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November 2019
November FCGS Meeting Presents Paul Spear: Helium in the Four Corners Region – History, Geology, and Recent Activity
Paul Spear (formerly Logos Resources and ConocoPhillips) will be presenting on helium exploration and current activity in the Four Corners area.
Find out more »December 2019
FCGS Christmas Party
This year we will continue the tradition of having a joint Christmas party with the Durango Petroleum Club, San Juan Basin Landman's Association and Four Corners Society of Petroleum Engineers. This event will be at the Irish Embassy from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm and will be free for all Four Corners Geological Society members. Guests will be $25 at the door. A big THANK YOU to Softrock Geological Services for sponsoring this event!
Find out more »Dr. Melissa Clutter presents on her PhD thesis hydrology topic: “Simple and robust measurement networks: Where should I install sensors in the field?”
Mark your calendars for our December 12th Meeting at Fort Lewis College. We will have Dr. Dave Gonzales' students standing by to talk about their Senior Posters before the meeting and our new hydro-geology professor at FLC, Dr. Melissa Clutter, speaking on her research topic.
Find out more »January 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2020 Rocky Mountain Section – AAPG Meeting
The Four Corners Geological Society and the Grand Junction Geological Society are co-hosting the 2020 Rocky Mountain Section - AAPG Meeting, from September 13-16th at the Two Rivers Convention Center in Grand Junction, CO.
Find out more »January FCGS Meeting Presents Stephen P. J. Cossey: Paleocanyon Formation and Contemporaneous Oil Seepage near the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary, Tampico-Misantla Basin, E. Mexico
Join us for our first talk of 2020! Stephen P. J. Cossey will be here to update us on his fieldwork in the Paleocanyon Formation and Contemporaneous Oil Seepage near the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary, Tampico-Misantla Basin, E. Mexico.
Find out more »February 2020
February FCGS Meeting Presents Laura Hartman: Investigations Into the Advancement of Cryptotephra Geochemical Fingerprinting and Tephrochronology
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.
Find out more »April 2020
2020 MASTERS THESIS GRANT PROGRAM
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.
Find out more »CANCELED – APRIL FIELD TRIP: Geology and Minerals of the Harding Pegmatite Mine, Dixon NM
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.
Find out more »October 2020
October Talk: Cenozoic uplift and incision history of the southern Rocky Mountains by Dr. Magdalena Donahue
Join us virtually as Dr. Magdalena Donahue talks about the Cenozoic uplift and incision history of the southern Rocky Mountains.
Find out more »November 2020
November Talk: Science Be Dammed – How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
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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