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OUTCROPNewsletter of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
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OUTCROPThe Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
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.
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PRESIDENTMarv [email protected]
PRESIDENT-ELECTJohn Ladd
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SECRETARYStephanie B. Gaswirth
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TREASURERPaul Lillis
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FEATURES
38 RMAG On The Rocks Field Trips
40 Lead Story: New compilation of breccia pipe distribution in northwestern Arizona
DEPARTMENTS
6 RMAG June 2015 Board of Directors Meeting
8 President’s Letter
12 Welcome New RMAG Members
14 In the Pipeline
26 Mineral of the Month: Elbaite
32 RMAG Luncheon Programs: Lane Douglas
34 RMAG Luncheon Programs: Louis J. Mazzullo
45 Calendar
47 Advertiser Index
47 Outcrop Advertising Rates
ASSOCIATION NEWS
2 RMAG 2015 Summit Sponsors
18 Rocky Mountain Section 2015 Awardees
25 3D Seismic Symposium
29 Open Letter to DERL Members – Past and Present
31 RMAG Fall Symposium Core Workshop
33 RMAG Hot Plays Fall Symposium
35 RMAG Rockbusters Ball
44 RMAG Summer Industry Happy Hour
45 RMAG Foundation
46 RMAG Sporting Clay Tournament
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The June meeting of the RMAG Board of Direc-tors was held on June 24, 2015 at 5 p.m. at the home of RMAG 2nd year Counselor Terri Olson. We had a very exciting pre-meeting hail storm and tornado warning that kept many of us stranded in our cars outside of Terri’s home in Denver (see accompany-ing photo).
Treasurer Paul Lillis reported a quiet and un-eventful financial month for RMAG.
The 2015 RMAG golf tournament at Arrowhead Golf Course on June 17 was a fun-filled, success-ful day. Please visit the RMAG blog for a recap of the event, many fun pictures from the beautiful day, and a list of all the winners. Other upcoming RMAG events include the monthly luncheons, On the Rocks fieldtrips in August, September, and October, and the Sporting Clay Tournament in September. Informa-tion for all these activities can be found on the RMAG website. Also, don’t forget the August networking Happy Hour, to be held at Maggiano’s on August 20 from 4-6 p.m.!
Registration for the Fall 2015 Hot Plays Sympo-sium on October 8, 2015 at the Denver City Center Marriott opens in July; be sure to reserve your spot today. On behalf of the RMAG Board, we all hope you are enjoying your summer and we look forward to seeing many of you at our upcoming events.
RMAG JUNE 2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
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Inches of hail and a river flowing down the street in front of Terri’s house at our June RMAG board meeting.
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For the next two months we’ll discuss Passing the Torch in geoscience leadership from two different perspectives. I say we, because I have arranged for a guest, yes a Y.P., to write the September President’s letter. I confess, I’m copying a mentor from 30 years ago, Jim Rogers, who in true O.P. role, delegat-ed his Outcrop column to me for a month.
It’s time for a definition of Y.P., which is “Young Pro-fessional” and O.P., which is “Old Profes-sional.” For this article I’d like to add the M.P.s, “Mature Profession-als” to cover the obvious gap
between the two and a large im-portant component of the lead-ership equation. We’re all aware of the bimodal distribution of professional geologists with a large segment of Y.P.s (20s to mid-30s), a broad range of M.P.s (mid-30s to 60) and a signifi-cant segment of O.P.s approach-ing or over retirement age. This has been a historically repeated trend for Passing the Torch in Petroleum Geoscience.
EXPERIENCE PERSPECTIVE & QUALITY
We’re all geoscientists with a significant amount of educa-tion and training. In the 70’s we would capsulize our profession-al bio as: B.S. and M.S Geology from University of Montana and five year post grad from Texa-co Inc. University for instance. The point is we all start out as Young Professionals. Most of us have had that early company
PRESIDENT’S LETTER
By Marv Brittenham
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Passing the Torch – Y.P.s & O.P.s
Y.P. Marv Brittenham 1978
O I L & G A S C O M PA N YGreat Western
Great Western a rocky mountain operator
O I L & G A S C O M PA N YGreat Western
Great Western a rocky mountain operator
O I L & G A S C O M PA N YGreat Western
Great Western a rocky mountain operator
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training career track as well. The differences in ex-perience lies in the quality of the education and training experiences and the perspective gained from experience.
EXPERIENCE QUALITYThe quality of our geoscience experience is high-
ly dependent on our own choices, which University, which initial employment (training) and what pro-fessional organizations. If you’re a student or a Y.P. you have choices that are very important to your career. Find what you like and dedicate yourself to that end. I’ve found in my career that a key compo-nent of success is adopting mentors who can also be advocates along the way. If you’re a M.P. remember there’s always more to learn!
In a University it can be a professor or a grad stu-dent. For me it was James A. Peterson, the only pe-troleum experienced professor then at U.M. He had been a stratigrapher for Shell; so in Petroleum Geol-ogy we tracked the process of finding and develop-ing Aneth Field in Utah. It was a low tech 60’s ver-sion of the Imperial Barrel contest. I was hooked on Petroleum Geology from that point on! He was also my thesis adviser, followed my career and was a life-long friend and advocate. It was difficult to get a job in 1970 and I have no doubt his mentorship played a big part in landing a job at Texaco and fast tracking through some very exciting jobs as a Y.P.
EXPERIENCE PERSPECTIVEApplied geosciences have changed substantially
recently and continue to change rapidly in response to the shale gale. This isn’t unique! In the 70’s it was sequence stratigraphy, petroleum systems modeling, seismic stratigraphy, etc. The point is, because you’re a Y.P. you bring some new perspective to the table. You can learn a lot in your early career; but you have much to give as well.
In my early experience at Texaco in Denver I learned a lot of fundamental applied geology from some great mentors in the Casper District. When I was 27, I worked with Jim Urlaub on the first Texa-co Atlas of Western U.S. Plays. He was an M.P. with vast knowledge of the Division and I was a Y.P. with
stratigraphic training. I learned early on that I could truly contribute. That led to a position in the first Pathfinders team, where we mapped those regional plays in more detail and ranked them. In that pro-cess I attended my first AAPG Annual Meeting and was intrigued by hydrocarbon generation models presented by Welte and Tissot. I followed up with a conference in Canada and eventually devised a hy-drocarbon basin generation 2d model that, although created by hand on graph paper, looked much like the basin/system generation models in use today. We incorporated those models into our Pathfinding ef-forts which was recognized by the corporate office. They offered to put me on world-wide tour to pres-ent the methodology. Fate intervened when the Divi-sion management argued I should be on the manage-ment track, so at the ripe age of 28 as a Y.P. I became the Casper District Geologist.
Chuck Spencer was one of the geologists who mentored me while at Texaco. He was also a Dis-trict Geologist; but with 15 years more experience. So, I could depend on him for much needed advice! He and Ben Law were, even then, developing their theories on Basin Center Gas. Two years ago at the Rockbusters Ball he was honored and we sat at the
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John Snyder and Marv Brittenham 1982 Absaroka/Bighorn portable seismic
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table with him. He took me aside, congratulated me on my career and said “in my view your most influen-tial contribution at Texaco was the petroleum systems model.” I replied that my learning from that experi-ence was that young geologists have much to contribute and that a big part of my career success is that I try to listen and learn.
One of my career success ex-periences was associating with en-gineers as mentors, starting with John Snyder with the founding of SOCO in the late 70’s. In fact my best successes came working for and with engineers in multi-dis-cipline team environments. I also gained my early knowledge of land management from the V.P. Land at Snyder Oil, Maynard Robertson. My advice to geolo-gists is to keep an open mind and seek out mentors from other professions.
Because of their historical perspective you’ll find that one attribute of O.Ps is story-telling, as I’m sure you can tell by the content of this O.P. centric article. But the message here is – geologists at any career stage can contribute significantly, each in their own way. All are important as we pass the torch to the new generation.
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this month. In fact, I was given the last-minute
opportunity for a late July update as things have changed!
WTI spot price had been stable for a month in June; around $60. Politics often override fundamen-tals and the announcement of the potential for an Iran sanctions lift has sent prices down where WTI is $50 and futures are in the $40s! Where are we head-ed? My headlights don’t reach that far.
Don’t miss the networking opportunity the 20th this month at Maggianno’s. Get there early for a free drink! Check the RMAG.org website for details. I promise not to tell stories (unless provoked)!
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Gabriel Aguilar is a Geologist at Emerald
Oil Inc. in Denver, CO.
Brad Barrie is a Manager of Business Development
at Sinopec Canada in Calgary, AB.
Daniel Bassett is a Geologist at SM Energy
in Denver, CO.
Ron Broadhead lives in Socorro, NM.
Errin Bryner is a Business Development
Manager at DESCO Environmental Consultants in Magnolia, TX.
John Casiano works at Abraxas in San Antonio, TX.
Andrew Christiano is a student at Fort Hays State
University in Hays, KS.
Hang Deng is a Graduate Research
Assistant at Colorado School of Mines in Austin, TX.
Lester Garrett lives in Highlands Ranch, CO.
WELCOME NEW RMAG MEMBERS!
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At Whiting Petroleum, our teams are dedicated to achieving and surpassing our record results. Our hydraulic fracturing advancements, state of the art geoscience lab and expertise in exploration have made us the number one producer in North Dakota.
From shale plays to CO2 floods, Whiting teams are focused on record results to thrive at current price levels.
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A Proud Sponsor of the Rocky Mountain
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1700 Broadway | Suite 2300 | Denver, Colorado 80290-2300 Phone: 303.837.1661 | Fax 303.851.4923
At Whiting Petroleum, our teams are dedicated to achieving and surpassing our record results. Our hydraulic fracturing advancements, state of the art geoscience lab and expertise in exploration have made us the number one producer in North Dakota.
From shale plays to CO2 floods, Whiting teams are focused on record results to thrive at current price levels.
Whiting: A Bigger and Better TeamVisit us at www.Whiting.com
A Proud Sponsor of the Rocky Mountain
Association of Geologists
1700 Broadway | Suite 2300 | Denver, Colorado 80290-2300 Phone: 303.837.1661 | Fax 303.851.4923
At Whiting Petroleum, our teams are dedicated to achieving and surpassing our record results. Our hydraulic fracturing advancements, state of the art geoscience lab and expertise in exploration have made us the number one producer in North Dakota.
From shale plays to CO2 floods, Whiting teams are focused on record results to thrive at current price levels.
Whiting: A Bigger and Better TeamVisit us at www.Whiting.com
A Proud Sponsor of the Rocky Mountain
Association of Geologists
1700 Broadway | Suite 2300 | Denver, Colorado 80290-2300 Phone: 303.837.1661 | Fax 303.851.4923
At Whiting Petroleum, our teams are dedicated to achieving and surpassing our record results. Our hydraulic fracturing advancements, state of the art geoscience lab and expertise in exploration have made us the number one producer in North Dakota.
From shale plays to CO2 floods, Whiting teams are focused on record results to thrive at current price levels.
Whiting: A Bigger and Better TeamVisit us at www.Whiting.com
A Proud Sponsor of the Rocky Mountain
Association of Geologists
1700 Broadway | Suite 2300 | Denver, Colorado 80290-2300 Phone: 303.837.1661 | Fax 303.851.4923
At Whiting Petroleum, our teams are dedicated to achieving and surpassing our record results. Our hydraulic fracturing advancements, state of the art geoscience lab and expertise in exploration have made us the number one producer in North Dakota.
From shale plays to CO2 floods, Whiting teams are focused on record results to thrive at current price levels.
Whiting: A Bigger and Better TeamVisit us at www.Whiting.com
A Proud Sponsor of the Rocky Mountain
Association of Geologists
1700 Broadway | Suite 2300 | Denver, Colorado 80290-2300 Phone: 303.837.1661 | Fax 303.851.4923
At Whiting Petroleum, our teams are dedicated to achieving and surpassing our record results. Our hydraulic fracturing advancements, state of the art geoscience lab and expertise in exploration have made us the number one producer in North Dakota.
From shale plays to CO2 floods, Whiting teams are focused on record results to thrive at current price levels.
Whiting: A Bigger and Better TeamVisit us at www.Whiting.com
A Proud Sponsor of the Rocky Mountain
Association of Geologists
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IN THE PIPELINE
AUGUST 5, 2015
RMAG Luncheon.Speaker Lane Douglas. “The Science of Land for the Geologist.” Location: Maggiano’s Little Italy, Downtown Denver.
AUGUST 6-7, 2015
SPE Annual Golf Tournament.
The Ridge at Castle Pines North, CO.
AUGUST 8, 2015
RMAG On the Rocks Field Trip.
South Park.
AUGUST 10-12, 2015
PTTC Short Course. Instructor: Mike Vincent.
“Optimizing Fracs (and Refracs!) In a Low Price Environment.” Location: CSM, Golden, CO.
AUGUST 11-12, 2015
RPSEA Onshore Technology Workshop & Field Trip.
Interactive Workshop Focusing on Environmental Issues Facing Shale Gas Developers in the Rocky Mountain Region. Denver, CO. Register at www.rpsea.org
AUGUST 19, 2015
PTTC Rockies Short Course. “Beyond Resistivity.” Location: CSM, Golden, CO
AUGUST 19-21, 2015
NAPE Summer. Houston, TX.
AUGUST 20, 2015
RMAG Summer Industry Happy Hour.
AUGUST 26, 2015
Oilfield Christian Fellowship.
For reservations, RSVP to OCF-DenverChapter@ pxd.com or 303-675-2602.
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PTTC Presents: One-Day Workshops to Improve Your Skills
Beyond Resistivity Wednesday, August 19, 2015, 8:30 am – 5 pm, Colorado School of Mines, Ben Parker Student Center, Berthoud Hall 243 Fee: $250, includes food at breaks, class notes, and PDH certificate Instructor: Dr. Dan Krygowski, Discovery Group The course assumes a basic understanding of common openhole logging measurements and their interpretation, and uses that working knowledge to consider the determination of formation fluid content through the equations which describe water saturation and water content (Archie’s equation and bulk volume water). The course illustrates how graphical methods that we once used to quickly determine fluid saturation and moveability (Pickett, Hingle, and Buckles plots) can now be used to determine calculation parameters for the equations, leaving the arithmetic to the hardware while the user concentrates on the interpretation of the data. Exercises provide the means to put the information shared here into practice. Reservoir Engineering for Petroleum Professionals Wednesday, September 9, 2015, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Colorado School of Mines, Ben Parker Student Center, Ballroom A Fee: $250, includes food at breaks, workbook, and PDH certificate. Instructor: Dr. Luis Zerpa, PhD. Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines This one day short course presents an overview of the fundamental concepts used in petroleum reservoir engineering. Starting with the definition and classification of petroleum reservoirs, and with the presentation of fundamental rock and fluid properties, the instructor will guide the participants in the application of engineering methods for estimation of initial fluid distribution in a reservoir and the estimation of initial volume of hydrocarbons in place. Additionally, this short course will include a brief introduction to unconventional reservoirs, and the application of engineering methods to the estimation of reserves of unconventional reservoirs. At the conclusion of the class participants will:
• Define petroleum reservoirs (conventionals and unconventionals). • Classify petroleum reservoirs (conventionals and unconventionals). • Identify reservoir primary drive mechanisms. • Apply volumetric method for estimation of reserves in petroleum reservoirs. • Apply material balance method for estimation of reserves in petroleum reservoirs. • Classify petroleum resources using up to date definition systems (SPE PRMS). • Apply material balance methods to estimate reservoir performance and recovery. • Apply engineering methods to estimate water influx from aquifer in natural water drive petroleum
reservoirs. • Apply decline curve analysis to estimate reservoir performance and recovery. • Apply reservoir engineering methods to unconventional reservoirs.
Decline Curve Analysis and Economics – A Basic Introduction Wednesday, September 23, 2015, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Colorado School of Mines, Ben Parker Student Center, Ballroom C Fee: $250, includes food at breaks, workbook, and PDH certificate. Instructor: Dr. L. Peter Galusky, Jr. P.E. Principal Environmental Eng. Texerra LLC. This one-day course will provide an overview and primer on the use of decline curve forecasting of oil and gas production and economics. The course may be useful to engineering and economic professionals needing a hands-on, practical understanding of decline curve analysis to make them more effective users of petroleum economics software. Following a review of basic mathematics (tailored to class needs), Microsoft Excel will be used to “build” decline curve models and to do mathematical and economic computations. Expected course outcomes include an understanding of the mathematical concepts of decline curve analysis and the use of these methods in forecasting oil and gas production and economics. This is a beginning-level course for entry-level professionals and those new to decline curve analysis. Students are encouraged (but not required) to bring laptop computers to class.
Class Descriptions and Register Online: www.pttcrockies.org
For more information, contact Mary Carr, 303.273.3107, [email protected]
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Thomas Goldman is a student at Metro State University in Denver, CO.
Larry Goolsby lives in Lakewood, CO.
Joseph Hartman is a Professor at University of North
Dakota in Grand Forks, ND.
Michael Harty is a student at Colorado School
of Mines in Golden, CO.
Mark Holland works at Cimarex Energy
Co in Evergreen, CO.
David Katz is a Sr. Petrographer/Sedimentologist at Whiting Petroleum Corp, Whiting
Oil and Gas in Denver, CO.
Todd Knause is a Principal Scientist at Stanley
Consultants in Centennial, CO.
David Lipson works at Hydro Science
Engineering in Arvada, CO.
James Macfarlane works at Minard Run Oil
Company in Bradford, PA.
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WELCOME NEW RMAG MEMBERS!
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WELCOME NEW RMAG MEMBERS!
Paul MacKay lives in Calgary, AB.
Raymundo Martinez works at Devon Energy in
Oklahoma City, OK.
Ole Martinsen Works at Statoil in Fana, Norway.
Dallam Masterson works at ConocoPhillips
in Houston, TX.
Timothy McCutcheon works at Red Peak Resources
in Casper, WY.
Richard Newhart is a VP-Exploration in Denver, CO.
Philip Persson is a student at Colorado School
of Mines in Denver, CO.
Rose Pettiette works at Sklar Exploration
in Boulder, CO.
Anna Phelps is a student at The University of Montana in Missoula, MT.
Thomas Rentkiewicz lives in Denver, CO.
Allison Richards is a student at Metro State
University in Denver, .
Kirsten Salter is a Sales Account Executive at
DigitalGlobe in Westminster, CO.
Dawn Snyder is a Wellsite Manager, Americas at Chemostrat in Houston, TX.
Chad Taylor lives in Golden, CO.
Jesse Taylor works at Remington in Loveland, CO.
Kevin Thompson works at DigitalGlobe
Company in Longmont, CO.
Michael Waechter is a Geologist at Gustavson Associates in Boulder, CO.
Zachary Wallace is a Senior Geologist at
ConocoPhillips in Houston, TX.
Stephen Whitney is a Sr Geophysical Advisor
at Vector Seismic Data Processing in Parker, CO.
John Zupanic is a student at University of Montana in Mizzoula, MT.
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The Rocky Mountain Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (RMS-AAPG or Section) is a non-profit organization set up to sup-port the 11 AAPG-affiliated societies in the Rocky Mountain area. The Section is headed by five Direc-tors who this past year were: Sue Cluff (RMAG), Pres-ident; Cat Campbell (RMAG), President-elect; Andy Hennes (MGA), Secretary-Treasurer; Julia Lemaster (WGA), Secretary/Treasurer-elect; and Elmo Brown (RMAG), Past President. At the end of the AAPG ACE meeting, Elmo Brown finished his five year term and all of the other Directors rotated up a posi-tion. Lynn George (WGA) will be the new Secretary/Treasurer-elect.
The Section’s main responsibility is to hold an annual meeting, hosted by one or more affiliate soci-eties, where topics of regional interest are present-ed. Proceeds from this meeting are divided among the affiliated societies and the Section. For example,
the host society earned 40% of the net proceeds and each non-hosting society in the Section received over $2000 from the 2014 meeting held in Denver. Even though no meetings are held in years when the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition is held within the Section, this year the Board of Directors approved a $1000 payment to each affiliated society in lieu of having a meeting. And speaking of meet-ings, the next annual meeting of the RMS-AAPG is scheduled for October 2-5, 2016 in Las Vegas, Ne-vada. This will be the largest meeting we have ever had since the Pacific Section will be co-hosting bring-ing in geoscientists from California to Alaska to add to our Rocky Mountain contingent. Be sure to mark your calendars!
And finally, as it does every year, the RMS-AAPG has selected and honored certain members of the af-filiated societies for their continued contributions to the profession. This year, the awards were present-ed at the Night at the Zoo, a special event held on the night of June 2nd sponsored by the RMAG and associ-ated with the annual convention of the AAPG. Recip-ients included people from North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. The RMS-AAPG Board of Direc-tors would like to thank the RMS-AAPG Foundation for not only financing these awards but also for sup-porting the local affiliates through their funding sup-port of special projects, AAPG student societies and AAPG distinguished lecturers.
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Rocky Mountain Section 2015 Awardees
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SECTION 2015 AWARDEES
Presented at the Night at the Zoo Event, AAPG ACE
Kestrel Geoscience, LLCLittleton, CO USA
Phone: (303) 933-5805 Cell: (720) 375-3015
[email protected] kestrelgeoscience.com
Thomas E. Hoak, Ph.D.Consulting Geoscientist
Structural GeologySeismic InterpretationMagnetic and Gravity InterpretationBasin Analysis and RestorationRegional Desk StudiesIntegrated ExplorationProspect GenerationPresentation Graphics
KESTR
EL GEOSCIENCE, LLC
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rocky Mountain section 2015 awardees
2014 RMS-AAPG TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Jacqueline D. Bath (Thunder Ridge High School, Highlands Ranch, CO)
The Teacher of the Year Award goes to a K-12 educator who excels in teaching natu-ral resources in the earth sciences. The win-ner this year is Jacqueline D. (Jackie) Bath; a ninth grade earth environmental science and a 10th-12th grade geology instructor at Thunder Ridge High School in Highlands Ranch, Colora-do. Having a geology background with experi-ence in the oil and gas industry, Mrs. Bath has made her teaching of natural resources rele-vant through innovative teaching techniques combined with actual knowledge of what the resources are, what they are used for and how they are exploited. By bringing in profession-als from industry, for example to run “The Oil
Game” simulation, she allows interaction be-tween students and people who actually make a living in the natural resource arena. After be-ing selected for this award, Mrs. Bath moved on to be a nominee for the AAPG national Teach-er of the Year Award which she won and was awarded at the All-Convention luncheon at this year’s convention. The RMS-AAPG is pleased to have had half of all of the national AAPG win-ners come from the section in the last 14 years. This is possible only because the local affiliated societies actively search for, select and provide highly qualified nominees from their areas; not only for this award but for all of the other awards listed below.
2015 RMS-AAPG OUTSTANDING YOUNG PROFESSIONAL AWARD
Kassandra L. Sendziak (Anadarko Petroleum Company)
The Outstanding Young Pro-fessional Award is presented to a person with less than five years of experience who has made signif-icant contributions to the indus-try through volunteering to AAPG, RMS-AAPG or RMS-AAPG affiliated society or by scientific achievement including publication, presentation, or other contributions to geology. This year, the first year this award has been presented, the awardee is Kassandra L. (Kassi) Sendziak, a geologist employed at Anadarko Petroleum in Denver. It has been noted that Ms. Sendziak is a take charge type of person that gets the job done, both at work and in her volunteering. She was selected for this award in recognition of her presentations at several AAPG ACE meetings in addition to her service to the AAPG and the RMS-AAPG by serving on organizing committees for the annual meetings.
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2015 RMS-AAPG DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
Dr. Steven Schamel (GEOX Consulting, Inc.)This award recognizes members who have
distinguished themselves in singular and ben-eficial long-term service to the Rocky Moun-tain Section AAPG. Dr. Steven Schamel epito-mizes what service is all about. He is presently ending his term as chair of the AAPG’s Sections Committee where he instituted a much better communication system which has lead to bet-ter collaboration between and improvement of the domestic sections within AAPG, including the Rocky Mountain Section. In addition to this AAPG position, he also chairs the Energy Miner-als Division’s Oil Sands Committee. Prior to this particular volunteering stint, Dr. Schamel has served the Rocky Mountain Section and the pro-fession in numerous capacities including serving as the President of the RMS-AAPG in 2006 2007. While in that position, he formalized numerous initiatives which have shaped the Section in a way where it is now more organized and has more continuity from year to year. In addition to his contributions to the AAPG and to the Section, Dr. Schamel was President of the Utah Geological Association from 2010 - 2011 and Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Salt Lake Petroleum Section from 2001 - 2002. As history shows, no matter the entity Dr. Scha-mel serves, he always strives to form a collab-oration of stakeholders with an eye to increase the value of the association to its members.
2015 RMS-AAPG JOHN D. HAUN LANDMARK PUBLICATION AWARD
Leigh C. Price (deceased) and Julie A. LeFever (North Dakota Geological Survey)
1992, Does Bakken horizontal drilling imply a huge oil-reservoir base in fractured shales?, in J. W. Schmoker, E. B. Coalson, and C. A. Brown, eds., Geolog-ical Studies Relevant to Horizontal Drilling: Examples from Western North America: Denver, Colorado, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p. 199-214.
This award, newly named after Dr. John D. Haun, longtime Rocky Mountain geologist and past president of the AAPG and AIPG, recogniz-es the authors or editors of a book, guidebook or other publication that over the past decade has had exceptional influence on developing new hydrocarbon plays or deeper understand-ing of fundamental geology within the Rocky Mountain region. As noted in the nomination, this article is “an exceptionally data-rich and well-reasoned paper published a decade before the shale gas and shale oil ‘boom’ started. Price and LeFever make the case for the exceptional-ly large, but at that time untested, oil potential of the Bakken Formation in the Williston Basin. With uncanny accuracy, they predict the essen-tial characteristics of the Bakken shale oil play and the utility of horizontal wells. It took a full decade for fracture completion technology in horizontal wells to be developed and tested in the formation, thereby proving their prediction. To support their case, the authors draw com-parison of the Bakken Formation with other
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self-sourced, fractured shale reservoirs that at the time were producing oil commer-cially. Now it is the Bakken Shale that is the industry gold-standard, the model for shale resource play explora-tion globally.”
2015 ROBERT J. WEIMER LIFETIME CONTRIBUTIONS AWARD
Donald F. Cardinal (Casper Log Library)
This award, the Section’s highest honor named after Dr. Robert J. Weimer, profes-sor emeritus from the Colorado School of Mines, is presented in
recognition of exceptional life-time contributions to the prac-tice of the geosciences and/or petroleum geology in the region of the Rocky Mountains. Donald F. Cardinal, co-manager of the non-profit Casper Log Library, was selected for this award for his 50-plus years of service to the profession of petroleum ge-ology. Mr. Cardinal has helped to develop many young explo-ration geologists in the Casper area primarily though his asso-ciation with the Wyoming Geo-logical Association (WGA). As noted by one long-time mem-ber, he has “had a hand in almost everything since I moved here in 1974.” Service has included organizing field trips, running
symposia, authoring numerous papers (more than 40), and ed-iting several guidebooks. One such endeavor was the collabo-rative development of a strati-graphic model for the Minnelusa and Leo Formations published in both a WGA guidebook and in the AAPG Bulletin. He also was a lead geologist on the WGA strati-graphic committee which pub-lished the 2014 Wyoming Strati-graphic Nomenclature Chart with over 1300 pages of data. Another important contribution was his water data compilation published in 1984: Water Resis-tivities: Wyoming and a Portion of South Dakota. This publica-tion, containing over 6500 val-ues, remains one of the primary sources of Rw data in the area.
And his contributions do not stop there. As an exploration ge-ologist, Mr. Cardinal has discov-ered or participated in numer-ous discoveries in Wyoming, South Dakota and Colorado. A quote from another WGA mem-ber called him the “quintessen-tial exploration geologist.”
The RMS-AAPG would like to thank the honorees for all of their service to their profession and community and to all of the other volunteers and sponsors who make the RMS-AAPG one of the most robust and produc-tive sections in the AAPG. For more information about the RM-SAAPG, please visit our website at www.aapgrms.org.
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By Cheryl Fountain
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This specimen of Elbaite was found in San Diego, California in the Himalaya Mine. (Photo by Ron Wolf, courtesy of Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum).
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CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: Na(Li,Al)3Al6B3Si6O27(OH,F)4 It is an end member of Tourmaline (Roberts, 1974).
COLOR: Green, blue, red and yel-low, and more rarely white and clear. It often forms the gradation of colors (Robers, 1974) that can be seen in the pictured specimen.
STREAK: No color
LUSTER: Vitreous
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Hexagonal
CRYSTAL HABIT: The mineral can most commonly forms in pris-matic crystals and can have a number of sides; three, six and nine being the most common. The crystals can be short or long and often are striated. Less com-monly the mineral is in the form of thin tablets (Roberts, 1974).
MineraL oF tHe MontH: eLBaite
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SPECIFIC GRAVITY: 3.03-3.1
HARDNESS: 7
FRACTURE: Uneven to conchoidal and brittle (Roberts, 1974).
FORMATION: Elbaite is formed al-most exclusively in pegmatites, it commonly occurs with quartz, lepidolite and feldspar (Rob-erts, 1974).
LOCATIONS: California, Maine, Connecticut, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Gunnison County in Colorado. The mineral is also found outside of the Unit-ed States in Canada, Brazil, Ger-many, Switzerland, Nepal, South West Africa and Madagascar (Roberts, 1974).
FUN FACT: Elbaite is named after the island Elba (off the coast of west Italy) which is where it was first found (Our Amazing Trea-sures, 2007).
References
OUR AMAZING TREASURES: Elbaite. (2007, May 2). Retrieved July 3, 2015.
Roberts, W., & Rapp, G. (1974). En-cyclopedia of minerals. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
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Thirty-two years ago, in the critical 1980s downturn in our in-dustry, a group of geologists, all RMAG members, met to discuss the possibility and necessity of starting a geological library. Some of those geologists are no longer with us, some are retired, and oth-ers are still active in the industry.
They and other RMAG mem-bers and many volunteers worked countless hours to accomplish all the details necessary to start a non-profit company: the filing and registering of a non-profit 501(c)
(3) Colorado Corporation, solic-iting funds for start-up expenses, contacting individuals and com-panies for data donations, rent-ing storage units, contacting Gate City Moving, looking for appropri-ate office space, and hiring experi-enced personnel.
And the Denver Earth Re-sources Library was born. I have been manager and executive di-rector of the library for 30 years; I have seen us go through all kinds of challenges and we have always come through stronger
than before. Call me a dinosaur if you wish
(I started working for Shell Oil in 1959), but I remember the day in this industry when ideas were mapped out on a napkin at lunch, and details were sealed with a hand shake. I know those days are gone forever, but this library was founded on that premise. We have been the recipient of gifts of data, money, furniture and fixtures, ideas, moral support, volunteers, and memberships. We have had
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individuals and companies use us, encourage us, and praise us for a job well done.
Now that we are repeating the 1980s, we are losing members – members that have carried mem-berships with us for as long as the 30 years we have been in business. Friends and associates who we’ve known and worked with have re-grettably had to cancel their mem-berships. I have full appreciation for everyone’s financial concerns and hardships because, of course, the li-brary is experiencing the same thing, and we share your struggle.
I want to take this opportuni-ty to thank you, each and every one of you, for all your support over the years. I realize that you have to cut costs just as the library has had to do, and I hope that somehow we can all get through this downtown together. I wish I could thank each of you per-sonally; but I hope this letter reaches most of you; and I hope you will soon be in a position to re-new your mem-bership in the library. To those of you who plan to and can retain your association with us, I promise we will continue to serve you as we have served you in the past.
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CoresThree Forks: Stephan Nordeng, University of North Dakota, Three Forks
Green River: Steve Sonnenberg, Colorado School of Mines
Codell: Rob Sterling, Cirque Resources
Niobrara Condensate: Jim Emme and Chip Oaks, Endeavor Corp.
Brown Dense Region: Sam Scott, Whiting
Michigan Basin: David Katz, Whiting
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RMAG LUNCHEON PROGRAMS
Speaker: Lane Douglas — August 5, 2015
Lane’s presentation on the use of The Science of Land, will give us an introduction to the 12 skill ar-eas of land, from real property law to ethics. We shall also learn about the 12 core functions of land, from the scout to the land promoter selling a deal. And fi-nally we shall learn the 12 Products of Land, from
the area check to the saleable deal. The class shall be an interactive class which is
designed to increase retention and make the class more entertaining. It shall use an imagined land de-cision process for every task that occurs between the geologist and the engineer.
The Science of Land for the GeologistBy Lane Douglas, CPL
William “Lane” Douglas III is the CEO/Founder of Fidelity Land, LLC which he started in January 2008. Fidelity Land is a full service land personnel and land property brokerage firm that has employed numerous contract Landmen; served many clients and has given Lane a vehicle to achieve one of his major goals in life. That is, to leave a legacy of knowledge, by teaching and acting as mentor to countless Landmen. Lane was born in Lafayette, Louisiana after his parents moved there when his dad took a job as a District Landman. Lane attended the New Mexico Military Institute through High School and Junior College; returning to his roots at the University of Louisiana to earn his degree in Petroleum Land Management. His career spans more than 29 years covering 17 states, working for various major and independent oil & gas companies. He has also served his country for 22 years in the United States Army Reserve and has retired as a Major, having served in the first Desert Storm Operation. (Thank you for your service) Lane has also obtained his real estate license for Colorado and has managed to use those skills to better serve his clients and to further his knowledge of oil & gas land work. Lane still considers being married 26 years with four children and two grandkids his greatest accomplishment.
Lane is happy to be of service to this organization and is available after his talk for conversations about doing business together.Lane’s presentation on the use of The Science of Land, will give us an introduction to the 12 skill areas of land, from real property
law to ethics. We shall also learn about the 12 core functions of land, from the scout to the land promoter selling a deal. And finally we shall learn the 12 Products of Land, from the area check to the saleable deal. The class shall be an interactive class which is designed to increase retention and make the class more entertaining. It shall use an imagined land decision process for every task that occurs between the geologist and the engineer.
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With all the unconventional activity occurring across the globe, it is time to review what is driving the technical quality of the “Hot Plays” in the greater Rocky Mountain region. Please mark your calendars for what is sure to be the “HOTTEST” event of the Fall 2015 Technical Season. Geological, Geophysical, Geochemical, Petrophysical, and Structural technical drivers will be presented, describing what the RMAG membership has determined to be the Hottest Plays in the Rocky Mountains.
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Kick Off Speakers: Mark Sonnenfeld and Lyn Canter - WhitingHow mobile is your total oil saturation? SARA analysis implications for bitumen viscosity and UV fluorescence in Niobrara Marl and Bakken Shale, supported by FIB-SEM observations of kerogen, bitumen, and residual oil saturations within Niobrara Marls and Chalks.
Keynote Speaker: David Hill - EncanaStanding Tall in North America
Speaker: Jim Emme - Endeavour International Corp.Piceance Basin Rim Niobrara Play, NW Colorado Liquids-Rich Pot-O'-Gold or Blarney Stone?
Speaker: Andrew Heger - Colorado School of MinesStratigraphic Variability and Reservoir Characterization of the Turner Sandstone, Powder River Basin
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Speaker: John Roesink - Jagged Peak EnergyEvolution of the Horizontal Niobrara Play in the Greater DJ Basin - Integrating Geoscience, Well Design, and Completions for Optimum Field Development
Speaker: Sam Scott - Whiting Petroleum Corp.The Lower Smackover Brown Dense Play: What’s Hot and What’s Not
Speaker: Rob Sterling - Cirque ResourcesA Review of the Northern DJ Oil Resource Play
Speaker: Michael Tischer - Consulting GeologistWhat makes a play hot? The Tectonic Perspective.
Speaker: Mi Zhou - SchlumbergerHigh resolution (near-well) structural analysis of lateral & vertical data, an integrated workflow – example from the Teapot Sandstone, Powder River Basin
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RMAG LUNCHEON PROGRAMS
Speaker: Louis J. Mazzullo — September 2, 2015
Activity in the oil patch over the last decade has focused more on the unconventional shale gas, shale oil, and other “resource”-type plays, to vary-ing success, than on convention-al, lower cost exploration and development. Improved frack technology, large shale resourc-es, and higher oil prices had driven the push to develop these resources, and it paid off in pro-viding our country with more
energy independence. The eco-nomics of many of these plays, however, even during the period of high oil prices, were, in places, marginal to uneconomic, with notable exceptions. Part of the problem with developing eco-nomic resource plays is a lack of understanding of the geolo-gy and long-term decline char-acteristics of those reservoirs, as many of them had not been producing long enough to get
a good sense of their projected performance. Many of the plays are statistically, rather than sci-entifically driven. The push to develop the unconventionals of-ten created a void in the search for more proven, convention-al reservoirs, drove up leasing costs wherever it was perceived there was even proximity to a hot play, and severely impaired the ability of smaller players to
Developing Conventional Reservoirs UnconventionallyBy Louis J. Mazzullo, CPG, RG
Petroleum Geological Advisor, Morrison, Colorado
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Louis J. Mazzullo: President, Mazzullo Energy Corp., Midland, TX and Denver, Colorado area (2008-14)Geological Advisory Services to the Oil & Gas Industry
Previously Senior Exploration Geologist, Brigham Oil & Gas (2007-2008) and Mediterranean Resources (both Austin, TX) (2006-2007); Petroleum Geological Consultant, Albuquerque, NM (1996-2006); Project Manager, GCL Environmental, Albuquerque, NM (1992-96); Geological Consultant, Midland, TX (1982-86; 1988-92); Geological Manager, Nearburg Producing Company, Midland, Texas (1986-88); Uranium Exploration & Development geologist and Project Manager, Phillips Petroleum Co. Albuquerque, NM
(1979-1981); and Chief Geologist, Energy Resources Corp. Blanding, Utah (Uranium exploration and development) (1976-79).
• Brooklyn College, CUNY - BS Cum Laude with Honors, Geology 1973
• State University NY, Stony Brook- MS Earth & Space Sciences, 1975
• University of Chicago- MS Geophysical Sciences, 1976
• Rocky Mountain Section AAPG- President, 1999-2000
• Permian Basin Section-SEPM 1988-89, President
• Various committees and field trip planning
• West Texas Geological Society Member 1981- present
• Various committees
• Dedicated Service Award, 1992-93• AAPG Member 1977- present• Texas Professional Geologist #11358• Wyoming Registered Geologist #PG-974• Arizona Registered Geologist #26768• AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist
#4693• Levorsen Award Recipient, 1990 &
1999, Southwest Section AAPG• Cheney Science Award, 2005-
Southwest Section AAPG• Best Speaker Award, West Texas
Geological Society 2011 Fall Symposium
Author of many papers and presentations on carbonate and clastic petroleum and uranium reservoirs in the Permian, Williston, and San Juan Basins.
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R.L., and Allen, J., 2003, Fallen Arches: Dispelling Myths Concerning Cambrian and Ordovician Paleogeography of the Rocky Mountain Region: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, no. 6, p. 695–713
Siddoway, C., Myrow, P., and Fitz-Díaz, E., 2013, Strata, Structures, and Enduring Enigmas: A 125th Anniversary Appraisal of Colorado Springs Geology, in Abbott, L.D., and Hancock, G.S., eds., Classic Concepts and New Directions: Exploring 125 Years of GSA Discoveries in the Rocky Mountain Region: Geological Society of America Field Guide 33, p. 331–356.
Siddoway, C, Shatford, S. and Contreras, A. A. 2013, ARMO Reactivation of Cambrian-Ordovician or Older Structures: Detrital Zircon Evidence from “Structureless” Sandstones of the Souther Front Range in Colorado Springs, GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 45, No.7, p.887. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013AM/webprogram/Paper226741.html
Siddoway, C. S. and G. E. Gehrels, 2014a, Basement-hosted sandstone injectites of Colorado: A Vestige of the Neoproterozoic Revealed Through Detrital Zircon Provenance Analysis, Lithosphere, doi:10.1130/L390.1
Siddoway, C. S. and G. E. Gehrels, 2014b, Cryogenian Sandstones in Colorado: A New Terrestrial Record for Laurentia (Rodinia) Revealed Through Detrital Zircon Provenance Analysis, GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 46, No. 6, p.763, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014AM/webprogram/Paper246788.html.
Sterne, E.J., 2006, Stacked, “Evolved” Triangle Zones along the Southeastern Flank of the Colorado Front Range: The Mountain Geologist, v. 43, p. 65–92.
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be involved with conventional reservoirs in or out ac-tive resource/shale play areas.
Development of conventional reservoirs in the United States had taken a back seat to the uncon-ventional and resource plays, even though many opportunities always existed for new field, infill, and step-out development in old fields. As we are, at least temporarily, entrenched in another cycle of depressed oil prices, the need to hunker down with real science to develop lower-(finding) cost reserves is of paramount concern to many companies that are heavily invested in higher-cost shale and resource plays, and to smaller players who may now be able to have the breathing room they need to acquire acreage where they were previously pre-empted be-cause of artificially inflated leasing costs brought on by shale plays. Now, more than ever, as vendor prices come down commensurate with oil prices, modern drilling and completion technologies can be applied
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An understanding of reservoir development and geometry is essential to the success of such plays, and so requires that we get back to the sci-ence of exploration, if we have the resources to work through the present downturn. Examples of such potential plays are presented for the Morrow of the Permian and Denver Basins, Cisco-Canyon of the Permian Basin, and the Madison of the Willis-ton Basin.
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Leader: Christopher Russell, Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
Thirteen lucky participants braved cool temperatures with intermittent rain and graupel to explore the geohazards along one of Colorado’s most notorious highways, State Highway 133. Leader Christopher Russell
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Landslide at MP 40.5 just west of McClure Pass. Failure of asphalt (note arcuate, displaced cracks) requires constant maintenance. Christopher Russell described a method of stabilizing the slide which will utilize a line of piles anchored in bedrock and tied back with braces into the slope. Photo by Vince Matthews.
Ned Sterne and Bob Raynolds will lead a traverse across the Front Range from DIA to State Bridge. Attendees will have an opportunity to ponder the Arsenal well and a prestack depth migration of the Rocky Flats seismic line. From there, the group will cross the Front Range and dive into the thrust detachments of the Brec-cia Spoon Syncline where participants will begin to get a sense of what the guts of the range looked like where they haven’t been stripped to the basement. Upon exiting the Laramide Front Range at the Williams Range Thrust, the group can contemplate post-Laramide, Miocene-age thrusting. Fi-nally, the trip will dive off the Ancestral Rockies-age Front Rangia Uplift and land in the Eagle Basin to savor the Paleozo-ic section of the Central Colorado Trough. Attendees are asked to bring their favorite conceptual baggage and see if the group can find ways to jettison some of the most superfluous burdens.
This promises to be a lively and thought-provoking day! Attendees will be challenged to create a line of cross section through the various stops and there will no doubt be animated discussions and even disagreements along the way. But this trip promises to provide ideas, con-cepts, and observations that will stimu-late and educate!
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Cretaceous Mesa Verde Formation near the Paonia Reservoir dam. A short distance east of this spot, large, perpetual rock falls have dictated extensive rock-spalling efforts (including blasting), installation of anchored mesh, and catchment trenching along the base of the roadcut. This work is underway and will continue throughout the summer. Photo by Sandra Mark.
Tertiary Wasatch Formation contains the Muddy Creek Landslide complex (shown in the background) during an especially wet interval on the trip. Christopher Russell stated that there are two kinds of landslides; ones that you can fix, and ones that you name. Muddy Creek is the latter sort. Photo by Sandra Mark.
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New compilation of breccia pipe distribution in northwestern Arizona
Credit: Arizona Geological Survey
Editors Note: I came across the Arizona Geological Survey’s press re-leases recently and wanted to share a sample of what the AZGS has to offer. The hyperlinks in the story below will take you to the AZGS data re-pository where you can access shapefiles and other date regarding brec-cia pipes. This is just one example of the publicly available data through the AZGS – their full press release list for 2015 can be found here (http://www.azgs.az.gov/news_releases2015.shtml#jun24)
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Tucson, Arizona. – The Arizona Geological Sur-vey is releasing a new map compilation of known or suspected breccia pipe locations in northwest-ern Arizona: Partial database for breccia pipes and collapse features on the Colorado Plateau, northwestern Arizona. It appears from this work that the number of suspected breccia pipes is one to two orders of magnitude greater than previous-ly recognized. The study raises the possibility that the higher concentration of breccia pipes is likely to extend across the entire region.
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Mineralized breccia pipes—pipe-like masses of broken rock—may contain high-grade uranium ore and variable amounts of copper, gold, silver, vanadi-um and other mineral ore. More than 71 mineralized breccia pipes have been discovered in the region, and as of 2010, nine of these pipes yielded more than 10,500 metric tons of uranium.
Breccia pipes are vertical formations, typically a few tens to hundreds of feet across and hundreds to thousands of feet in vertical extent. The pipes formed more than 200 million years ago within Paleozoic and Triassic rocks over a broad area around Grand Canyon. The pipes formed as groundwater, flowing through Redwall Limestone dissolution breccias and along fracture zones, dissolved more limestone, caus-ing collapse of overlying rocks and possibly creating sink holes.
This new map is accompanied by an Excel Work-book database with three datasets. The datasets are drawn from geologic maps produced by the U.S. Geo-logical Survey and from mapping by geologic con-sultant and co-author Karen Wenrich. The datasets include point locations and comments on features identified as 1) breccia pipes, 2) collapse structures that might be breccia pipes, and 3) circular features that might be collapse features or breccia pipes.
Some features occur in more than one dataset, so the total number of features is less than the 3,286 features comprising the three datasets. GIS data as ArcGIS shapefiles built from the three datasets are included with this publication.
US Geological Survey geoscientists estimated that roughly 8% of breccia pipes contain some min-eralization (Wenrich and Sutphin, 1988). A fraction of those are likely to host economic concentrations
Click on image above to be brought to the Arizona Mining Review’s e-video magazine – Lee Allison, AZGS Director, interviewing Jon Spencer on the nature and scope of breccia pipes in northwestern Arizona. Released 24 June 2015.
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Cross sectional view of a breccia pipe (from Wenrich and Sutphin, 1988)
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of minerals. In 2012, the U.S. Department of
the Interior withdrew from mining 1,006,545 acres of federal lands in northern Arizona for a 20-year pe-riod to prevent further exploration or development of uranium on those lands. Withdrawal curtails new ex-ploration of breccia pipes and limits production to those pipes with valid existing mineral rights.
CITATIONS:
Spencer J.E., Wenrich, K. and Cole, T., 2015, Partial database for breccia pipes and collapse fea-tures on the Colorado Plateau, northwestern Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Digital Infor-mation, DI-42, 5 p., 1 map plate, shapefiles, and Excel Workbook.
Wenrich, K.J. and Sutphin, H.B., 1988, Recognition of Breccia Pipes in Northern Arizona. Arizo-na Bureau of Geology and Miner-al Technology, Fieldnotes, v18, #1, p1-5.
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