2004-2005 MBGS Officers
The Executive Committee meeting minutes are
available on our website at www.mbgs.org
PRESIDENT:
ROBERT REYNOLDS,
Reynolds
Geological, LLC
509 Hall Blvd. Mason, MI 48854
517-676-9936, fax 517-676-8169, reynoldsgeo@voyager.net
VICE
PRESIDENT: MARK NIDA
LEG, Public Service Commission
PO Box 30221, Lansing MI 48909
517-241-6136, fax 517-241-6121, mcnida@michigan.gov
SECRETARY: KEN PETRIE
Aurora
Energy
1951
Penobscot Drive
Okemos, MI 48864
517-347-3043
kmpetrie@yahoo.com
TREASURER
& PUBLICATIONS: TOM HOANE
FMFM,
DNR
P.O.
Box 30452,
Lansing, MI 48909-7952
Bus
517-241-3769, fax 517-373-2443 hoanet@michigan.gov
BUSINESS
MANAGER: TOM GODBOLD
OGS,
DEQ
P.O.
Box 30256,
Lansing, MI 48909-7756
Ph:
517-241-1545, Fax 517-241-1595 godboldt@michigan.gov
PAST-PRESIDENT:
DR.
ROBB GILLESPIE
WMU
Geology Department
1123
Rood Hall, WMU, Kalamazoo, MI 49008
269-378-5354,
fax 269-387-5513 robb.gillespie@wmich.edu
CO-FIELDTRIP
DIRECTORS:
MARK
WOLLENSAK,
CPG
Hamp,
Mathews & Assoc, Inc.
15266
Ann Drive,
Bath, MI 48808
Ph:
517-641-7333 Fax 517-641-7337
Cell
517-719-8321 wollensak@voyager.net
and
LEONARD
ESPINOSA,
FMFM, DNR
PO
Box 30452,
Lansing, MI 48909-7952
Ph:
517-335-3248, Fax 517-373-2443 espinosl@michigan.gov
NEWSLETTER
EDITOR: TOM WELLMAN,
FMFM,
DNR
PO
Box 30452,
Lansing, MI 48909-7952
Ph:
517-373-7666, Fax 517-373-2443 wellmant@michigan.gov
ELECTRONIC
PUBLICARIONS:
MARK
WOLLENSAK
AAPG DELEGATES:
DR. AUREAL CROSS, MSU,
Dept. of Geol Sciences, 206
Natural Sciences Bldg, East Michigan State University:
Lansing, MI 48824-1115, 517-335-4630/4639,
MEETING CANCELLATION POLICY
Monthly meetings will be automatically cancelled whenever the National
Weather Service issues a "Storm Warning" for the Lansing area. If
driving conditions are poor but a "Warning" has not been issued
please contact any member of the Executive Committee for the status of the
meeting.
MICHIGAN BASIN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS
Historical CD #1: Nine
out-of-print publications from 1949 through 1965 and 1998, Devonian
to Silurian Rock Fieldtrips to MI, WI, IL and Ontario, 2000, $15
Historical CD #2: Four
out-of-print publications from 1947, 1959, 1983 and 1991, Northern
Devonian and UP Fieldtrips in MI, 2001, $10
Historical CD #3: Six
out-of-print publications from 1947. 1959, 1983 and 1991, Northern
Devonian and UP Fieldtrips in MI, 2001, $12
Special Price - Historical CD #1,
#2 & #3, $30
Stratigraphic Lexicon for Michigan, 2001, prepared by MBGS and published by DEQ, 56 pp., chart, $2.65
picked up or $4 mailed, Can be ordered from MBGS or Geological Survey Div. of
the DEQ
Price
Includes postage, handling and any applicable sales tax. MBGS Members receive a
10% discount on MBGS publications.
Orders for
publications should be prepaid in U.S. Funds and addressed to:
MBGS -
Publications
c/o Dept.
of Geological Sciences
206
Natural Sciences Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1115
MBGS Mug and Jacket Sale
The
Michigan Basin Geological Society is offering mugs and jackets with the society
logo for sale. The mugs are $5.00 each. The jackets are $60.00 each plus
postage. Please contact Dan McGuire at: Phone (517) 772-5219, Fax (517)
772-7021, or danmcguire@sensible-net.com. Remember to include the
correct size of the jacket and the quantity of each item. Checks should be
made out to the MBGS.
Dr. WILLIAM, HARRISON,
Western Michigan University
616-387-8691
william.
MBGS Meeting
September 13, 2006 (WEDNESDAY)
Coyote Creek
6951 Lansing Rd, Dimondale, MI.
Schedule: 5:30 to 6:15 PM Social Hour
6:15 PM Dinner
Presentation after dinner
Cost $25.00/member $15.00 Student (includes dinner)
Topic: “Regression of Ethylbenzene/Xylenes Ratios for Estimating
Release Date”
By
Grant
DeWitt
MBGS Dinner Meeting Reservation
Name______________________
Number attending _____ Society_____________
Enclosed Registration Fee ______
Please make checks payable to MBGS
and return to Thomas Godbold by September 11, 2006. Members are
welcome to attend the presentation after dinner for no charge. Please contact
Thomas Godbold to ensure adequate seating. Send reservations to:
Thomas Godbold
P.O. Box 30256
Lansing, MI 48909-7756
Ph: Bus Ph: 517-242-2545, Fax 517-241-1595
E-mail:godboldt@michigan.gov
First-Order
Exponential Regression of Ethylbenzene/Xylenes Ratios for Estimating Release
Date
By Grant W. DeWitt, PM Environmental,
Inc; and Dr.James S. Smith, Trillium, Inc
Abstract
A model is proposed
to estimate a “petroleum hydrocarbon release or significant source reduction
date range” (RDR) based on groundwater time series data exhibiting anaerobic,
first-order exponential biodegradation decay. Groundwater monitoring data for
sites with known release or source termination/reduction dates are compared
with model predictions.
Gasoline, kerosene,
diesel, and heating oil have composition ratios of ethylbenzene to xylenes of
approximately 0.17 ± 0.05. Upon a release, typically aerobic bacteria rapidly
use the available oxygen and drive the release environment anaerobic.
Ethylbenzene and xylenes are C2 benzene compounds that have nearly
identical boiling points, vapor pressures, water solubilities, and carbon-water
sorption coefficients. Therefore, the major fate and transport mechanisms of
evaporation, water washing, groundwater velocity retardation, and dispersion
treat ethylbenzene and xylenes alike. Anaerobic biodegradation will remove
xylenes faster than ethylbenzene and the ratio of ethylbenzene to xylenes (EXR)
in groundwater will increase with time.
Petroleum hydrocarbon
biodegradation can be reasonably simulated using first-order exponential
approximations. The ratios of these hydrocarbons will also follow first-order
exponential approximations. Given the 1) difference in ethylbenzene and
xylenes biodegradation rates and 2) similar fate and transport properties will
not significantly effect the EXR differently over time, simulating the EXR
using a first-order exponential approximation will eliminate the need to know
the initial ethylbenzene and xylenes release concentrations and allow for
modeling the observed groundwater data to predict a RDR using a minimum (0.17 -
0.05 = 0.12) and maximum (0.17 + 0.05 = 0.22) initial EXR representing a new
release.
Ethylbenzene and
xylenes groundwater monitoring data that exhibit anaerobic, first-order
exponential biodegradation decay are used to estimate a RDR, or at least
indicate the release could not have occurred after the estimated RDR, that were
in reasonable agreement with known release and source reduction dates. The
field examples suggest that regression analysis of post release data can be used
or obtained to provide a reasonable estimate of the RDR, without the need for
early time data. Historic EXR data are modeled and projected forward in time
to support a new from old release determination. EXR data not showing an
increasing trend and remaining near the range anticipated for a new release are
associated with an example of intermittent free product conditions suggesting a
means to indicate the continuing presence of free phase hydrocarbons and
significant source material.
Biography
Grant W. DeWitt, BA, MS, PG, CP
(professional geologist: Pennsylvania and Alabama and certified underground
storage tank professional: Michigan) is a Senior Project Geologist at PM
Environmental, Inc., an environmental consulting firm. Mr. DeWitt has managed
numerous environmental site assessments, remedial investigations, underground
storage tank (UST) closures, feasibility studies, and remediation system design
including bioremediation, soil vapor extraction, and groundwater pumping pilot
tests.
Specific project
experience has included management of geophysical surveys, soil and groundwater
sampling, free product recovery, bid specification development, and oversight
of UST and soil removal. He has conducted Risk-Based Corrective Action
evaluations, aquifer test analyses, groundwater flow and contaminant transport
modeling, and water supply evaluations and provided expert opinion/witness for
state and federal litigation.
He earned a M.S.
degree in geophysics from the University of Utah in 1979 following a B.A.
degree in geology from Temple University in 1975.
James S. Smith, PhD, CPC (certified
professional chemist) is the president of Trillium, Inc., a consulting firm
specializing in environmental chemistry. Founded in 1987, Trillium=s areas of expertise
are analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, quality
assurance and quality control, data validation, data interpretation, planning,
sampling and analysis programs, environmental forensic investigations, and
expert witness work.
Dr. Smith has
published, presented and taught courses on environmental chemistry topics
including analytical instrumentation such as mass spectrometry, analytical
methods, fate and transport of petroleum and coal products and wastes,
chlorinated solvents, PCBs, pesticides, herbicides, nematocides, dioxins,
furans, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), metals, anions, detergents,
plasticizers, paint, isocyanates, antioxidants, etc. in various environmental
matrices.
He earned a Ph.D. in
organic chemistry from Iowa State University in 1964 following BA degree in
chemistry from Williams College in 1960.
Petrolia
and Oil Springs Tour
North
America's oil industry was
born in 1858 when James Miller
Williams built the first successful oil well on a deposit of “gum
beds" located near the towns of Oil Springs
and Petrolia, Ontario. The beds where first recognized in
1851,
but neverdeveloped. Williams pumped 9,447 bbl of crude oil from his wells in his first two
years. After which, he launched the first integrated oil company - exploring,
drilling and refining the oil - with the founding of "The Canada Oil
Company" in 1860.
For
the next 50 years, these fields supplied 90% of the oil consumed in Canada and
Petrolia became home to the world's most advanced oil development and refining
technologies. The boom times were over by the turn of the 20th century,
though commercial wells continue to pump. Thus far, the area has produced an
estimated 10 billion barrels. As the
Petrolia oil rush began to slow, the local drillers, who had learned how to get
oil from the ground efficiently found their skills and methods in high demand. Petrolia
oil men then dispersed around the world, to as many as 87 countries, opening
some of today's great oil fields in the Middle East, Venezuela, and elsewhere
MICHIGAN BASIN
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP
The Birthplace of
Commercial Oil Production in North America: Petrolia, Oil Springs, & Fairbank’s
Farm Historical Tour
9am Saturday 16 September 2006
TOUR GUIDES: Claudia Cochrane (U of Western Ontario), Bob Cochrane (O&G Exploration Geologist), & Charlie Fairbanks
(4th generation owner of the Fairbank Oil Properties with its continuously
operating oil field since the 1860’s). Depending on the # of attendees there
may be a bus or van to transport us around. (Those who want more information
on Petrolia/Oil Springs can visit www.petroliadiscovery.com/.)
MEET AT: The
Tourist Information Center parking lot on the Ontario side of the ‘Bluewater Bridge’ near Exit 1 on Queen’s Highway 402. Bring
a pictured ID for Customs.
REGISTRATION FEE: $35.00 for food at breaks, a box
lunch, and admission fees at The Oil Springs Museum & Petrolia Discovery.
For student’s the registration fee will include the MBGS membership fee.
(We are all invited to stay for ‘fish & chips’ supper in Sarnia after the
tour at our own expense.)
MBGS MEMBERS ONLY! (Our insurance carrier requires
field trip attendees to be MBGS members.) Go to www.mbgs.org/membershipapp.html
for a membership application and use me as a sponsor if you don’t have one. Please
send the membership application with the $25.00 dues attached.
DRESS & EQUIPMENT: Walking shoes, whatever the weather
dictates, and your camera or video recorder.
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PETROLIA, OIL SPRINGS, & FAIRBANKS FARM PETROLEUM HISTORICAL TOUR
NAME:
______________________________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS:
__________________________________________________________________________________
E-MAIL:_____________________________________
TX#:____________________________________________
Registration Fee of $35.00
enclosed: Yes__ No__ I will pay at the Tourist Information Center__.
MBGS Member: Yes__ No__ Include membership application
w/$25.00 dues or bring it with you on the tour.
Please mail, fax, or e-mail this
MBGS field trip registration by Friday 15 Sep 06
TO:
Len Espinosa, Forest, Mineral, and Fire Management, PO Box 30452, Lansing, MI
48909-7952; Fax# 517-373-2443, TX# 517-335-3248, E-mail espinosl@Michigan.gov
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MBGS
Outreach
MBGS
again has a number of packets of Michigan rocks and minerals to be given out.
We purchase approximately 150 packets each year and they are available on a
first come basis to members to be used for the outreach program. If you would
like to request packets please contact Tom Hoane at 517-241-3769 or hoanet@michigan.gov.
MBGS
would like to keep a record of our members outreach to the public. After you
have given a presentation to a group (school class, boy scouts, etc.) please
fill in the requested information and send to:
Tom
Hoane, 1748 Danby Lane SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49506, or hoanet@michigan.gov.
MBGS Geological Outreach Form
Name __________________________
Date of Talk ____________________
School/Location___________________________
Grade/Age ____________
Number of people/students
______________ Amt. Time _________________
Handouts Given
________________________________________________
Title/Other
Info__________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
The following is a
note from the folks at the Michigan Basin Core Research Laboratory regarding
MBGS recent donation of $500 to their building fund.
Michigan Basin
Geological Society Dues Notice
Please fill out this form when paying your dues for
2006-2007. Dues are $25.00 for active member and $10.00 for students.
Name_________________________
Address_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
Phone_________________________
E-Mail_________________________
Amount
enclosed________________
Send Newsletter by e-mail_____ or Mail_____ @ address above
Make check payable to: MBGS
Send to: Tom Hoane
1748 Danby Lane SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
