Dr. K. David Newell

Assistant Scientist, Kansas Geological Survey

Address Information Kansas Geological Survey 1930 Constant Avenue University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66047-3726 Phone: 785-864-2183 FAX: 785-864-5317 e-mail:dnewell@kgs.ku.edu Education BS, 1973, Geology, Indiana State University MS, 1975, Geology, University of Wisconsin--Madison PhD, 1996, Geology, University of Kansas Research Areas Stratigraphy Carbonate diagenesis and depositional environments Petroleum Geology Fluid inclusions in sedimentary diagenetic minerals

Ongoing Projects

Selected publications

Newell, K.D., Doveton, J.H., and Lambert, M.W., 2001, Facies and petrophysical characteristics of the Chattanooga Shale and Misener Sandstone in the McPherson paleovalley in central Kansas; in Johnson, K.S., ed., Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian geology and petroleum in the southern Midcontinent: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular 105, p. 57-70.

Newell, K.D., and Hatch, J.R., 2001, An exploration strategy for the Salina basin in Kansas based on organic geochemical data and maturation modeling; in Johnson, K.S., ed., Petroleum systems of sedimentary basins in the southern Midcontinent: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular 106, p. 109-118.

Roop, T.W., and Newell, K.D., 2001, Sediment movement along the eastern margin of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, as revealed by cross-stratification in the Dakota Formation, Washington County, Kansas: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, v. 104, p. 109-122.

Newell, K.D., and Goldstein, R.H., 1999, A new technique for surface and shallow subsurface paleobarometry using fluid inclusions; an example from the Upper Ordovician Viola Formation, Kansas, USA: Chemical Geology, v. 154, p. 97-111.

Hatch, J.R., and Newell, K.D., 1999, Geochemistry of oils and hydrocarbon source rocks from the Forest City basin, northeastern Kansas, northwestern Missouri, southwestern Iowa and southeastern Nebraska: Kansas Geological Survey, Technical Series 13, 32 p.

Newell, K.D., 1997, Comparison of maturation data and fluid-inclusion homogenization temperatures to simple thermal models; implications for thermal history and fluid flow in the Mid-continent: Kansas Geological Survey, Current Research in Earth Sciences, Bulletin 240, p. 13-27; Available online: http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Current/1997/newell/newell1.html.

Newell, K.D., 1997, Correlation and distribution of reservoir and sealing facies within the Viola Formation, south central Kansas; in Johnson, K.S., ed., Simpson and Viola groups in the southern Midcontinent, 1994 Symposium: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular 99, p. 247-259.

Newell, K.D., 1995, Overview of petroleum geology and production in Kansas; in Anderson, N.L. And Hedke, D.E., eds., Geophysical atlas of selected oil fields in Kansas: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 237, p. 2-6.

Newell, K.D., Burruss, R.C., and Palacas, J.G., 1993, Thermal maturation and organic richness of potential petroleum source rocks in Proterozoic Rice Formation, North American Mid-Continent Rift System, Northeastern Kansas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 77, p. 1922-1941.

Newell, K.D., and Wong, J.C., 1992, Exploration is aided by computer graphics, mapping: World Oil, v. 213, no. 9 (Sept.), p. 39-46.

Newell, K.D., 1990, Lindsborg field--U.S.A., Salina basin, Kansas; in Beaumont, E.A. and Foster, N.H., eds., Structural traps IV: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Treatise of Petroleum Geology, Atlas of Oil and Gas Fields, p. 347-382.

Jenden, P.D., Newell, K.D., Kaplan, I.R., and Watney, W.L., 1988, Composition and stable isotope geochemistry of natural gases from Kansas, Midcontinent, U.S.A.: Chemical Geology, v. 71, p. 117-147.

Newell, K.D., Watney, W.L., Stephens, B.P., and Hatch, J.R., 1987, Hydrocarbon potential in Forest City basin: Oil and Gas Journal, Oct. 19th, p. 58-62.

Newell, K.D., Watney, W.L., Cheng, S.W.L., and Brownrigg, R.L., 1987, Spatial and stratigraphic distribution of Kansas oil and gas production: Kansas Geological Survey, Subsurface Geology Series 9, 86 p.

Newell, K.D., and Hennington, R.E., 1983, Potential petroleum source rock deposition in the middle Cretaceous Wasia Formation, Rub'Al Khali, Saudi Arabia: Society of Petroleum Engineers Paper 11456, Proceedings of the Third Middle East Oil Technical Conference, Manama, Bahrain, p. 151-160.