2014 wiki write off

Welcome to AAPG's inaugural Wiki Write Off! The winning chapter of the Fall 2014 competition will receive a check for $500.

Instructions

Each chapter who wishes to participate must:

1. Write and post 5 wiki articles to the APPG 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
3. Complete the previous two items no later than 1 December 2014

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

The winning article and Student Chapter will be announced in mid-January 2015.

Suggested pages

A few suggested topics for articles include:

• STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
  • Growth fault
  • Syncline
  • Fracture
  • Strike
  • Dip
• PLATE TECTONICS
  • Plate tectonics
  • Crust
  • Mantle
  • Continental drift
  • Subduction
• GEOPHYSICS
  • Interval transit time
  • Amplitude (seismic)
  • Two-way travel time
  • Prestack
  • Poststack
• SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY
  • Sandstone
  • Siltstone
  • Depositional environments
  • Diagenesis
  • Sandstone
  • Siltstone
• MATH, STATISTICS, ECONOMICS
  • Risk analysis
  • Global supply and demand issues
  • Peak oil
  • Historic plays or fields
• PALEONTOLOGY
  • Paleogeography
  • Paleoecology
  • Miocene, Pliocene, etc.
• GEOCHEMISTRY
  • Ro
  • Gas chromatograms
  • RockEval
  • Hydrocarbon
  • Burial history
• LOG ANALYSIS
  • Use of modern logs
  • Use of old logs
  • Use of mud information
  • Use of pressure tests
• ENGINEERING
  • Reservoir engineering (all aspects)
  • Reserve estimation
  • Fracking
  • Directional drilling
  • Geosteering

OTHER Seal Reservoir Creation and use of geologic map Creation and use of cross sections LIDAR Ground water Coal bed methane Karst