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September 2021

September Meeting – Using the rock record to explain anomalous seismic velocities in modern subduction zones – Carolyn Tewksbury-Christle (FLC)

September 23, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Happy Hour in Wall of Time Atrium in Sitter Family Hall, talk in SFH 710, 1000 Rim Drive
Durango, 81301 United States
Free – $20

Cost is $20 - Scroll down to pay online or RSVP to pay at door Happy Hour from 5:30 to 6:30 on the Sitter Family Hall 3rd floor deck overlooking the city of Durango with drinks and heavy appetizers. Talk starts at 6:30 pm in SFH 710 (the classroom with the wall-o-screens). Abstract: Subduction zones play a major role in large-scale Earth processes, including seismic and volcanic hazards and mass and volatile recycling. The interface between the overriding and downgoing…

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October 2021

October Meeting: An Eocene “Source-to-Sink” Example in Piggyback Basins, Pyrenean Fold and Thrust Belt, Spain – Jeff Geslin, PhD (Pictured Cliffs Geoscience LLC)

October 21, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Happy Hour in Wall of Time Atrium in Sitter Family Hall, talk in SFH 710, 1000 Rim Drive
Durango, 81301 United States
Free – $20

An Eocene "Source-to-Sink" Example in Piggyback Basins, Pyrenean Fold and Thrust Belt, Spain Abstract" A well-exposed example of a source-to-sink depositional system was evaluated using Middle Eocene (Lutetian) strata contained in piggyback basins of the Pyrenean Fold and Thrust Belt (PFTB). The purpose of this study was to: 1) refine sequence stratigraphic models linking continental, shelf and deepwater settings; 2) understand external controls on sediment flux; 3) evaluate the effect of multiple sediment entry points in a basin; and 4)…

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Field Trip – Rock Talk with Dr. Gary Gianniny (FLC) – Rescheduled to Sat, Oct 30

October 30, 2021 @ 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Free

The Four Corners Geological Society is pleased to announce our first "Talks on the Rocks". This will be a half-day informal field trip to a local Durango site where participants will observe and discuss local strata. What: Half-day field looking at the depositional facies and bedforms of the Jurassic Entrada and Junction Creek (Bluff) Sandstones (eolian sandstones) of Durango. Who: Dr. Gary Gianniny When: Saturday, October 30th from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm. Where: East Animas Climbing area on CR…

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November 2021

November Meeting: Lateral Retreat and Quaternary Evolution of the Book Cliffs of Central Utah – Dr. Joel Pederson (Utah State University)

November 18, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free – $20

Talk will be held at 6:30 pm on Fort Lewis College Campus - Sitter Family Hall (Geology Building) Rm 710. If you want to join for happy hour, buy a ticket below - It starts at 5:30pm in the Wall of Time Atrium just around the corner. Hope to see you there! Title - Lateral Retreat and Quaternary Evolution of the Book Cliffs of Central Utah Abstract Geologists have long invoked escarpment retreat as a prevailing mode of erosion in…

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December 2021

December Meeting: Unconventional petroleum systems in the Western US – Dr. Ron Hill (EOG Chief Geoscientist)

December 9, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Vallecito Room – Student Union – Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive
Durango, CO 81301 United States
Free – $20

Main talk - Ron Hill Abstract: The Unconventional Bakken Petroleum System: What Geochemistry Indicates about Petroleum System Processes The Bakken Formation has been the target of intense petroleum exploration activity over the last fifteen years, and is widely considered an unconventional resource or a ‘tight oil play’. The ‘tight oil play’ designation has evolved in part because the Bakken Formation, a world class source rock, is the drilling target. However, the primary reservoir objective within the Bakken formation is not…

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January 2022

January Meeting: Wind-blown sands and how to recognize them in modern dunes, outcrops and subsurface – Dr. Christian Heine

January 27 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Vallecito Room – Student Union – Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive
Durango, CO 81301 United States
Free – $20

Wind-blown sands and how to recognize them in modern dunes, outcrops and subsurface. In and around the 4-corners, we are blessed with an abundance of well preserved and exposed ancient dune deposits. Most of the spectacular outcrops in the Utah National Parks are ancient dune deposits. At Zion it’s the Navajo, at Arches it’s the Entrada, at Canyon De Chelle it’s the De Chelle Sandstone. The Canyon Lands area of Utah has the Page, Cedar Mesa, Wingate and White Rim…

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February 2022

February Meeting: Evolution of the Cenozoic landscape in the western San Juan Mountains – Dr. David Gonzales

February 17 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Free – $20

LOCATION: Colorado Room, Fort Lewis College Student Union TIMING: Happy Hour from 5:30 to 6:30 PM, Talk from 6:30 - onward; to be followed by raffle drawing. SPEAKER: Dr. David Gonzales (Fort Lewis College Geosciences) TALK TITLE: Evolution of the Cenozoic landscape in the western San Juan Mountains ABSTRACT This presentation will highlight field observations and geomorphic reconstructions of stratigraphic-time surfaces test ideas about post-Laramide landscape evolution in the western San Juan Mountains.  Recent findings offer further insight into the…

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March 2022

March Meeting: Dr. Peter Vroljik

March 31 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Free – $20

March 2022 Meeting: Searching for rare occurrences in nature: Seeking deep fluid sources off Costa Rica - Dr. Peter Vroljik, ExxonMobil (ret.) Location and time: On the Fort Lewis College campus in Durango, CO. Sitter Family Hall (SFH) 3rd floor balcony for happy hour (5:30-6:30), SFH710 at 6:30 PM for the talk. Abstract: Natural seeps occur at the seafloor as loci of fluid flow where the flux of chemical compounds into the ocean supports unique biologic communities and provides access…

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April 2022

April Meeting: Fort Lewis College Geology Senior Projects

April 21 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free – $20

April Meeting: Fort Lewis College Geology Senior Projects Please join us on Thursday, April 21 for a fun meeting that we have every year. This time, the speakers are Fort Lewis College Geology students presenting their senior thesis projects. Each student will give a ~17-minute talk with ~3 minutes for questions. Location: Sitter Family Hall, Fort Lewis College campus Timeline: 5:30 to 6:30 - Happy Hour on the 3rd floor balcony, with student posters set up nearby 6:30 to 8:00…

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May 2022

May meeting – socializing (no talk)

May 19 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Free – $20

For this May's meeting, we will be meeting on the FLC campus for a social get-together without a speaker. Details below: Where: 3rd floor balcony of Sitter Family Hall (Geology building at FLC campus) When: 5:30 to 7:30 PM What: hanging out, enjoying food and drinks and a BIG view! Please pay ($20) online or RSVP to pay at the door.

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