Research Interests
Siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy
Continental depositional systems
Sandstone petrology
Field mapping and stratigraphy
 
Education

B.A. Geology cum laude, Franklin and Marshall College, 1977

M.S. Geology, The University of Kansas, 1982

 
Selected Publications

Zeng, Hongliu, and Hentz, T. F., 2004, High-frequency sequence stratigraphy from seismic sedimentology: applied to Miocene, Vermilion Block 50, Tiger Shoal area, offshore Louisiana: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 88, no. 2, p. 153-174.

Hentz, T. F., and Zeng, Hongliu, 2003, High-frequency Miocene sequence stratigraphy, offshore Louisiana: cycle framework and influence on production distribution in a mature shelf province: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 87, no. 2, p. 197-230.

Seni, S. J., Hentz, T. F., Kaiser, W. R., and Wermund, E. G., Jr., eds., 1997, Atlas of northern Gulf of Mexico gas and oil reservoirs: volume 1. Miocene and older reservoirs: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 199 p. + 3 pl.

Hentz, T. F., Seni, S. J., and Wermund, E. G., Jr., eds., 1997, Atlas of northern Gulf of Mexico gas and oil reservoirs: volume 2. Pliocene and Pleistocene reservoirs: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 78 p. + 3 pl.

Hentz, T. F., 1995, Diagenesis of Ozona Canyon fracture fills: implications for potential fractured reservoirs in the Ozona gas play, Val Verde Basin, West Texas, in Martin, R. L., ed., In search of new Permian Basin oil and gas fields: using today’s technologies and tomorrow’s ideas for exploration, development, and 3-D seismic in a mature basin: West Texas Geological Society Publication No. 95-98, p. 69–81.

Hentz, T. F., 1994, Sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Pennsylvanian Cleveland Formation: a major tight-gas sandstone, western Anadarko Basin, Texas Panhandle: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 78, no. 4, p. 569–595.

Hentz, T. F., 1988, Lithostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of upper Paleozoic continental red beds, North-Central Texas: Bowie (new) and Wichita (revised) Groups: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 170, 55 p.

Hentz, T. F., 1985, Early Jurassic sedimentation of a rift-valley lake: Culpeper Basin, northern Virginia: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, p. 92–107.

 
Selected Committees  

General Technical Program Co-Chair, American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2008 Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas.

Volume Editor, Transactions, 1999 Gulf Coast Section SEPM 19th Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference

Technical Editor, Bureau of Economic Geology, in-house and outside publications (1987–1996)

 
 
Awards

First Place Poster Award, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS), 48th Annual Convention, Corpus Christi, Texas , October 21–23, 1998.

Summer Field Geology Internship, U.S. Geological Survey—National Association of Geology Teachers; Summer 1977

 
Contact

Tucker F. Hentz
Research Associate
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-471-7281

 
Professional Summary (Word format)
June 2003