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February 2020

February FCGS Meeting Presents Laura Hartman: Investigations Into the Advancement of Cryptotephra Geochemical Fingerprinting and Tephrochronology

February 20, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Vallecito Room – Student Union – Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive
Durango, CO 81301 United States
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Free – $20

Join us as our speaker, Laura Hartman of BLM, will summarize her thesis work on bands of volcanic tephra in ice cores from Antarctica and the Swiss Alps. The tephra is used for dating the core and further, if the volcanic source can be traced, to determine past atmospheric circulation patterns.

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April 2020

2020 MASTERS THESIS GRANT PROGRAM

April 1, 2020

The Four Corners Geological Foundation offers grants to students for thesis work on geoscience topics in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico or Utah.  Applications are due April 1. Please go to our Scholarship page for more information HERE.

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CANCELED – APRIL FIELD TRIP: Geology and Minerals of the Harding Pegmatite Mine, Dixon NM

April 11, 2020 - April 12, 2020
$55.00

CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE - Join us and Dr. Gonzales’ GEOL 210 Petrology class on this two day field trip as we tour the Harding Pegmatite mine located 15 miles southwest of Taos, NM.

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October 2020

October Talk: Cenozoic uplift and incision history of the southern Rocky Mountains by Dr. Magdalena Donahue

October 22, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Virtual

Join us virtually as Dr. Magdalena Donahue talks about the Cenozoic uplift and incision history of the southern Rocky Mountains.

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November 2020

November Talk: Science Be Dammed – How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River

November 19, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Virtual

Join us virtually as Eric Kuhn and John Fleck explore the science and politics of how the Colorado River became over-appropriated.

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December 2020

December Talk: Cryptic active faults on the margin of the Colorado Plateau and Rio Grande Rift, northern New Mexico

December 10, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Virtual

Join us virtually as Jessica Jobe from the USGS talks about cryptic active faults on the margin of the Colorado Plateau and Rio Grande Rift

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January 2021

January Talk: Thrust Faults as a Mechanism for Attenuation in the Steep Limbs of Laramide Folds in Colorado by Dr. Vince Matthews

January 28 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

THRUST FAULTS AS A MECHANISM FOR ATTENUATION IN THE STEEP LIMBS OF LARAMIDE FOLDS IN COLORADO By Dr. Vince Matthews, Retired Colorado State Geologist and Director of the Colorado Geological Survey   ABSTRACT Key exposures of several Laramide, basementcored folds in Colorado provide views of an ordered architecture of faults in their forelimbs. The faults provide an important mechanism for thinning and extending the strata in the steep limbs as displacement on the master, basement fault increases. One location demonstrates…

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February 2021

February Talk: Structural inheritance for the Laramide, Central Montana Uplift: A wrench-fault tectonic model related to Proterozoic Orgogenesis in the Foreland of the North American Cordillera By Jeff Bader

February 18 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Virtual

Structural inheritance for the Laramide, Central Montana Uplift: A wrench-fault tectonic model related to Proterozoic Orgogenesis in the Foreland of the North American Cordillera By Mr. Jeffrey W. Bader, North Dakota Geological Survey   ABSTRACT The Central Montana uplift of eastern Montana lies adjacent to the Northern Rocky Mountains on the western edge of the Northern Great Plains Physiographic Province, and just north of the Laramide belt of the Central Rockies. The origins of this deformed region have received little…

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2021 MASTERS THESIS GRANT PROGRAM – APPLICATIONS DUE

February 24 - April 1

This year grants will be in the $500 to $1,000 range, with specific amounts to be determined by the Four Corners Geological Foundation.

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March 2021

March Talk: Utah’s Ancient Mega-Landslides by Bob Biek

March 18 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Virtual

Join us as Bob Biek from Utah Geological Society shares with us his talk on the Markagunt Gravity Slide in Utah (possibly the largest mass wasting feature recognized in geologic record?)

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