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Lawrence H. Wickstrom

State Geologist and Division Chief

Selected Publications

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NOTE: Some of these items may be ordered online in the OhioGeologyStore.

Wickstrom, L.H., Botoman, George, and Stith, D.A., 1985, Report on a continuously cored hole drilled into the Precambrian in Seneca County, northwestern Ohio: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey Information Circular No. 51.
Schumacher, G.A., Shrake, D.L., Swinford, E.M., Brockman, C.S., and Wickstrom, L.H., 1987, Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Cincinnati Group of southwestern Ohio—Field Trip Guidebook for the 16th Annual Eastern Section Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, October 10, 1987: Ohio Geological Society, 73 p.
Wickstrom, L.H., ed., 1987, Computer-aided analysis of geologic data—Eastern Section Conference of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Columbus, Ohio, October 7–10, 1987: Ohio Geological Society, 100 p.
Wickstrom, L.H., 1987, Hydrogeologic and hydrochemical assessment of the basal sandstone and overlying Paleozoic age units for wastewater injection and confinement in the North Central Region: Warner, D.L., ed., prepared for Underground Injection Practices Council, EPA Grant Report.
Baranoski, M.T., Riley, R.A., Wickstrom, L.H., and Stith, D.A., 1988, Analysis of stratigraphic and production relationships of Devonian Shale Gas Reservoirs in Ohio—Final Report, October 1985–November 1988, prepared for the Gas Research Institute (Contract No. 5085-213-1154): Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey, 49 p.
Wickstrom, L.H., and Gray, J.D., 1988, Geology of the Trenton Limestone of northwestern Ohio, in Keith, B.D., ed., AAPG Studies in Geology Series No. 29, The Trenton Group (Upper Ordovician) of Eastern North America—deposition, diagenesis, and petroleum: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 159-172.
Wickstrom, L.H., 1990, A new look at Trenton (Ordovician) Structure in Northwestern Ohio: Northeastern Geology, v. 12, no. 3, p. 103-113.
Shrake, D.L., Wolfe, P.J., Richard, B.H., Swinford, E.M., Wickstrom, L.H., Potter, P.E., and Sitler, G.W., 1990, Lithologic and geophysical description of a continuously cored hole in Warren County, Ohio, including description of the Middle Run Formation (Precambrian?) and a seismic profile across the core site: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey Information Circular No. 56, 11 p.
Baranoski, M.T., and Wickstrom, L.H., 1991, Map of basement structures in Ohio: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey DCMS-7, scale 1:500,000.
Shrake, D.L., Carlton, R.W., Wickstrom, L.H., Potter, P.E., Richard, B.H., Wolfe, P.J., and Sitler, G.W., 1991, Pre-Mount Simon basin under the Cincinnati Arch: Geology, v. 19, p. 139–142.
Keith, B.D. and Wickstrom, L.H., 1992, Lima-Indiana Trend, in Foster, N.H., and Beaumont, E.A., compilers, Stratigraphic Traps III: AAPG Treatise of Petroleum Geology, Atlas of Oil and Gas fields, p. 347–367.
Drahovzal, J.A., Harris, D.C., Wickstrom, L.H., Walker, Dan, Baranoski, M.T., Keith, B.D., and Furer, L.C., 1992, The East Continent Rift Basin—a new discovery: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey Information Circular No. 57, 24 p.
Wickstrom, L.H., Drahovzal, J.A., and Keith, B.D., coordinators, 1992, The geology and geophysics of the East Continent Rift Basin: Indiana Geological Survey Open File Study OFS92-04, 337 p.
Wickstrom, L.H., Gray, J.D., and Stieglitz, R.D., 1992, Stratigraphy, structure, and production history of the Trenton Limestone (Ordovician) and adjacent strata in northwestern Ohio: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 143, 78 p.
Wickstrom, L.H., 1993, Industrial-waste-disposal wells in Ohio: Ohio Geology, Fall 1992/Winter 1993, p. 1–6.
Keith, B.D., and Wickstrom, L.H., 1993, Trenton Limestone—The karst that wasn't there, or was it? in Fritz, R.D., Wilson, J.L., and Yurewicz, D.A., eds., Paleokarst related hydrocarbon reservoirs: SEPM Core Workshop No. 18, New Orleans, 1993, [Proceedings], p. 167-179.
Drahovzal, J.A., and Wickstrom, L.H., 1993, The East Continent Rift Basin, in Catacosinos, P., Dickas, A.B., Forsyth, D., Hinze, W., and van der Pluijm, B.A., conveners, Basement and basins of eastern North America: AAPG Hedberg Research Conference, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1993, [Proceedings].
Wickstrom, L.H., 1994, Surficial Geologic Mapping (STATEMAP) in west-central Ohio and its relationship to deep subsurface geology: in Second Annual Technical Symposium, Canton, Ohio, 1994, [Proceedings]: Ohio Geological Society.
Wickstrom, L.H., and Gray, J.D. 1994, Boomtowns—Oil and gas in northwestern Ohio: Timeline, v. 11, no. 6, p. 2–15.
Wickstrom, L.H., and Wolfe, M.E., 1995, The dawn of a new oil boom for northwestern Ohio? Meridian Oil begins a pilot waterflood project in Allen County: Ohio Geology, Spring 1995, p. 1–4.
Wolfe, M.E, and Wickstrom, L.H., 1995, Enhanced recovery projects in Ohio: Ohio Geology, Spring 1995, p. 4–5.
Wickstrom, L.H., 1996, Middle Ordovician fractured carbonates, in Roen, J.B., and Walker, B.J., eds., The Atlas of major Appalachian Gas Plays: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, Publication V-25, p. 172-180.
Baranoski, M.T., Riley, R.A., Wickstrom, L.H., and others, 1996, Oil and Gas Fields of Ohio: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey Digital Chart and Map Series No. 21, map.
Wickstrom, L.H., and Keith, B.D., 1997, Historical Development of the Lima-Indiana Oil and Gas Trend—From Boom to Bust: Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 19, no. 1–2.
McDonald, James, Wickstrom, L.H., and Steck, C.D., 1997, History of Ohio’s oil- and gas-well location maps and their conversion to digital form: in Fifth Annual Technical Symposium, Akron, Ohio, 1997 [Proceedings]: Ohio Geological Society, p. 52-64.
McDonald, James, and Wickstrom, L.H., 1997, Initial Data Capture for Ohio’s Oil-and-Gas-Well Geographic Information System: GIS/LIS ’97, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1997, [Proceedings], p. 230–234.
Steck, C.D., Wickstrom, L.H., M.C. Hansen, Swinford, E.M. and H.C. Noltimier, 1997, Structural Evolution of the Bellefontaine Outlier, Ohio, in Fifth Annual Technical Symposium, Akron, Ohio, 1997, [Proceedings]: Ohio Geological Society, 117 p.
Wickstrom, L.H., McDonald, James, and Berg, T.M., 1998, Working with the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction for the Public Good: Ohio Geology, Summer 1998, p. 1-3.
Grubaugh, W.A., Baruth, M.L., Wells, J.G., and Wickstrom, L.H., 1999, The Production of Oil and Gas in Ohio (POGO) database and use in a mapping and exploration environment: in Sixth Annual Technical Symposium, Akron, Ohio, 1999, [Proceedings]: Ohio Geological Society, p. 4-19.
Carr, T.R., White, S.W., Wickstrom, L.H., Drahovzal, J.A., Seyler, B., Rupp, J.A., 2001, Midcontinent Interactive Digital Carbon Atlas and Relational database (MIDCARB), in National Conference on Carbon Sequestration, 1st, Washington, D.C., May 14-17, 2001, [Proceedings]: U.S. Department of Energy, 17 p., April 16, 2009.
McDonald, James, Wright, J.L., Steck, C.D., Wickstrom, L.H., Gara, B.D., and Nguyen, L.V., cartography by Powers, D.M., 2003, Original land subdivisions of Ohio: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey Map MG-2, scale 1:500,000. (Revised 2006.)
McDonald, James, Swinford, E.M., Wickstrom, L.H., Slucher, E.R., Powers, D.M., and Berg, T.M., 2003, Bedrock geology and bedrock topography GIS of Ohio—New data and applications for public access: Digital Mapping Techniques ’03—Workshop Proceedings, June 1–4, 2003, Millersville, Pa., U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 03-471, April 16, 2009.
Riley, R.A., Baranoski, M.T., and Wickstrom, L.H., cartography by Powers, D.M., 2004, Oil and gas fields map of Ohio: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey Map PG-1, scale 1:500,000.
Wickstrom, L.H., Venteris, E.R., Harper, J.A., and others, 2005, Characterization of geologic sequestration opportunities in the MRCSP region: Final report under DOE cooperative agreement DE-PS26-05NT42255, 152 p.
Wickstrom, L.H., Venteris, E.R., Slucher, E.R., Carter, K.M., McDonald, James, Rupp, J.A., Greb, S.F., Baum, G.R., Harrison, W.B., and Hohn, M.B., 2006, Geologic storage options and capacities for carbon dioxide sequestration in the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP): Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration, 5th, Alexandria, Virginia, May 8-11, 2006, [Proceedings], 23 p., April 16, 2009.
Gupta, Neeraj, Ball, David, Jagucki, Phillip, Dooley, James, Sminchak, Joel, and Wickstrom, L.H., 2006, Understanding the Geologic Storage Potential in the Midwestern USA through Multiple Field Demonstrations, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies: GHGT-8, Trondheim, Norway, June 19-22, 2006.
 Wickstrom, L.H., Slucher, E.R., Baranoski, M.T., and Mullett, D.J., 2008, Geologic assessment of the Burger Power Plant and surrounding vicinity for potential injection of carbon dioxide: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey Open File Report 2008-1, 52 p.
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