| 7:30 AM-5:00 PM, Super 8 Motel, Grand Junction, CO: |
405. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Basin - The Richest Oil Sale Deposits in the World - CANCELLED
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| Primary Leader: Yuval Bartov |
| Leader(s): Rick Sarg |
| Field Trip Description: The field trip will cover the stratigraphy and the depositional history of the Green River lake in the Piceance basin CO. We will examine outcrops around the basin that illustrate the evolution of the lake. The lake history will be tide to the depositional systems and the oil shale distribution in the basin.
We will start from Golden and drive on I-70 towards Rifle, we will drive around the eastern part of the basin (Rio Blanco area and Meeker) than we will look at the section in the basin center area and in the western part margin (Douglas Pass). |
| Field Trip will span: 3 days |
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