FCGS Newsletter - April 2016

Newsletter Summary

Four FLC students present their Senior Theses projects. Adam Robert Parker shows that sand depositional porosity varies mainly with sorting, but grain source also drives ~10% differences, with St. Peter sands lowest and Animas River sands highest. Rachel E. Kinney identifies freeze thaw–formed involution structures in Mesa Verde, indicating past periglacial conditions as low as 2,400 m. Joshua D. Mudge links volcanic clasts in the Telluride Conglomerate to an eroded Laramide volcanic center. Elizabeth Anastasia Hedrick digitizes Camp Bird Mine data to build 3D models for future studies.