H. C. Clark, Ph.D., P.G.
2300 Bolsover
Houston , Texas 77005
hcclark@rice.edu;
[713] 529-0090; [254] 7892271
Consulting Geology and Geophysics
Rice University , Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus
Education
PhD, Geophysics, Stanford University, 1967
MS, Geophysics, Stanford University, 1966
BS, Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, 1959
Teaching
courses in geophysics and geology, geologic hazards, engineering geology, and engineering geophysics
Research Current - Geophysical techniques applied to the study of shallow features, geophysical measurements and hydrogeologic problems; Past - paleomagnetism, geophysical measurements and crustal studies, detection of dynamic fractures
Texas Registered Professional Geoscientist, # 1777.
Appointed Director of Student Advising at Rice 1979
Organizations
American Geophysical Union, Society of Exploration Geophysicists [and Near Surface Section], Houston Geological Society, Geophysical Society of Houston
Appointed to Task Force 21 of the Texas Natural Resource and Conservation Commission
Appointed to EPA/ASTSWMO Industrial Waste Management Guidance Stakeholders Group [1997-completion]
Appointed by the Commissioners to the Municipal Waste Advisory Council of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, 2003-
At Rice University from 1966 to 1989
Consulting Projects
Browning Ferris- CECOS Gulf West Hazardous Waste Landfill, Chambers Co., Seismic study of active fault, groundwater geology
BFI 521 Municipal Landfill, Fort Bend Co., Texas, Geology, groundwater, active faulting and salt dome
BFI McCarty Road Municipal Landfill, Harris Co., Texas, Geology, active faulting
BFI Stratton Ridge Injection Well, Brazoria Co., Texas, Geology, fracture potential
CECOS Livingston Hazardous Waste Landfill, Livingston Parish, Louisiana, Geology
BFI Galveston County Landfill, Galveston Co., Texas , Resistivity study, baseline data
City of Houston, Crystal Chemical Injection Well, Harris Co., Texas, Active faulting, geology of reservoir
Rice Center for Community Design and Research, Chambers County Natural Factors Study, Chambers Co., Texas, Geology components
Texas Coast Project, Two County Tier, Texas, Geology components
Metropolitan Transit Authority Project, Harris Co., Texas, Composite fault map metropolitan area
Citizens, Willis, Montgomery Co., Texas, Municipal Landfill, Geology and groundwater
Citizens and County, Matagorda Co., Texas , Phillips 66 Landfarms, Landfills, Contaminated Water Ponds, Geology, groundwater, systems design
Fayette County Resource Watch, Fayette Co., Texas, Cummins Creek Lignite Mine Geology, geophysics and groundwater
Citizens, Katy, Texas, CMI Municipal Landfill, Cypress Creek, Geology, faulting
Citizens, East Houston, Texas, Municipal Landfill— Negev, now Bluebonnet, Geology, faulting
Citizens, North Houston, Texas Municipal Landfill—Atascocita, Geology, geophysics
Citizens and Power Systems Equipment, Chapel Hill, Washington Co., Texas Municipal Landfill, Geology, geophysics, groundwater
CASE, Beaumont-Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas, CWMI Injection Well
Campbell , Foss, and Buchannan, Inc. Eureka, Nevada, Mine Exploration
Magnetic measurements and interpretation Norse-Windfall Mines, Eureka, Nevada
Magnetic and seismic refraction measurements and interpretation
Anderson and Frierson, Geologists Central Texas Oil Exploration
Gravity and magnetic measurements and interpretation
U S Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston, Texas Galveston Bay Sand Supply Study
Data compilation and interpretation
U S Air Force, Office of Ballistic Missile Research Micro-blast rapid tunnel excavation. Sunburst Recovery Seismic recording, CSM Experimental Mine, Golden, Colorado
Tenneco Oil, Exploration and Production, Houston, Texas
Magnetic ranging system for detection of well blowout, patent
Allied Chemical, Norfolk, Virginia, Magnetic survey, steel tank construction site
San Jacinto Development Corp., Landslide and groundwater influence, downstream Livingston Dam; San
Jacinto Co., Texas
Vinson and Elkins, Attorneys, Houston, Fault study. West Houston
Keplinger Associates, Petroleum Engineers, Houston, Oil Mining Study, Ohio, Geophysical measurements and interpretation Mining Prospect, Alaska, laboratory magnetic measurements and interpretation (w/ Michael D. Campbell, P.G., Director)
Universal Savings Association, Houston
Hazardous waste study—former pipeline terminal and sludge storage pits
Soil borings, monitor well installation; soil, sludge, groundwater
sampling, interpretation of chemical test results
Hazardous waste study—former manufacturing facility
Waste disposal audit, supervision of testing program
Active surface fault study—former manufacturing complex Field surface study and interpretation of surface, photo, and subsurface data
Hazardous waste study—office park and landfill area
Soil borings, monitor well installation; soil, sludge, groundwater sampling, interpretation of chemical test results
ERM Southwest, Houston, Texas, Pesticide Manufacturing Plant, Dallas County, Texas
Seismic refraction interpretation
Testing Unlimited, Houston, Texas, Conroe Jail, Montgomery County, Texas, Seismic study, basement heave
General Dynamics, Fort Worth, Texas Air Force Plant 4, Fort Worth, Texas, Seismic reflection study, groundwater problem
McClelland Engineers, Houston, Texas, Bosque Dam Construction Planning, Seismic refraction study, outlet works
Police Jury, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana Chemical Waste Management Hazardous Waste Landfill, Lake Charles Facility-Geologic and hydrologic study
Commissioners Court, Matagorda County, Texas -Phillips 66 Landfarm- geohydrologic study of landfarm operation
Citizens of Security, Texas-Montgomery County Contractors Type 1 Landfill,
geology and geohydrology — Permit amendment for special wastes
Texas Environmental Coalition, Concerned Citizens of Winona-Land Banned Waste Exemption Petition - WDW 186, Gibraltar Chemical Resources, Winona, Texas
Citizens, Fort Bend County, Texas-Fort Bend County Landfill - proposed expansion
Resolution Trust Corporation-Former Industrial Facility - ground water contamination
Fault study - seismic reflection profile study-splay faults and contaminant transport
City of League City , Texas -Waste oil processor-Hazardous waste and ground water
Calhoun County Resource Watch, Texas-Union Carbide Plant Hazardous Waste Landfill Faulting, geology, and ground water; British Petroleum Plant-Hazardous waste landfill geology and performance
Mitchell Development Corporation-Bald Head Island Beach erosion and relationship to Wilmington Channel Dredging
Allen County [ Ohio] Citizens for the Environment Workshop on deep well injection
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality-Workshop on deep well injection
Law Engineering, Houston, Texas-Workshop on landfills
Citizens, Fort Bend County, Texas-Fort Bend County Landfill - methane migration and groundwater
Citizens, Waco, Texas-City of Waco Landfill Expansion, geological and geophysical analysis
City of Petronila, Nueces County, Texas Ecologists Hazardous Waste Disposal
Analysis of application for two injection wells
Numerous groups in Texas, Louisiana, Ohio: Critical comments on hazardous waste injection wells including: Gibraltar Chemical; Chemical Waste Management, Port Arthur and Corpus Christi, Texas; Vickery, Ohio; DSI, Empak, Waste Water Inc, Dupont, Celanese, American Cyanamid, Cecos, Rollins, BP Green Lake, IMC Fertilizer, BP Lima Harris County, Texas-Westbelt Landfill, geological and geophysical analysis; American Envirotech Hazardous Waste Incinerator, geological and geophysical analysis
City of Houston and Harris County-Hunter Industrial Facilities salt dome storage of hazardous waste, geological and geophysical analysis City of Wilmer, Texas Laidlaw Wilmer Landfill Remand Hearing, geological analysis
Citizens, Lacy-Lakeview (Tirey Trust) Lacy-Lakeview Landfill Expansion, groundwater and geology
CASE- CWMI Port Arthur Landfill-audit of landfill documents-geologic analysis
Citizens, Fairview (COFF),McKinney Landfill Expansion, geological and geophysical analysis
Lower Colorado River Authority-Tricil Landfill, Altair, Texas geological and geophysical analysis
City of Del Rio-CWMI Dryden Landfill, Dryden, Texas
CONTROL [Citizens of Justin, Texas] Sentry Landfill Proposal, Denton, Texas-geological analysis
West Harris County MUDS-Madden Road Landfill geological and geophysical analysis
Sierra Club, Eagle Pass, Dos Republicas Coal Mine
geological and agricultural analysis of alluvial valley floor
Citizens Live Oak County, Texas IEC Injection Wells 156, 159, geological and geophysical analysis
Citizens Winnsboro, Texas East Texas Landfill, geological analysis
Citizens East Fort Worth, Laidlaw Landfill, MSW 2145,geological analysis
City of Lancaster , Texas WMX Skyline [Ferris] Landfill, 42-C, geological analysis
Citizens Walker County , Texas DDI Landfill, geological analysis
Citizens Palo Pinto County and Fawcett XO Ranches-Blue Flats Landfill, geological analysis
MOSES [Mothers Organized to Stop Environmental Sins] Injection Wells 186 and 229, Smith County, Texas-injection well, geological and geophysical analysis
Citizen groups Jefferson County NORM facility, geological and geophysical analysis
CCAP Wharton County-Hazardous waste caverns, injection, geology and geophysics
Baggett, McCall & Burgess, Lake Charles PPG Plant contamination plume
ABLE, Canyon, Texas-BFI Canyon Landfill expansion proposal geological analysis
Frost Family Farms, Liberty County Class I [non-hazardous] injection well proposal, geophysical and geological analysis
Spring Cypress Landfill Coalition, Harris County-Type IV landfill, geology and hydrogeology
Sierra Blanca Legal Defense Fund, Hudspeth County, Texas, Low Level Nuclear Waste Disposal license application, geophysical analysis
Citizens groups, Kinney County, Adobe Landfill proposal, geophysical and geological analysis
Bill Sutton family, Fort Bend County Long Point Dome landfill, geophysical and geological analysis
North Texas Municipal Utility District 121 Landfill design team, geological and geophysical measurements
Raytheon [McBride Ratcliff Engineers],Active fault and BMC Software complex, Houston
Limestone County, Texas-Hansen Aggregates quarry design and hydrogeology analysis
Citizens, Hays County, Texas-Aquasource water treatment and discharge facility, geology and hydrogeology
BFI-Blue Ridge Landfill expansion geology and hydrogeology
McFadden Family-Dupont Beaumont no-migration exemption renewals for injection wells, analysis
Frost, FPL Farming Ltd-Amendment to injection well permits WDW316 and 317
Chambers County , TSP Cypress Point Industrial Landfill, geologic issues analysis, industrial rules analysis
Citizens Fort Bend County , Joliffe Type IV Landfill application
Individuals, various LPST and drycleaner contamination cases
BVSMA, Grimes County, landfill application
O'Connor Ranches, Victoria, groundwater resources in South Texas and analysis of issues
BFI-McCarty Landfill expansion
State of Nevada, Agency for Nuclear Projects, Yucca Mountain, repository geology and geophysics
Sierra Blanca Ranch, Hudspeth County, quarry site reclamation, geologic issues
Publications
Keller, M.F., and Clark, H. C. Jr., 1964, Prediction of magnetic anomalies due to four buried spheres, in Computers In the Mineral Industries, Stanford University Press.
Clark, H. C. Jr., 1966, A Study of a Thick Oligocene Sill as a Paleomagnetic Record of Secular Variation, (abs.): Trans. Am. Geophysical Un., V.47,p. 79.
Clark, H.C. Jr., 1967, A Fused Quartz Curie-point Balance in Methods in Paleomagnetism, Developments in Solid Earth Geophysics: Amsterdam, Elsevier Publ. Co., v. 3, pp. 438-439.
Clark, H. C. Jr., 1967, Variation of Remnant Magnetic Properties Related to the Differentiation of the Mary's Peak Sill, Oregon, (abs): Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, v. 48, p. 79.
Lankford, R. R., Clark, H. C. Jr., Warme, J. E., and Rehkemper, L. J. 1969, Galveston Bay Estuarine system - Case study in Case Studies of Estuarine Sedimentation and its Relation to Pollution of the Estuarine Environment: Gulf Universities Research Corporation, Houston, Texas, pp. A-l - A-64.
Gilliland, M. W., Clark H. C. Jr., and Sutler, J. F., 1969, Paleomagnetism of the Buck Hill volcanic series. Big Bend, Texas (abs.): Trans. Am. Geophys. Un., Vol.. 50, p. 131.Clark, H. C. Jr., 1959, Remanent Magnetism, Cooling history, and Paleomagnetic Record of the Mary's Peak Sill, Oregon: Journal of Geophysical Research, V. 74, ff. 1, pp. 3143-3160.
Clark, H. C. Jr., Flournoy, L. D., and Haupt, L., 1969, Late Pleistocene to Holocene Secular Variation Observed in Cores from the Gulf of Mexico: Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, V. 50, p. 606.
Clark, H. C. Jr., and Hickcox, A. E., 1970, Remanent magnetic stability and cooling history of the Mary's Peak Sill, Oregon (Abs.): Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., V 2, p. 276.
Clark, H. C. Jr., and Johnson E. A., 1971, Paleomagnetism of Oaxaca State, Mexico (abs), Trans. Am. Geophys. Un., V. 52, p. 190.
Clark, H. C. Jr., and Kennett, J. P., 1972, Confirmation of the reality of the Laschamp Geomagnetic Polarity Event in cores from the Gulf of Mexico (abs.): Trans. Am, Geophys. Un., V. 53, p. 423.
Clark, H. C. Jr., and Kennett, J. P.,1973, Paleomagnetic excursion recorded in Late Pleistocene deep sea sediments. Gulf of Mexico: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, V. 19, pp. 267-274.
Clark, H. C. Jr,, Fryer, G. E, Gasparini, P., Roberti, N., Scandone, R., 1973, II laboratorio de paleomagnetismo dell'osservatorio vesuviano: Prod. Associane Geofixica Italiana.
Kennett, J. P., Huddleston, F., Clark, H. C. Jr., 1973, Paleoclimatology, paleomagnetism, and teprochronology of late Pleistocene sedimentary cores, Gulf of Mexico. In CNRS Symposium Volume: Les Methodes quantitative d'Estudes des variations du climat au cours du Pleistocene. No. 219, p. 239-250.
Clark, H. C. Jr, Remanent magnetism of volcanic rocks, 1974, Physical Volcanology (Gasparini, P. and Civetta, L., Editors), 20 pages, Elsevier. Amsterdam.
Clark, H. C. Jr., and Bradbeer, G. E., 1974, Geology and natural environmental factors. Chambers County. Texas In Environmental Analysis for Development Planning, Chambers County, Texas. Rice Center for Community Design and Research and Southwest Center for Urban Research. 28 Manuscript pages and figures.
Clark, H. C. Jr., 1975, Geology, Map 9 In Texas Gulf Coast Project, Research Report 1, Williams, D. L., and Rowe, P.G., ed., Rice CenterCommunity Design and Research, Houston, 261 pages.
Gevirtz, J. L., Clark, H. C. Jr., Rowe P. G., 1975, Environmental Description for Land-Use planning, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, Vol. 8, Number l,p.21.
Clark, H. C. Jr., Georges, D., and Rowe, P. G., 1976, Geologic Hazards and Land Use Planning in the Gulf Coast, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, Vol. 8, Number 1, p. 14.
Anderson, J, B., Weaver, M.F., Clark, H. C. Jr., 1977, Sediments and Sedimentary Processes on High Latitude Continental Shelves, Offshore Technology Conference, V. 9,2738, 8 pages.
Anderson, J. B., and Clark, H. C. Jr,1977, Geologic Studies for the Galveston County Shore Erosion Study, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, 52 pages.
Clark, H. C. Jr., and Gilliland, M. W.. 1975, "Paleomagnetism of Early Tertiary Volcanics, Big Bend, Texas." Cenozoic Geology of the Trans Pecos Volcanic Field of Texas; Conference Proceedings, Alpine, May 21-25,1978.
Watson, C. W. and Clark, H. C. Jr, 1978, "Gravity measurements and the Big Bend, Texas, as Part of a Continental Rift." Cenozoic Geology of the Trans Pecos Volcanic Field of Texas; Conference Proceedings, Alpine, May 21-25, 1978.
Clark, H. C. Jr,1978, Geologic Hazards and Houston, Houston Engineer, May-June, 1978, p. 23-24.
Fainstein. R., and Clark, H. C. Jr., 1975. The Crustal Structure beneath the Victoria-Trinidade Ridge, Revista Brasileira De Geosciencias, v. 8, p. 170-283.
Metcalfe, C. W. and Clark, H. C. Jr.,1978, Gravity Analysis of the Big Bend, Texas, as part of a Continental Rift, Abs., Transactions Am. Geoph. Union, V. 59, Number 12, p. 1189.
Gilliland, M. W. and Clark, H. C. Jr., 1979, Paleomagnetism of Early Tertiary Volcanics, Big Bend, Texas, Guidebook 19, Cenozoic Geology of the Trans-Pecos Volcanic Field of Texas, Anthony W. Walton and Christopher D. Henry, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Guidebook Series.
Metcalfe, C. W., and Clark, H. C. Jr., 1979, Gravity Measurements and the Big Bend, Texas, as part of a Continental Rift," Guidebook 19, Cenozoic Geology of the Trans-Pecos Volcanic Field Of Texas, Anthony W. Walton and Christopher D. Henry, eds., Texas Bureau Of Economic Geology, Guidebook Series.
Clark, H.C. Jr, and Metcalfe, C. W., 1979, Ouachita Orogenic Belt Offset, Central Texas, ABSTRACT, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, V. 60,46.
Clark, H. C. Jr., Greene, L. A. Jr., and Sealy, C. 0., 1979, Ground and Surface Water, Geologic Hazards, and Waste Disposal: Houston, Texas. ABSTRACT, Trans. Am. Geoph. Union, V. 60,46, p. 230.
Clark, H. C. Jr., and Georges, D., 1981, Deep Well Injection of Liquid Waste: Hazards and Planning, Abstract, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, V, 62, p. 865.
Clark, H. C., 1982, Ouachita Orogenic Complex, Central Texas - Geophysical Measurements and Basement Offset, Transactions of The Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies., (M. Malek-Aslani, ed.), 32, p.157-163.
Clark, H C. Jr., Young, Chapman, Barker, Ronald., 1984, "Field Tests of the Stem-Induced Explosive Fracturing Technique, Society of Petroleum Engineers of the AIME, Proceedings of the Unconventional Gas Recovery Symposium, SPE 12840; May 23, 1984, 8 pages.
Young, C., Barker, D., and Clark, H. C., 1986, Field Tests of the Stem Induced Explosive Fracturing Technique, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Journal of Production Engineering, p. 266-273.
Clark, H.C., 1993, Geophysical Measurements and Environmental Problems in the Regulatory Process, Special Session, Third International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society, Rio de Janeiro [Invited Paper].
Clark, H.C., 1995, Geophysical Measurements and the Public Environmental Process [Best of SEG], American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, p. 17a, Houston.
Clark, H.C., 1996, Overview of Environmental Problems and Non-Invasive Geophysics and Their Role in the Legal/Regulatory Framework, Looking Into the Earth, Geophysical Society of Houston, Environmental Applications Special Interest Group, p. 19-20.
Patent:
Waters; Robert L. (Austin, TX); Roberts; George F. (Georgetown, TX); Walters; Philip H. (Austin, TX); Clark; Howard C. (Houston, TX); Fitzgerald; Don D. (Houston, TX); Stelly, II; Otis V. (Lafayette, LA), 1988, Downhole Combination Tool, 5,064,006 USPO, 1991
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