VOLUME 102 • NUMBER 1
REGULAR FEATURES
Previews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Staff Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
House of Delegates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Geoscience Meetings Calendar . . . . . 48
Instructions to Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
ON COVER – La Leona Petrified Forest,
Patagonia, Argentina. A volcanic event in the
Cretaceous destroyed an extensive upper
Jurassic forest in this region of South America.
Also pictured are in situ petrified trees. Photo
by Claudio Bartolini.
Printed in the U.S.A.
• JANUARY 2018
GEOHORIZON
Three-dimensional printing for geoscience: Fundamental research,
education, and applications for the petroleum industry
Sergey Ishutov, T. Dawn Jobe, Shuo Zhang, Miguel Gonzalez, Susan M. Agar, Franciszek
J. Hasiuk, Francesca Watson, Sebastian Geiger, Eric Mackay, and Richard Chalaturnyk . . . 1
ARTICLES
The hydrocarbon trap distribution patterns of the simple dip area of
a continental basin: A case study from the western slope of the Songliao
basin, China
Hongyu Wang, Xuesong Fan, Tailiang Fan, and Yunchao Hou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
The effect of oil emplacement on quartz cementation in a deeply buried
sandstone reservoir
Richard H. Worden, Mohammed Bukar, and Philip Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Diagenesis of an evaporite-related carbonate reservoir in deeply buried
Cambrian strata, Tarim Basin, northwest China
Lei Jiang, Richard H. Worden, Chun Fang Cai, Anjiang Shen, and Stephen F. Crowley . . . 77
Geomechanical restoration as a tool for fractured reservoir
characterization: Application to the Permian Basin, west Texas
Joseph M. Stockmeyer, John H. Shaw, Lee T. Billingsley, Andreas Plesch, Michael
Wales, Leore C. Lavin, Ray Knox, and Luke Finger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Geochemical, petrographical, and petrophysical evaluations of
a heterogeneous, stratiform dolomite from a Barremian oil field, offshore
Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Gary Ottinger, Osama Al Zinati, Hideko Takayanagi, Koshi
Yamamoto, and Yasufumi Iryu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Coupling accumulation model with gas-bearing features to evaluate
low-rank coalbed methane resource potential in the southern Junggar
Basin, China
Chenghua Ou, Chaochun Li, Dongming Zhi, Lie Xue, and Shuguang Yang . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS—
AAPG thanks the AAPG Foundation for financial support of this issue of the Bulletin.
The AAPG Editor thanks the following reviewers for their work on papers in this issue:
David Budd, Angel F. Callejon, Rima Chatterjee, Agniesza T. Furmann, Franciszek Hasiuk,
Dulcie A. Head, Jessica Matthews, Niels Rameil, Reuben Reyes, Bradley D. Ritts,
Art H. Saller, Kevin Smart, Thomas Taylor, and Rick C. Tobin.