WANTED: Colorado Rocks!

RMAG’s Educational Outreach committee wants to create a collection of Colorado rocks that can be paired with the Colorado geological map. The committee will use these rocks as an educational tool to teach elementary, middle, and high school students about the geology of Colorado, geological processes, and Colorado mineral resources.

While you are on your summer vacations to the many wonderful areas in Colorado, please consider picking up rocks for our collection. We ask you note where you collected the rocks and the formation name. ROCKD is a great app that uses your location and geological maps to “map” the formation under your feet. Keep in mind to collect rocks where it is allowed.

Some examples of rocks from formations that we would love in our collection:

• Maroon

• Leadville

• Chinle

• Green River

• Navajo/Nugget

• Entrada

• Lodore

• Dakota

• Sawatch

• Igneous and Metamorphic rocks

• Wasatch

• Volcanics (San Juan – Flat Tops)

When your rocks are ready, contact us at edoutreach@rmag.org

Thank you!

Timothy Lane is an Owner-Geoscientist at Rainbow Consulting LLC in Evergreen, CO

Bradford Burton is the Rady Chair in Petroleum Geology at Western Colorado University in Gunnison, CO

Richard Urash is a Staff Geologist at Continental Resources in Oklahoma City, OK

Kathryn Schuller is a Geoscientist at MI3 Petroleum Engineering in Denver, CO

Keith Jagiello is a Petrophysicist at Petro Data Integration, LLC in Littleton, CO

Mary Gillam is a Geomorphologist for the Colorado Geological Survey in Durango, CO

John Allard is an Exploration Geologist at Brimstone Energy in Silverton, CO

Nora Dwyer is a Geologist at Tetra Tech in Silverton, CO

Josh Reamer is a Geoscience Manager of Development at Ovintiv in The Woodlands, TX

Kari Kirkham works at ConocoPhillips in Houston, TX

Austin Razo-Thompson lives in Broomfield, CO

Natalie Hook is a Geotechnician at from Wheat Ridge, CO

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