THE SOCIETY FOR ORGANIC PETROLOGY

NEWSLETTER

Vol. 34, No. 3 September, 2017 ISSN 0743-3816

It’s almost time for the….

34th TSOP Annual Meeting

September 21 – 27, 2017

Calgary, Canada

Badlands at Drumheller (Photo by Tyrell Musuem)

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TSOP Annual Meeting

September 21 – 27, 2017

Calgary, Canada

Please see pages 8 – 16 for details!

https://tsop2017.wordpress.com/

Local Organizing Committee: Co-Chairs: Hamed Sanei, Judith Potter Treasurer: David L. Marchioni Website: Jillian Verbeurgt, Mark Obermayer Technical Sessions: Hamed Sanei, Lavern Stasiuk, Jennifer Galloway Duncan G. Murchison Symposium: Fari Goodarzi, Judith Potter Short Course Coordinator: Judith Potter Field Trip Coordinators: David Marchioni, Bill McDougall, Jennifer Galloway, Judith Potter Student activities: Danielle Kondla Registration: Julito Reyes Invitations and visas: Dennis Jiang, Omid Ardakani, Katherine Clark, Mastareh Liseroudi, Sarah Saad and Dane Synnott

The Society for Organic Petrology

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The Society for Organic Petrology Newsletter

ISSN 0743-3816, published quarterly © 2017 The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

GUIDELINES:

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

study. These might include meeting reports and reviews, book reviews, short technical contributions including those on geologic localities or laboratory

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

discouraged, as they cannot be reproduced well in print. Articles are preferred in Microsoft Word, RTF or plain

text formats.

Contact the Editor: Rachel Walker

e-mail: drrachelwalker@gmail.com

Address Changes Please report any changes in address or contact

information to: Paul Hackley, TSOP Membership Chair, phackley@usgs.gov

Members can update their own information by logging

into the secure TSOP website: www.tsop.org/mbrsonly/

The TSOP Newsletter is published quarterly by The Society 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 organic geochemistry. For more information on membership and

Society activities, please see: www.tsop.org

For purposes of registration of the TSOP Newsletter, a

permanent address is: The Society for Organic Petrology, c/o American Geological Institute,

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

Newsletter Submission Deadlines

December Issue: Dec. 5th, 2017 March Issue: March 5th, 2018

June Issue: June 5th, 2018

CONTENTS

Institutional/Corporate Memberships ....................... 4

TSOP Dues ............................................................... 4

New TSOP Members ............................................... 5

New Significant Publications ........................... 6

2017 Annual TSOP Meeting ............................ 8

Coal Sample Bank Pellets............................. 17

Form and Chemistry in Coal Fossils .............. 18

Calendar of Events ........................................ 20

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Institutional/Corporate Memberships

We’d like to make members aware that membership in TSOP is also open to any organization having an active scientific interest in organic petrology or related fields. TSOP especially encourages institutions to join at the special institutional rate of $75/yr and help support the goals of the Society. See the website for details: www.tsop.org/join_TSOP.html

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www.facebook.com/OrganicPetrology

TSOP Membership Dues TSOP dues payments are due on or before January 1st each year and we encourage you to make your payment so that you can continue your TSOP membership and support the society and its work. Our Dues Prepayment Incentive can save you time and the hassle of arranging your yearly payment. When you prepay your dues four years in advance at the regular rate of $25/yr we will give you the fifth year free!

We encourage members to use our convenient online dues payment system. You can use it to pay by credit card, check (US Members), money order or credit card. You can login at www.tsop.org/mbrsonly and select 'Online dues payment' or go to www.tsop.org/dues and access the online form without logging in. Please note that credit card payment processing is via PayPal and you don’t need a PayPal account to use it. If you want to use a dues form, a copy of this year's form can be downloaded from the website by following the 'Members only->Dues' links from the main page (www.tsop.org). Thank you for your interest and support of TSOP and we look forward to a renewal of your TSOP membership.

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New TSOP Members

Manuel Paez-Reyes Manuel Paez-Reyes is a PhD student in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. He received his undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2006. After graduation, he received a Msc in geology from Brock University, Canada. His research interests include taxonomy, biostratigaphy, and paleoecology of dinoflagellate cysts in the tropics. Other interests include organic petrology in the context of environmental change and sequence stratigraphy, stable isotopes as tools for chemostratigraphy, and the use of radiogenic isotopes to solve stratigraphic problems.

Manuel’s current research is related to the conditions leading to the onset, evolution and culmination of the Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event 2, combining geochemistry, palynology, organic petrology and geology, and the use of this information as an analogue to study recent greenhouse conditions.

Dr. Vinod Atmaram Mendhe Dr. Mende received his PhD in applied geology in 2008 from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, for a study titled ‘Geologic and petrographic controls on coalbed methane from the coal seams of the northern part of Cambay basin, Gujarat’. Dr. Mendhe is Project Leader of the National Shale Gas project funded by the Ministry of Coal, government of India. Dr. Mendhe has 90+ research publications to his credit in international journals, book chapters, conference proceedings and lecture notes and is the recipient of the Dr. J. Coggin Brown Memorial Gold Medal in Geological Sciences from MGMI.

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Dr. Andrew David Carr Dr. Carr has worked 40+ years in organic petrology and related subjects. After finishing his PhD, he initially worked in the steel industry evaluating rank and maceral composition of coals to be made into coke. He then transferred into British Gas to undertake petrological studies in support of the gasification of coals, and subsequently pursued geochemical studies including maturity and kerogen typing in support of BG exploration and production. After leaving British Gas he set up a consultancy, which has operated for 20+ years undertaking organic geochemistry (including petrology) and petroleum system modelling studies, specializing in the development of kinetic and thermodynamically consistent heat flow histories for the modelling of petroleum generation.

New Significant Publications TSOP members can submit information about their new publications in fields relevant to the society. Members who wish to submit their paper details should provide: • The full paper reference information (authors, year, paper title, journal name, volume, pages, • Online access links to the digital edition of the paper (if available) and, • No more than two sentences describing the subject of your paper and why you think this paper is important to the TSOP membership (optional). All submissions can be sent to the TSOP Editor at drrachelwalker@gmail.com.

New publications of interest:

Stefanopoulos, K.L., Youngs, T.G.A., Sakurovs, R., Ruppert, L.F., Bahadur, J., and Melnichenko, Y.B., 2017, Neutron scattering measurements of carbon dioxide adsorption in Marcellus Shale samples: Implications for sequestration: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 51 (11), p 6515–6521. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b05707 (Open Access).

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AVAILABLE at: http://ebooks.benthamscience.com/book/9781681084633/ INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1:

ORGANIC MATTER: CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS João Graciano Mendonça Filho, Paula Alexandra Gonçalves

CHAPTER 2:

ORGANIC PETROLOGY IN THE STUDY OF DISPERSED ORGANIC MATTER Deolinda Flores, Isabel Suárez-Ruiz

CHAPTER 3:

OIL SHALES Angeles G. Borrego

CHAPTER 4:

SOURCE ROCKS, TYPES AND PETROLEUM POTENTIAL Henrik I. Petersen

CHAPTER 5:

ORGANIC PETROLOGY CHARACTERISTICS OF SELECTED SHALE OIL AND SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS IN THE USA: EXAMPLES FROM “THE MAGNIFICENT NINE” Thomas Gentzis, Humberto Carvajal-Ortiz, Seare G. Ocubalidet, Barry Wawak

CHAPTER 6:

SHALE OIL RESOURCE SYSTEMS AND SOLID BITUMEN Tatiana Juliao, Robert Márquez, Isabel Suárez-Ruiz

CHAPTER 7:

APPLICATION OF ORGANIC PETROLOGY IN HIGH MATURITY SHALE GAS SYSTEMS Paul C. Hackley

CHAPTER 8:

TIGHT GAS SYSTEMS Hamed Sanei, James M. Wood, Omid H. Ardakani, Christopher R. Clarkson

CHAPTER 9:

COAL BED METHANE Peter J. Crosdale

CHAPTER 10:

SPENT SOURCE ROCKS IN A PALEO-PETROLEUM SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY Silvia Omodeo Salé, Isabel Suárez-Ruiz

CHAPTER 11:

PERSPECTIVES ON SHALE RESOURCE PLAYS Daniel M. Jarvie

TSOP Annual Meeting: Calgary, Canada

The Canadian Society for Coal Science and Organic Petrology (CSCOP) is pleased to invite TSOP members to Calgary, Alberta, Canada for the 34th Annual Meeting.

The theme of the conference will be

Organic matter in energy systems, with a focus on conventional and unconventional petroleum systems

Meeting dates: Sept 21-27th, 2017

Important Dates

Sept. 21st: Pre-meeting

Field Trip

Sept. 22nd: Short course

Sept. 23-24th: Technical

Sessions

Sept. 25-27th: Post-meeting

Field Trip

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Sept 21: Pre-meeting Field Trip

A one-day trip to view outcrops of the coal- bearing Lower Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation, producing subbituminous coal from several mines and the target zone for extensive CBM/CSG production. The coal- bearing, non-marine sandstone, siltstone, shale and mudstone are well exposed in the Drumheller valley of south central Alberta, a unique area known as the “Badlands”.

Photo by Tyrell Museum

Photo by Hamed Sanei

This trip will also include a visit to the world-famous Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com home to one of the finest dinosaur collections and dinosaur research facilities in the world as well as the Burgess Shale www.burgess-shale.bc.ca and a behind-the-scenes tour by resident paleontologists.

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Photo by Tyrell Museum Photo by Jillian Verbeurgt

Sept 22: Short Course

This full-day course will present a comprehensive examination of organic petrography specifically applied to North American shale plays, discussing reflectance analysis, fluorescence microscopy, SEM and other micro-spectrometry approaches to characterization of organic matter in shale reservoirs.

Petrographic applications will be integrated with observations from programmed pyrolysis to interpret thermal maturity, present-day and original organic matter type, and development of organic porosity. Pros and cons of organic petrographic approaches to shale reservoir characterization will be reviewed in the tight oil plays including the Bakken, Eagle Ford and Niobrara, and shale gas and condensate plays such as the Barnett, Duvernay, Haynesville-Bossier, Marcellus, Utica, and Woodford.

Presenters: Paul Hackley, USGS Reston, Va and Brian Cardott, Oklahoma Geological Survey.

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Oral and Poster presentations on Organic matter in the Biosphere and Geosphere focusing on Characterization of OM for resource and environmental assessment and focusing on organic petrology and geochemistry, organic porosity, the role of organic matter in conventional and unconventional petroleum systems, coal seam gas/CBM.

Sept 23-24: Technical Sessions

One of the technical sessions will be a symposium dedicated to the memory of Professor Duncan G. Murchison, 1928-2013.

Call for Abstracts is open until June 30th, 2017.

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Sept-25-27: Post-meeting Field Trip

There are three options for a post-meeting field trip. Options 1 and 2 are a three-day tour to view coals and source rocks of the Western Canada Basin. The highlight of the tour is a guided hike to the famous Burgess Shale at Mount Stephen, British Columbia, a world heritage site and one of the few sites in the world where Lr. Cambrian, soft-bodied marine fauna are preserved in the Burgess Shale Formation.

The group will depart by bus from Calgary on the morning of Sept 25th, stopping at Jura Creek to view the type

section of the Mississippian Exshaw

formation, an organic-rich petroleum source rock as well as Jura-Cretaceous semi-anthracites and the coal mining museum in Canmore. Participants will stay overnight and dine at a local inn in Field (renowned for its excellent cuisine) in prep for an early morning departure.

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Photo by Jillian Verbeurgt

Photo by Burges Shale Foundation

The final day features a less strenuous tour through the Alpine terrain of BC/Alberta including a stop at the beautiful Chateau Lake Louise.

Option 3: For those wishing for a less strenuous tour of some beautiful mountain venues, a one-day, post-meeting sightseeing excursion to the Canadian Rockies, including Banff, Lake Louise, Emerald Lake is scheduled on Monday, Sept 25th (max 50).

Owing to the limited availability of spaces and physical requirements, there will be a choice of a guided hikes:

Option 1: Burgess Shale to view the unique Burgess Shale fauna exposed in the famous Walcott Quarry on Mount Stephen (max 12).

Option 2: Mount Stephen Fossil Beds to view lower Cambrian fossils including large trilobites (max 12).

Both offer spectacular views of the Rocky Mountains in interior British Columbia and experienced and knowledgeable guides provided by the Burgess Shale Foundation. While this is a unique opportunity to visit these restricted geological sites, the organizing committee must emphasize that these are full day-hikes to high elevations; both options involve long and strenuous hikes and should only be undertaken if you are physically fit and adequately equipped for the trip.

Photo by Hamed Sanei

Photo by Jillian Verbeurgt

Photo by Burges Shale Foundation

Members can contact the hotel directly to reserve accommodations for booking and will receive preferred conference guestroom rates. The negotiated rate is Can$213.00 per night for single/double occupancy which includes high-speed internet and a breakfast buffet in Thompsons restaurant. The negotiated guestroom rate will be available until September 1st, 2017.

Conference Hotel: Hyatt Regency, Downtown Calgary

https://calgary.regency.hyatt.com/

The Hyatt Regency provides superior accommodations and conference and meeting room facilities. It showcases Western Canadian Art and Culture and is situated in the heart of downtown Calgary, with restaurants, theatres, galleries, museums, shopping, and famous landmarks like the Calgary Tower all within

walking distance; the University of Calgary, Research Park, the Geological Survey of Canada, the Saddledome, Stampede Park, Canada Olympic Park and other interesting locations, sights and landmarks can all be accessed by rapid transit from the downtown.

The Hyatt Regency has airporter service to and from the Calgary International Airport. It is approximately a 20 minute taxi ride to downtown from the airport

All functions associated with the conference will take place in the Hyatt Regency Hotel so please help the organizing committee meet their contracted room reservation obligations by staying at the conference hotel and book early to be assured of the negotiated room rates.

Booking at conference rates: https://aws.passkey.com/go/TSOP2017Conference

8:30 AM 8:35 AM

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Per Kent Pedersen

Stratigraphy of organic rich marine mudstones, event or genetic stratigraphy?

9:15 AM 9:40 AM Dane SynnottInfluence of refractory organic matter on source rock hydrocarbon potential: A case study from the Second White Specks and Belle Fourche formations, Alberta, Canada

9:40 AM 10:05 AM Shuangqing Wang

Revelation of organic matter sources and sedimentary environment characteristics by petrographic analysis of Middle Jurassic Dameigou Formation，northern Qaidam Basin, China

10:05 AM 10:30 AM Brooke Johnson

Pore water redox variability and environmental change recorded by the 1.4 Ga Velkerri Formation, Northern Territories, Australia

10:30 AM 10:50 AM

10:50 AM 11:15 AM Marcelina Kondas

Preliminary results of the palynological investigation of the South Flank Arbuckle Anticline section, Oklahoma, USA. ### 10:50 AM 11:15 AM Zhenhua Jing Effect of liquid oxidants on coal structure and permeability

11:15 AM 11:40 AM Stephan Hlohowskyj

Does molybdenum enrichment imply depositional euxinia? New insights from the Montney formation using molybdenum x-ray absorption fine structure

### 11:15 AM 11:40 AM Jienan Pan Pore structure, macromolecular structure and adsorption characteristics of tectonically deformed coal

11:40 AM 12:05 PM JianYe Yang Application of geochemical effects of lanthanide elements in distinguishing rock types and their diagenetic environments ### 11:40 AM 12:05 PM Li Yunbo The measurement and quantitative analysis method of full scale

pore structures in coal

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Integration of Reflected Light Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy to investigate the development of organic matter hosted pores in natural and laboratory pyrolyzed samples, Eagle Ford Formation, West Texas, U.S.A.

2:10 PM 2:35 PM Yong MaOrganic matter pore system in the high gas-yielded Longmaxi shales: Do Graptolite-derived organic matter pores play a significant role?

### 2:10 PM 2:35 PM Zheng Sijian Nuclear magnetic resonance T2 cut-off value of coals: a novel method by fractal analysis theory

2:35 PM 3:00 PM Brett Valentine

Reflectance changes due to broad beam ion milling of coals and organic-rich shales: thermal alteration or surface polishing? ### 2:35 PM 3:00 PM Dangyu Song Development and distribution of pores and fissures in coal

matrix by SEM images analysis

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3:20 PM 3:45 PM Zihui Lei

Organic-matter pertinent and clay-mineral associated pores evolution and influence on reservoir: A case study of low-matured Silurian Longmaxi shale at Lizihe village, Yunnan province, south China

### 3:20 PM 3:45 PM Kaydy Pinetown

A study of biogenic methane production from coals in the Sydney Basin, Australia

3:45 PM 4:10 PM Leslie Ruppert

Investigation of Porosity and Wettability of the Marcellus Shale: a Small-angle Neutron Scattering Study ### 3:45 PM 4:10 PM Meng Li

Coalbed methane potential and its geological controls of the Jurassic coals in the Fukang mining area, Southern Junggar Basin, NW China.

4:10 PM 4:35 PM Katherine Clarke

The Evolution of Petrophysical Properties During Thermal Maturation: Examples from the Montney and Duvernay Formations, Alberta, Canada

### 4:10 PM 4:35 PM Fei Ren Optimization of shockwave generation in water conditions for coal fracturing

4:35 PM 5:00 PM Kouqi Liu In-situ Nano-mechanical Characterization of Organic Matter in Shale ### 4:35 PM 5:00 PM Zhenni Ye

Occurrence Characteristics and Geological Controlling Factors of Coalbed Methane in the North Linyou of Yonglong Mining Area, China

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Conference Banquet (Thompson Resturant; Main Floor, Hyatt)

SATURDAY-September 23, 2017 (main session) Imperial Ballroom 6/8 (3rd Floor), Hyatt

SATURDAY-September 23, 2017 (concurrent session) Imperial Ballroom 4 (3rd Floor), Hyatt

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THURSDAY-September 21, 2017

Pre-Meeting Field Trip; Meet in lobby of Wyndham Hotel-Calgary Airport 7:30 -7:45 am (with luggage)-Bus departs at 8:00am

FRIDAY-September 22, 2017Registration: Grand Foyer (3rd Floor), Hyatt; 8:00am - 6:00pm

Short Course: Imperial Ballroom 4 (3rd Floor), Hyatt; 8:00am -

Icebreaker: Atrium (3rd Floor), Hyatt; 6:00 - 8:30pm

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Late Professor Duncan Murchison Tribute

8:50 AM 9:15 AM Changyi Zhao Experimental Study on Hydrocarbon Generation Mechanism of Coal

9:15 AM 9:40 AM Wu Li Hydrocarbon generation from pyrolysis of coals in different rank ### 9:15 AM 9:40 AM Jian Chen Mineralogy and geochemistry of the Late Permian No. 5 coals from the Nantong coalfield, Chongqing, southwestern China

9:40 AM 10:05 AM Thomas Gentzis

A multi-component approach to study the source-rock potential of the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, USA, using organic petrology, Rock-Eval pyrolysis, palynofacies, LmPy-GCMSMS geochemistry, and NMR spectroscopy

### 9:40 AM 10:05 AM Ferian Anggara

Geochemical and REY composition of the coal in Bangko coal field, South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia

10:05 AM 10:30 AM Louis Tsai Depositional and thermal study of a HC containing structure in NW Taiwan ### 10:05 AM 10:30 AM Xibo Wang

Sulfur and Organic Carbon Isotope Compositions of the Early Permian Upper No. 3 Coal from LiangBaosi mine, Southwestern Shandong, China

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10:50 AM 11:15 AM Thomas Gentzis

Comparative Study of Methyldiamondoid abundances as maturity estimates with conventional maturity proxies: Examples from West Texas and Northern South America

### 10:50 AM 11:15 AM Meili DuStudy on the Correlation between Trace Elements in Coal and Coal-forming Plants in Yan’an Formation of Middle Jurassic, Ordos Basin

11:15 AM 11:40 AM Kouqi Liu Understanding Kerogen Mechanical Properties Using Raman Spectroscopy ### 11:15 AM 11:40 AM Yongchun

ZhaoOccurrence and Release of Sodium during Zhundong Coal Combustion

11:40 AM 12:05 PM Yanbin Yao A new application of NMR in characterization of multi-phase methane gases and adsorption capacity of shale ### 11:40 AM 12:05 PM Barbara

BielowiczThe petrographic analysis of waste generated during the gasification process

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Jim Wood Hydrocarbon Fluid Distribution in the Montney Tight-Gas Fairway: Modification by Secondary Migration of Methane

2:10 PM 2:35 PM Kaydy Pinetown Gas-water relative wettability of Australian shale ### 2:10 PM 2:35 PM RAMAN

Workshop RAMAN Workshop

2:35 PM 3:00 PM Kunio Akihisa Integrating Mud Gas and Cuttings Analyses to Understand Local CGR Variation in the Montney Tight Gas Reservoir ### 2:35 PM 3:00 PM RAMAN

Workshop RAMAN Workshop

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3:20 PM 3:45 PM Deyu Gong Geochemical characteristics of natural gases from Southern Junggar Basin, NW China ### 3:20 PM 3:45 PM RAMAN

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3:45 PM 4:10 PM Mastaneh Liseroudi

Late sulfate cements in the Lower Triassic Montney tight gas play and its relation to the origin of sulfate and H2S ### 3:45 PM 4:10 PM RAMAN

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4:10 PM 4:35 PM Kosei Yamaguchi

Early diagenesis of phosphorus and iron in the meromictic Lake Kai-ike sediments, southwest Japan ### 4:10 PM 4:35 PM RAMAN

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4:35 PM 5:00 PM Dennis Jiang Rock-Eval analysis of shale and tight reservoir rock samples: pitfalls and new applications ### 4:35 PM 5:00 PM RAMAN

Workshop RAMAN Workshop

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MONDAY-September 25 Post-Meeting Field Trip; Bus departs Lobby Hyatt Hotel, 8.00am

MONDAY-September 25-27th Post-Meeting Field Trip (Burgess Shale, Mt Stephen); Bus departs Lobby Hyatt Hotel,

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TSOP 2017 Annual Meeting - Business Luncheon Imperial ballroom 5/7/9 (3rd Floor), Hyatt

Meeting Announcements

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Coal Sample Bank Pellets The Penn State PSOC and DECS petrographic pellets have found a new home; to be exact, three new homes. With the retirement of Gary Mitchell from Penn State’s Energy Institute, a decision was made to disperse part of the collection to other researchers. In addition to a suite of pellets retained at Penn State and the coal sample banks maintained by Jonathan Mathews (jpm10@psu.edu) and Ronnie Wasco (rxw19@psu.edu), sets of the pellets were sent to: • Southern Illinois University – Carbondale

(Sue Rimmer and Jack Crelling), • The Indiana Geological and Water Survey

(Maria Mastalerz and Agnieszka Drobniak), and,

• The University of Kentucky Center for

Applied Energy Research (Jim Hower; including shared access with Cortland Eble (Kentucky Geological Survey) and Jen O’Keefe (Morehead State University).

Comprising nearly 1,300 thoroughly characterized samples of US coals collected from 1967 through 1995, the collection represents a good overview of US coalfields with outstanding detail in certain places. Many of the mines represented no longer exist, so there is historical value to the collection. Further, some of us were involved in the collection and petrographic and chemical analysis of the samples in the collection, adding to our personal interest in preserving this invaluable sample suite. Studies from the Penn State Coal Research Section and later the Energy Institute were based on these samples, a tradition we will continue with collaborations among the professionals and students at the new homes of the pellets.

Coal Sample Bank Pellets (photo courtesy of Agnieszka Drobniak)

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Form and chemistry in coal fossils Erwin L. Zodrow, Sydney, Nova Scotia,

Canada B1R 1S1, zzodrovii@gmail.com José A. D’Angelo, Universidad Nacional de

Cuyo - CONICET, M55002JMA, Mendoza, Argentina, joseadangelo@gmail.com

Christopher J. Cleal, Cardiff, National Museum

Wales, Cardiff CF 3NP, UK, chris.cleal@museumwales.ac.uk We lay no claim to original thought, but follow in the footsteps of Albertus Magnus (1256 A.D.) that “experimentum solum certificat”. The relationship between form and chemistry in living plants has been known for a long time. As a matter of fact, in pre-phytochemistry time 1751, Sweden’s greatest naturalist, botanist Karl von Linne, professed in his Philosophia Botanica that similarities between plant families are due to similar “internal stuff”. The great French botanist A.P. Candolle in 1816 published what was probably the first paper on this subject of form and substance in plants “Essai sur les propriétés médicales des plantes, comparées avec leurs forms extérieures et leur classification naturelle”. This was followed in Germany by Rochleder’s 1856 maxim that to pursue the study of the plant kingdom “the botanist cannot do without chemistry and the chemist without botany”. By this time Barzelius’ 1814 demonstration that the law of definite atomic proportions apply to organic and inorganic compounds was well-known - and of course the pharmaceutical industry has been the trailblazer for phytochemistry.

Our hypothesis is that the relationship between chemistry and architecture in plants is an evolutionary trait which should be testable in the fossil record, given suitable larger specimens and favorable preservation. The largest known specimen of the seed-fern frond Alethopteris ambigua specimen (45-cm long, Fig. 1), from the 300 Ma year-old Sydney Coalfield in Nova Scotia, Canada, fitted the bill for the test. Chemometric studies combining Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy and principal component analysis have clearly demonstrated the close relationship between chemistry and morphology/architecture of coalified seed-fern remains. In fact, chemical structural groups (functional groups) in pinnules and rachides of different orders are continuously variable over the entire frond segment, allowing meaningful comparisons between frond parts. We confirmed that the robust and stiffer proximal basal frond parts that would have had a mainly structural support function had an aromatic-rich chemical composition derived from lignin-related compounds. On the other hand, the slender and more flexible distal frond parts had a predominantly aliphatic composition, reflecting resin- and tannin-derived compounds (secondary metabolites), which would have acted as deterrents against herbivory. Combining morphology, chemistry, and multivariate statistics of different frond parts opened up new possibilities in paleobotanical studies, including the improved reconstruction of whole fossil plant, following the chemical signatures left by their disarticulated remains.

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Details are being published in Palaeontographica B: “3D chemometric model and frond architecture of Alethopteris ambigua: Implications for reconstruction and taxonomy (Medullosales, Canada)” by Erwin L. Zodrow, José A. D’Angelo, and Christopher J. Cleal.

Figure 1. The Alethopteris ambigua frond (Palaeobotanical Collections, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada).

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

2017

Please send in meeting, short course and special event announcements to the Editor

http://www.tsop.org/events.html

September 21-27 34th TSOP Annual Meeting - Calgary, CANADA

October 8-14, 2017 Course in Coal Science, Xuzhou, China- see attached flyer

October 10-12, 2017 International Meeting of Sedimentology, Toulouse, FRANCE

October 15-18, 2017 AAPG-SEG 2017 International Convention & Exhibition - London, UK

October 22-25, 2017 2017 GSA Annual Meeting - Seattle, WA, USA

December 11-15, 2017 AGU Fall Meeting – New Orleans, LA, USA

May 20-23, 2018 AAPG 2018 Annual Convention & Exhibition - Salt Lake City, UT, USA

August 11-17, 2018 Goldschmidt Conference - Boston, MA, USA

August 17-22, 2018 35th Annual TSOP Meeting - Beijing, CHINA

November 4-7, 2018 Annual GSA Meeting - Indianapolis, IN, USA

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