Introduction
I was introduced to Jack Elam
at a Midland Chapter SEPM meeting
in the Fall of 1962. He was the speaker
at an informal gathering (Jack's
favorite style), and his topic was
fracture pattern analysis using USGS
topographic sheets. One of his
examples was the Puckett Gas Field.
In just a few minutes Jack
demonstrated how to use the fracture pattern technique,
and how it can help define structure. For me it became,
