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CONTENTS FEATURES 6 Lead Story: The RMAG Newsletter: A Technological Aphrodisiac?

10 Two New Reads 13 Check it out!

19 Geologic Art Show 27 Where in the West Am I?

ASSOCIATION NEWS 4 RMAG – Horizontal Drilling and Completion Symposium 8 Call for Papers: The Mountain Geologist

19 Search and Discovery Goes Mobile with Abstracts 23 Membership Notice 28 Prospect Fair and Technofest 30 2012 RMAG 33rd Annual Tennis Tournament Registration Form 33 The Outcrop Needs YOU!

DEPARTMENTS 4 RMAG June Board of Directors Meeting 12 Luncheon Program

9 Determine Future Guidebooks

14 President's Column

15 RMAG Members Welcome the New Executive Director Emily Tompkins

21 On-the-Rocks Field Trips

17 Summer Speaker Series

31 Calendar of Events

18 New Members

25 In the Pipeline

COVER PHOTO Black Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, at close to 11,000' represents one of several lakes in a pater noster chain. Photo by Ulli Limpitlaw.

31 Advertisers Index

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LEAD STORY

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By Hugh N. Krye, former Outcrop Roving Reporter Editors note: The following history of the RMAG Outcrop was previously published as a three-part series in June, July and August of 2003. It was originally written for the special issue of the Mountain Geologist to commemorate the 75th DQQLYHUVDU\ RI 50$* :H DUH SUHVHQWLQJ WKH ÀUVW WZR SDUWV WKLV PRQWK DQG ZLOO SXEOLVK WKH rd part next month.

Once you have read the history of the Outcrop please consider volunteering to help edit, write a story or submit your photos! We need YOUR help.

Love, the sages keep telling us, is what makes our home terrestrial spheroid and, hence, geology, go ‘round.

Not surprisingly, therefore, it has also been remarked, mostly by geological sages, that the pursuit and SURIHVVLRQDO SUDFWLFH RI JHRORJ\ LV ÀUVW DQG IRUHPRVW D labor of love. And, if it happens to provide a living to boot, it can be the very best of all worlds. At the same time, geologists also recognize, as do all successful lovers, that QR WUXH DIIDLU RI WKH KHDUW JURZV DQG à RXULVKHV ZLWKRXW open, frequent, and unrestrained communication.

Visionaries that they were, the founding and early members of RMAG soon recognized that the association that they had created during that bleak winter of 192122 was no different. Consequently, soon after World War II, the agonies of the depression and years of armed FRQĂ LFW EHKLQG WKHP WKH\ IRXQG WKHPVHOYHV HDJHUO\ back pursuing their love as civilians and anticipating the boom that they were fated to enjoy. Feeling the need for a common thread of intellectual intercourse, and foreseeing that it would probably be the only regular contact that at least 90% of members would have with the society, they implemented that need for communication by giving birth the RMAG Newsletter.

7KH ÀUVW UHFRUGHG LVVXH ZDV EURXJKW RXW E\ /DUU\ Brundall in 1951. The masthead was designed by Geophoto Services and publication was contributed gratis by Petroleum Information (PI), who continued this gift for 44 years until March, 1995, well after the collapse of the oil industry. PI and its owners, Bill and Vol. 61, No. 8

Maury Goodin, both longtime RMAG members, have been thanked many times in the past, but certainly RMAG will always be grateful for their support.

In the opening paragraph of Vol.1, No. 1, the 1HZVOHWWHU VWDWHG ´7KLV LV WKH ÀUVW LVVXH RI WKH 50$* NEWSLETTER. Since all new publications originate with ambitious platforms, we put ours on record herewith:�

1. No evening meetings on election nights when the bars are closed.

2. A donation of a Joe Miller Joke Book to replenish Bob McMillan’s (Friday) luncheon repertoire.

3. An annual RMAG summer Beer Bust.

4. A special fund to buy a season’s pass for Bob Munoz on the “Fast Freight� Railroad (one-way pass, that is). For those who were not present, “Fast Freight� was a luncheon program movie presented by Bob Munoz that will always be remembered as the nadir (all-time low, that is) of luncheon programs.

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By 1955, it had expanded to include announcements of PHHWLQJV ÀHOG WULSV VRFLDO HYHQWV ZLWK 50$*$ DYDLODEOH SXEOLFDWLRQV RIÀFHU QRPLQHHV DQG FRPPLWWHH UHSRUWV all of which have pretty much continued down to the SUHVHQW 7KH ÀUVW *HRORJLF 3LFN $ZDUG IRU GHVHUYLQJ secondary school students and invented by Bob Munoz, as well as the current AAPG emblem design contest (with a prize of $50), were highlights of that year.

Also, as is so often typical of the early Phases of a love affair, much attention was given to bedroomoriented and casual relationship-type humor. This included frequent contributions by “Skotch Myst,� as well as innumerable examples of the best jokes circulating through the industry channels of the day.

With momentum building, 1956 saw a giant step forward as editor Bill Mallory, along with seven committee helpers, initiated a monthly publication schedule on green paper, probably because it is the color of oil and money. Included was publication, as supplements, of OXQFKHRQ SDSHUV LQ WKH HQWLUHW\ ZLWK WKH Ă€UVW EHLQJ -DFN Knight’s “Hydrodynamics.â€? This ambitious program, however, was soon replaced by reviews and abstracts

of noon talks and evening AAPG Distinguished Lectures.

Discussions of a proposed Associate membership class, and other amendments, lengthy committee reports, golf WRXUQDPHQW DQG GLQQHU GDQFH DQQRXQFHPHQWV RIÀFHU candidate biographies and the inevitable dues increase IURP WR DOVR ÀUVW DSSHDUHG $QG ZLWK ORYH LQ bloom, it was not surprising the Jokes Column expanded WR ÀOO DV PXFK DV RI DYDLODEOH VSDFH $QG ZLWK LW DOO FDPH WKH ÀUVW RI WKH PDQ\ OHWWHUV IURP WKRVH ZKR from time to time, would contribute only protest and complaint.

As might have been anticipated, this orgy of literary production was followed in 1957 by retrenchment, for a time to semi-monthly publication. Nevertheless, Skotch Myst announced an essay contest on “Why I Go On Field Tripsâ€? and general humor hung in at up to 50%, sharing space with announcement of the New Member listing FROXPQ DQG WKH Ă€UVW $$3* GLVFXVVLRQ UHJDUGLQJ OLFHQVLQJ RI JHRORJLVWV $OVR IHDWXUHG ZDV WKH Ă€UVW HGLWRULDO SOHD for usable copy from the membership. This resulted, the QH[W \HDU ZLWK DSSHDUDQFH RI WKH Ă€UVW Ă€QDQFLDO EDODQFH VKHHW GHWDLOHG UHSRUWV RQ Ă€HOG WULSV DQG DQQRXQFHPHQW Continued on page 8 Âť

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of cost increases to $1.85 and $3.25 for lunch and evening dinner meetings.

In 1959, another sea change was ramrodded by editor Bill Zakis. Major improvements included a regular masthead listing of officers and committee chairs on the front cover, an Employment Column listing available geologists (with 32 biographies in the March issue alone), tabulation of current graduate theses at CSM and repeated editorial pleas for member involvement in political issues, such as the proposed wilderness bill and the ongoing attack on the depletion DOORZDQFH $OVR DSSHDULQJ ZHUH WKH ÀUVW GLVFXVVLRQV of employment for idled geologists in other fields, although things like hydrology, ecology and environment management were not mentioned. An active Employment Committee announced placement of 20 geologists in new jobs and the Traders Column, offering professional LWHPV DQG RIÀFH VSDFH PDGH LWV GHEXW

Early in the year, a feeble attempt was made to replace the jokes with wise sayings and quotes, but in July, in the face of membership pressure, and along with a change to white paper, they were back with a vengeance. Bill’s editorial style PD\ EH VXUPLVHG IURP KLV Ă€QDO PHVVDJH LQ ZKLFK KH recommended Newsletter editorship to “all who would run their own show, as the Executive Committee has its own problems and gives you a free hand.â€?

By 1960, employment problems occupied much space, with the Jobs Wanted listings rising to 42 biographies covering 4 ½ pages. Only the USGS was hiring geologists as GS-5 and GS-7 levels for $5,335 DQG D \HDU UHVSHFWLYHO\ (YHQ VR WKH ÀUVW OLVW RI RMAG Publications For Sale, philosophical articles on life and living, limericks and some serious poetry were also featured.

Employment and depletion problems continued

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In early 1963, the first picture of new officers appeared. This was followed in July by a cartoon promotion of the Stag Party that was to presage future problems. Many offsetting positive items, however, LQFOXGHG VWDUW RI WKH ÀUVW UHJXODU 3UHVLGHQW·V 3DJH E\ Art Brunton, proposal for a “Professional Journal” by Stave Oriel, itineraries for “Do-It-Yourself Field Trips” by

Maynard Boos and a long article on “Students and the Automobile” by Judge Sherman Finesilver. Filler material featured a poll (90% in favor) and a discussion on the founding of AIPG in Golden and the evils of competition by federal agencies with consulting geologists.

John Rold passionately expanded the President’s Page in 1964 and lengthy discussions for and against SURSRVHG FHUWLÀFDWLRQ E\ $$3* OHIW OLWWOH URRP RU LQFOLQDWLRQ for humor. Nevertheless, jokes made a comeback in 1965 and Gunther Von Gotsche began his long-running contributions of clever cartoon commentaries. Others, however, were responsible for the May and June cover and inside full page cartoons crudely hyping the Golf Tourney and Stage Party, which probably represent the all-time high for bad taste in an RMAG publication. Also of interest, the Personal column was renamed Revisions, 0RYHV DQG *\UDWLRQV DQG WKH ÀUVW QRQ JRYHUQPHQW MRE opportunity appeared in the Help Wanted column.

In 1966, the editorial reins were assumed by John Dolloff. A modernized format was designed and appeared with the March issue. In August, a letter to the editor,

Determine Future Guidebooks Did you know it takes eighteen months from conception to sales to produce a RMAG guidebook? What topics interest you for future publications? Are you willing to review papers or help edit a future guidebook? The Publications Committee would like to hear from you.

Please contact Dean DuBois at Dean.Dubois@ encana.com or Paul Lillis at plillis@usgs.gov.

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By Kristine Peterson

Summer is not over yet, pick up one of these books and head out and have a look, be it on the road or in the museum!

Walking with Dinosaurs, Rediscovering Colorado’s Prehistoric Beasts, Sites, Destinations, & Adventures, Anthony D. Fredericks, 273 pages, Johnson Books, 2012. The back cover of this book queries “Did you know that Colorado had more dinosaur fossils and more dinosaur sites than any other state in the Union?”

Educator and author Anthony Fredericks shares his ZRQGHU DQG ÀUVW SHUVRQ DFFRXQWV RI YLVLWV DQG ERWK historical and geologic background information for eleven sites on both sides of the mountains in this fun volume. The book contains numerous photographs, directions to sites, visitation hours, fees, and other logistical information to facilitate your visit.

Digging Snowmastodon, Discovering an Ice Age World in the Colorado Rockies, Kirk Johnson and Ian Miller, 141 pages, Denver Museum of Nature & Science and People’s Press, 2012.

This full color, lavishly illustrated volume tells the discovery and subsequent fossil recovery story of the October 2010, Ziegler Reservoir “mastodon” discovery. The =LHJOHU VLWH LV RQH RI WKH PRVW VLJQLÀFDQW Pleistocene fossil sites in the world. Over 1,000 people were involved in the project and the science continues today.

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SUDLVLQJ WKH ÀUVW $$3* *HRORJLFDO +LJKZD\ 0DS DSSHDUHG WKDW ZDV WR EH WKH ÀUVW RI D ORQJ VHULHV RI SKLORVRSKLFDO comments on current events and personal achievements and problems by Ripley and Lamina Marks and various relatives and associates. Ripley even announced as a candidate for Past President that fall.

By 1967, the reactivation of the Colorado Geological Survey, a proposed “RMAG Atlas,â€? proclamation of a Colorado Geology Week by the Governor, an RMAG TV Series on geology and discussion of the Ruedi Dam controversy were prominent items. Self-appointed RMAG Poet Laureate, Maury Travis, contributed efforts urging cooperation between geologists and engineers and support for the new CGS. Ripley responded with “The Driller’s Lament,â€? an earthquake prediction contest DQG $OOHQ 'LOOH FRQWULEXWHG WKH Ă€UVW FRPLF VWULS ,QGXVWU\ WUHQGV ZHUH UHĂ HFWHG E\ WKH QHZ PHPEHUV WKDW ZHUH listed in the December issue alone!

The remainder of the 1960s saw attention given to emerging concerns. These included toxic waste disposal, the southeastern Colorado play assumption of the CGS directorship by John Rold, a proposed SAAPG Division of Mineral Economics, need for education in hydrology, uses for stereo contour maps and side-looking radar, and John Love’s Colorado Governor’s Conference on Environmental Geology. Jokes were phased out once more and replaced by contributions from Maury Travis, correspondence from the Recluse and Ekalaka Geological Societies and announcement of an Atlas prepublication price of $25.

Effects of the 1970’s boom years were accurately UHà HFWHG LQ WKH SDJHV RI WKH 1HZVOHWWHU 7KH GHFDGH opened with the promotion of the monumental Geologic

Atlas, controversy over politics and energy policy and 3 ½ pages of reminiscences by 89-year-old Frank Rinker &ODUN GLVFRYHUHU RI WKH <DWHV Ă&#x20AC;HOG DQG $$3* 3RZHUV Medalist. Heated exchanges between AIPG and AAPG over registration, environmental and pollution concerns and a proposed Colorado licensing law were addressed. $QG SHUKDSV UHĂ HFWLQJ WKH PDWXULQJ RI WKH ORYH DIIDLU jokes were gone, having been largely replaced by fascinating bits of trivia.

By 1973, the membership had survived an AAPGSEPM national meeting, booming Atlas sales at $50 a FRS\ KLJKO\ FRQWURYHUVLDO RYHUQLJKW MRLQW Ă&#x20AC;HOG WULSV ZLWK Desk and Derrick, erudite articles on tradition by Bob Chancellor and RMAG history, poetry and book reviews E\ 5LSOH\ $QG LQ 'HFHPEHU WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW DQG RQO\ LVVXH LQ which there were more â&#x20AC;&#x153;Positions Availableâ&#x20AC;? listed than â&#x20AC;&#x153;Available Geologists.â&#x20AC;?

In April 1974, the Newsletter went to a 2-column photo offset reduction printing scheme that allowed presentation of much more copy in the available space. The partial year of use of this method resulted in publication of about 77,865 words on 102 pages in 1974, as opposed to only 60,900 words on 140 pages in 1973, and savings to PI of over 75,000 pieces of paper.

Sophisticated humorous articles and illustrations lauding the disproportionate increase of the women geologistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; membership share in the roster prompted the first critical response from the womensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lib movement and an appropriate rebuttal from the editor defending and GHĂ&#x20AC;QLQJ WKH 1HZVOHWWHU¡V HGLWRULDO SROLF\ Mid-decade saw a continuation of lighthearted UHSDUWHH EHWZHHQ WKH VH[HV WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW Âľ*HRORJLVW RI WKH Monthâ&#x20AC;? column featuring Henrietta â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hankâ&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara by reporter Hugh N. Krye, as well as extensive coverage of the FERC, governmental involvement with industry and the encouragement of political action activities by members.

These trends continued through 1979 with in-depth attention to coal technology, geothermal, governmental land administration and RAREII, articulate monthly reports by the busy RMAG Political Affairs Action Council (PAAC) IN 1978, AS DID CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE STATE LINE DIAMOND BOOM. To these were added /DPLQD 0DUNV¡ Ă&#x20AC;UVW SKRWR URVWHU JHQGHU GHPRJUDSKLF analysis and graphâ&#x20AC;Ś and complaints regarding tasteless letters to the editor were resumed.

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Luncheon Program â&#x20AC;&#x201C; August 1st South Dakotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oil and Gas Potential and Data Availability through an Interactive Map

By Derric L. Iles, South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources, August 1, 2012

The Three Forks Shale and Minnelusa Formation have been drilled through many times in South Dakota but with perhaps no intent to assess hydrocarbon potential as these units were simply rocks above a deeper target, the Red River Formation.

Examples of South Dakotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unexplored, or under-explored, potential are the Red River Formation, which has been producing oil in South Dakota since 1954, the Three Forks Shale, which is productive in neighboring North Dakota, and the basal Minnelusa Formation.

The basal Minnelusa is an oil producer in southwestern South Dakota and is equivalent to a producing unit in North Dakota named the Tyler Formation. The Three Forks Shale and Minnelusa Formation have been drilled through many times in South Dakota but with perhaps no intent to assess hydrocarbon potential as these units were simply rocks above D GHHSHU WDUJHW WKH 5HG 5LYHU )RUPDWLRQ ,W LV GLIĂ&#x20AC;FXOW WR Ă&#x20AC;QG D UHVRXUFH if there is no exploration and if the exploration program is not designed to perform the necessary tests in the appropriate stratigraphic intervals DQG LQ VXIĂ&#x20AC;FLHQW TXDQWLW\ The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is promoting exploration and development of South Dakotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil and gas resources through its Oil and Gas Initiative. One aspect of the initiative is to make state-held information, which is pertinent to the exploration and development of South Dakotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil and gas resources, searchable and readily available online. Therefore, DENR is developing an online, â&#x20AC;&#x153;one-stop shopâ&#x20AC;? for oil and gas information.

LUNCHEON RESERVATIONS R RVATIONS & INFORMATION Luncheons will be held at the Marriott City Center at California and 17th St. Please check the event listing in the lobby for the room. People gather at 11:30 a.m., lunch is served at 12:00 noon, and the speaker presentation begins at about 12:20 p.m. The price of the luncheon is $30.00. Checks should be made payable to RMAG. No reservation is required for the talk only and the cost is $5.00. Please make your reservation prior to 10:30 a.m. on the Monday before the luncheon. Please Note: If you make a reservation and do not attend the luncheon, you will be billed for the luncheon. Cancellations are not guaranteed after 10:30 a.m. the Monday before the talk. You may send someone in your stead.

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The initiative has already resulted in an online, searchable, and interactive map containing several data layers drawing information from DENRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Minerals and Mining, Geological Survey, and Water Rights Programs.

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Thoughts About the Colorado Geological Survey This month, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m stepping back from my series on energy resources to discuss the future of the Colorado Geological Survey and to ask you to take an active part in helping your representatives make an important decision. There is still time to make a difference...

7KH &RORUDGR *HRORJLFDO 6XUYH\ &*6 Ă&#x20AC;UVW DSSHDUHG in 1907 when the state legislature approved its formation and placed it within the University of Colorado in Boulder.

It ceased operation in 1925 after publishing more than 30 bulletins on the geology and mineral resources of the state. In 1967, the legislature recreated the CGS and placed it within the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Today, the CGS is a separate division of the DNR although for about 13 years starting in 1992, it was part of the Division of Minerals and Geology. As you can see, the survey seems to have followed something of a rocky road beginning with its inception over 100 years ago.

You may have heard about the proposal to relocate the CGS from its current downtown location to the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) campus in Golden. The rumors are true. House Bill 12-1355, submitted 27 April of this year, proposes to transfer functions and personnel RI WKH VXUYH\ WR &60 LQFOXGLQJ WKH RIĂ&#x20AC;FH RI WKH VWDWH geologist, effective 1 January 2013. Of greatest concern DUH LQGLFDWLRQV WKDW WKH PRYH ZRXOG UHVXOW LQ VLJQLĂ&#x20AC;FDQW funding cuts for the CGS. The primary reason for relocating the survey would be to reduce operating costs that impact the state budget, but this would largely come from cutting back on much of the work that the CGS does and only the most essential programs would be retained â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including such entities as the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. According Vol. 61, No. 8

to a public document entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Department of Natural Resources FY 2012-13 Joint Budget Committee Hearing Agendaâ&#x20AC;? dated Tuesday, November 29, 2011, the CGS â&#x20AC;&#x153;will be able to operate with a reduction in severance tax support in the future,â&#x20AC;? EXW RQO\ ZLWK VLJQLĂ&#x20AC;FDQW UHGXFWLRQ in services (my addition in italics).

Severance taxes are a principal funding source for the Division of Natural Resources, of which the CGS is a part, and have been since the late 1990s. Still, the amount used by the survey is less than three million dollars per year. The loss of the income would severely hobble, if not cripple, the survey.

One of the purposes of government entities such as the CGS is to provide basic knowledge that supports forSURĂ&#x20AC;W EXVLQHVVHV EXW WKH LQWHOOLJHQFH SURYLGHG FDQQRW EH JHQHUDWHG FRVW HIIHFWLYHO\ ZLWKLQ D SURĂ&#x20AC;W PDNLQJ EXVLQHVV model. The investment the state makes in the survey, therefore, helps build Coloradoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy. It would appear that reducing the investment provides short term budgetary gain and long term economic loss.

The idea to move the survey is not a new one. I have found a 2004 document that proposed the move to CSM, but there was to be no cut in funding. The approach was much different than what we are seeing now. Before the move can take place, there must be consensus between DNR and CSM, and so far there seems to be little word of such agreement.

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President's Column My personal opinion is that it would be a great loss for any part of the Colorado Geological Survey to go away. Still, there are many questions involved and I, therefore, urge you to take a little time to research the issue using the abundant information available on the internet – it is all a matter of public record. Then, go a step further and irrespective of any conclusion you may reach, take an active part by contacting your legislative representatives and voicing your opinion. This matter is too important to ignore.

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Search and Discovery Goes Mobile with Abstracts AAPG Datapagesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; online journal, Search and 'LVFRYHU\ DQQRXQFHG 7XHVGD\ -XO\ LWV Ă&#x20AC;UVW PRELOH app designed to bring technical abstracts to users of mobile devices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most conference apps are all about the exhibit hall,â&#x20AC;? says Mary Kay Grosvald, Administrative Editor for the website. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ours will concentrate on the technical information in the program and we are designing it to use the same data format used in the website, so we save time and money.â&#x20AC;? AAPG Datapages plans to have WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW DSS UHDG\ E\ 2FWREHU RI WKLV \HDU Since the late 1990s, Search and Discovery has been the online repository for meeting abstracts, papers from conference sessions, and posters for AAPG and

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On-the-Rocks Field Trips

Medicine Bow Mountains

By Cat Campbell Trip Leader: Art Snoke, August 25, 2012 due to lack of fossils in the record. Things changed however in the Mesozoic Era with deposition of thousands of feet of sediment consisting of sands, silts, volcanic and even coal. Most of this deposition occurred during the Cretaceous due to the vast sea covering the land. By the end of the Cretaceous, the compressional forces of the Laramide orogeny likely produced islands in this seaway allowing erosive forces to remove the Paleozoic and Mesozoic sections exposing the Precambrian basement in the central part of the Medicine Bows. This uplift continued until the end of the Paleocene.

The current scenery of the Medicine Bow Mountains is dominated by the carving of glaciers that receded approximately 15,000 years ago. Shallow glacial basins DUH QRZ Ă&#x20AC;OOHG ZLWK ZDWHU WKURXJKRXW WKH DOSLQH HQYLURQPHQW RI WKH 6QRZ\ 5DQJH DGGLQJ WR WKH PDJQLĂ&#x20AC;FHQFH RI WKH white quartzite cliffs.

Since the glaciers retreated, the appearance of the mountains have changed little except for small traces of mineral exploration that has occurred over the past 100 years. The initial gold rush brought hundreds to the mountains exploring stream bed and digging for the metal; few were successful. The early 1900s brought slightly more successful prospectors for platinum and palladium followed by copper and in the 1970s, uranium.

Fluctuating prices caused prospectors to come and go with the last rush occurring in 1977 for placer diamonds, which were few and far between. Traces of mines and tailings can be seen in the area.

Come explore the majestic Medicine Bow Mountains on August 25th with Art Snoke, a professor of geology at the University of Wyoming. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget, On the Rocks trips are free!

Knight, Samuel H., 1990. Illustrated geologic history of the Medicine Bow Mountains and adjacent areas, Wyoming. Geological Society of Wyoming Memoir 4. )RU PRUH LQIRUPDWLRQ SOHDVH VHH KWWS ZZZ ZVJV XZ\R HGX VWUDWZHE 0HGLFLQH%RZ0WV 'HIDXOW DVS[ Hausel, Dan W. 1993. Guide to the Geology, Mining Districts, and Ghost Towns of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Snowy Range Scenic Byway. Geological Society of Wyoming Public Information Circular No. 32.

More than two and a half billion years of geologic history are recorded in the rocks of the Medicine Bow Mountains. From an ancient continent and stromatolites to ocean basins and volcanic island chains, the Medicine Bow Mountains are a geologistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream to explore. This WULS ZLOO VSHFLĂ&#x20AC;FDOO\ YLVLW WKH 6QRZ\ 5DQJH ZKLFK FRQVLVWV RI WKH PDJQLĂ&#x20AC;FHQW TXDUW]LWH SHDNV YLVLEOH IURP WKH VFHQLF byway. The Laramide uplift exposed this brilliant white rock with the highest peak, Medicine Bow Peak at an elevation of 12,013 feet.

Beyond the Laramide orogeny, the Medicine Bows have added structural complexity due to the Cheyenne Belt, a suture zone that runs through the mountains southwestnortheast. The metamorphosed rocks to the south of the belt were deposited in an ocean basin 2.0 to 1.8 billion years ago and then were intruded by granite plutons and PDĂ&#x20AC;F FRPSOH[HV XQWLO ELOOLRQ \HDUV DJR 7R WKH QRUWK D vastly different set of rocks are preserved with an Archean core overlain by metasedimentary and volcanic rocks 2.5 to 1.7 billion years old. These Archean and younger rocks are over 42,000 feet thick in some areas.

Paleozoic time was dominated by regressions and transgressions of numerous seas over this area of Wyoming. The region was structurally quiescent until the Pennsylvanian when uplift slightly to the west of the current Medicine Bows created the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. Erosion reduced this mountain to chain to low relief highlands into the Permian as oceans returned to the area.

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LOGISTICS AND REGISTRATION Field trip participants will meet at 8:30 am in the grassy area across from the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs. There is a bike shop for rentals at the hotel (http://www.canyonbikes.com/).

On-the-Rocks Trips Parking is Field available at Glenwood Springs Public Works: cross the bridge, take the first right and Continued from page 21 go 2-3 blocks to 101 8th Street. rideof willthe beginGeology at 9 am andof willGlenwood last 3-4 hours.Canyon, See description of the trail above, and Bike The Tour possible shuttle options for those wishing to shorten the 32 mile round-trip. Bring plenty of *DUÂżHOG DQG (DJOH &RXQWLHV &RORUDGR water, sunscreen, and lunch.

Trip Leader: Jonathan L. White, Colorado Geological Survey, jonathan.white@state.co.us TheSeptember trip is limited 30 participants. To sign up, go to the RMAG website: www.rmag.org For Saturday, 15,to2012 logistical questions contact Jeff Glossa at 303.831.3972.

Devonian Chaffee Group, INTRODUCTION the Lower Ordovician This fall marks the Manitou Formation, the 20-year anniversary of Upper Cambrian Dotsero WKH RIĂ&#x20AC;FLDO JUDQG RSHQLQJ Formation and, most of the Glenwood Canyon visually pronounced, the Interstate 70 Project nonconformity where when both eastbound the 500-foot thick cliffs and westbound lanes of Upper Cambrian were opened. Final Sawatch Quar tzite completion of rest areas overlie Precambrian and miscellaneous work metamorphic and granitic was completed in 1994. basement rock (Fig. 1).

Included in the project was the construction of BIKE TOUR D ELNH SHGHVWULDQ SDWK The bike path is on the north bank of approximately 16 miles the Colorado River that long from the Glenwood parallels the Interstate.

Spring Hot Spring Pool to The Colorado River the east trailhead at the formed Glenwood entrance to the canyon.

Canyon by incision into The rise is gradual, the southern flank of beginning at 5,750 feet at the Laramide White the mouth of the canyon River uplift that rises in Glenwood Springs and towards the northwest rising to 6,160 feet to the onto the Flat Tops. While canyon entrance, about some Neogene incision 400 feet in elevation occurred, much of the 1. Oblique aerial view of Glenwood Canyon at the west portal of change. The actual tour downcutting occurred Figure Figure 1. Oblique aerial view of Glenwood Canyon at the west portal will be a round-trip ride the Hanging Lake tunnels during highway construction in 1991. The of the Hanging Lake tunnels during highway construction in 1991. The during Quaternary glacial Hanging Lake Rest Area has not yet been constructed. Red dashed line Hanging Rest Area has not yet been constructed. dashed line of 32 miles with a lunch periods such that, at the marks theLake Cambrian/Precambrian nonconformity betweenRed Proterozoic marks the Cambrian/Precambrian nonconformity between Proterozoic break at the Hanging close of the Pleistocene, metamorphic and igneous rocks and Lower Paleozoic rocks.

Lake Rest Area. metamorphic and igneous rocks and Lower Paleozoic rocks. the canyon was cut over The bike tour will 3,000 vertical feet below the rim. Thousands of vertical include many stops where we will discuss the geologic feet of downcutting have developed magnificent history of the canyon, the rocks exposed, geologic exposures of the entire Early to Middle Paleozoic structure, as well as the geologic complexity of Holocene stratigraphic section of Central Colorado along the VXUĂ&#x20AC;FLDO GHSRVLWV LQ WKH FDQ\RQ WKDW UHTXLUHG H[WHQVLYH canyon walls. Sedimentary formations exposed include geological and geotechnical investigations to design and the Mississippian Leadville Limestone, the Upper Vol. 61, No. 8

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On-the-Rocks Field Trips at the canyon entrance (16 miles). The east trailhead is accessible by a frontage road from Dotsero at Exit 133 on Interstate 70. The trail to Hanging Lake is another option.

This 1.2-mile narrow trail is steep and considered a more GLIĂ&#x20AC;FXOW WUDLO E\ WKH 86)6 DV LW ULVHV RYHU IHHW LQ elevation from the bike path into Dead Horse Canyon.

construct the highway. From the engineering challenges, the need to address sensitive environmental concerns, and the construction effort put into this impressive civil highway project, the Interstate 70 Glenwood Canyon Project won several national and international awards in construction and engineering excellence.

For those participants who do not want to bike the entire round-trip length, there are several options if one wishes to park a second vehicle as a shuttle. Parking is available at the Grizzly Creek Rest Area (5 miles), the Hanging Lake Rest Area (10 miles), the Bair Ranch Rest Area (13 miles), or the east trailhead parking lot

LOGISTICS AND REGISTRATION Field trip participants will meet at 8:30 a.m. in the grassy area across from the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs. There is a bike shop for rentals at the hotel KWWS ZZZ FDQ\RQELNHV FRP 3DUNLQJ LV DYDLODEOH DW Glenwood Springs Public Works: cross the bridge, take WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW ULJKW DQG JR EORFNV WR WK 6WUHHW The ride will begin at 9 a.m. and will last 3-4 hours.

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In the Pipeline August 1, 2012 RMAG Luncheon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;South Dakotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oil and Has Potential and Data Availability through an Interactive Map,â&#x20AC;? Derric L. Iles, South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources. See page 12 for more information.

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September 21, 2012 RMAG Tennis Tournament â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pinehurst Country Club. See page 30 for more information October 2, 2012 Prospect Fair and Technofest â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Colorado Convention Center. See page 28 for more details.

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The Outcrop Needs YOU! We need articles and photos for the Outcrop!

Have you attended a great lecture or read an interesting new geology or energy book? Have you attended D FODVV RU JRQH RQ D ÀHOG WULS WKDW would interest the membership?

Have you learned a new technique or found some great public domain software? Share your research so we can grow together. We are looking for articles about the new water laws, basin modeling on the “cheap,” new geologic trails or programs, legislative concerns, new technology.

Please submit your ideas or articles and photos to: Kristine Peterson k.peterson@laramidegeo.com Cat Campbell Catherine.e.campbell@gmail.com Holly Sell HSell@nobleenergyinc.com Please be sure to include a phone number and make sure our emails are white-listed. We have had a few submissions that we wished to run but we could not reach the submitters by email and had no other contact information.

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