See 2020 updates on core.mines.edu!

It's been a while since this blog was active, but my research group at Colorado School of Mines has an updated website: https://core.mines.edu Please head there to see updates on our team's current research directions. Also, see Zane's twitter account @ZaneJobe for field photos and announcements on newly published work!

2017 Conference of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists

The CoRE research group that I lead at Colorado School of Mines visited Houston, TX last week to attend the 100th conference of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). It is an industry-focused scientific conference that brings together academia and industry to address basic and applied scientific problems for the petroleum industry. I include a …

Geology on the Wing Wednesdays #12 – Fault in Pennsylvanian carbonates, El Paso, Texas

@Neotectonics and I flew over this fault on our way to El Paso a few weeks ago. It is an excellent exposure of a reverse fault in the Magdalena Formation, a mixed clastic-carbonate succession in the Franklin Mountains near El Paso, Texas (hint - its in the left-center of the image, just to the left of the larger …

Tour of California turbidites

With three new grad students recently accepted into the CoRE research group at Colorado School of Mines, I wanted to take them into the field to scope out thesis projects and just to show them some classic turbidite locales in California. Here is a very quick overview of that trip, and some pertinent references in case …

Geology on the Wing Wednesdays #11 – Washita River meanders, Oklahoma

I've decided to start posting again after a hiatus, and I will start it off by reviving an old series called "Geology on the Wing Wednesdays". Generally, these are photos I have taken of various places while flying low and slow in search of a $100 hamburger. This week's GOTWW comes from near Anadarko, Oklahoma, …