February 2008 - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

December RMAG Board of Directors Meeting – Summary
By Richard Parker, Secretary (raparker@parkergeo.com)
The outgoing 2007 Board met
with the newly elected 2008 Board on
Friday, December 14 for a luncheon
meeting. We had the opportunity
to pass along some of the skills
we learned, along with some of the
mistakes we made. Jewel Wellborn,
2007 RMAG President, summarized
the activities of 2007 by commenting,
“We had way too much fun!”
I want to thank my fellow board
members for all the help they gave
me in keeping the minutes of the
Association as accurate as possible.
I enjoyed serving with this group of
dedicated, caring representatives of
the best of our industry.
The new Board will serve with
the same feeling of service to our
organization. There is going to be
a full selection of events and short
courses in 2008 for the membership
to attend. The 3D Seismic Symposium
RMAG Auxiliary
will be excellent, as usual. We also
have the opportunity to host the
2009 AAPG Annual Meeting, for
which planning has already started.
There will be lots for all of us to do,
so volunteer early and often!
Thursday, February 21st is Guest Day, so bring your favorite date to
Pinehurst Country Club for our luncheon. Social hour begins at 11:00 a.m. and
lunch is served at 12:00 noon. Learn about the Colorado National Guard-State
Partnership Program - the development of exchange programs with the military
of 56 countries.
For information or reservations please call Marion Bolyard at
303-930-9893.
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Friday Luncheon Programs
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carbonate mounds result from: 1) regional base-level changes, 2) differential subsidence during Hovenweep time
due to salt movements, 3) loading of the salt by thickened upper Ismay carbonates and evaporites, and 4) differential
compaction of the evaporites surrounding the carbonate-mound masses during latest Ismay and earliest Honaker
Trail deposition. We propose an indirect linkage between basement tectonics, salt movements, sediment loading, and
deposition of the mounds.
There are significant variations
in reservoir type and quality
within the study area. Bioclastic/
framework carbonates provide
superior reservoir rocks. Sucrosic to
microcrystalline dolomites provide
inferior reservoir rocks, despite
having occasionally quite high total
porosities. The proposed depositional
and petrophysical models have
implications for understanding and
predicting the distribution of upper
Ismay carbonate mounds in the
subsurface, and of the underlying
(if rare) Desert Creek productive
areas.
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Vol. 57, No. 2
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February 2008