2014 wiki write off

Welcome to AAPG's inaugural Wiki Write Off!

The Write Off competition is open to all AAPG Student Chapters, and the winning Student Chapter of the 4th Quarter 2014 competition will receive a check for $500.

2014 WWO results

The 2014 WWO is currently concluded. All qualifying articles have been sent to the advisory board for judging. Winners will be announced in January.

University of Ilorin

• Structural geology
• Continental drift

Louisiana State University

• Ti in zircon geothermometer
• Geodynamics of terrestrial exoplanets
• Lwandle plate
• Strain partitioning
• Main Central Thrust

Universitas Gadjah Mada

• Subduction zone
• Sandstone
• Depositional environments
• Well log analysis for reservoir characterization

Makerere University Kampala

• Economics: global supply and demand
• Sandstone sedimentology and stratigraphy
• Economics

Instructions

Each chapter who wishes to participate must:

1. Write and post 5 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 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 late January 2015.

Need help getting started?

Suggested pages

A few suggested topics for articles include:

• STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
  • Growth fault
  • Syncline
  • Fracture
  • Strike
  • Dip
• PLATE TECTONICS
  • Plate tectonics
  • Crust
  • Mantle
  • Subduction
• GEOPHYSICS
  • Interval transit time
  • Amplitude (seismic)
  • Two-way traveltime
  • Prestack
  • Poststack
• SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY
  • Sandstone
  • Siltstone
  • Diagenesis
• MATH, STATISTICS, ECONOMICS
  • Risk analysis
  • Peak oil
  • Historic plays or fields
• PALEONTOLOGY
  • Paleogeography
  • Paleoecology
  • Miocene, Pliocene, etc.
• GEOCHEMISTRY
  • Ro
  • Gas chromatograms
  • RockEval
    • Some material exists on this but The AAPG Wiki needs better descriptions and application for S1 and S2 especially
  • Hydrocarbon
  • Burial history
• LOG ANALYSIS
  • Modern logs - interpretation
  • Old logs - interpretation
  • Mud information - interpretation
  • Pressure test interpretation
• ENGINEERING
  • Reservoir engineering (all aspects)
  • Reserve estimation
  • Fracking
  • Directional drilling
  • Geosteering
• OTHER
  • Seal
  • Reservoir
  • Map - How to make and how to read geologic maps
  • LIDAR
  • Ground water
  • Coal bed methane
  • Karst