W. Snedden, William E. Galloway, Kristy
Milliken. and Mike D. Blum, 2015, Validation of
empirical source-to-sink scaling relationships in a
large hydrocarbon-rich basin: Gulf of Mexico
Cenozoic Deepwater Fan Systems (Presentation)
CMP
East Texas Stratigraphy from Olson et. al.
In Press:
John W. Snedden, William E. Galloway, Kristy Milliken,
Interpretation, Vol 4 (2016), No 1, John W. Snedden
Mike D. Blum, Patricia Ganey-Curry and Luciana de La
Associate Editor: Special section: The Gulf of Mexico:
Rocha, 2015, Source-to-sink scaling predictions for
Cenozoic submarine fan systems in Mexico Regional studies, play concepts, recent developments.
deepwater (Presentation)
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The Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis Project
first place in the Latin-American region. Enrique
began his studies at the Jackson School this fall
and will be working with the GBDS project on the
southern Gulf of Mexico stratigraphy and
depositional systems. He will be using the
GBDSGIS database, seismic data and After
Keelan F. Umbarger and John W. Snedden: Delineation
of Post-KPG Carbonate Slope Deposits as a finishing in spring, 2017. Enrique plans to work in
Sedimentary Record of the Paleogene Linkage of De the oil and gas industry.
GBDS Related Papers in this Volume:
John W. Snedden, Jon Virdell, Timothy L. Whiteaker,
and Patricia Ganey-Curry: A basin-scale perspective
on Cenomanian-Turonian (Cretaceous) depositional
systems, greater Gulf of Mexico (USA).
Soto Canyon and Suwannee Strait, Northern Gulf of
Luciana de la Rocha, M.S. Candidate
Mexico.
Luciana de la Rocha grew up at fourteen thousand
Robert Cunningham, John W. Snedden, Ian O. Norton, feet above sea level in La Paz, Bolivia, surrounded
Hillary Clement Olson, Timothy L. Whitaker, Jonathan
by the Andes Mountains. She attended Trinity
W. Virdell: Upper Jurassic Tithonian-centered source
mapping in the deep-water, northern Gulf of Mexico. University in San Antonio where she received her
Hilary Clement Olson, John E. Damuth and C. Hans
Nelson: Latest Quaternary sedimentation in the northern
Gulf of Mexico Intraslope Basin Province: II.
Stratigraphic analysis and relationship to glacioeustatic climate change.
Recently Submitted Paper:
Jason C. Sanford, Sean P. S. Gulick and John W.
Snedden, 2015, The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary
deposit, Gulf of Mexico: Large-scale oceanic basin
response to the Chicxulub impact, Journal of
Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
BS in Geosciences. After graduation she spent a
year working as a Research Assistant at the
Bureau of Economic Geology. Luciana began her
studies her at the Jackson School in 2014 and is
working with the GBDS project on the southern
Gulf of Mexico Paleogene stratigraphy and
depositional systems. She is using recently
reprocessed seismic data and other available
geological and geophysical information to evaluate
the extent of deep water Paleogene Wilcox strata.
After finishing in spring, 2016, Luciana plans to
work in the oil and gas industry.
Jie Xu, Ph.D. Candidate
Current Graduate Students
Enrique Arce, M.S. Candidate
Enrique Arce grew up in Puebla, a Mexican city
founded in 1531 just at the foot of Popocatepetl
and Iztacihuatl volcanoes. He attended National
Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City
where he worked on his BS in Geophysics. He
participated in the AAPG IBA and his team won
Jie is working on provenance analysis for the
Lower Miocene interval of Gulf of Mexico basin by
using detrital zircon U-Pb and U-Th/He double
dating on sediments collected along Gulf coast
outcrops and offshore core samples. Samples
from different major fluvial channel axes onshore
and deltaic depocenters offshore yield a distinct
combination of U-Pb ages, which is a useful
provenance indicator for deep water sediments
source analysis. He will present our understanding
of sediments input pathways
for the Lower Miocene
interval of Gulf of Mexico
Basin and its implication for
deepwater reservoir exploration
at our January meeting. After
finishing in December, 2016, Jie
plans to be an academic
researcher.
Locations of samples
collected for detrital
zircon analysis
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GBDS Core Research Staff:
John Snedden, Director and Principal Investigator,
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1985. His expertise
lies in sequence stratigraphy and sedimentology. Past
publications include papers on reservoir connectivity,
exploration play analysis, unconventional reservoirs,
chronostratigraphic designation of sequences, and
modern depositional systems. He has over 25 years of
industry experience from Mobil and ExxonMobil.
[email protected]
The Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis Project
Hilary Clement Olson, Research Associate, Ph.D.,
Stanford University, 1988. Her current research interests
involve integrating biostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy and
seismic stratigraphy to better understand the Cenozoic
and Mesozoic geologic history of Gulf Coast sediments.
Hilary directs a national program to train oil and gas
regulators at UT as a partnership with CSM and PSU.
She teaches in the Petroleum and Geosystems
Engineering Department and is the sponsor liaison for
the Gulf Coast Carbon Center at the Bureau of
Economic Geology. [email protected]
William Galloway, Research Scientist and Professor
Emeritus, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin,
1971. His interests are sedimentary and mineral
resource geology especially that of the geology of the
Chris Lowery, Post Doctoral Fellow, Ph.D. University
Gulf of Mexico Cenozoic basin.
of Massachusetts, 2015, during his 2-year Post-Doc
[email protected]
appointment he will work on investigating the Gulf of
Craig Fulthorpe, Senior Research Scientist, Ph.D., Mexico pre-salt stratigraphy, depositional systems, and
Northwestern University, 1988. He is interested in the source rocks. [email protected]
sedimentary geology of continental margins. Much of his
work has been in association with the Integrated Ocean Maggie Ellis, Post Doctoral Fellow, Applied GeoDrilling program. Craig is working on the Cenozoic of the dynamics Laboratory; Ph.D., University of North
GOM basin. [email protected]
Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2015. Maggie’s research focuses
on extensional fault systems, salt tectonics, and the
Patricia Ganey-Curry, Project Manager, B.S., Texas coevolution of tectonics, landscapes, and basins. She is
A&M University, 1978, has been the project manager for working on mega-regional structural restorations of the
this project since its 1995 inception and the Project Gulf of Mexico with Mike Hudec at the BEG while using
Coordinator/Data Manager for the Institute for the GBDS seismic database.
Geophysics since 1980. She has been active in all [email protected].
phases of the data used in the project from acquisition,
processing and interpretation. [email protected]
Bruce Frederick, Post Doctoral Fellow, University of
Post Doctoral Fellows:
Tim Whiteaker, Research Scientist, Ph.D., The
University of Texas at Austin, 2004. Research interests:
GIS in water resources engineering, data modeling and
analysis of subsurface systems in both hydrological and
geophysical applications. [email protected]
Jon Virdell, Research Engineer/Scientist Associate II,
B.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 2014. Supports
the management and development of the GBDS
database. Experience working with GIS, geophysical
well logs, seismic data, and published literature.
Interests include micropaleontology and Ichnology.
[email protected]
Associated Research Staff:
Dallas Dunlap, P.G., Research Scientist Associate at
the Bureau of Economic Geology, M.S., The University
of Texas at Austin, 2013. His research interests include
marine geomorphology, specifically mass wasting
processes, sediment waves, and seismic imaging of
depositional features. [email protected]
Kansas, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2015.
Bruce’s research focuses on sedimentary basin analysis
processes including assessment of source-to-sink
dynamics and geodynamic evolution of landscapes with
emphasis on glacial-interglacial and eustatic forcing
mechanisms.
He is currently working on projects
spanning from a detailed assessment of the Gulf Coast
mid-Holocene sea level record, to a quantification of
subsidence rates in the Mississippi River delta basin, to
the constraint of the pre- to postglacial stratigraphic
record extending from the subglacial interior basins to
the marine geologic record on the continental shelf of
Wilkes Land, East Antarctica. Bruce will be cosupervised and supported by Mike Blum and John
Snedden. [email protected]
Consultants and Collaborators:
Mike Blum, Distinguished Professor, University of
Kansas; B.S., M.S., Ph.D., The University of Texas at
Austin. Dr. Blum’s research focuses on fluvial and
coastal sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy of
continental and shallow-marine successions, global to
regional sea-level change, geologic responses to global
change, and source-to-sink sediment dispersal in the
Ian Norton, Senior Research Fellow at UTIG and stratigraphic record. For the GBDS project he is helping
BEG, Ph.D., The University of the Witwatersrand, South students with Mid-Cretaceous through Paleogene North
Africa, 1978. His interests are structure and tectonics, American drainage reorganization and Gulf of Mexico
especially in extensional domains like the Basin and drainage integration from extensive detrital zircon
Range and passive margins of the Gulf of Mexico and
analysis.
South Atlantic. [email protected]
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Bob Cunningham, Consultant, ChargeSearch, LLC;
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas, 1980. He has
global experience in applying basin modeling and
petroleum geochemical technologies in evaluating
charge risk. Bob retired from ExxonMobil in 2011 after
31
years
in
research
and
exploration.
[email protected]
Kristy T. Milliken, Consultant, Emerald Mountain
Geoscience, LLC; Ph.D., Rice University, 2008. She has
10 years of experience in the energy industry
specializing in Clastic Stratigraphy/Sedimentology petroleum systems analysis. For the GBDS project she will do
well log analysis for validation of empirical source-tosink fluvial scaling relationships in the Gulf of Mexico
Cenozoic Deepwater Fan Systems.
[email protected]
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Mesozoic of the Gulf Rim and Beyond: New Progress in
Science and Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico Basin
35th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Perkins-Rosen Research Conference
DECEMBER 4-6, 2016
OMNI HOUSTON WESTSIDE
HOUSTON, TEXAS
The 2016 Perkins-Rosen Research Conference will focus upon the Mesozoic of the Gulf
Basin, from mountain source terrain to deep-water abyssal plain. A significant portion
of the program will be devoted to the Mesozoic of Mexico and its potential for international exploration. A highlight will be a special SEPM-sponsored research symposium on Mesozoic
source to sink: provenance and process led by Mike Blum (U. Kansas).
Other Topical sessions
Mesozoic depositional models, onshore to offshore
Pre-salt basin paleogeographic reconstruction
Emerging Mesozoic Plays in USA and Mexico
The KPg impact event and sedimentary effects
Mexico’s Mesozoic reservoirs and future potential
Field Trip to the Eagle Ford Outcrops of West Texas
Friday Dec. 2 – Sunday Dec. 4
Optional Core Workshop, December 7th, 2016
Technical Program Committee Leaders:
John W. Snedden, UT-Austin
Mike Blum, U. Kansas
Chris Lowery, UT-Austin
2000-character abstract due January 15, 2016
Full papers and extended abstracts due May 15, 2016
Send to [email protected]
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GBDS Phase XI Proposed Tasks
(January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2017)
Student Research Projects
 Support of three graduate student research projects:
 Provenance and depositional system reconstruction in the Lower Miocene of the GOM (Jie Xu, Ph.D. candidate)
 Paleogene Stratigraphy and Depositional Systems Mexico Deepwater (Luciana de la Roche, M.S. candidate)
 Miocene submarine-current affected fans, Southern Gulf of Mexico (prelim) (Enrique Arce, M.S. candidate)
 Support of 1- 2 undergraduate student senior research projects
Applied Science Goals
 Delineation and mapping of pre-salt basins in the northern Gulf of Mexico using existing well control (50+
wells identified including cored sections). Approach seismic vendors about gaining access to additional onshore data across key areas identified from pre-salt well penetrations. Relate to offshore pre-salt basins (via
SuperCache GoM seismic dataset provided by Dynamic Data Services).
 Identify/map regions of likely petroleum charge mixing based on overlap of thermally mature liquid-prone
source lithofacies from the post-salt sources Oxfordian-, Tithonian-, Ceno-Turonian-, and Paleogene-centered
and pre-salt source. Calibrate with mixed reservoir oils and oil seeps. Relate to post-salt and pre-salt structural trends and well penetrations. May include 1D thermal modeling.
 Continue analysis of source-to-sink scaling relationships and detrital zircon provenance analysis through
collaboration with M. Blum and Bruce Frederick (UKansas)
 Expand Wilcox source facies mapping from deepwater to onshore and integrate with supersequence framework and paleoenvironmental maps.
 Establish practical chronostratigraphic system, Mid-Jurassic to Base Triassic.
 Reevaluation/recalibration of onshore to deep-water sequences and facies for Cenozoic units using new
loaned proprietary seismic data sets.
 Construction of additional digital well log cross sections, both stratigraphic strike & dip sections, in order to
illustrate key depositional transitions (e.g., Mexico to USA Paleogene Miocene, KPg breccia, Cuba to Florida
Mesozoic, onshore canyons).
 Investigate temporal/spatial evolution of shelf/slope incisions based on regional seismic interpretations, with
initial focus on the Wilcox and Miocene. Integrate mapped sediment dispersal with new provenance data.
 Update and reinterpret sand composition syntheses incorporating several new published data suites for
LW, MW, UW, LM1—LM2, MM, UM.
 Update all Phase 10 maps for Cenozoic units with new well control, including Mexico offshore and onshore
data as becomes available.
 Update map suites for all 10 Mesozoic unit suites completed in Phase 10. New maps on GR-FL, RD, BP
GBDS Database, GIS and Tools
 Add to GBDS GOM well control as new well logs and biostratigraphy are released
 Add to GBDS reference set as new references are released
 Maintain current GBDSGIS database and provide interim updates to sponsors
 Continue to update and refine GBDSTools as science requires
 Add LAS files to the list of available file types when querying the well in ArcMap using the GBDS Tools
We Appreciate Your Continued Participation and Support of GBDS
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We greatly benefit from the loan of seismic data sets from seismic vendors for use in our
GOM wide mapping. We continue to add to the database when possible.
Thank you
to our
GBDS
Sponsors
And to our
Data and Software
Partners
The GBDS project information and data is available online from our password protected site
accessible from the member link on our web page:
www.ig.utexas.edu/energy/gulf-of-mexico-basin-depositional-synthesis/