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THE SOCIETY FOR ORGANIC PETROLOGY

NEWSLETTER

Vol. 30, No. 2 June, 2013 ISSN 0743-3816

30th

TSOP Annual Meeting & 65th ICCP MeetingAugust 25

th September 4

th, 2013

Sosnowiec, Poland

Chapel of St Kinga, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Wieliczka, Poland. The salt mine is part of the

TSOP Field Trip for the Annual Meeting. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.

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Vol. 30, No. 2 THE SOCIETY FORORGANIC PETROLOGY NEWSLETTER June 2013

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TSOP 30th Annual Meeting & 65th ICCP MeetingAugust 25th 31st for ICCPSeptember 1

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th, for TSOP

2013Sosnowiec, Poland

http://prac.us.edu.pl/~iccop-tsop-2013/

The 30th TSOP Annual Meeting registration form can be found online at the webpage of the meetingas well as in this newsletter. Please send completed registration forms to dr hab. Magdalena [email protected] [email protected]

Organizing Committee:

Prof. dr hab. Wiesaw BanyProf. dr hab. Andrzej KowalczykProf. dr hab. Janusz JaneczekProf. dr hab. Adam IdziakProf. dr hab. Krystyna KruszewskaProf. U. dr hab. Monika FabiaskaProf. U. dr hab. Leszek Marynowskidr hab. Magdalena Misz-Kennan

dr Justyna Ciesielczukdr Beata Smieja-Krldr Iwona Jelonekmgr Krzysztof Szopamgr Maciej Rybickimgr Marta Kasprzykmgr Kamila Banasik

The Society for Organic Petrology

TSOP is a society for scientists and engineers involved with coal petrology, kerogen petrology, organic geochemistry andrelated disciplines. The Society organizes an annual technical meeting and field trips; sponsors research projects;

provides funding for graduate students; and publishes a web site, a quarterly Newsletter, membership directory, annualmeeting program and abstracts, and special publications. Members may elect not to receive the printed Newsletter bymarking their dues forms or by contacting the Editor. Members are eligible for discounted subscriptions to the Elsevier

journals International Journal of Coal Geology and Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . Subscribe by checkingthe box on your dues form, or using the form atwww.tsop.org. Contact Paul [email protected] you do not

receive a bill or have any other problems with a subscription. For the best prices on subscriptions to AGIs Geotimes, seetheir web site atwww.geotimes.org/current

TSOP is a Member Society of AGI and an AAPG Associated Society
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The Society for Organic Petrology Newsletter

ISSN 0743-3816, published quarterly 2013 The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

GUIDELINES:

The TSOP Newsletter welcomes contributions frommembers and non-members alike. Readers are invitedto submit items pertinent to TSOP members' fields of

study. These might include meeting reports andreviews, book reviews, short technical contributionsincluding those on geologic localities or laboratory

methods, as well as creative works such as poems,cartoons and works of fiction. Photos, graphs and otherillustrations are welcomed. Low-resolution images are

discouraged, as they cannot be reproduced well in print.

Articles are preferred in Microsoft Word, RTF or plaintext formats.

Contact the Edito r:

Rachel Walker1529 N. Alabama St, Unit D

Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202, USAe-mail:[email protected]

Address ChangesPlease report any changes in address or contact

information to: Paul Hackley, TSOP Membership Chair,[email protected]

Members can update their own information by logginginto the secure TSOP website:

www.tsop.org/mbrsonly/

The TSOP Newsletter is published quarterly by TheSociety for Organic Petrology and is distributed to all

Society members as a benefit of membership.Membership in the Society is open to all individuals

involved in the fields of organic petrology and organicgeochemistry. For more information on membership and

Society activities, please see:

www.tsop.org

For purposes of registration of the TSOP Newsletter, apermanent address is:

The Society for Organic Petrology,c/o American Geological Institute,

4220 King St., Alexandria,VA 22302-1520 USA

CONTENTS

Presidents Letter ....................................................... 4Student Travel Award ............................................... 4

GSA Coal Division Awards ....................................... 5

New TSOP Members ..................................... 52013 Annual TSOP Meeting Details ................ 6

Calendar of Events ....................................... 10

Upcoming Event Details ................................ 11

4th Annual Ohio Valley Organic Petrographers

Meeting ......................................................... 12

Newsletter Submission Deadlines

September Issue: September 10th, 2013December Issue: December 10

th, 2013

March Issue: March 10th, 2014June Issue: June 10th, 2014
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President's Letter

Dear TSOP members,

From September 1-4 the 30th TSOP Annual Meeting

will take place in Sosnowiec, Poland. Withdedication and effort, the local organizingcommittee headed by Magda Misz-Kennan is doinga very good and thorough job in planning astimulating meeting that, with your participation Iam sure will be a success. The program for themeeting includes technical sessions focusing onimportant topics such as coal geology, coal-bedmethane, shale gas and shale oil, and analyticaltechniques in organic petrology and geochemistry.Moreover, a short course on the application of

organic petrology and geochemistry toenvironmental studies and a field trip will completethe activities of this meeting.

Also during the meeting, the TSOP Council willacknowledge and reward the work and efforts of theTSOP members who have contributed in differentways to the Society and to the science it represents.

I hope to see many of you at the 2013 ICCP/ TSOPMeeting in Poland. I am sure that all of us will find

this meeting rewarding from the scientific,professional and social viewpoints.

On the other hand, I would like to inform you thatthe 2013 Ralph Gray Award(www.tsop.org/grayaward.htm)for the best refereedpaper in coal and organic petrology published in2012 goes to the work entitled The nature ofporosity in organic-rich mudstones of the Upper

Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation, North Sea,

offshore United Kingdom authored by Neil S.

Fishman, Paul C. Hackley, Heather A. Lowers,Ronald J. Hill, Sven O. Egenhoff, Dennis D. Eberl,and Alex E. Blum, and published in theInternational Journal of Coal Geology, 2012,Volume 103, p. 32-50.

The 2013 Dal Swaine Award(www.tsop.org/swaineaward.htm) for the bestrefereed paper in inorganic or organic geochemistryand/or mineralogy of coal or hydrocarbon source

rocks, goes to the work Pore size distribution andaccessible pore size distribution in bituminous

coals by Richard Sakurovs, Lilin He, Yuri B.Melnichenko, Andrzej P. Radlinski, Tomas Blach,Hartmut Lemmel, and David F.R. Mildner, also

published in the International Journal of CoalGeology, 2012, Volume 100, p. 51-64.

I would like to offer my sincerest congratulations toall the awardees and my thanks also to the membersand chairs of the respective committees for theirhard work and dedication.

This year there will also be elections for severaTSOP Council positions. I would like to encouragepeople to participate by voting in the TSOP election

processes, because this is the best way to activelycontribute to the management of our Society.

This letter will be my last letter as TSOP Presidentand from these pages I want to convey to you that ihas been an honor and a privilege to work withsuch dedicated colleagues in the Council and on theCommittees who so generously volunteered theirprecious time and experience to the service of ourSociety. My warmest thanks to all of you.

Best regards,Isabel Surez-RuizTSOP President(Oviedo, Spain. June 2013)

Student Travel Award

TSOP Annual Meetings

Purpose: The Student Travel Award is designed to

support student attendance at the annual TSOPmeetings.

Eligibility: The Student Travel Award is open tostudents who have submitted an abstract forpresentation (either an oral or poster) at the annualTSOP meeting. Applications will be reviewed andranked by a committee of three TSOP members;selection of award winners will be based on a
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combination of quality of research/presentation andpotential impact in the field of organic petrology.

Awards: Monetary awards up to $500 (US) eachwill be granted. Monies will be presented to the

awardees at the TSOP Annual Meeting.

Application Deadline: Completed applicationsmust be e-mailed by July 15th, 2013.

For applications please see the TSOP website:

www.tsop.org/studenttravel.htm

GSA Coal Division Awardees

The Antoinette Lierman MedlinAnalytical/Laboratory Awards went to Dan Ritter,University of Arizona, who was awarded $2,500 forhis proposal, "Investigating the impacts ofhydrologic conditions, coal maturity, andgroundwater pumping on the process of microbialmethanogenesis" and Michelle Johnston, Universityof Kentucky, who was awarded $1,500 for herproposal, "A petrographic characterization of theLeatherwood coal bed in eastern Kentucky".

The Antoinette Lierman Medlin Field Award wentto Trent Garrison, University of Kentucky, who wasawarded $1,000 for his proposal, "Coal fireemissions and water quality ".

New TSOP Members

Carl Hilgersof

Koenigswiner Germanyis well-known to thorganicpetrologycommunityfor his state-of-the-artHilgerssystem

vitrinitereflectance

microscope. His interests are in the developmentand construction of microscope and photometricaccessories for coal and dispersed organic matterpetrology.

Julito Reyes received his BSc in environmentalsciences in 1997 from the University of Manitobaand has been working at the Geological Survey ofCanada (Calgary) as a Physical Scientist for morethan 14 years. His research includes but is notlimited to the environmental impacts of coalcombustion and utilization, and the characterizationof source rocks through organic facies andpaleodepositional environment, lithofacies, andthermal maturity studies.

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The 30th

Annual Meeting of The Society for Organic Petrology

September 1-4, 2013 Sosnowiec, Poland

The 30th Annual Meeting of The Society for Organic Petrology will take place in Sosnowiec (Poland) fromSeptember 1 4, 2013. The hosting institution, the University of Silesia, Faculty of Earth Sciences, is located inSosnowiec in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin in Southern Poland. This will be the first TSOP Meeting in Poland.

The Meeting venue, the Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia is located at Bdziska 60 Street, 41-200Sosnowiec, Poland. The meeting will be preceded by the Annual Meeting of the International Committee for Coal andOrganic Petrology (August 25-31, 2013).

The University of Silesia was established in 1968. Currently, about 40000 students study there. It employs about2000 academic teachers. The Faculty of Earth Sciences was established in Katowice in 1974 before moving, in 1977, toSosnowiec. In recent years, the faculty has been extended and new buildings constructed. A geological museum located inthe Faculty contains a large collection of rocks and minerals as well as an exhibition of dinosaur fossils and models. Thefaculty is making significant contributions in glaciology, paleontology, minerology and petrology, and in industrial- andenvironments aspects of coal geology.

A large theatre which can hold up to 500 people, but which can be configured in various ways for smallernumbers, will be used for the meeting. Many rooms and spaces suitable for coffee breaks, council meetings, posters, etc.,

are nearby.Program. The program for the meeting includes technical sessions, a short course on the application of organic

petrology and geochemistry to environmental studies and a field excursion. The topics of the technical sessions will be: coal petrology, mineralogy and geochemistry coal geology, utilization and environment coal-bed methane: geology, evaluation and utilization shale gas and shale oil: geology, extraction and utilization analytical techniques in coal and organic petrology and geochemistry

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday

01.09. 02.09. 03.09. 04.09.

8.30-9.00 Registration

9.00-9.30

Field trip

Short course

TSOP Welcome TSOP TechnicalSession9.30-10.00

10.00-10.30

10.30-11.00 Coffee break Coffee break

11.00-11.30TSOP TechnicalSession

TSOP TechnicalSession

11.30-12.00

12.00-12.30

12.30-13.00TSOP BusinessLunch

Lunch break13.00-13.30

Lunch break13.30-14.00


14.00-14.30

TSOP CouncilMeeting


14.30-15.00

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-16.00 Coffee breakTSOP TechnicalSession

16.00-16.30

TSOP TechnicalSession16.30-17.0017.00-17.30

17.30-18.00

18.00-18.30

Registration and Ice-breaking party

TSOP CouncilMeeting

18.30-19.00

Conference dinner

19.00-19.30

19.30-20.00

20.00-20.30

20.30-21.00

21.00-21.30

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The 30th TSOP Annual Meeting registration formcan be found online at the webpage of the meetinghttp://prac.us.edu.pl/~iccop-tsop-2013/as well as inthis newsletter. Please send completed registrationforms to:

dr hab. Magdalena Misz-Kennan [email protected]@us.edu.pl

Call for abstracts:The abstracts should be maximum of two

pages long (including tables, figures, andreferences), written in Times New Roman 12,spacing 1.15. The title should be written in TimesNew Roman 12 Bold and the names of the authorsand their affiliations in Times New Roman 10.Include the contact details (phone number and e-mail) of the corresponding author.

Deadline for sending abstracts: May 31, 2013.

Selected papers will be published in a specialvolume of the International Journal of CoalGeology.

Deadline for submitting papers: December 31,2013.

The maximum size for posters is A0 (841 x 1189mm). Materials for attaching posters to displayboards will be provided by the organizers.

Travel informationIt is suggested that participants coming to the

meetings use Katowice Airport, located 36 km fromKatowice. An alternative is Krakw airport, about80 km from Katowice. Both airports haveconnections with all major airports in Europe.

Participants can travel to their hotels directfrom the airports using public transport (buses fromKatowice airport, buses and trains from Krakw) ortaxis/mini buses. Details of the various services aregiven on the airport websites. The cost of a taxifrom Katowice Airport to Katowice is 100 z (about25 Euro) and from Krakw Airport to Katowice is

about 320 z (about 80 Euro). Both of these airportshave official taxi companies. Participants comingfrom neighbouring countries can arrive by train tothe new modern station in Katowice city centre.

Conference feesConference fees must be paid in Polishcurrency, i.e., in zlotys (1zl = 100 grosz). Currently1 US$ equals 3.2 z and 1 Euro equals 4.2 z.Money can be changed in banks but it is verycommon in Poland to use exchanges (in Polish:kantor) that are to be found in many places in bothKatowice and Sosnowiec.

Payment should be sent to the appropriate

university account below:

Non-Polish participantsING BANK LSKI S.A.Oddzia w Katowicachul. A. Mickiewicza 3, 40-951 KatowiceIBAN: PL74 1050 1214 1000 0007 0000 7909SWIFT: ING BP LPW

Polish participantsING BANK LSKI S.A.Oddzia w Katowicachul. A. Mickiewicza 374 1050 1214 1000 0007 0000 7909

Please identify the payment as forICCP TSOP2013.

Before June30, 2013

After June30, 2013

TSOP Members 680 z 830 z

Students 400 z 450 zNon-TSOPMembers

880 z 980 z

Conferencedinner

150 z 150 z

Short course: Application of organic petrologyand geochemistry to environmental studiesTSOP Members 150 zStudents 80 zNon-TSOPMembers

150 z (same as forTSOP members)

Field trip 250 z
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AccommodationAs there are no hotels within walking

distance from the Faculty, it is suggested thatparticipants book their own hotel accommodation inone or other of the hotels listed below, all of which

are within walking distance of each other in thecentre of Katowice. As the hotels are located a fewkilometres from the Faculty of Earth Sciences,buses will be arranged to bring participants to andfrom Katowice each day. In addition, there areseveral public-service bus routes that linkSosnowiec and Katowice. The bus stop is locatedjust outside the Faculty of Earth Sciences.

All the hotel rooms have internet, TV,bathroom etc. Special prices have been negotiated

for our meeting. When booking, participants shouldmention that they are taking part in the Joint ICCPand TSOP Meeting. Hotels can be paid in zlotys,euros or dollars. Credit cards are accepted.

Hotel Qubus Prestige Katowice, ul.Uniwersytecka 13, 40-007 KatowiceTel: (+48 32) 601 0 100fax: (+48 32) 601 0 [email protected]@qubushotel.comhttp://www.qubushotel.com/hotele.php?id_h=10&lang=2Single room 280z (65 Euro) per dayDouble room 330z (77 Euro)Junior Suite 400z (93 Euro)

Hotel Angelo, ul.Sokolska 24, 40-086 KatowiceTel: (+48 32) 783 81 00Fax: (+48 32) 783 81 [email protected]://www.vi-hotels.com/en/angelo-katowice/

Single room 320 z (74 Euro)Double room 387 z (90 Euro)

Hotel Novotel Katowice Centrum, al.Rodzieskiego 16, 40-202 KatowiceTel: (+48 32) 2004444Fax: (+48 32) [email protected]

http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-3377-novotel-katowice-centrum/index.shtmlSingle room 219 z (51 Euro)Double room 249 z (58 Euro)Superior:

Single room 259 z (61 Euro)Double room 289 z (68 Euro)

Hotel Diament Plaza*** Katowice, ul.Dworcowa 9, 40-012 Katowicetel: (+48 32) 746 70 00fax: (+48 32) 746 70 [email protected]://www.hotelediament.pl/Single room comfort 299z (70 Euro)Double room comfort 344z (80 Euro)

Hotel Monopol, ul.Dworcowa 5, 40-012 Katowicetel. + 48 32 782 82 18fax. + 48 32 782 82 83monopol@hotel.com.plwww.lhr.com.plwww.monopolkatowice.hotel.com.plSingle room 490-560z (114-130 Euro)Double room 580-680z (135-158 Euro)Double room (single use) 535 - 635 z (124-148Euro)Superior room 690 - 850 z (160-197 Euro)Junior Suite 740 - 840 z (172-195 Euro)Apartment 960 - 1200 z (223-279 Euro)

There will also be rooms available in studentresidences located in close proximity (2-3 minuteswalk) to the Faculty of Earth Sciences. The cost ofthe rooms is 40 z (about 10 Euro). Breakfasts arenot supplied. There are several shops nearby (within100 m of the residences). Participants who maywish to use these rooms should contact Krzysztof

Szopa [email protected]

The website of the meetinghttp://prac.us.edu.pl/~iccop-tsop-2013/will containthe most up-to-date information about the meeting.It will also contain information about interestingplaces to visit in Poland. The link to the webpagewill be available on the TSOP website.
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Above: Main entrance to the Faculty of EarthSciences

At left: Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia

Sosnowiec.

The location of the Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTSwww.tsop.org/cal.htm

2013

August:

August 25-30: Goldschmidt 2013, Florence, Italy.Theme 12: Earth Resources: Energy, includingfossil fuels.www.goldschmidt.info/2013

August 31st

- September 4th

, 2013:

TSOP meeting, Sosnowiec, Poland, will be hostedby the Faculty of Earth Sciences at the University ofSilesia. After the ICCP meeting, there will be fieldtrips on August 31st and September 1st for bothTSOP and ICCP attendees, followed by three daysof TSOP technical sessions on September 2nd 4th.Stay tuned towww.tsop.organdhttp://prac.us.edu.pl/~iccop-tsop-2013/ for moredetails.

September:

September 15-20, 2013: 26th IMOG - International

Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Costa Adeje,Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.http://www.imog2013.org/

The guiding principle of the IMOG meetings is toencourage presentation, communication anddiscussion of research results carried out inacademia and industry in the fields of OrganicGeochemistry with topics ranging from PetroleumGeochemistry to Biogeochemistry... The IMOG2013 conference will be held in the Magma Arte &Congresos, an avant-garde and architecturalconcept that evokes the earth volcanic forcesultimate responsible for the creation of CanaryIslands...." Abstract submission deadline is 1February, 2013.

September 16 19, 2013:Pittsburgh CoalConference, Beijing, China.www.engineering.pitt.edu/PCC/

September 30 - October 3, 2013: The InternationalConference on Coal Science and Technology, StateCollege, Pennsylvania, USA.http://www.iccst.infoThe International Conference on Coal Science andTechnology will be one of the best coal conferences

in 2013! This conference is held every 2 years invarying international locations (previously inOkinawa-Japan, Nottingham-England, Cape Town-South Africa, Oviedo-Spain). The 2013 ICCS&Tconference will be in State College, Pennsylvania,USA (September 30th to October 3rd) and willattract a diverse international audience. Moreinformation can be obtained from the website.We hope to see you at Penn State in 2013!" -Jonathan P. Mathews, Conference Chair

October:

October 27-30, 2013: Geological Society ofAmerica Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA.www.geosociety.org

2014

April:

April 6-9: AAPG Annual Convention, Houston,

TX, USA.www.aapg.org

April 24-25: Ashes and Slags from TPPs removal, transport, processing, landfilling, MoscowRussia.http://www.ecopower.ru/index.php?newsid=123

For more geology event information, see:

http://calendar.agiweb.org/index.html
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The Thirtieth Annual

Pittsburgh Coal Conference

September 16 19, 2013

Beijing International Convention CenterBeijing, China

Throughout the world, coal is a major energysource, providing nearly 25% of the world's primaryenergy consumption. Although coal's share of totalenergy use was previously expected to decline inthe future, the recent high cost of natural gas andpetroleum together with projected increasingdemand and decreasing reserves of both havecreated a heightened interest in the use of coal

within the United States. However, to maintain thisgrowth, the industry must be responsive toincreasing pressures on environmental emissionsand global warming as well as improve its publicimage.

The Thirtieth Annual International Pittsburgh CoalConference focuses on environmental emissionsissues and technologies surrounding the continueduse of coal and the development of future coal-based energy plants to achieve near-zero emissions

of pollutants, reduced costs, and high thermalefficiency while producing a suite of products tomeet future energy market requirements.

For more details, please see the website:www.engineering.pitt.edu/PCC/

Ashes and slags from TPPs removal,

transport, processing, landfilling

April 24-25, 2014

Moscow, Russia

Conference organizer: Information and AnalyticCentre "Ecology in Power Engineering" (memberof the European Coal Combustion ProductsAssociation).

Scientific and practical issues in the field of coalash handling to be highlighted during theConference:

update of the international and nationallegislation on coal ash handling; production volumes and beneficial applicationsof coal ash in the countries world-wide; technologies of ash and slag removal and coalash beneficiation at TPPs; coal ash properties and standardization; coal ash utilization in the building industry; coal ash application in agriculture; coal ash processing technologies; coal ash utilization in other industries.

More details can be found in the 1st Conferencecall.Web-page of the Conference -http://www.ecopower.ru/index.php?newsid=123
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FOURTH ANNUAL OHIO VALLEY ORGANIC PETROGRAPHERS MEETING

On Friday, March 29th, 2013, the 4th annual Ohio Valley Organic Petrographers (OVOP) meeting was held at the IndianaGeological Survey (IGS) in Bloomington, Indiana. The event ran from 8am 3pm, featuring nine talks by students andfaculty. The meeting was opened by Dr John Steinmetz, Indiana State Geologist and speaker introductions were

performed by Dr Maria Mastalerz, Senior Scientist at IGS. The event is a great venue for organic petrography faculty andstudents from the region to meet up and discuss research. Talks included:

Agnieszka Furmann: Relationships between porosity, organic matter, and mineral matter in mature shale from thetransition zone between the Belle Fourche and Second White Specks formations in Alberta, Canada.

Michelle Johnston: The characterization of maceral composition in the Leatherwood Coal Bed in Eastern Kentucky.

Allen Quaderer: Response of organic matter and minerals to the heat of intrusion: Initial results of comparison betweencoal and associates clastic sediments.

Yanyan Chen: Heterogeneity of shales investigated with FTIR technique.

Solomon Nyathi: Significance of porosity for predicting coke quality.

Cortland Eble: Petrography of a Lower Devonian coal from Gaspe, Quebec, Canada

Jen O'Keefe: Petrographic variations in Upper Mississippi Embayment Lignites.

Alice O`Bryan: Characterization of cyclicity in Devonian Black Shales, East-Central Kentucky.

Jim Hower: Queen Annes Revenge: Provenance of coal found with Blackbeards ship.

Attendee photograph for the 4th Annual Ohio Valley Organic Petrographers Meeting

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