April 2013 - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

Check it out!
New COGCC rules for location
setbacks: http://cogcc.state.co.us/,
link under Public Announcements.
Weld County offers landowners
free water testing for 59 compounds,
just finished 100th sample, article
details results.
http://www.greeleytribune.com/
news/local/5403323-113/countyweld-testing-gas
New second round of quadrangle
revisions, Kansas and Oklahoma;
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/
article.aspID=3503.
N e w b a s i n - w i d e c o a l
assessment, Powder River Basin,
Wyoming; http://www.usgs.gov/
newsroom/article.aspID=3518.
New USGS Hydraulic Fracturing
Website, includes links to videos
such as Hydraulic Fracturing State of
the Science and the Produced Water
Website.
http://energy.usgs.gov/
OilGas/UnconventionalOilGas/
HydraulicFracturing.aspx
New Vitrinite Reflectance Data for the Cretaceous
Marine Shales and Coals in the Big Horn Basin,North-
Central Wyoming and South-Central Montana, open-file
report 2012-1254, Mark J. Pawlewicz and Thomas M.
Finn. Report in pdf format.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1254/
Update of plate 2, Digital Data Series 69-G,
Stratigraphic Cross Section of Measured Sections
and Drill Holes of the Neslen Formation and Adjacent
Formations, Book Cliffs Area, Colorado and Utah, Openfile
2012-1260, Mark A. Kirschbaum and Brianne D.
Spear. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1260/
OUTCROP
15
New Books
Nicolaus Steno: Biography and Original Papers of
a 17th Century Scientist. Troels Kardel, Paul Maquet,
Springer Heidelberg Dordrect London New York, February
28, 2013, $118.58, Amazon.com.
Volcanic Reservoirs in Petroleum Exploration,
Caineng Zou, Elsevier, March 19, 2013, $135.52,
Amazon.com.
The Great Extinctions: What Causes Them and
How They Shape Life, Norman Macleod, Firefly Books,
February 14, 2013, $17.61, Amazon.com.
Landscape Evolution in the United States: An
Introduction to the Geography, Geology and Natural
History, Joseph A. DiPietro, Elsevier, February 22, 1013,
$103.99, Amazon.com.
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