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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1974 Page 3 Old theory didn’t always work Local geologist revises shelf theory for locating oil deposits Dr. Wayne M. Ahr, TAMU geologist, noticed the shelf theory for locating oil deposits doesn’t al ways work. So he has revised it. Ahr made the carbonate “ramp” environmental model an important alternative to the carbonate shelf model which for years has been used to find oil and gas in limestone rock. Examples of the shelf model have been found in oil fields from the Cretaceous limestones of Texas and Northern Mexico and the Permian rocks of West Texas-New Mexico. However, Ahr realized the shelf theory didn’t explain many oil bear ing areas like the Persian Gulf or the Gulf Coast Smackover and Cotton Valley. So he began to look for an alternative to the shelf model for oil bearing environments and some ex amples of the alternative which he calls the carbonate ramp. “The carbonate ramp model is a sloping surface on which the poten tially oil bearing limestones were deposited to depths of hundreds of feet while they were subject to open ocean waves and currents from the surf of ancient oceans,” Ahr said. “As a result, oil bearing sands will be deposited near the surf zone and the nearby shore. This means a per son would explore for these porous, shoreline carbonates to find oil and gas in the ancient buried ramps. “Tbe ramp characteristics, how ever, are exactly opposite to the shelf model, which dictates that there are reefs and some oil bearing sands a long distance—maybe tens of miles—from the shore,” he said. Two A&M profs Tn this case, if one were exploring “A good example of the carbonate ronments in the Gulf of Mexico. dieting the extent and direction of “Because the ramp and the shelf for oil bearing limestones, he would ramp is the Campeche Bank,” Ahr (The Yucatan model is a ramp while the reservoir.” The ramp and the ma y have reservoirs that are differ- have to do his drilling at the edge of said. “This submerged extension of the south Florida model is a shelf). s h e lf are different physiographic ent in origin, distribution and loea- the shelf, possibly far out to sea the Yucatan Peninsula along with “The key problems in exploration models; the difference in geography tion the explorationist should be while shoreline deposits might be the Florida Platform make up po- for oil and gas in carbonate rocks are produces differences in the way the aware of the nature of these mod- completely overlooked. tentially the major oil bearing envi- locating a reservoir rock and pre- 0 jl bearing layers were deposited. els,” concluded Ahr. get article award Two professors in the Depart ment of Economics have won a nation-wide competition, receiving the Best 1973 “Western Economic Journal” Article Award. The article, entitled, “A Test of Consumer Demand Theory Using Deceased Ag to be honored On July 3rd at 11:20 a.m. a flag pole will be dedicated to the mem ory of Danny L. Davis, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Class of 1970 at the College of Veterinary Medicine. The small plaque will hold behind it a story of courage and resolve. Dr. Davis was born in Houston in 1945 where he graduated from Wal- trip High School in 1963. He at tained the distinction of being named “Young Texan of the Month." Following a summer at South Texas Junior College, Dr. Davis en- jh teredTarleton State College in Sep- Ij,' tember, 1963. He completed one year of work before transferring to Texas A&M University in the fall of 1964 for a major in Animal Science. In 1967, he was admitted to the pro fessional curriculum in veterinary medicine to pursue the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree, a goal which he had planned and worked toward for many years. At A&M, Dr. Davis was desig nated a Distinguished Student for his scholastic achievements. He was afflicted with Hodgkins disease in the summer of 1969 and underwent repeated radiation and chemotherapy during the fall and spring of the 1969-70 school year. During the spring semester of 1970 he earned a straight B record while waging his fight against a disease which soon was to take his life. Although confined to a wheel chair, he attended classes and clinic sessions through the last week of his life, continuing his effort to become a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. In memory of their son, grandson and brother, this memorial flagpole is a gift to the College of Veterinary Medicine from Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Davis, Jr., Mrs. Ruth Fiorilla and Mr. J. B. Davis, Jr. Observations of Individual Con sumer Purchases,” was authored by Assistant Professors Raymond C. Battalio and John H. Kagel of TAMU’s Department of Economics, and by Dr. Robin C. Winkler of the University of New South Wales. Correspondents on the article also included Dr. Robert L. Basmann, a professor of economics at TAMU. In the article. Professors Battalio and Kagel report a test of consumer demand theory in a “token economy.” Token economies are planned environments in which in dividuals live for 24 hours a day for extended periods of time, receiving tokens for work performed and ob taining access to most consumer’s goods through the use of token payments. For some time now, psychologists have used token economies as therapeutic environ ments for institutionalized popula tions such as psychiatric patients, pre-juvenile delinquents, school children, etc. Only recently, how ever, have economists become in volved in helping to design more optimal therapeutic environments as well as using these environments for the experimental analysis of economic behavior. Professors Bat talio and Kagel are at the forefront of this research. 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