PSAAPG 100th-Anniversary Celebration

PSAAPG 100th Anniversary Celebration

A three-day celebration of Pacific Section Petroleum Geology and Geologists

To commemorate this centennial, the LABGS calls for presentations on:

• History of petroleum geology in California, particularly in the LA Basin

• Historical of key advances in exploration, field development, or geological/geophysical concepts and technology

• Profiles of geologists whose contributions to California geology were extraordinary

• Basin-scale geological-geophysical synthesis

• Technical Advances in petroleum geology from the Pacific Section

We already have some invited talks, but are looking for high-quality presentations in the theme for the rest of the session. Please submit potential talk titles using the Google Form linked here:

 

Admission is $150 before August 15, 2024 and $200 after. Student pricing is $75. Admission includes Saturday Technical Sessions, Saturday Dinner, and Sunday Field Trip.

Register before August 15, 2024 for Early Bird Pricing!

Registration is Now Open:
https://cvent.me/gVZmrZ

Field Trip Description

PSAAPG 100^th Anniversary Meeting PUENTE HILLS FIELD TRIP,
Sept. 15, 2024; 9AM to ~ 2PM

The Los Angeles Basin Geological Society, in celebration of the 100^th anniversary of the Pacific Section AAPG, will host a fieldtrip to examine key components of the basin’s petroleum system, as exposed in the Puente Hills trend of southern California.

The Los Angeles Basin (LAB) is the most productive petroliferous basin in the world per volume or surface area. The four members of the Miocene Puente Formation – in ascending order: La Vida, Soquel, Yorba, and Sycamore Canyon – comprise >8,900’ of stacked source and reservoir in oil fields along the north-dipping dip-slip/reverse Whittier Fault Zone, and a much greater stratigraphic thickness exists in the basin-center. This succession represents the principal phase of subsidence and deep marine sedimentation in the LAB.  A northern and eastern igneous provenance fed a set of submarine fan complexes in the southern San Gabriel Valley, across what would become the Whittier Fault System and the Puente Hills, into the Fullerton Embayment and thence into the LAB proper.  Water depth during deposition was greater than 3,000’, with accommodation space exceeding available sediment flux, a condition not overcome until post-Miocene sediment delivery gradually filled the basin.

A striking feature of the Puente Fm. is its source-rock-to-reservoir rock capability: the organic rich mudstones, deeply buried in the LAB, generated hydrocarbons which migrated updip and along faults, then became trapped in tectonically active and complex structural and stratigraphic geometries, with the Sycamore Canyon and Pliocene Fernando Formation serving as the principal reservoirs of the Brea-Olinda, Sansinena, and Whittier fields (425MM cumulative oil).  The field trip will examine exposures of the La Vida and Soquel source rocks, the Sycamore Canyon sandstones, and will include impressive examples of active tectonism relating to the Brea-Olinda oil field and the hanging wall structure of the Whittier Fault System, among other compelling features.

 

Lodging Recommendation is the DoubleTree by Hilton

The hotel is located within walking distance of Historic Uptown Whittier with many restaurants and shops.

Nearby suggestions for food:

Rick’s Drive in and out (Breakfast too!)

Zumaya’s Mexican Cafe (great breakfast, delicious food!)

Cocktails

Guild Hall | Gastropub in CA – Lisa’s favorite

For questions or comments about this event, please submit using this Google Form.