ETGS Membership,

ETGS Live is back! We plan to begin in person meetings again this fall. Our first in person meeting will be Wednesday September 15 at Hollytree Country Club (see website for details). Due to major damage at the Cascades Country Club during the “Great Freeze”, we will be holding our meetings at the Hollytree Country Club for the foreseeable future. Our first talk will be by Peter Soto-Kerans, based on the recent AAPG Bulletin paper "Deeper-water deposition in intrashelf basins: Example from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) upper Glen Rose Formation in the Houston trough, eastern Texas". This paper brings novel new insights to the Fort Trinidad area.

We have decided that trying to coordinate a “Zoom” meeting simultaneously with the live meeting is too challenging and distracting to the live participants. So in place of that option, we will be video recording the presentation and making that available on our website for those that cannot attend live. Like our Zoom meetings, there will be a $10 fee for the video in first month after the meeting and it will be posted for $5 thereafter. ETGS has had to make commitments to Hollytree for numbers of participants, so please support your Society and come live if possible.

ETGS is planning a “Pizza and Beer” social at True Vine on Thursday, September 9 from 5:30-7:30 pm. ETGS will provide pizzas and members can purchase craft beers or soft drinks onsite. Nick Pollard will once again be leading the ETGS Golf Tournament on October 11th at 1:00 pm at the Cascades Country Club. Additionally in October, Bo Henck will discuss recent and ongoing Woodbine outcrop studies at our October 12 meeting. Bo also is putting together a potential field trip to Lake Grapevine for Saturday the 23rd to look at Woodbine outcrops. More details will follow on those events.

Hope to see you September 15!

Ernie LaFlure

August 20, 2021