Vallecito Room – Student Union – Fort Lewis College
January Meeting: Wind-blown sands and how to recognize them in modern dunes, outcrops and subsurface – Dr. Christian Heine
Vallecito Room - Student Union - Fort Lewis College 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO, United StatesWind-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 […]
December Meeting: Unconventional petroleum systems in the Western US – Dr. Ron Hill (EOG Chief Geoscientist)
Vallecito Room - Student Union - Fort Lewis College 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO, United StatesMain 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 […]
February FCGS Meeting Presents Laura Hartman: Investigations Into the Advancement of Cryptotephra Geochemical Fingerprinting and Tephrochronology
Vallecito Room - Student Union - Fort Lewis College 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO, United StatesJoin 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.
January FCGS Meeting Presents Stephen P. J. Cossey: Paleocanyon Formation and Contemporaneous Oil Seepage near the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary, Tampico-Misantla Basin, E. Mexico
Vallecito Room - Student Union - Fort Lewis College 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO, United StatesJoin 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.
April FCGS Meeting Presents 4 Graduating Seniors from Fort Lewis College and their Senior Theses
Vallecito Room - Student Union - Fort Lewis College 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO, United StatesApril FCGS Meeting Presents Graduating Seniors from Fort Lewis College. This is always a fun and informative event with 4 graduating Seniors giving presentations on their senior theses.
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER – STAY TUNED FOR A RESCHEDULE IN FALL 2019 – Comparing Natural Fracture Systems in Reservoirs of the San Juan, Piceance, Raton, and Green River Basins by John Lorenz & Scott Cooper
Vallecito Room - Student Union - Fort Lewis College 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO, United StatesJoin us as John Lorenz and Scott Cooper from FractureStudies give their talk about Comparing Natural Fracture Systems in Reservoirs of the San Juan, Piceance, Raton, and Green River Basins.
TunnelVision™ – Using Drones to Build 3D Models of Underground Colorado Gold Mines, PLUS Fort Lewis College student poster session
Vallecito Room - Student Union - Fort Lewis College 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO, United StatesChris Putnam and Maurice Foye lecture on "Using Drones to Build 3D Models of Underground Colorado Gold Mines", PLUS Fort Lewis College student research poster session!
Mars Geologic Observations from the Curiosity Rover – Lecture by Dr. Kirsten Siebach from Rice University
Vallecito Room - Student Union - Fort Lewis College 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO, United StatesDr. Kirsten Siebach, Professor at Rice University, lectures about MARS. Her talk is titled "Sedimentary Records from Another World: Exploring Gale crater basin with the Curiosity Rover"