April 2013 - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

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Newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists 

Volume 62 • No. 4 • April 2013

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April 2013

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The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists 

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The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) is a nonprofit organization whose purposes are to promote 

interest in geology and allied sciences and their practical application, to foster scientific research and to encourage 

fellowship and cooperation among its members. The Outcrop is a monthly publication of the RMAG. 

2013 Officers and Board of Directors 

RMAG Staff 

Executive Director 

Emily Tompkins 

etompkins@rmag.org 

Office & Programs Manager 

Carrie Veatch, MA 

cveatch@rmag.org 

Accountant 

Carol Dalton 

cdalton@rmag.org 

Co-Editors 

Kristine Peterson 

k.peterson@laramidegeo.com 

Holly Sell 

hsell@nobleenergyinc.com 

Catherine Campbell 

ccampbell@bayless-cos.com 

Cheryl Whitney 

cwhitney@laramidegeo.com 

Design/Production 

Debbie Downs 

debradowns@att.net 

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RMAG February Board of Directors Meeting 

By Jacinda Nettik Brown, Secretary (jacinda@caerusoilandgas.com) 

The Board of Directors meeting 

was held on February 20th, 2013 

in the RMAG office. We began as 

we always do with a review of the 

Financial Report. RMAG’s income 

and expenses are both slightly 

higher than budgeted; financially 

RMAG is looking great at this point 

in the year. 

Denver looks to be an exciting 

hub for prospect expos this year with 

NAPE Denver coming in December 

and PLS Dealmakers Prospects and 

Property Expos holding event an 

event in April. These events have 

led RMAG to not hold its own RMAG 

Prospect Fair/Techno Fest as it has 

in years past, but have some sort of 

participation in one or both of the 

events above. 

RMAG nominated 15 candidates 

to the AAPG House of Delegates, 

nine of which will be elected. The House of Delegates 

is made up of members from AAPG’s affiliated societies 

and international regions throughout the world. RMAG 

would like to thank its members for acting as delegates 

on our behalf: Peter Bucknam , Jerome Cuzella, Walter 

Johnson, Laura Mauro Johnson, Bruce Kelso, Steven 

Kirkwood, Constance Knight, Susan Landon, Jay Leaver, 

Paula Mohseni, James Mullarkey, Douglas Neese , Paul 

Ozanich, Natasha Rigg, and Stephen Sonnenberg. 

Keep your calendar open for the return of a big 

industry happy hour. Six societies are in the early stages 

of planning for a “Big Society Happy Hour” or “BSHH” in 

May 2013. We hope this event will offer our members 

the opportunity to BS with many of their oil & gas friends 

from AADE, DAPL, DGS, DWLS, RMAG and SPE. RMAG 

and the other societies feel a cross-society event is an 

important event to offer and one that has been missed 

in recent years. More details on this event to come. 

Denver looks to 

be an exciting hub 

for prospect expos 

this year with NAPE 

Denver coming in 

December and PLS 

Dealmakers Prospects 

and Property Expos 

holding an event 

in April. 

The RMAG Tennis Tournament 

has been left off the schedule 

this year due to low participation 

in recent years. However, RMAGs 

Continuing Education Committee 

felt it was important this event 

be replaced with another great 

social event for our members. 

Please mark your calendars for 

the very first RMAG Sporting 

Clay Tournament coming October 

11th. 

Additionally, a committee 

for membership issues will be 

resurrected. This committee 

will be cross-generational. It will 

focus on memorials, recruiting 

and engaging our members. 

If you’d like to serve on this 

committee please contact the 

RMAG office. 

RMAG Members don’t forget 

to renew your memberships for 2013 if you have not 

already done so. Year to date we are behind on our 

membership renewals. You can renew online at www. 

rmag.org. 

As always it’s been a pleasure to serve on the 2013 

RMAG BOD of directors. 

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Newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists 

CONTENTS 

Features 

8 Lead Story: RMAG 

On-the-Rocks Informal 

Field Trips – 2013 

10 Northern-eastern Colorado 

Hydraulic Fracturing Ban 

15 Check it out! 

As s o c i at i o n Ne w s 

2 RMAG 2013 Summit 

Sponsorship 

7 New Exhibit at Museum of 

Nature and Science 

10 Authors and Editors Needed: 

RMAG Oil & Gas Fields of 

Colorado 

19 Connect with RMAG Online! 

14 RMAG Golf Tournament 

26 Submit a Manuscript to The 

Mountain Geologist 

27 2013 Spring Symposium 

"Making Money with Science" 

29 Published in 2012-2013 in 

The Mountain Geologist 

Department s 

4 RMAG February Board 

of Directors Meeting 

6 President's Column 

17 New Members 

25 In Memoriam 

COVER PHOTO 

The white to orangeishtan 

Peralta Tuff was deposited 

during a period of intense 

ryolitic volcanism in the Jemez 

Mountains of north-central New 

Mexico about 6.5 to 7 million 

years ago. Large clasts in the 

tuff protect the soft matrix below 

from erosion resulting in these 

conical formations from which 

the name "Tent Rocks" is derived. 

Photo by Dean DuBois. 

28 In the Pipeline 

30 RMAG Luncheon 

Program 

35 Advertisers Index 

35 Calendar of Events 

Volume 62 • No. 4 • April 2013 

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President’s Column 

By Debra Higley 

RMAG/PTTC 

Spring Symposium 

April 23 rd is the date of the “Making Money with 

Science” RMAG/PTTC Spring Symposium. RMAG 

is a mostly volunteer organization composed of 

numerous committees that organize and produce 

our communications, awards, publications, sponsor 

contributions, and events. 

O n e o f t h e i mpor t a n t 

committees is Continuing 

Education, chaired in 2013 

by Greg Anderson. Along with 

the Spring Symposium, events 

include the Fall Symposium, short 

courses, and field trips. Field trips 

are also organized by the On 

the Rocks committee, with Ron 

Pritchett as chair. Let us know if 

you would like to join any of the 

RMAG committees. 

Some events are organized 

almost independent from the 

Continuing Education committee 

and are in cooperation with other 

organizations, such as the 3D 

Seismic Symposium of the Denver 

Geophysical Society (DGS) and 

RMAG. Many of our events are 

planned in cooperation with the 

regional Petroleum Technology 

Transfer Council (PTTC), of which 

Mary Carr is the Rocky Mountain Director. We commonly 

Some events are 

organized almost 

independent from the 

Continuing Education 

committee and are in 

cooperation with other 

organizations, such as the 

3D Seismic Symposium of 

the Denver Geophysical 

Society (DGS) and RMAG. 

host the Rocky Mountain Expo (Prospect Fair and 

Technofest) with the Denver Association of Petroleum 

Landmen (DAPL), Denver Well Logging Society (DWLS) 

and Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). The Prospect 

Fair and Technofest will not be held this fall because 

NAPE Mountain is planned for next December in 

Denver. RMAG is commonly a partner when the Rocky 

Mountain Section meeting 

is in Denver (2014) and the 

AAPG National Convention is in 

Denver (2015). 

Ideally, the Continuing 

Education events are separated 

by at least 5 weeks from other 

geoscience events that RMAG 

members may wish to attend. 

That, plus reserving rooms for 

the events, is the main reason 

event dates change from year 

to year. This year we cancelled 

the RMAG Fall Symposium 

because the SPE-AAPG-SEG 

Unconventional Resources 

Technology Conference (URTeC) 

will be in Denver from August 

12-14, and conflicting dates of 

other events listed at the end 

of this paragraph left no space. 

We requested to be part of the 

planning process for URTeC, 

especially since we now had 

some free time with this new every-other-year convention 

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President's Column 

moving into Denver, but they decided not to involve 

any local or regional organizations. Hmmm, maybe we 

can add a field trip just before or after URTeC since the 

conference is limited to oral presentation. 

The Rocky Mountain Section Meeting is in Salt Lake 

City from September 28-30 th , the Mid-Continent Section 

Meeting is October 12-14 th , and the GSA Annual Meeting 

is October 27-30 th in Denver. 

On a totally non-associated topic, at the USGS, we 

like freeware and download-for-free data and other juicy 

tidbits. Below are several websites for free LAS-format 

well logs for areas I am working. These and other digital 

data are increasingly available from states and countries. 

Last accessed Feb. 19 th , 2013. 

http://ogccweblink.state.co.us/Search.aspx 

Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission website 

(select “Well Logs” under “Type”) 

http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Magellan/Logs/index.html 

Kansas Geological Survey digital well logs for Kansas 

http://www.gov.mb.ca/iem/petroleum/logs/ 

Manitoba Innovation, Energy, and Mines well logs 

http://www.dwd.gov.sk.ca/Pages/BasePages/Main. 

aspxUseCase=WIDGIS Saskatchewan Energy and 

Resources digital well logs 

New Exhibit at Museum of 

Nature and Science 

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A new exhibit entitled Mammoths And Mastodons: 

Titans Of The Ice Age, is now open through May 27, 2013. 

Created by the The Field Museum, Chicago, the exhibit 

is augmented with material from the recent Snowmass 

Village ice-age discoveries that has not been displayed 

before. The 13,000 square-foot exhibition examines 

the role of human predation and other factors such as 

climate in the extinction of mammoths and mastodons. 

The exhibit includes many interactive displays and 

videos as well as the opportunity to view material from 

the Snowmass discovery being prepared. 

The Museum is located at 2001 Colorado Blvd., 

Denver, CO 80205. To learn more visit www.dmns.org 

or call 303-370-6000. 

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LEAD STORY 

RMAG On-the-Rocks Informal 

Field Trips – 2013 

Introduction 

The On the Rocks field-trip committee is planning five trips in Colorado and Wyoming in 2013 to 

celebrate the geologic wonders of the Rockies. 

The first trip will be Saturday, 

May 11th, and four more Saturday 

trips are in the works through 

September. The trips are designed 

to begin and end in one-day; some 

will be round-trip from Denver; 

others are “destination” trips that 

officially begin and end at the 

location of interest. Though RMAG 

does not charge for these trips, 

participants should be prepared to 

offset costs that may include park 

fees, sharing gasoline, lodging and 

lunches. All participants are asked 

to sign a liability release form 

before joining a trip. Sites for 2013 

are (see Table on page 9): 

• Pueblo State Park and exposures of Cretaceous 

source/reservoir sequences significant for 

hydrocarbon exploration and production in the 

Rockies 

• Eagle Basin, CO – Structure and sedimentary 

exposures of the Central Colorado Basin 

• Mt. Princeton Geothermal Area, CO – “hot spots” in 

Central Colorado 

• Medicine Bow-Snowy Range, WY – see rocks that 

record 2 ½ billion years of geologic history 

• Vineyards and Terrains of the North Fork of the 

Gunnison River-Geology and wine-tasting 

The mission of RMAG On the Rocks informal field 

trips is to provide guided tours to natural sites where 

principles of geology are on display. Action to avoid 

Though RMAG does 

not charge for these 

trips, participants 

should be prepared 

to offset costs that 

may include park 

fees, sharing gasoline, 

lodging and lunches. 

accidents will include limiting 

the number of people in each 

trip, and trip leaders will provide 

plans for tour stops to minimize 

exposure to traffic. 

RMAG On the Rocks trips 

provide par ticipants with 

opportunities to explore site 

geology, together with a trip 

expert and the camaraderie of 

those who are willing to share 

geologic knowledge. Each person 

attending these group events 

is asked to be mindful of the 

welfare and safety of others. As 

we seek educational, enjoyable, 

and memorable outings, success 

in each tour will also be defined 

by participants’ safe return. 

We ask all interested participants to register through 

the RMAG website (www.rmag.org\Events\On the Rocks) 

so that the trip leaders and the organizing committee 

can refer to: names of parties; contact information; 

sequence of interest; wait-list as needed. Trip Abstracts 

and logistics descriptions will be posted on the RMAG 

website and in the Outcrop magazine. 

The On the Rocks Committee members are: 

Catherine Campbell, Dan Plazak, Denis Foley, Jeff 

Glossa, John Ladd, Sandra Mark, Phyllis Scott, and Ron 

Pritchett. If you would like to participate in trip plans and 

lend your skills and ideas for these fun and educational 

trips, please contact your 2013 On the Rocks Field 

Trip Committee Chair: Ron Pritchett, pritchett61@msn. 

com. 

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Lead Story 

Month/Day 

May 11th 

June 22nd 

July 20th 

August 17th 

2013 Proposed On-the-Rocks Field Trips 

Topic/Destination 

Mudrocks of the Southern Denver 

Basin, Pueblo, CO: Graneros, 

Greenhorn, Carlile, and Niobrara Formations 

Eagle Basin, CO 

Mt. Princeton Geothermal Area, upper 

Arkansas Valley, CO 

Medicine Bow-Snowy Range, WY 

Leader(s) 

Jeffrey A. May, Geologic 

Consultant; Donna Anderson, 

EOG Resources 

Bob Raynolds, Denver Museum 

of Natural Science 

Paul Morgan, Sr. Geothermal 

Geologist, Colorado Geological 

Survey 

Art Snoke, 

University of Wyoming 

RMAG OTR 

Logistics Contact 

Ron Pritchett 

Denis Foley, 

Phyllis Scott 

Phyllis Scott 

Cat Campbell 

Sept. 7th 

Vineyards, Adobes, and Gravels-Oh My! 

Wine-tasting and geologic exploration of 

the North Fork Valley of the Gunnison, 

Western Slope, CO 

Dave Noe, Colorado 

Geological Survey 

Sandra Mark 

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Authors and Editors Needed: RMAG Oil & Gas Fields of Colorado! 

RMAG is working toward the publication of a 

guidebook dedicated to short field studies of a set of 

selected oil and gas fields in Colorado. In large part 

the format will be similar to earlier publications of this 

type: a several page article that will include a one page 

summary with a small set of maps and cross-sections 

adequate to give the reader a lot of information in a short 

amount of time. The RMAG committee working on this 

publication has selected 85 fields for review. In addition, 

we expect to have extended discussion around several 

large “resource play” areas such as the Piceance Basin 

or the Greater Wattenberg complex including the recent 

horizontal Niobrara play. 

The committee is currently looking for authors to do 

field studies and to put together material for publication. 

Each author may contribute one or multiple field studies. 

We will also need a group of editors for both technical 

and copy (grammatical and graphical) review. 

Please volunteer! Committee contacts below: 

Dean DuBois, Committee Chair; 720-876-5366 

dean.dubois@encana.com 

James Milne, 303- 894-2100 x5117 

james.milne@state.co.us 

The RMAG committee 

working on this 

publication has 

selected 85 fields 

for review. 

James Rogers, 303-832-2328 

jim_rogers1@comcast.net 

Steve Cumella, 720- 979-0718 

steve.cumella@endeavourcorp.com 

Marshall Deacon, 303- 228-4215 

mdeacon@nobleenergyinc.com 

Tom Feldkamp, 303- 228-4146 

tfeldkamp@NobleEnergyInc.com 

Chris Martin, 720- 440-6134 

CMartin@bonanzacrk.com 

Northern-eastern Colorado Hydraulic Fracturing Ban 

Timeline of Events- Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing 

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1951 – The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation 

Commission Act 

1992 – Greeley’s total ban on the drilling or any oil, gas, 

or hydrocarbon wells within city limits was overruled by 

Colorado courts 

12/20/11 – 120 day moratorium bans drilling in 

Longmont 

2/10/12 – Draft of regulations released in Longmont 

5/12 – Draft conditionally approved in Longmont 

12/17/12 – Colorado Oil and Gas Association filed a 

lawsuit in Weld County District Court against the City of 

Longmont’s Article XVI, The Longmont Health, Safety, 

and Wellness Act, which prohibits hydraulic fracturing 

and the disposal of associated wastes. 

1/14/13 – Longmont filed a motion for a change 

of venue as well as a motion to dismiss the 

unconstitutional takings portion of the COGA lawsuit. 

1/31/13 – Boulder County commissioners impose a 

six month moratorium on new permits for drilling in the 

county (including unincorporated). 

3/5/13 – Fort Collins city council votes 5-2 on a ban of 

hydraulic fracturing within city limits. 

Editor’s Note – Can you help expand or elucidate upon this 

timeline If so, the editors want to hear from you! 

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Coming Early 

2013... 

Studies in Geology 65 

Application of Structural Methods to Rocky Mountain 

Hydrocarbon Exploration and Development 

Edited by C. Knight, J. Cuzella, & L. Cress 

Co-published by 

Tulsa, OK and Denver, CO 

www.aapg.org/www.rmag.org 

The American Association 

of Petroleum Geologists 

With increasing industry emphasis on developing 

“unconventional” tight reservoirs and on enhancing 

recovery from existing fields, geologists are facing new 

challenges. Identifying fracture characteristics within 

petroleum systems is essential. Understanding the 

timing of tectonics and the formation of structures is 

The Rocky Mountain 

Association of Geologists 

important, as these factors strongly influence hydrocarbon 

generation, migration, entrapment, and preservation. 

As a means of addressing complex interrelationships 

between structural geology and hydrocarbon exploration 

and development, the editors are pleased to present this 

compilation of key papers. 

• Using Free-hand 3-D Drawings 

to Clarify and Verify Subsurface 

Structural Interpretations — D. 

Stone 

• Introduction to Low-temperature 

Thermochronologic Techniques, 

Methodology, and Applications — 

S. L. Peyton & B. Carrapa 

• Overview of Low-temperature 

Thermochronology in the Rocky 

Mountains and its Application to 

Petroleum System Analysis — S. L. 

Peyton & B. Carrapa 

• Using Detrital Zircon 

Geochronology to Solve Complex 

Structural Problems: Application 

with Pitfalls in the Helena Salient 

of the Montana Disturbed Belt, 

West Central Montana — P. T. 

Doughty, K. R. Chamberlain, & M. 

C. Pope 

Studies in Geology 65 

Table of Contents 

• Regional and Local Fractures of 

the Bakken Petroleum System, 

Williston Basin: Integrating Field 

Studies and 3-D Seismic Analysis 

— S. Angster & F. Sarg 

• Role of Wrench Faults and 

Fractures in Creating “Sweet 

Spots” in Tight Gas Exploration 

and Production at Rulison Field 

Colorado — T. L. Davis & R. D. 

Benson 

• Fracture Control of P-wave 

Azimuthal Anisotrophy in a 

Laramide Basement-cored 

Anticline at Casper Arch, 

Wyoming: Insights from 

Correlations with Surface 

Analogs and Curvature Analyses 

— R. D. Cooley & E. Erslev 

• Natural Fractures and Strain 

Accommodation in the Tensleep 

Formation at Beer Mug Anticline 

— S. P. Cooper 

• Natural Fracture Patterns in 

Folded Tensleep Reservoirs, 

Wyoming — S. P. Cooper & J. C. 

Lorenz 

• Fractures, Hydraulic Injections, 

and Strain Accommodation in 

the Tensleep Formation at Flat 

Top Anticline, Carbon County, 

Wyoming — J. C. Lorenz 

• Beaver Creek Detachment 

System: Syn-Laramide Gravity 

Detachment and Folding Oblique 

to Regional Compression — S. 

Smaltz & E. Erslev 

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Spring PTTC Workshops 

Tectonic History of the Rocky Mountain Region 

Thursday, April 4, 2013, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM 

Colorado School of Mines, Ben Parker Student Center Ballrm A 

Fee: $250; Includes: refreshments, workbook, and PDH certificate 

Instructor: Dr. Chuck Kluth, Colorado School of Mines 

This one day short course will review the tectonic framework and history of the Rocky Mountain region. It will 

begin with a short review of tectostratigraphic analysis and tectonic maps. The tectonic analysis will begin at the 

bottom of the geologic column with a brief discussion of the basement underpinnings of the region and Lower 

Paleozoic cratonic-shelf setting. These shelf deposits are variably preserved in the region but in some areas provide 

hydrocarbon reservoirs. This cratonic-shelf was interrupted by crustal-scale intraplate deformation in the late 

Paleozoic, that resulted in widespread development of the Greater Ancestral Rocky Mountains. The uplifts 

produced arkosic sediments but the voluminous Late Paleozoic sands are from a distal source. The early Mesozoic 

represents a return to the stable cratonic-shelf that, in late Jurassic, begins to reflect orogeny to the west. The data 

support the presence of a low-dipping subduction zone along the western plate margin that resulted in crustal 

shortening and the development of the Cordilleran thrust belt and the basement-cored 'Laramide' Rocky Mountain 

uplifts and basins. Hydrocarbons, generated by the earliest subsidence related to thrusting began migrating toward 

the craton, only to be captured by the Laramide structures. Erosion of the uplifts filled the adjoining basins to 

spillpoints. Later Cenozoic regional uplift or climate changes have resulted in exhumation of the basins. This 

process is continuing today and was accelerated during the Pleistocene glacial event. 

How to Find Bypassed Pay in Old Wells Using DST Data 

Tuesday-Thursday, May 21-23, 2013, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM 

Colorado School of Mines, Ben Parker Student Center Ballroom C 

Fee: $650; Includes: refreshments, workbook, and PDH certificate 

Instructor: Hugh W. Reid 

Geologists, engineers & technicians who encounter or utilize DST results and reports in their exploration & 

production decisions. In fact any professional who needs to make more sense of the numerous old DSTs which are 

present in so many wells, often with confusing results. Particularly appropriate for those prospecting for bypassed 

pay using logs and geology, who may wish to verify their conclusions from the DST or for regional geologists using 

show maps of DST results. A key emphasis of the course is to show how to identify missed (damaged) pay in 

competitor’s ‘dry’ wells & additional pay in your own producing wells. This is an important skill to complement log 

skills! 

Objectives 

By the end of the course participants should be able to accomplish the following: 

understand DST pressure charts to identify obvious formation damage & depletion (small reservoir) and 

mechanical problems (eg. tool plugging). 

recognize high vs. low permeability tests. 

understand why data from cores and logs often conflict with DST data. 

“make more sense” of DST results printed in PI well cards and field reports where no chart is available and 

even estimate approximate permeability & damage in some cases. 

identify presence of limited natural fractures. 

appreciate where recoveries of “oil cut mud” and gas rates of “TSTM” may be significant from an 

exploration standpoint. 

determine when a gas test is co-producing water. 

identify gas presence even where no gas was reported in certain tests. 

identify potential oil zones from DSTs which recovered no oil (from the chart shape and air blow 

description). 

estimate the approximate gas rate in DSTs of “GTS TSTM” by knowing the time gas took to reach the 

surface and the air volume of the test string. 

make a decision as to whether old DSTs can be recompleted as commercial wells today from limited 

information. 

Class Descriptions and Register Online: www.pttcrockies.org 

Vol. 62, For No. more 4 information, contact Mary Carr, 12 303.273.3107, mcarr@mines.edu April 2013

Geochemistry 

for Energy 

Breaking News: 

COGCC Rule 609 

requires Baseline 

Water Quality 

Monitoring. 

RMAG Foundation Sponsors 

the Excellence in Teaching of 

Earth Science Award 

In 2000, the RMAG Foundation instituted an award to honor 

elementary or secondary school teachers who have promoted teaching 

of earth science to K-12 students. The winner receives a commemorative 

plaque and a $1000 cash award provided by the RMAG Foundation, and 

is recommended as the RMAG’s candidate to compete for the AAPG Rocky 

Mountain Section, Teacher of the Year award. This award honors the best 

earth science teacher in the Front Range area from either an elementary 

or secondary school. If you are a teacher or know of a teacher who could be 

a candidate please contact the K-12 Public Outreach Committee through 

the RMAG office at 910 16th Street, Suite 1125, Denver, CO 80202, by 

telephone at 303-573-8621, or email at staff@rmag.org to receive an 

application form. The application deadline this year is Friday May 3, with 

the winner to be announced on or before May 11. 

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Check it out! 

New COGCC rules for location 

setbacks: http://cogcc.state.co.us/, 

link under Public Announcements. 

Weld County offers landowners 

free water testing for 59 compounds, 

just finished 100th sample, article 

details results. 

http://www.greeleytribune.com/ 

news/local/5403323-113/countyweld-testing-gas 

New second round of quadrangle 

revisions, Kansas and Oklahoma; 

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/ 

article.aspID=3503. 

N e w b a s i n - w i d e c o a l 

assessment, Powder River Basin, 

Wyoming; http://www.usgs.gov/ 

newsroom/article.aspID=3518. 

New USGS Hydraulic Fracturing 

Website, includes links to videos 

such as Hydraulic Fracturing State of 

the Science and the Produced Water 

Website. 

http://energy.usgs.gov/ 

OilGas/UnconventionalOilGas/ 

HydraulicFracturing.aspx 

New Vitrinite Reflectance Data for the Cretaceous 

Marine Shales and Coals in the Big Horn Basin,North- 

Central Wyoming and South-Central Montana, open-file 

report 2012-1254, Mark J. Pawlewicz and Thomas M. 

Finn. Report in pdf format. 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1254/ 

Update of plate 2, Digital Data Series 69-G, 

Stratigraphic Cross Section of Measured Sections 

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John Ricardo 

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In Memoriam: William Albert Newton 

By Germaine and Clare Gregg, Eugene Shearer and Dudley Bolyard 

William (Bill) A. Newton, a longtime member of RMAG 

born in 1912, celebrated his 100th birthday last July 21 

and passed away at his home in Littleton, Colorado on 

December 24, 2012. Bill grew up in Decatur and Urbana, 

Illinois and St. Petersburg, Florida. At 12, he joined the 

Boy Scouts and achieved the rank of Eagle with 42 merit 

badges. Majoring in geology, Bill received the B.S. and 

M.S. degrees in 1935 and 1937, respectively, from the 

University of Illinois. He worked for the Illinois Geological 

Survey during this entire period. While working for the 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, he attended Stanford 

and completed all of the course work required for a Ph. 

D. in geology. 

In 1940, Bill left Stanford and joined the Carter Oil 

Company (a predecessor of Exxon) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 

and remained with Carter until 1949. By then Bill had 

arrived in Denver. Inspired by early successes, he became 

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to Aspen and other towns on Colorado’s western slope. 

An avid golfer, Bill built one of the first homes on 

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to have been playing a round there as the tragic flood 

of 1965 roared down Plum Creek and the Platte River 

valley. Determined to sink his last putt, he ignored 

the insistent warnings broadcast 

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The Mountain Geologist is a quarterly, online, peerreviewed 

journal published by the Rocky Mountain 

Association of Geologists since 1964. Circulation is 

about 2600. Editors for The Mountain Geologist welcome 

manuscripts that focus on or relate to geology of the U.S. 

Rocky Mountain region and environs. 

When writing a manuscript for The Mountain 

Geologist, please refer to the downloadable “Author 

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Geologist” on the RMAG website: www.rmag.org It is 

important to write your manuscript according to this 

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and editors. The style guide is being updated in 2013; 

please send inquiries to the Executive Editor at jtpetr@ 

aol.com or refer to issues published in 2012-2013 when 

questions arise. 

Back Issues 

A bibliography and index is available on the RMAG 

website (1964-2009, see The Mountain Geologist web 

page, www.rmag.org). See also, “Cumulative Bibliography 

and Index to The Mountain Geologist, 1999-2010” by 

Michele Bishop, The Mountain Geologist, July 2011, v. 

48, no. 3, p. 59-80 . 

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The Mountain Geologist 2006-2010 with 1985, v. 22, no. 

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The RMAG and PTTC are proud to present the 

2013 Spring Symposium 

"Making Money with Science" 

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at the Denver Marriott City Center 

Using Science to Profitably Explore for or Develop Oil and Gas Fields 

Keynote Speaker: Chris Wright – CEO of Liberty Resources 

Roy Aneed with NGP, will present on how to create a start up oil and gas company using equity capital 

Lynn Watney with KGS, will present on Mississippian play in Kansas and Oklahoma 

Don Hall with Fluid Inclusion Technologies, will present on advanced mud gas and cuttings analysis 

Katie Kocman with QEP, will present on hand held XRD to identify facies in the Middle Bakken 

Maynard Johnson and Dick Leonard with Protechnics will present case studies utilizing proppant 

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In the Pipeline 

April 2-4, 2013 

Hart DUG- Permian Basin. Fort Worth, TX. 

April 4, 2013 

PTTC Course. “Tectonic History of the Rocky Mountain 

Region.” Instructor Dr. Chuck Kluth, CSM, Golden, CO. 


USGS Rocky Mountain Science Seminar. “Petrogenesis 

and Metal Budget of the Chichinautzin Monogenetic 

Field, Mexico: A Melt Inclusion Study.” Speaker Julie 

Roberge. Federal Center, Denver, CO. 


Desk and Derrick Luncheon. For reservations, please 

contact RSVP@deskandderrick.org. 


RMAG Monthly Luncheon Program. Speaker: Pete 

Dotsey, "MaxG Basin Temperature Modelling." 


NAPE East. Pittsburgh, PA. 


DGS Luncheon. 


DIPS Luncheon. Speaker John E Warme. “Contrasting 

Geology and Cultures: Morocco and Algeria.” 


DWLS Luncheon. Speaker Tom Bratton. “The 

Interpretation of Stress from Sonic Logs.” 


DAPL Luncheon. 


RMAG 2013 Spring Symposium. “Making Money with 

Science.” Denver, CO. 


Denver SPE Continuing Education. “Hydraulic 

Fracturing Design and Treatment.” 


DWLS Spring Workshop. CSM, Golden, CO. 


USGS Rocky Mountain Science Seminar. “Regional 

Tectonic Setting of Miocene Extension and Magmatism in 

the Northern Great Basin.” Speaker Joe Colgan. Federal 

Center, Denver, CO. 


Hart DUG-Midcontinent. Tulsa, OK. 


Oilfield Christian Fellowship Luncheon. To RSVP 

call Barb Burrell at 303-675-2602 or e-mail OCF- 

DenverChapter@pxd.com. 


SIPES Luncheon. Speaker, Chris Esinger, “Niobrara 

Tight Oil Success in Colorado: What do the Numbers 

Indicate.” 


SPWLA Spring Topical Conference. “High Angle Well 

Placement and Evaluation.” Santa Rosa, CA. 


RMS-SEPM Luncheon. Speaker Marieke Dechesne. 

“Cenozoic Synorogenic Sedimentation and Structural 

Deformation of the Colorado Headwaters Basin.” 

May 13-14, 2013 

B a k ke n a n d T h r e e Fo r k s , C o mpletions 

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Published in 2012-2013 in 


R 

Look for Paul Lillis’ paper “Review of Oil Families 

and Their Petroleum Systems of the Williston Basin” in 

the January 2013 issue of The Mountain Geologist, p. 

5-31. Papers published in The Mountain Geologist in 

2012 include 

October 

“Pycnodonts from the Lower Ferron Sandstone 

Member of the Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale 

(Middle Turonian), Emery and Carbon Counties, Utah” 

by Martin A. Becker, Harry A. Maisch IV, and John A. 

Chamberlain, Jr., p. 101-114. 

“Quantifying Low Net:Gross, Fluvial-Lacustrine 

Reservoirs Using Proportional Tops and Zonation: 

Green River Formation, Monument Butte Field, 

Utah” by Darrin Burton, Bobby Sullivan, and Steve D. 

Adams, p. 115-127. 

July 

“Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Upper 

Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Frontier Formation, 

Northeast Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A.” by Andrew 

J. Hutsky, Christopher R. Fielding, Trevor J. Hurd, and C. 

Kittinger Clark, p. 77-98. 

April 

“Hydrocarbon-Water and CO2-Water Systems in 

the Pre-Cretaceous Section in the New Mexico Part of 

the Raton Basin” by Ronald F. Broadhead, p. 55-74. 

January 

“A GIS Test of Two Models for the Distribution 

of Tertiary Epithermal Ore Deposits in Colorado” by 

Vincent Matthews and Matthew L. Morgan, p. 1-17. 

“Additions to the Vertebrate Faunal Assemblage 

of the Middle Miocene Fort Randall Formation in the 

Vicinity of South Bijou Hill, South Dakota, U.S.A.” by 

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RMAG Monthly Luncheon Program – April 10 th 

MaxG Basin Temperature Modelling 

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thermal conductivity shift to the interval geothermal gradient layers to more closely 

approximate formation temperature, if necessary. Results for the Delaware and 

Midland Basins are shown. 

Speaker Bio 

Pete Dotsey is the North and South America Business Development Manager 

for the TGS Geological Products Division. He attained an MS in Geology from 

Stephen F. Austin State University in 1983. His professional career includes: 

• 3 years working for Sohio Petroleum Company in exploration; 

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USGS Rocky Mountain Science Seminar 

Lecture Hall, (Lecture Building Hall, 25, Denver Building Federal 25, 10:30 Center, am) 10:30 a.m. 

Date Speaker Title 

1/8/13 

Geoff Plumlee 

(USGS Denver) 

1/15/13 

Andy Manning 

(USGS Denver) 

1/22/13 

Zach Sharp 

(U of New Mexico) 

2/5/13 

Becky Flowers 

( U of Colrado) 

2/19/13 

Kate Whidden 

(USGS Denver) 

3/5/13 

David John 

(USGS Menlo Park) 

Linking geology and health to help understand a 

Seminar deadly Already outbreak Held of childhood lead poisoning from 

artisanal gold mining, northwest Nigeria 

Potential links between climate change and water 

Seminar Already Held 

quality degredation in a mineralized watershed 

Chlorine isotope geochemistry of Earth, 

Seminar Already Held Moon, and beyond 

Epeirogeny of eustasy 

Seminar Deciphering Already Held the rise and fall of continental 

interiors and implications for mantle dynamics 

Distal Facies Variability within the Upper Triassic 

Seminar Already Held 

part of the Otuk Formation in Northern Alaska 

Miocene volcanoes, hot springs, and gold deposits 

Seminar in Already the Bodie HeldHills, California and Nevada 

3/26/13 

Christian Teyssier 

Seminar Oceanic Already and Heldcontinental 

core complexes 

(U of Minnesota) 

4/9/13 

Julie Roberge 

(Mexican Polytechnical Inst.) 

Petrogenesis and metal budget of the 

Chichinautzin monogenetic field, Mexico: A melt 

inclusion study 

4/23/13 

Joe Colgan 

(USGS Menlo Park) 

5/14/13 

Dirk Wallschlaeger 

(Trent University) 

5/28/13 

Darius Semmons 

(USGS Denver) 

Regional tectonic setting of Miocene extension 

and magmatism in the northern Great Basin 

Soluble arsenic-sulfur compounds in ambient 

waters - where geochemical knowledge gaps and 

analytical problems collide 

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Hart DUG-Permian Basin 

PTTC 

Course 

RMAG 

Luncheon, 

DGS 

DIPS 

Speaker: 

Luncheon Luncheon 

Pete Dotsey 

NAPE East, Pittsburgh, PA 

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RMAG 2013 

Spring Symposium 

USGS Rocky 

Mtn. Science 

Seminar 

Desk & Derrick 

Luncheon 

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 

USGS Rocky Mountain 

Science Seminar 

DWLS Spring Workshop 

DWLS 

Luncheon 

DAPL 

Luncheon 

21 22 23 24 Christian 25 26 27 

28 29 30 

RMS-SEPM 

Luncheon 

SPWLA Spring Topical Conference 

Oilfield 

Fellowship 

Luncheon 

Denver SPE Continuing Education 

Hart DUG-Midcontinent 

SIPES 

Luncheon 

OUTCROP 

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April 2013 - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

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