Mississippi Geological Society
Publications and Legacy Data

Interested in learning about the history of oil & gas development in the Southeastern States? You might want to browse the legacy Minutes and Bulletins of the Mississippi Geological Society, which provide a chronological account of oil & gas industry activity in the area from 1939 to present. The Photo Directories include vintage photographs of MGS members throughout the years. This historical MGS data was sorted and scanned by Stanley King and then recompiled and uploaded by Steve Walkinshaw and Jonathan Leard. Copyright © 2026 MGS. All rights reserved.

eBulletins (2007–Present)
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Legacy Publications
Minutes (1939–1953)
Bulletins (1953–2007)
Photo Directories
Special Volumes
Field Trip Guidebooks

First Field Trip Guide Book - Unknown (1939-1940?)

Second Field Trip Guide Book - Jackson to Recent of Central Mississippi (Feb 1940)

Third Field Trip Guide Book - Cretaceous of West-Central Alabama and Northeastern Mississippi (May 1940)

Fourth Field Trip Guide Book - Northwest Alabama Paleozoics (Dec 1940)

Fifth Field Trip Guide Book - Eutaw-Tuscaloosa of Western Alabama (Dec 1945)

Sixth Field Trip Guide Book - Upper Eocene, Oligocene, and Lower Miocene of Central Mississippi (June 1948)

Seventh Field Trip Guide Book - Pre-Cambrian and Paleozoic of Northern Alabama and South-Central Tennessee (Aug 1949)

Eighth Field Trip Guide Book - Cretaceous of Mississippi and Tennessee (Oct 1950)

Ninth Field Trip Guide Book - Claiborne of Western Alabama and Eastern Mississippi (Sep 1952)

Tenth Field Trip Guide Book - Wilcox and Midway Groups, West Central Alabama (Sep 1953)

Eleventh Field Trip Guide Book - Paleozoic Rocks, Central Tennessee and Northwest Alabama (May 1954)

Twelveth Field Trip Guide Book - Tertiary Outcrops in Central Mississippi (April 1956)

Thirteenth Field Trip Guide Book - Claiborne, Wilcox, Midway, and Upper Cretaceous Outcrops in west central Alabama (Oct 1957)

Fourteenth Field Trip Guide Book - Upper Cretaceous Outcrops, Northeast Mississippi and West Central Alabama (May 1959)

Fifteenth Field Trip Guide Book - The Cenozoic of Southeastern Mississippi and Southwestern Alabama (May 1960)

Recent Sedimentation on Horn Island, Mississippi and Stratigraphy of the Quaternary and Upper Tertiary of the Pascagoula Valley, Mississippi, 10th Annual GCAGS Meeting (Oct 1960)

Sixteenth Field Trip Guide Book - The Paleozoics of Northwest Arkansas (May 1962)

Seventeenth Field Trip Guide Book - Mississippian Rocks of the Black Warrior Basin (April 1978) Tertiary and Upper Cretaceous Depositional Environments, Central Mississippi and West-Central Alabama, 33rd Annual GCAGS Meeting (Oct 1983) Eighteenth Field Trip Guide Book - The Cretaceous Chalk of the Starkville Area, Northeast Mississippi (April 1991)

Sequence Stratigraphy Principles Briefing and Field Trip, by James L. Coleman, Jr. Contains a highly-illustrated introduction to the subject with an extensive bibliography (1993)

The Cotton Valley Formation in Mississippi, A Symposium, Stephen M. Oivanki, Editor. Presented by the Mississippi Geological Society (1997)

Nineteenth Field Trip Guide Book - Sequence Stratigraphy Principles and Briefing (June 1993)

Twentieth Field Trip Guide Book - Red Hills Lignite Mining Company (March 2001)

Composite Logs and Cross-Sections
The following are published in Mesozoic-Paleozoic Producing Areas of Mississippi and Alabama, Volume I, 1957 and are linked here to "Frontmatter and Addenda" from AAPG datapages.
Composite Mesozoic Log of South Mississippi & South Alabama 1957 Composite Paleozoic Log of the Black Warrior Basin, Mississippi and Alabama 1957 Well Log Correlation Sections, Paleozoic of the Black Warrior Basin, Set of Five Cross-sections 1957