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  • Hammes, U. R. Eastwood, G. McDaid, E. Vankov, A. Gherabati K. Smye, J. Shultz, E. Potter, S. Ikonnikova, and S. Tinker, 2016, Regional assessment of the Eagle Ford Group of South Texas, USA: Insights from lithology pore volume, water saturation, organic richness, and productivity correlations: Interpretation, V. 4, p. 1-25.
  • Ogiesoba, O. and Hammes, U., 2014, Seismic-attribute identification of brittle and TOC-rich zones within the Eagle Ford Shale, Dimmit County, South Texas: J Petrol. Explor. Prod. Technol (2014) 4: 1330151. DOI 10.1007/s13202-014-0106-1 
  • Hammes, U., and J. Gale, 2013, (eds.), Geology of the Haynesville Gas Shale in East Texas and West Louisiana, USA: AAPG Memoir 105, 236 pp.
  • Hammes U., Mutti, M., and Krause, M., 2013, Unconventional Reservoir Potential of the Upper Permian Zechstein Group: A Shelf to Basin Sequence Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Evaluation of Carbonates and Organic-Rich Mudrocks, Northern Germany: Environmental Earth Sciences: DOI 10.1007/s12665-013-2724-1
  • Olariu, M.I., U. Hammes, and W. A. Ambrose, 2013, Depositional architecture of growth-fault related wave-dominated shelf-edge deltas of the Oligocene Frio Formation in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas: Marine and Petroleum Geology, (2013), doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.09.009.
  • Ogiesoba, O. C., and Hammes, U., 2012, Seismic interpretation of mass-transport deposits within the upper Oligocene Frio Formation, south Texas Gulf Coast: AAPG Bulletin, v. 96, no. 5, p. 845‒868.
  • Hammes, Ursula, and Frébourg, G., 2012, Haynesville and Bossier mudrocks: a facies and sequence stratigraphic investigation, East Texas and Louisiana, USA: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 31, p. 8‒26.
  • Hammes, U., Frébourg, G., Loucks, R. G., Wang, F. P., and Eastwood, R., 2011, Haynesville/Bossier Core Workshop: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, and Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, Texas Region, variously paginated.
  • Loucks, R. G., Reed, R. M., Ruppel, S. C., and Hammes, U., 2012, Spectrum of pore types and networks in mudrocks and a descriptive classification for matrix-related mudrock pores: AAPG Bulletin, v. 96, no. 6, p. 1071‒1098.
  • Hammes, U., Hamlin, H. S., and Ewing, T. E., 2011, Geologic analysis of the Upper Jurassic Haynesville Shale in east Texas and west Louisiana: AAPG Bulletin v. 95, no. 10, p. 1643–1666.
  • Olariu, M. I., Hammes, U., Ambrose, W. A., and Loucks, R. G., 2012, Facies variability of the Oligocene Frio Formation in growth-faulted compartments in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 62, p. 331‒343.
  • Eastwood, Ray, and Hammes, Ursula, 2011, Log model development for the Bossier and Haynesville shales, in SPWLA 52nd Annual Logging Symposium, May 14‒18, p. 1‒17.
  • Wang, F. P., and Hammes, Ursula, 2010, Effects of petrophysical factors on Haynesville fluid flow and production: World Oil, June 2010, p. D-82.D79.
  • Hammes, Ursula, Hamlin, H. S., and Eastwood, Ray, 2010, Facies characteristics, depositional environments, and petrophysical characteristics of the Haynesville and Bossier shale-gas plays of East Texas and northwest Louisiana: Houston Geological Society Bulletin, May, p. 59–63.
  • Ambrose, W. A., Johnson, B. E., Hammes, Ursula, and Johnstone, Dean, 2010, Sequence stratigraphic framework and depositional history of Oligocene Frio slope-fan, lowstand prograding wedge, and shallow-marine transgressive-regressive deposits in the Lavaca Bay area, Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 60, p. 29–38.
  • Loucks, R. G., Reed, R. M., Ruppel, S. C., and Hammes, Ursula, 2010, Preliminary classification of matrix pores in mudrocks: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 60, p. 435–441.
  • Hammes, U., Willis, J. J., Feeley, M., Smith, R., Stull, K., Willis, J. C., and Willis, K. M., eds., 2010, Transactions: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, v. 61, 929 p.
  • Hammes, Ursula, 2009, Enhancing oil and gas recovery in Texas one operator at a timer, in Laubach, S. E., and Tinker, S. W., eds., 2009, Earth’s art: celebrating the Centennial of the Bureau of Economic Geology, 1909–2009: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, p. 116–117.
  • Hammes, Ursula, Eastwood, Ray, Rowe, H. D., and Reed, R. M., 2009, Addressing conventional parameters in unconventional shale-gas systems: depositional environment, petrography, geochemistry, and petrophysics of the Haynesville Shale, in Carr, T., D'agostino, T., Ambrose, W., Pashin, J., and Rosen, N. C., eds. Unconventional energy resources: making the unconventional conventional: 29th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, December 6–8, Houston, p. 181–202.
  • Hammes, Ursula, 2009, Sequence stratigraphy and core facies of the Haynesville Mudstone, East Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 59, p. 321–324.
  • Zeng, Hongliu, Loucks, R. G., and Hammes, Ursula, 2008, Linear amplitude patterns in Corpus Christi Bay Frio Subbasin, south Texas: interpretive pitfalls or depositional features?: Geophysics, v. 73, no. 5, p. A27–A31.
  • Bonnaffe, Florence, Hammes, Ursula, Carr, D. L., and Brown, L. F., Jr., 2008, High-resolution sequence stratigraphic correlations of the Oligocene Frio Formation in south Texas, in Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 58, p. 125–142.
  • Hammes, Ursula, Loucks, R. G., Brown, L. F., Jr., Treviño, R. H., Montoya, Patricia, and Remington, R. L., 2007, Reservoir geology, structural architecture, and sequence stratigraphy of a growth-faulted subbasin: Oligocene Lower Frio Formation, Red Fish Bay Area, South Texas Gulf Coast: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 272, 28 p. + plate.
  • Hammes, Ursula, assoc. ed., 2007, Transactions of the 57th Annual GCAGS Convention and the 54th Annual GCSSEPM Meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas, October 21–24, 855 p.
  • Hammes, Ursula, Zeng, Hongliu, Loucks, Robert, and Brown, Frank, Jr., 2007, All fill―no spill: slope-fan sand bodies in growth-faulted subbasins: Oligocene Frio Formation, South Texas Gulf Coast: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 57, p. 361–371.
  • Loucks, R. G., Treviño, R. H., Brown, L. F., Jr., and Hammes, Ursula, 2007, Site-specific sequence stratigraphic sections (S5 benchmark charts): practical tool for correlating chronostratigraphic units in the Texas Gulf Coast Tertiary section: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 57, p. 487–500.
  • Zeng, Hongliu, Loucks, R. G., and Hammes, Ursula, 2007, Linear amplitude patterns in Corpus Christi Bay Frio subbasin, south Texas: artifacts or depositional features?, in Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Seventy-Seventh Annual Meeting, San Antonio, September, p. 912–916.
  • Brown, L. F., Jr., Loucks, R. G., Treviño, R. H., and Hammes, Ursula, 2006, Understanding growth-faulted, intraslope subbasins by applying sequence-stratigraphic principles: examples from the south Texas Oligocene Frio Formation: Reply: AAPG Bulletin, v. 90, no. 5, p. 799–805.
  • Hammes, Ursula, Loucks, Robert, Treviño, Ramón, and Brown, Frank, Jr., 2006, Fault compartmentalization of stacked sandstone reservoirs in growth-faulted subbasins: Oligocene Frio Formation, Red Fish Bay area, South Texas, in Reservoir characterization: integrating technology: Proceedings of the 26th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, p. 631–650.
  • Ledet, M. M., Klekamp, Tom, and Hammes, Ursula, 2005, Report of the editors, Transactions volume 54, 2004: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 55, p. F-29.
  • Treviño, R. H., Brown, L. F., Jr., Loucks, R. G., and Hammes, Ursula, 2005, "Wheeler diagrams": a useful exploration tool in the Gulf of Mexico: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 55, p. 830–834.
  • Hammes, Ursula, Zeng, Hongliu, Brown, L. F., Jr., Loucks, R. G., and Montoya, Patricia, 2005, Seismic geomorphology of Oligocene Frio lowstand slope and basin-floor sedimentary bodies in growth-faulted subbasins in South Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 55, p. 278–282.
  • Brown, L. F., Jr., Loucks, R. G., Treviño, R. H., and Hammes, Ursula, 2004, Understanding growth-faulted, intraslope subbasins by applying sequence-stratigraphic principles: examples from the south Texas Oligocene Frio Formation: AAPG Bulletin, v. 88, no. 1, p. 1501–1522.
  • Hammes, Ursula, Loucks, R. G., Brown, L. F., Treviño, R. H., Remington, R. L., and Montoya, Patricia, 2004, Structural setting and sequence architecture of a growth-faulted lowstand subbasin, Frio Formation, South Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 54, p. 237–246.
  • Budd, D. A., Hammes, Ursula, and Ward, W. B., 2000, Cathodoluminescence in calcite cements: new insights on Pb and Zn sensitizing, Mn activation, and Fe quenching at low trace-element concentrations: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, no. 1, p. 217–226.
  • Hammes, Ursula, 1997, Electrical imaging catalog: microresistivity images and core photos from fractured, karsted, and brecciated carbonate rocks: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geological Circular 97-2, 40 p.
  • Hammes, Ursula, Kerans, Charles, and Lucia, F. J., 1996, Development of a multiphase cave system: Ellenburger Formation, Lower Ordovician, West Texas, in Martin, R. L., ed., Permian Basin oil and gas fields: keys to success that unlock future reserves: West Texas Geological Society, Publication No. 96-101, p. 139–143.
  • Hammes, Ursula, Lucia, F. J., and Kerans, Charles, 1996, Reservoir heterogeneity in karst-related reservoirs: Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group, West Texas, in Stoudt, E. L., ed., Precambrian–Devonian geology of the Franklin Mountains, West Texas—analogs for exploration and production in Ordovician and Silurian karsted reservoirs in the Permian Basin: West Texas Geological Society, Publication No. 96-100, p. 99–117.
  • Hammes, Ursula, 1995, Initiation and development of small-scale sponge mud mounds, Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian), Southern Franconian Alb, Germany, in Monty, C.L.V., Bosence, D., Bridges, P., and Pratt, B., eds., Mud-mounds: origin and evolution: International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication, v. 23, p. 335–357.
  • Budd, D. A., Hammes, Ursula, and Vacher, H. L., 1993, Calcite cementation in the Upper Floridan aquifer: a modern example for confined-aquifer cementation models?: Geology, v. 21, p. 33–36.

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