Wiki write off

Welcome to AAPG's Wiki Write Off!

The Write Off competition is open to all AAPG Student Chapters, and the winning Student Chapter will receive a check for $500.

Wiki Write Off is closed.

2015 June Entries

Winner!

Congratulations to University of La Plata for winning the June 2015 Wiki Write Off with their article on Hydrocarbon reservoirs associated to layered intrusive bodies!

Other entries

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

• Parana-Etendeka CBP
• Paraná Basin
• Botucatu Formation
• Guará Formation
• Irati Formation

Universitas Diponegoro

• Coal bed methane (UDip)
• Fracking
• Growth fault
• Karst topography
• Sandstone provenance and characterization

University of Brawijaya

• Amplitude (seismic)
• Coal bed methane (UB)
• Geologic mapping (UB)
• Reservoir
• Reservoir engineering

Universitas Gadjah Mada

• Geologic mapping (UGM)
• Relationship between porosity and permeability on fractured basement reservoir
• Subsurface diagenesis and its relation with diagenetic trap on carbonate rocks reservoir
• Petroleum exploration
• Vibro-sesismic to increasing the production rate of coal bed methane

University of Ilorin

• Hydrocarbon
• Syncline

University of Indonesia

• Amplitude variations with offset (AVO)
• How to plot the strike data to the Rosette diagram
• Plate tectonics and basin formation

University of La Plata

• Contourites
• Geothermal energy
• Offshore exploration and exploitation
• The Neuquén Basin: Sequence Stratigraphy of Vaca Muerta Formation

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

• Medical geology

Instructions

Each chapter who wishes to participate must:

1. Write and post 5 original wiki articles to the AAPG wiki page on geoscience topics of their choice
2. Send an e-mail with the titles of their five articles, the name and address of the chapter, and the names of the students who helped author the articles to [email protected]
3. Complete the previous two items no later than 30 June
4. Articles should be original works--if other sources are utilized they should be quoted and cited according to proper literary rules. Articles containing plagiarized material will be automatically disqualified.

The articles will be judged by the AAPG Wiki Advisory Board and the AAPG Senior Associate Editor Board. The judges will select one article from all articles submitted to be the winning article based on:

1. Quality of science
2. Completeness
3. Quality of writing

Need help getting started?

Suggested pages

Pages that need to be created, added to, or completed can be found here.

Past winners

December 2014

Well log analysis for reservoir characterization, by Universitas Gadjah Mada

Past competitions

December 2014 Wiki Write Off