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John Hickman

Title: Geologist, Energy and Minerals Section

Address:
Kentucky Geological Survey
336 Mining and Mineral Resources Bldg.
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0107

Phone: 859-323-0541
Fax: 859.257.1147
E-mail: jhickman@uky.edu

Joined KGS in January 1999.

Education:

• 1994, B.S., Geology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• 1999, M.S., Geology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Tex.

Responsibilities:

Current research includes the reservoir potential of fractured Ordovician carbonates, and the structure, evolution, and petroleum potential of the Cambrian-age Rough Creek Graben and Rome Trough tectonic features in Kentucky.

Professional Organizations:

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Geological Society of America
• American Geophysical Union
• Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists

Professional Interests:

Regional and basin-scale interpretation of structural geology, tectonics, and petroleum exploration

Publications:

• Hickman, J.B., Drahovzal, J.A., Wickstrom, L.H., Carr, T.R., Rupp, J.A., Seyler, B., White, S.W., Midcontinent Interactive Digital Carbon Atlas and Relational Database (MIDCARB), 2002, Geological Society of America Southeastern and North-Central Sections 2002 Meeting Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 2, p. A-36.
  
• Hickman, J.B., Wiltschko, D.V., Hung, J.-H., Fang, P., and Bock, Y., 2002, Structure and evolution of the active fold-and-thrust belt of southwestern Taiwan from GPS analysis, in Byrne, T.B., and Liu, C.-S., eds., Geology and Geophysics of an Arc-Continent Collision, Taiwan: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 358, p. 75-92.
• Ettensohn, F.R. and Hickman J.B., 2002, Bedrock Geology - Structural Framework, in Anderson, W.M. Jr., Ettensohn, F.R., Gooding, P.J., and Smath, M.L., eds., Impact of Geology on Human History at Camp Nelson and Perryville, Central Kentucky, Guidebook for 2002 Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists Annual Field Trip, Sept. 19-21, 2002, Lexington, KY, p. 11-14.
• Andrews, W.M., Crawford, M.M., Hickman, J.B., 2002, The Impact of Geology on the Culture and History of Central Kentucky, in Ettensohn, F.L., and Smath, M.L., eds., Guidebook for Geology Field Trips in Kentucky and Adjacent Areas: Lexington, KY, Geological Society of America Southeastern and North-Central Sections 2002 Meeting Field Trip Guidebook, p. 108-128.
• Wiltschko, D.V., Hung, J.-H., Fang, P., Bock, Y., Hickman, J.B., Uplift of the Southern Taiwan Orogen from GPS Geodesy, 1999, American Geophysical Union, EOS Transactions, vol. 80, no. 46, p. F-1042.
• Hung, J.-H., Wiltschko, D.V., Huang, H.-C., Hickman, J.H., Fang, P., and Bock, Y., Structure and motion of the southwestern Taiwan fold and thrust belt, 1999, Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences, vol. 10, no 3, p. 543-568.
• Wiltschko, D.V., Hung, J.-H., Hickman, J.B., Fang, P., Bock, Y., Uplift of the active fold and thrust belt of Southwestern Taiwan using GPS geodesy, 1999, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, vol. 31, no. 7, p. 370.
• Hickman, J.B., 1998, Petroleum Systems and Production History of Negara Brunei Darussalam, Internal Report, Pennzoil International Division.
• Hickman, J.B., Zhurina, E.N., Kronenberg, A.K.; Deformation of Talc and Pyrophyllite: Disruption of van der Waals Bonds and Comparisons with Calculated Interlayer Forces, 1997, American Geophysical Union, EOS Transactions, vol. 78, no. 46, p. 724.
• Wiltschko, D.V., Hung, J.-H., Hickman, J.H., Liu, C.-C., Yu, S.-B., Feng, P., Bock, Y.; Structure and Motion of the Frontal Portion of the Southern Taiwan Fold and Thrust Belt, 1997, Tectonics of East Asia Conference, Chungli, Taiwan R.O.C.
• Walter, L.M., Budai, J.M., Abriola, L.M., Stearns, C.H., Martini, A.M., Ku, T.C.W., Hickman, J.B., Huston, T.J., Lehman, K.A., Richards, J.A., 1995, Hydrogeochemistry of the Antrim Shale, Northern Michigan Basin, GRI Topical Report, Contract 5093-220-2704, 171p.