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Contents of Colorado Bulletin 35 :
Geothermal energy and Colorado – an introduction.
Summary of Geology of Colorado related to geothermal energy potential.
Geophysics of Colorado and geothermal energy.
Economic considerations for geothermal exploration in the Western United States.
Geothermal energy and the environment.
Geothermal resources – legal and tax considerations.
Utility participation in a geothermal energy source.
Requirements for private industry in developing geothermal energy.
Governmental leasing regulations.
Rules and regulations relating to geothermal leases on Colorado state owned lands.
Geothermal energy and the energy crisis – banquet speech.

CO MIB Vol. 6 #4 : 1963 : Guide to state agencies that concern the mining industry -- Part I. 16p. $2

CO MIB Vol. 6 #5 : 1963 : Guide to state agencies that concern the mining industry -- Part 2. 15p. $2

CO MIB Vol. 7 #1 : 1964 : Molybdenum. (bumped corner) 14p. $4

CO MIB Vol. 7 #2 : 1964 : Sand and gravel in Colorado. (bumped corner) 12p. $2

CO MIB Vol. 7 #3 : 1964 : Colorado and the chemical industry - Part I -- Major chemicals produced locally. (bumped corners) 8p. $1

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Choose your copy of Colorado Quarterly Volume 45 Part 4A:
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Copy 2 = Fair/good (back cover detached and spine rough - one piece of tape will fix). $8

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Mountain Geologist (MG) : 11x8.5", illus. (see also Misc. section for Fische)
Very good condition, spines and edges may be slightly sunned. Some covers are lightly smudged.
The Mountain Geologist is the quarterly journal of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG).
I have listed major papers, but not short pieces like abstracts.

CO Mountain Geologist 1(1) : 1964 : 46p. (Water Rippled Corner tip) - $8.
Evidence for the pre-Niobrara unconformity in the NW part of the San Juan Basin (Pentilla)
Mesa Verde formation at Chromo anticline, Archuleta county, Colorado (Conley)
Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Mississippian formations of Moffat county, Colorado (Mayer)
Pressure injection disposal well, Rocky Mountain arsenal, Denver, Colorado (Scopel)
Barker dome oil field, Custer county, South Dakota. (Gries)

CO Mountain Geologist 3(3) : 1966 : 47p. choose your copy : Very Good - $10, Water Rippled Corner tip - $8.
Geology of Williams Fork field, Moffat county, Colorado (Lauman).
Physical stratigraphy, Middle Ordovician Harding and Lander sandstones, Wyoming (Allison)
Sheep Creek thrust at Cooper Creek, Fremont county, Wyoming. (Gudim)
Pathfinder uplift of Pennsylvanian age in southern Wyoming (Mallory)
Numerous Eolian ripple marks from Entrada formation (Tanner).
Variations in zircon crop measurements caused by weathering, Whitehorn stock, Central colorado (Harris and Wilbanks).
Bridger Lake field, Summit county, Utah. (Parker)

CO Mountain Geologist 4(2) : 1967 : 40p. $10
Middle vanguard sandstone : prolific Jurassic objective in SW Saskatchewan, Canada (Nolte).
Long-distance migration of oil in Wyoming (Sheldon).
Surface correlation of lower Fort Union formation beds in Eastern Montana (Gerhard).
Rock units and revised nomenclature - Chugwater group (Triassic), western Wyoming (High and Picard)

CO Mountain Geologist 4(3) : 1967 : 35p. $8
Geology and development history of Boxer field, Morgan county, Colorado (Tobison)
South Keg Coulee field, Musselshell county, Montana (Carlson)
1951-1966 : Advances and future problems of the geology of petroleum (Berry)
Gravel mounds at Rocky Flats, Colorado (Murray).
Gravity survey of Livermore - Tie siding area, Colorado-Wyoming. (Eggler)
Age of the Gneiss at the bottom of the Rocky Mountain arsenal well (Hedge)

CO Mountain Geologist 4(4) : 1967 : 20p. $7
Stratigraphy and structure of Tertiary rocks in central South Park, Park county, Colorado. (Lozano)
Phosphatic pebbles from the Pierre formation near Colorado springs, Colorado (Hayes)
Cherry Gulch slide, Jefferson county, Colorado (LeRoy and Grose)

CO Mountain Geologist 6(4) : 1969 : 53p. $14
Configuration of the Precambrian surface of Colorado (RMAG)
Includes separate large folded Plate "Configuration of the Crystalline basement rocks of Colorado."
Petrologic investigation of the plutonic and related rocks of Comanche Peak area, Colorado (Beck)
Recluse field, Campbell county, Wyoming (Woncik)
Cretaceous marine cycles of the Western interior (Kauffman)

CO Mountain Geologist 7(1) : 1970 : 68p. $12
Stratigraphy of basal sandstones in the Green River formation, NE Piceance basin, Rio Blanco county, Colorado (Snow).
Upper portion of the Fountain formation and Lyons formation at Morrison, Colorado (Blood).
Cambrian and Ordovician stratigraphy of the southern Mosquito range, Colorado (Anderson).
Index to volume 6.

CO Mountain Geologist 7(2) : 1970 : 33p. $10
Principal horizontal stress in the central Rocky Mountains versus California (Stone).
Sulfur isotopic fractionation accompanying maturation of Paleozoic petroleum, Wind River basin, Wyoming - a synopsis.
Petrology of Devonian shelf carbonates of west central Colorado (Campbell)
Borrego pass lentil, a new member of the Crevasse canyon formation, southern San Juan basin, New Mexico (Correa)

CO Mountain Geologist 7(4) : 1970 : 37p. $8
Use of computer prepared residual maps as an aid in determing sedimentary environments of the Muddy formation, NE Wyoming.
Rb - Sr whole rock age determinations of the Iron Hill and McClure mountain carbonatite - alkalic complexes, Colorado. (Fenton and Faure).
Rb-Sr whole-rock age determination for the Rainy creek alkalic-Ultramafic complex, Montana. (Fenton and Faure).
Triassic - Jurassic lakes in New Mexico (Tanner)

CO Mountain Geologist 10(1) : 1973 : 32p. $8
Stratigraphy and origin of the Moenkopi formation (Triassic) of SE Utah (Blakey).
Mountain groundwater supplies (Snow).
Slow-sliding slumps, Grand Mesa, Colorado (Yeend).
Index to volume 9.

CO Mountain Geologist 10(2) : 1973 : 20p. $8
Crisi in geological education in Colorado (Kent).
Bighole gas field, Moffat county, Colorado (Krummel).
Economic geology of gold - silver distribution i the Snare group sediments (Proterozoic) at Norris lake, Northwestern Territories (Broughton).

CO Mountain Geologist 14(1) : 1977 : 32p. $12
Review of some aspects of evaporate depoition (Shaw).
Fossil tower karst near Molas Lake, Colorado (Maslyn).
Sedimentology and diagenesis of the leadville formation and controls of lead - Zinc - Silver deposits, central Colorado (DeVoto and Maslyn).
Pliomastodon (Proboscidea, Palaeomastodontidae) from the late Miocene of Colorado (Madden).

CO Mountain Geologist 14(2) : 1977 : 40p. (cover has minor soil and a repaired tear) $10
Aluminofluoride minerals of the Goldie carbonatite, Fremont county, Colorado (Heinrich).
Origin of phosphatic pebbles in upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) rocks of the Colorado front range (Nwangwu).
Depositional environments of the Cutler - Cedar mesa facies transition (Permian) near Moab, Utah (Mack).
Geohydrologic setting of the environment near Cotter mill, Canon City, Colorado (Alther).

CO Mountain Geologist 18(2) : 1981 : 20p. $8
Differentiation of Delta-Front and barrier lithofacies of the Upper Cretaceous pictured Cliffs sandstone, SW San Juan Basin, New Mexico (Flores and Erpenbeck).
Depositional history and correlation problems of the Anderson - Dietz coal zone, SE Montana (Sholes and Cole)

CO Mountain Geologist 18(3) : 1981 : 33p. $10
Facies development in a lower cretaceous coral - rudist patch reef (Mural limestone, SE Arizona) (Roybal).
Steeply inclined stromatolitecolumns in upper Tertiary Furnace Creek formation, Death Valley, California (Ross and McAllister).
Bibliography of theses and dissertations on Montana, 1968-1980 (RMAG).

CO Mountain Geologist 28(2/3) : 1991 : 150p., plus 4 folded plates. $20
Special Issue : Report on the second workshop on geologic applications of remote sensing to the study of sedimentary basins. Joint publication of RMAG and NASA, Soil Earth Science Branch.
Soil – landscape relationships in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming (Nettleton)
Subsurface geology of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary coal-bearing rocks, Wind River Basin, WY (Hogle)
Paleogeographic evolution of the latest Cretaceous and Paleocene Wind River Basin (Flemings)
Tectonically influenced sedimentation in the Lance Formation, eastern Wind River Basin, WY (Gillespie)
Biostratigraphic significance of a new unit, mapped remotely with multispectral thermal infrared data, Late Cretaceous Cody Shale, southern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. (Lang)
This application of geologic remote sensing to vertebrate biostratigraphy : general results from the Wind River Basin, WY (Stucky)
Precambrian control of Laramide faulting, Sheep Ridge anticline, western Owl Creek Mountains, Wyoming. (Blundell)
Complex pre-Lewis Thrust deformation, southeastern Glacier Park, Montana (Yin)
Gravity study of the Thermopolis anticline, southern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming (Grannell)
Preliminary assessment of stratigraphy and structure, San Lucas region, Michoacan and Guerrero states, SW Mexico. (Johnson)
Preliminary investigation of the Tertiary Balsas Group, Mesa Los Caballos area, Northern Guerrero State, Mexico using Landsat Thematic Mapper data. (Jansma)

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Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists : Other RMAG publications In order alphabetically by full title.
RMAG Guidebooks, RMAG symposiums. MULTIPLE COPIES may be available, ask if you want more than one.

Basin and Range Symposium and Great Basin Field Conference. Edited by Gary W. Newman and Harry D. Goode. 1979 Symposium - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG, and Utah Geological Association. Hardback, 11x8.5”, 662p., illus. Content includes California, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Arizona, with 52 papers and 4 road logs. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Muddy mountains, Clark Mountain thrust, Hurricane fault, Oquirrh mountains, Wildcat Peak formation, ualapai limestone, Lake Mead, Indian Peak range, Pioche district, Juab county, Clayton Valley, Nye county, Eureka county, Railroad valley and more.

Choose your copy of the 1979 Basin and Range Symposium :
Very Good - $18
Good (Generally VG, but has name blacked out on edge of page block) - $15

Cordilleran Hingeline - SEE "Symposium on geology of the Cordilleran hingeline" below.

Deep Drilling Frontiers - SEE "Symposium on Deep drilling frontiers in the Central Rocky Mountains" below.

Energy resources of the Denver Basin. Edited by John D. Pruit and Peter E. Coffin. 1978 Symposium - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG. Brown Hardback, 11x8.5”, 272p., illus., 10 folded plates in pocket. Content includes 23 papers and a road log. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Niobrara gas, Leyden lignite mine, Davis – Joyce field, “D” sand, Peoria field, Kachina field, Las Animas arch, Wattenberg field, Uranium, Watkins project, and more.

Choose your copy of Energy Resources of the Denver Basin :
Very Good - $22
Good (Generally VG, but has name blacked out on edge of page block) - $18

Exploration frontiers of the Central and Southern Rockies. Harry K. Veal, Ed. 1977 Symposium - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG. Red Hardback, 11x8.5”, 496p., illus., 12 plates in pocket. Content includes Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, with 38 papers and several road logs. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Colorado National Monument, North Park, Colorado Front range, Pierre Shale, Eagle Valley Evaporite, Aspen area, Marble area, Ruedi dam, Denver basin, Walsenberg, Beecher Island field, Wattenberg field, Uranium, Fossil karst, Pitkin county, Piceance Creek basin and more.

Choose your copy of Exploration Frontiers :
EXC (but with name blacked out on page block edge) - $24
Very Good - $24

Geologic Studies of the Cordilleran Thrust Belt : 3 volume Red Hardback set in matched, cloth-covered box. 1982 Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. Edited by Richard Blake Powers. 11 x 8.5” Volumes 1 and 2 each contain about 25 technical articles, have a total of 976 pages and are copiously illustrated. Volume 3 is a plates volume with 22 folded plates. (Very Good! Books and plate volume are barely used, nearly like new. Box is lightly rubbed, lightly soiled). $76

Here are a FEW of the articles in “Geologic Studies of the Cordilleran Thrust Belt” :
Oil and gas beneath east-dipping underthrust faults in the Alberta foothills, Canada.
Broken early Cretaceon foreland basin in Southwest Montana.
Southeastern Nevada tectonic belt and the Mississippian Chainman shale basin.
A gravity study of Glacier National Park, northwest Montana.
Structural evolution of the northern Chihuahua tectonic belt (other Chihuahuan articles, too).
Oil and gas potential of the central Utah hingeline-thrust belt region.
Umiat field, a oil accumulation in a thrust faulted anticline, north slope of Alaska.
Knowlton Gas field, Teton county, Montana.
Whitney canyon-Carter creek gas field, southwest Wyoming.
Painter reservoir, East Painter reservoir and Clear Creek fields, Unita County, Wyoming.
Anschutz Ranch east field, Northeast Utah and southwest Wyoming.
Case history of the North Caribou prospect, Bonneville county, Idaho.
Biostratigraphy and carbonate petrology of a Devonian biostrome, southeastern California.
Structural geology along Teton Pass, Wyoming.
MUCH MORE.

Geology of the Paradox basin. Del L. Wiegand, ed. 1981 Symposium - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG. Orange Hardback, 11x8.5”, 285p., illus., with color Content includes Colorado and Utah, with 22. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Collapse structures, Bug field, Lisbon field, Patterson field, Squaw Canyon field, uranium, ground water, Durango uranium tailings pile and more. * * Includes two errata sheets. EXC - $20

Guidebook to the Energy Resources of the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado. Edited by D. Keith Murray. 1974 Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, 25th Field Conference. Maroon Hardback, 11x8.5”, 302p., illustrated (some in color) plus 3 illustrations in pocket. Among more topics, specific mention is made of Early Tertiary Palynology and environments, Uinta Basin, Green River formation oil shales, Parachute Creek, Federal Tracts C-a and C-b, Occidental Petroleum Corporation near Debeque, Rio Blanco project nuclear detonation, and much more. Contains 28 technical articles, some shorter pieces, 3 appendices, and two road logs. Good. $12

Guidebook to the geology of Northwest Colorado. Content also includes parts of Wyoming and Utah. 1955. Intermountain Association of Petroleum Geologists (6th annual field conference) and Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (Annual field conference). Hardback, 11x8.5”, 184p., illus, fold-outs, 10 plates in pocket. (Missing four plates : one that went with a paper (Correlation, pre-Mancos, post Weber Formations, Northwest Colorado) AND three plates issued at same time but NOT meant to go with a specific paper in this guidebook.) (Poor - Generally Good except for missing plates. Cover edges rubbed, minimal high-lighting in bibliography section only, owner's name on fly leaf). $5

Summary of Contents of Guidebook to the Geology of NW Colorado:
22 papers on General geology.
17 papers on Oil and Gas.
3 papers on Uranium.
7 days of Road Logs, plus 4 side trips.
Historical sketches - interspersed throughout.
High definition seismic 2-D, 2-D swath, and 3-D case histories. R. Randy Ray, Ed. 1995 Guidebook - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG. Hardback, 11x8.5”, 214p., color illus. Content includes Colorado, Wyoming Alberta, Utah, Texas, New Mexico, with 16 papers. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Sweetwater county, Divide Creek anticline, Uranium Peak area, Weld county, Badger Basin field, Silo field, Lake Newell project, Winnipegosis Pinnacle reefs, Kiva field, West Moose field, Cedar Hill field and more.

High definition seismic 2-D, 2-D swath, and 3-D case histories. R. Randy Ray, Ed. 1995 Guidebook - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG. Teal Hardback, 11x8.5”, 214p., color illus. Content includes Colorado, Wyoming Alberta, Utah, Texas, New Mexico, with 16 papers. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Sweetwater county, Divide Creek anticline, Uranium Peak area, Weld county, Badger Basin field, Silo field, Lake Newell project, Winnipegosis Pinnacle reefs, Kiva field, West Moose field, Cedar Hill field and more. EXC - $78

Oil and Gas Field Volume : Colorado – Nebraska. 1961 Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. Edited by John M. Parker. 390 pages plus 8 large folded plates in pockets at back. This publication is in a large binder like a three-ring binder, but with a sturdy metal comb-type ring binding instead, 11” x 11”. Many fold-outs. There are several general technical papers, but the bulk of the volume consists of details, data, and maps pertaining to individual fields – hundreds of them. Much of the content pertains to the Denver basin. Companion to the 2 volume 1982 set. Very Good condition. $18

Oil and gas fields of Colorado, Nebraska and adjacent areas. 1982 Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, c1983. Edited by Marshall C. Crouch III. This is a two volume set, each volume is in a padded green three-ring binder, 11 x 11”. Volume 1 contains pages 1-353, plus 3 plates in pocket (one plate was added later as an errata sheet). Volume II has pages 354-791. This publication is a compilation of papers on selected oil and gas fields (data and statistics on around 150 fields) in eastern and northwestern Colorado, western Nebraska, southeastern Wyoming and adjacent areas. See companion volume published in 1961. (Very Good, binder covers lightly soiled) $134

Contents of RMAG microfische collection:
Guidebook - 1955 - Geology of NW Colorado.
Guidebook - 1956 - Geology of the Raton basin.
Guidebook - 1957 - North and MIddle Parks Basins, and road log.
Guidebook - 1958 - Pennsylvanian Rocks of Colorado.
Guidebook - 1959 - Cretaceous rocks of Colorado.
Guidebook - 1960 - Guide to the geology of Colorado.
1960 - Geological road logs of Colorado.
Guidebook - 1961 - Lower and Middle Paleozoic rocks of Colorado.
1961 - Oil and Gas fields of Colorado and Nebraska.
Guidebook - 1962 - Oil and gas in NW Colorado.
Guidebook - 1963 - Geology of north Denver Basin and adjacent uplifts.
Guidebook - 1974 - Energy resources of the Piceance Creek basin, Colorado.
G uidebook - 1975 - Deep drilling frontiers - central Rocky mountains.
MOUNTAIN GEOLOGIST : Vol. 1(1-3), 2(1-4), 3(1-3), 4(1), 5(2-3), 7(3), 9(1-3 part II), 10(3), 11(1-2), 13(1), 15(3), 16(1,3,4), 18(3).

Choose your copy of 1976 Cordilleran Hingeline Symposium :
EXC - $25
Very Good # 1 (EXC but with name backed out on edge of page block) - $20
Very Good # 2 (cover may be lightly smudged) - $18

Contents of 1975 Resume – Petroleum Information Series.
Volume 1 : Resume of 1975 oil and gas operations in the United States. Narrative Summary, Statistical analysis, Discovery Lists. 99p.
Volume 2 : A compilation of completion data on oil – gas discoveries plus plats and drilling statistics by counties. 258p.

Selected contents of The Compass Vol. 27(3) :
Paleozoic and Mesozoic stratigraphy of the Boulder area, Colorado.
Permian (?), Triassic, and Jurassic stratigraphy of the McCoy area of West Central Colorado.
The “Hard Rock” geology of Boulder county, Colorado.
Geology of the Wellsville area, North flank of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, Colorado.

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