Please join us on Tuesday November 9 at Hollytree Country Club for our November meeting. In our move to Hollytree for meetings, we could not initially get all the dates we wanted for our normal schedule but next year we will be back to our mid-month Wednesday timing. Thanks to all that attended our October Golf Tournament and Bo Henk’s ETGS field trip to Lake Grapevine.

For November’s meeting, you will get to see and hear discussions on several poster sessions presented last week at the GeoGulf 2021 in Austin by SFA faculty and students. The poster presentations are as follows:

Jamie Singer- “Statistical Correlation of Rare Earth Minerals of the Salina Group”

Rodrigo Valasquez – “Mapping Allochthonous Salt Bodies of the Jurassic Louann Salt, Offshore Gulf of Mexico”

Tyler West – “Reservoir Characterization of the Utica Shale Play within Columbiana County, Ohio using Well Logs, Rock Mechanics and Geochemical Data”

Will Thompson – “Stratigraphic Analysis of the Capps Limestone in the Norton Oil Field in Runnels County, Texas”

ETGS Live is back! Please join us on Tuesday October 12 at Hollytree Country Club (see website for details) for our October meeting. In addition to our normal talk, Rich Adams, our AAPG delegate will provide some insight and info on the merger discussions with SEG.

Calling all Golfers! Nick Pollard will once again be leading the ETGS Golf Tournament on October 11th @ 1:00 pm at the Cascades Country Club. I hope that you have signed up, but if not check out our website.

Bo Henk will discuss recent and ongoing Woodbine outcrop studies at our October 12 meeting. The talk is “Tidal and Shallow Marine Influence on Deposition of the Woodbine Formation in North Central Texas as Evidenced by Sedimentary and Biogenic Structures”.

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-Kearns, 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.