Society

The Kansas Geological Society is composed of geological professionals from across the country. The Society hosts many educational lectures and social functions and maintains a library of geological data.

The Kansas Geological Society and Library is located in the Landmark Square Building, just north of the corner of Market and First Street in Wichita.

ATTENTION WDL MEMBERS !!!

NEW RELEASE OF SOFTWARE

MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 2010

WE ARE UPGRADING THE SOFTWARE

THE DIGITAL LIBRARY WILL BE DOWN FROM

6:00 AM - 8:00 AM ON MONDAY

YOU WILL NOTICE IMPROVED IMAGE QUALITY

AND SHOULD HAVE NO MORE ISSUES WITH

THE LONGER LOGS DISPLAYING

Kansas Next Step 2010 Oil and Gas Seminar

August 4-5, 2010 - Hays, Kansas

Registration Brochure

Fall 2010 Field Trip

Sept. 24-26

MISSISSIPPIAN OUTCROP LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY AND DEPOSITIONAL ARCHITECTURE AS MODELS FOR SUBSURFACE PETROLEUM EXPLORATION

Click Here For Details

Member Survey

www.kgslibrary.com/cms/KGS Membership Survey 2010.doc

www.kgslibrary.com/cms/KGS Membership Survey 2010.pdf

Bulletin: July - August 2010
Bulletin: May - June 2010

KCC Boxes and Logs - Updated July 19, 2010

Library

The Kansas Geological Society Library has the most complete collection of oil and gas well data for the State of Kansas and surrounding areas. Donated by industry since 1923.

Robert F. Walters Digital Geological Library has 1,171,168 digital documents and logs available. See the count by county.

Robert F. Walters Digital Geological Library

Version 1.01
March 10, 2010

28,756 new images (scanned 2005-2009) have been added & linked this week!
March 3, 2010 PROGRESS UPDATE:

New Well Headers added = 218,722

New Scanned Logs added = 70,384

and we have started linking all of the images we have been scanning for the past several years!
Software Update on February 4

Preview images will load much more quickly now, and some Preview images that were too large to appear before, will appear now.

Great Tip for Previewing Images

Thanks go out to Rocky Milford for realizing this cool thing is possible. When previewing images, and enlarging the contents of the screen by holding down the Control key and rotating the mouse wheel, all open windows are affected. It is possible in FireFox to restrict the enlargement to a single window - for example, the pop-up Preview window. Doing so requires changing an obscure default preference in FireFox. Instructions are on the FAQ page.

Software Update on January 12

Tiled TIF images can now be printed at the correct scale without manually setting the resolution. The resolution at which the original document was scanned is now embedded in the TIF file and software that reads and prints TIFs should be capable of decoding this information.

Software Update on January 4

A new Zoom feature enables you to preview most images at maximum size. Well Logs can be zoomed by the Tile (up to 2 Tiles at once). Smaller documents can be zoomed in their entirety. We welcome Feedback about this feature.

IOG Cards now cost $2.00 per card

This is our agreement with John Morrison.

System Requirements for the Digital Library

FireFox on Windows is the recommended browser. Adobe Flash plug-in must be installed on your browser (and a red "X" below the Search Wells form, where you expect to see a list of wells returned from your search, indicates Flash is missing). A PDF reader such as Adobe Reader is required if you wish to view documents in PDF format. (Flash and Adobe Reader can be downloaded for free from Adobe's website.) Software that can read TIF files, such as IrfanView or PhotoShop, is required if you wish to view documents in TIF format. A screen resolution of 1024 pixels wide or higher is recommended. You can change the screen resolution in Windows at Start, Control Panel, Display, Settings (use the slider). Internet Explorer 7 has a known bug that is best dealt with by upgrading to a newer version. Internet Explorer 8 may request to be run in "compatability mode" which you may accept. On 64-bit machines, the software must be run in a 32-bit browser because Flash does not yet support 64-bit.