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B ulletin HGS Volume 55 Number 1 Houston GeologicalSociety SSeepptteemmbbeerr 22001122 The Quest for Microbialite Analogs to the South Atlantic Pre-Salt Carbonate Hydrocarbon Reservoirs of Africa and South America page 21 The 11th HGS-PESGB Conference on African E & P Africa: Continent of Discoveries page 11 S U C N O O S F N O I S I C E D N D O AT T 88 00 7777 6660000000000000 555 00000 44400000000000000000000 A 3000000 Why spend valuable time searching for data when you have important decisions to make? Let TGS focus on the data. With worldwide well data experience and a dedicated customer support team, TGS provides high quality data in the formats you need. Email WellData@@@tggsnoppec.com to learn more about TGS’ well data library that includes production data, directional surveys and the largest online collection of well logs. Learn moree aat wwwwww..ttggssnnooppeecc..ccoomm////wwweellllddaattaa Bulletin The Houston Geological Society Volume 55, Number 1 September 2012 In Every Issue Technical Meetings Time to Renew Your Membership 5 From the President 21 HGS Joint General and International Dinner Meeting by Martin Cassidy The Quest for Microbialite Analogs to the South Atlantic Pre-Salt Carbonate Hydrocarbon Reservoirs of Africa page 4 7 From the Editor and South America by Patricia Santogrossi 29 HGS Environmental & Engineering Dinner Meeting 38 GeoEvents Calendar Outfall Channel Soil Erosion 69 HGS Membership 31 HGS North American Dinner Meeting Application Understanding the Oxfordian Smackover & Buckner Carbonate Petroleum System 70 HPAC 71 Professional 37 HGS General Luncheon Meeting Directory Reflections on My Career in Oil Exploration page 8 Other Features Houston Geological Society OFFICERS Martin Cassidy President 11 11th HGS/PESGB Conference Barry Katz President-elect Africa: Continent of Discoveries Justin VandenbrinkVice President Mike Erpenbeck Treasurer 17 Oustanding Student Awards Shannon Lemke Secretary Patricia Santogrossi Bulletin Editor Karen Pate Bulletin Editor-elect 29 Vendor Corner Recognition and Thanks DIRECTORS John Adamick 45 SIPES Luncheon Meeting page 21 Beverly DeJarnett ChromaStratigraphy®: the New Stratigraphic John Dombrowski Analysis Tool Gary Coburn HGS OFFICE STAFF 49 HGS Guest Night 2012 Nina Hoeny Office Manager Kathy Sanvido Webmaster 51 2011–2012 President’s Night Christina HigginbothamOffice Committee Chair EDITORIAL BOARD 55 2012 TechnoConference and TechnoFest Patricia Santogrossi Editor Karen PateEditor-elect 57 29thAnnual HGS Skeet Shoot Fang Lin Advisory Editor page 31 Ed Marks Advisory Editor James Ragsdale Advisory Editor 59 Government Update Charles Revilla Advisory Editor Henry M. 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I hope you are all science program for 5th graders. The bones are for the students ready for a season of activities of all sorts in the Houston to handle as they learn about the Pleistocene history of the Gulf Geological Society. I think of us as a large ship that sails through Coast region. A lesson plan is available with each of the four kits a troubled sea of business and the world’s expectations. We are a of bones and displays that volunteers carry to schools in the large group, more than 3925 members strong and growing. A Houston area. Volunteers will be trained in the hour-long giant cruise ship could hardly accommodate us. Our ship has only presentations that are part of school curriculum. I’ve seen two permanent staff and otherwise is operated entirely by our children examine the five-inch long Mastodon teeth and parts of members, volunteers all! tusks of the ancient elephants. The specimens really get their attention and engage them in learning. More volunteers will be I am pleased and honored to serve as your Captain – that is needed as the program spreads earth science education and the President – for one year, and am grateful to have dedicated officers name of the HGS more widely in the community. and committees to help guide our vessel and perform all sorts of services. No sudden turns are expected, steady as she goes. Another HGS committee whose membership has experienced Changes that occur will be evolutionary, not revolutionary. rapid growth is the NeoGeos, which serves and employs young explorationists. NeoGeos hosts events and meetings of particular This year we have a new and larger HGS office, on the same floor interest to recent graduates. Companies seem to be making up for of the same building. We will have a new web page that should be lost time. Their surge in hiring is HGS’ gain. The NeoGeos have much easier to use. Try a test drive at http:www.hgs.org. We are initiated Facebook and Twitter sites as they lead us into the era of now in separate office space from the Geophysical Society of social media. Houston. HGS has two new permanent staff: Nina Hoeny, Office Director, and Kathy Climb aboard the ship These two programs are not the only Sanvido, Webmaster. Kathy is dedicated to opportunity to get involved with your fellow making smooth the operation of the HGS and sail with your members! We have a smorgasbord of 50 website and to helping members use the web different HGS committees (refer to page 3 of pages to sign up for meetings, etc. fellow explorationists this Bulletin). Each committee is distinct and responsible for its own activities and mission. through the year Our mission in the HGS is “To provide earth Last year’s president, Steve Earle, urged “each science enrichment through technical and every one find an area of passion and get in a time of change education, networking opportunities, and involved”. Through such activities you will community service.” We are certainly doing all come to know fellow geoscientists outside and excitement. that, and more. Our success is the direct result your companies. Many companies may seem of your participation in our events and your to provide comfortable societies in which you service on committees that organize technical education, know your fellow workers. It is easy to stay within the company. networking events, and provide community service. However, the new corporate model does say you are responsible for your personal development. You need to know the wider A new effort in community service has gained ground. Jennifer world and here we have both social and educational events. Fun Burton, chairman of the new Educational Outreach committee social events include Guest Night, the Shrimp Peel, sporting events has helped inaugurate the Owen Hopkins Bones in Schools and the Christmas Ho-Ho-HoeDown. Program. The HGS has purchased from the Corpus Christi Geological Society, three truckloads of Pleistocene fossils, which We know how rapidly knowledge of geology and geophysics include bones and teeth of Mastodons, Mammoths, camels and expands. Education is a major mission of our society. Three others animals. 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This was quite a a combination of nature and nurture. The nature part, in my feat at a time as only one paper came in on 5 ¼ inch disc, and it case, are inherited “educator genes” and “accountant genes”, which had been translated from the French original. The other papers set up a certain attention to detail and a certain tendency toward had to be scanned or re-typed. And so began my drive to prevent rigor, or precision. The nurture part comes from a 36-year career transcription errors in data handling today. in the Geosciences. Its emphasis on “pattern recognition” is an excellent skill for an editor. As my career took its turns, I became a go-to person to help numerous friends and acquaintances spruce-up their resumes. A My earliest experience came in high school when a school big thrill has been to help people at the Women’s Home fashion newspaper article about me was titled “When you want something their first resumes from tales of their life experiences. For a year I done, ask a busy person”. I became the editor of our senior year wrote for and edited a service organization’s monthly newsletter. annual or yearbook. At university, my major professor taught me so much about spotting my own bad habits. These days I edit everything I see He also taught me that “eternal vigilance” Did you know that? automatically; can’t help it. One example was would not ensure an error-free document. the compulsive editing of some 50 fellowship CAPS are like YELLING applications for GCSSEPM. None of the I remember distinctly the first time I was asked professors or students ever saw my edits. I while Parentheses are like to edit the work of a colleague. I felt I had to cringe and call out at many television ads. ask the fellow if he really wanted his paper Spelling errors, typos, and grammar gaffes (whispering). edited. Many times I had witnessed edits that seem to invade every kind of publication in the amounted to correction only of a spelling age of informal email, texting, Twitter and Use them sparingly error or two. I was into verb-subject Facebook. For myself, well, I am a better speller agreement, the proper use of adverbs, or not at all. than a typist and still have to be vigilant. replacement of passive gerundives, and more precise, varied and colorful word choices. I will Your editing staff aims to bring you a good never forget that after he agreed, and I began, the red flush that quality reading experience. We are not infallible, however, and hope crept up his neck and onto his face. Periodically, I had to check to that you will bear with us this year. confirm that he was still OK with what I was doing and wanted me to continue. Now I’d like to introduce you to the unsung heroes, whom I refer to as HGS’ “pre-editors”. Each looks at the meeting abstracts and Fast forward a few years and I had the pleasure of being asked to bios, most often before I do. edit all of the papers of a colleague at Shell’s Bellaire Research Center. Her specialization in the area of geochemistry Charles Revillahas long enjoyed the reviewing and light editing complemented mine in lateral prediction / seismic stratigraphy earth science copy. After 15 years as an editor and occasional and helped to broaden my toolkit. contributor to the HGS Bulletin, he takes pride in being a “necessary rung” in the ladder and in the knowledge that his efforts In my very next assignment, a manager who had drawn a group end up in the Bulletinreaders’ hands. of authors together to write the papers for the first volume of the Petroleum Basin Series on Divergent Margin Basins, asked me to Charles has an early recollection from eighth grade when he mind his correspondence during the summer as he traveled just corrected his English teacher in class at the Appalachia (VA) high after retirement. By the end of the summer, AAPG asked me to school. It was so natural a response he did not perceive he had done become his co-editor. Memoir 48 became, in 1990, the first AAPG From The Editor continued on page 9 September 2012 Houston Geological Society Bulletin 7 12th ANNUAL GSH/HGS SALTWATER FISHING TOURNAMENT Friday, October 5, 2012 The Top Water Grill Marina • 815 Avenue O • San Leon, Texas Galveston Bay Complex and Offshore This year’s Saltwater Fishing Tournament will include an Offshore Division We are looking forward to a big event this Fall and we encourage full family participation. Galveston Bay Complex Division Trophies will be awarded for the heaviest individual Redfish (Non-Tagged), Speckled Trout and Flounder. Trophies will also be awarded for the heaviest individual Stringer-1 Redfish, 3 Speckled Trout, and 1 Flounder. Galveston Offshore Division Trophies will be awarded for the heaviest individual Red Snapper, King Mackerel, and Mahi-mahi. Registration fee includes: Launch Fee, GSH/HGS Fishing Cap, Fish Fry Meal after weigh-in, Refreshments, Trophies, and DOOR PRIZES. For more information, please contact: Bobby Perez(HGS & GSH) via email [email protected] or [email protected] or by phone 281-240-1234 ext. 3103 Office • 281-787-2106 Cell The Geophysical Society of Houston and the Houston Geological Society are non-profit organizations serving the Geosciences Community. Corporate and individual contributions are appreciated and will be acknowledged on several sponsor boards and ban- ners at the Weigh-In Station and Marina. All contributors will be recognized in the GSH newsletter and HGS Bulletin following the tournament. This is a great way to entertain friends, family, business associates, and clients. So spread the word! GSH/HGS SALTWATER TOURNAMENT NAME: ____________________________________________COMPANY: ____________________________________________ ADDRESS: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ PHONES: (H) ________________________(B) __________________________________(C) __________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS: ________________________________________________________________________________________ Upon receipt of the registration form, each participant will be provided by e-mail with a copy of the specific tournament itinerary and rules sheet. Please register EARLY. 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B ulletin HGS Volume 55 Number 1 Houston GeologicalSociety SSeepptteemmbbeerr 22001122 The Quest for Microbialite Analogs to the South Atlantic Pre-Salt Carbonate Hydrocarbon Reservoirs of Africa and South America page 21 The 11th HGS-PESGB Conference on African E & P Africa: Continent of Discoveries page 11 S U C N O O S F N O I S I C E D N D O AT T 88 00 7777 6660000000000000 555 00000 44400000000000000000000 A 3000000 Why spend valuable time searching for data when you have important decisions to make? Let TGS focus on the data. With worldwide well data experience and a dedicated customer support team, TGS provides high quality data in the formats you need. Email WellData@@@tggsnoppec.com to learn more about TGS’ well data library that includes production data, directional surveys and the largest online collection of well logs. 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Geologists Matthew Cowan 713-777-0534 [email protected] VP Exhibits Bill Mason/Bryan Guzman 281-367-0357 [email protected] D3 Field Trips Anton Wroblewski 281-293-2923 [email protected] D1 Finance Joe Lynch 281-496-9898 x134 [email protected] T Foundation Fund John Adamick 713-860-2114 [email protected] PE General Meeting Justin Vandenbrink 832-205-4063 [email protected] VP Golf Tournament Mark Dennis 281-494-2522 [email protected] D4 Government Affairs Arlin Howles/Henry Wise 281-808-8629 [email protected]/[email protected] D4 Guest Night Dave Reynolds 281-636-5178 [email protected] D4 HGS New Publications Bill Rizer 281-392-0613 [email protected] D1 Houston Energy Council Sandi Barber 713-935-7830 [email protected] PE HPAC Edie Bishop 713-467-8706 [email protected] S Imperial Barrel Connie Mongold 713-857-9958 [email protected] D2 International Explorationists Scott Thornton 713-876-6433 [email protected] VP Legends Night John Tubb, Jr. 713-805-5649 [email protected] P Membership Sharie Sartain 281-382-9855 [email protected] S Membership Growth Jeff Allen 713-871-2350 [email protected] D3 Mudstone Conference Frank Walles 713-265-6319 [email protected] P Museum of Natural Science Inda Immega 713-661-3494 [email protected] D2 NeoGeos Sameer Baral 440-941-7121 [email protected] D3 Nominations Steve Earle 281-435-5020 [email protected] P North American Interest Group Steve Getz/Donna Davis 713-304-8503 [email protected] VP Northsiders David Tonner 713-264-2167 [email protected] VP Office Management Christina Higginbotham 281-620-7835 [email protected] PE Publication Sales Dennis McConnell 281-362-4743 [email protected] D1 Remembrances Art Berman 713-557-9067 [email protected] EE Shrimp Peel Lee Shelton 281-381-1093 [email protected] D4 Skeet Shoot Tom McCarroll 713-419-9414 [email protected] D4 Social Media Dianna Phu 281-236-3131 [email protected] D3 TechnoFest John Tubb, Jr. 713-805-5649 [email protected] D4 Tennis Tournament Steve Brachman 713-268-8810 [email protected] D4 Vendor’s Corner Paul Babcock 713-859-0316 [email protected] TE Volunteer Coordinator Sue Pritchett 281-451-6522 [email protected] P Web Management Linda Sternbach 281-679-7333 [email protected] D3 HGS Office Manager Nina Hoeny 713-463-9476 [email protected] September 2012 Houston Geological Society Bulletin 3 It’s Time to Renew Your HGS Membership Your membership expired June 30, 2012 Annual dues are only $24.00 Emeritus members pay $12.00, Full-time students free Check your email for a reminder notice and renew online at www.hgs.org Alternately, you may fill out this form and return with your remittance—include your CURRENT EMAIL (important) Name: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Member No.: __________________________________________________Type: Active__ Associate__ Emeritus__ Full-time Student__ Current Email: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Preferred Address for HGS mail and Bulletin: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ City: ____________________________________________State: ____________Zip Code: ____________________________ Phone: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is my home address _____ business address _____ Annual dues ($24) for the 2012–2013 year: ________________ Scholarship Contributions — Calvert: ____________________ HGS Foundation — Undergraduate: ____________________ TOTAL REMITTANCE: ______________________________ Send check and form to: HGS Office, HGS Membership Renewal, 14811 St. Mary’s Lane, Suite 250, Houston, Texas 77079 or fax this form with credit card number to 281-679-5504 PAYMENT Check # __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Credit Card number and type: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Expiration Date (required): ____________________________CVV code (req’d):______________________________________ Name on Credit Card: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Daytime Phone number of Card Holder: __________________________________________________________________________________________ Billing Address for Card: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ City, State and Zip: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 Houston Geological Society Bulletin September 2012 From the t n President e Martin Cassidy d [email protected] si e r P e h t Sail On! m o r F Welcome back from the summer break! I hope you are all science program for 5th graders. The bones are for the students ready for a season of activities of all sorts in the Houston to handle as they learn about the Pleistocene history of the Gulf Geological Society. I think of us as a large ship that sails through Coast region. A lesson plan is available with each of the four kits a troubled sea of business and the world’s expectations. We are a of bones and displays that volunteers carry to schools in the large group, more than 3925 members strong and growing. A Houston area. Volunteers will be trained in the hour-long giant cruise ship could hardly accommodate us. Our ship has only presentations that are part of school curriculum. I’ve seen two permanent staff and otherwise is operated entirely by our children examine the five-inch long Mastodon teeth and parts of members, volunteers all! tusks of the ancient elephants. The specimens really get their attention and engage them in learning. More volunteers will be I am pleased and honored to serve as your Captain – that is needed as the program spreads earth science education and the President – for one year, and am grateful to have dedicated officers name of the HGS more widely in the community. and committees to help guide our vessel and perform all sorts of services. No sudden turns are expected, steady as she goes. Another HGS committee whose membership has experienced Changes that occur will be evolutionary, not revolutionary. rapid growth is the NeoGeos, which serves and employs young explorationists. NeoGeos hosts events and meetings of particular This year we have a new and larger HGS office, on the same floor interest to recent graduates. Companies seem to be making up for of the same building. We will have a new web page that should be lost time. Their surge in hiring is HGS’ gain. The NeoGeos have much easier to use. Try a test drive at http:www.hgs.org. We are initiated Facebook and Twitter sites as they lead us into the era of now in separate office space from the Geophysical Society of social media. Houston. HGS has two new permanent staff: Nina Hoeny, Office Director, and Kathy Climb aboard the ship These two programs are not the only Sanvido, Webmaster. Kathy is dedicated to opportunity to get involved with your fellow making smooth the operation of the HGS and sail with your members! We have a smorgasbord of 50 website and to helping members use the web different HGS committees (refer to page 3 of pages to sign up for meetings, etc. fellow explorationists this Bulletin). Each committee is distinct and responsible for its own activities and mission. through the year Our mission in the HGS is “To provide earth Last year’s president, Steve Earle, urged “each science enrichment through technical and every one find an area of passion and get in a time of change education, networking opportunities, and involved”. Through such activities you will community service.” We are certainly doing all come to know fellow geoscientists outside and excitement. that, and more. Our success is the direct result your companies. Many companies may seem of your participation in our events and your to provide comfortable societies in which you service on committees that organize technical education, know your fellow workers. It is easy to stay within the company. networking events, and provide community service. However, the new corporate model does say you are responsible for your personal development. You need to know the wider A new effort in community service has gained ground. Jennifer world and here we have both social and educational events. Fun Burton, chairman of the new Educational Outreach committee social events include Guest Night, the Shrimp Peel, sporting events has helped inaugurate the Owen Hopkins Bones in Schools and the Christmas Ho-Ho-HoeDown. Program. The HGS has purchased from the Corpus Christi Geological Society, three truckloads of Pleistocene fossils, which We know how rapidly knowledge of geology and geophysics include bones and teeth of Mastodons, Mammoths, camels and expands. Education is a major mission of our society. Three others animals. 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(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:67)(cid:79)(cid:76)(cid:76)(cid:69)(cid:65)(cid:71)(cid:85)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:0)(cid:89)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:0)(cid:67)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:103)(cid:84)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:84)(cid:69)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:76)(cid:76)(cid:0)(cid:70)(cid:73)(cid:86)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:68)(cid:65)(cid:89)(cid:83)(cid:14)(cid:9) SAVE 200 $ BY BECOMING AN AAPG MEMBER AND REGISTERING BEFORE AUGUST 20TH 6 Houston Geological Society Bulletin September 2012 From the r o Editor t i d E Patricia Santogrossi e [email protected] h t m o r F The Art or Science of Editing Like many other human traits, the orientation toward editing is volume to go to galley proofs from digital input. This was quite a a combination of nature and nurture. The nature part, in my feat at a time as only one paper came in on 5 ¼ inch disc, and it case, are inherited “educator genes” and “accountant genes”, which had been translated from the French original. The other papers set up a certain attention to detail and a certain tendency toward had to be scanned or re-typed. And so began my drive to prevent rigor, or precision. The nurture part comes from a 36-year career transcription errors in data handling today. in the Geosciences. Its emphasis on “pattern recognition” is an excellent skill for an editor. As my career took its turns, I became a go-to person to help numerous friends and acquaintances spruce-up their resumes. A My earliest experience came in high school when a school big thrill has been to help people at the Women’s Home fashion newspaper article about me was titled “When you want something their first resumes from tales of their life experiences. For a year I done, ask a busy person”. I became the editor of our senior year wrote for and edited a service organization’s monthly newsletter. annual or yearbook. At university, my major professor taught me so much about spotting my own bad habits. These days I edit everything I see He also taught me that “eternal vigilance” Did you know that? automatically; can’t help it. One example was would not ensure an error-free document. the compulsive editing of some 50 fellowship CAPS are like YELLING applications for GCSSEPM. None of the I remember distinctly the first time I was asked professors or students ever saw my edits. I while Parentheses are like to edit the work of a colleague. I felt I had to cringe and call out at many television ads. ask the fellow if he really wanted his paper Spelling errors, typos, and grammar gaffes (whispering). edited. Many times I had witnessed edits that seem to invade every kind of publication in the amounted to correction only of a spelling age of informal email, texting, Twitter and Use them sparingly error or two. I was into verb-subject Facebook. For myself, well, I am a better speller agreement, the proper use of adverbs, or not at all. than a typist and still have to be vigilant. replacement of passive gerundives, and more precise, varied and colorful word choices. I will Your editing staff aims to bring you a good never forget that after he agreed, and I began, the red flush that quality reading experience. We are not infallible, however, and hope crept up his neck and onto his face. Periodically, I had to check to that you will bear with us this year. confirm that he was still OK with what I was doing and wanted me to continue. Now I’d like to introduce you to the unsung heroes, whom I refer to as HGS’ “pre-editors”. Each looks at the meeting abstracts and Fast forward a few years and I had the pleasure of being asked to bios, most often before I do. edit all of the papers of a colleague at Shell’s Bellaire Research Center. Her specialization in the area of geochemistry Charles Revillahas long enjoyed the reviewing and light editing complemented mine in lateral prediction / seismic stratigraphy earth science copy. After 15 years as an editor and occasional and helped to broaden my toolkit. contributor to the HGS Bulletin, he takes pride in being a “necessary rung” in the ladder and in the knowledge that his efforts In my very next assignment, a manager who had drawn a group end up in the Bulletinreaders’ hands. of authors together to write the papers for the first volume of the Petroleum Basin Series on Divergent Margin Basins, asked me to Charles has an early recollection from eighth grade when he mind his correspondence during the summer as he traveled just corrected his English teacher in class at the Appalachia (VA) high after retirement. By the end of the summer, AAPG asked me to school. It was so natural a response he did not perceive he had done become his co-editor. Memoir 48 became, in 1990, the first AAPG From The Editor continued on page 9 September 2012 Houston Geological Society Bulletin 7 12th ANNUAL GSH/HGS SALTWATER FISHING TOURNAMENT Friday, October 5, 2012 The Top Water Grill Marina • 815 Avenue O • San Leon, Texas Galveston Bay Complex and Offshore This year’s Saltwater Fishing Tournament will include an Offshore Division We are looking forward to a big event this Fall and we encourage full family participation. Galveston Bay Complex Division Trophies will be awarded for the heaviest individual Redfish (Non-Tagged), Speckled Trout and Flounder. Trophies will also be awarded for the heaviest individual Stringer-1 Redfish, 3 Speckled Trout, and 1 Flounder. Galveston Offshore Division Trophies will be awarded for the heaviest individual Red Snapper, King Mackerel, and Mahi-mahi. Registration fee includes: Launch Fee, GSH/HGS Fishing Cap, Fish Fry Meal after weigh-in, Refreshments, Trophies, and DOOR PRIZES. For more information, please contact: Bobby Perez(HGS & GSH) via email [email protected] or [email protected] or by phone 281-240-1234 ext. 3103 Office • 281-787-2106 Cell The Geophysical Society of Houston and the Houston Geological Society are non-profit organizations serving the Geosciences Community. Corporate and individual contributions are appreciated and will be acknowledged on several sponsor boards and ban- ners at the Weigh-In Station and Marina. All contributors will be recognized in the GSH newsletter and HGS Bulletin following the tournament. This is a great way to entertain friends, family, business associates, and clients. So spread the word! GSH/HGS SALTWATER TOURNAMENT NAME: ____________________________________________COMPANY: ____________________________________________ ADDRESS: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ PHONES: (H) ________________________(B) __________________________________(C) __________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS: ________________________________________________________________________________________ Upon receipt of the registration form, each participant will be provided by e-mail with a copy of the specific tournament itinerary and rules sheet. Please register EARLY. Please return this form with your check for $60.00 per contestant payable to: GSH SALTWATER TOURNAMENT and Mail to: Geophysical Society of Houston, 14811 Saint Mary’s Lane, Suite 204 • Houston, Texas 77079 Registration Fee: $ ______________+ Sponsor Contribution: $ ________________= TOTAL $ __________________________ DISCLAIMER: I acknowledge that the Geophysical Society of Houston / Houston Geological Society will not be held responsible for injury or accidents during this event. PRACTICE SAFETY!!!!! Signature: ________________________________________________________Date ____________________________________ 8 Houston Geological Society Bulletin September 2012

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