Other Geologic Projects

Photo from Butzer, 2020

Remote Sensing final project presentation on the impact of the East Troublesome Fire in 2020. Using aerial photography from Landsat 8, different band combinations were used to examine the burn scar and perimeter of this wildfire.

Impact of the East Troublesome Fire

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Presentation of the Lithology of Moab, Utah. I described the lithology of each formation while also identifying the contacts on Google Earth. The PowerPoint can be found below.

The Lithology of Moab, Utah

ArcGIS Story map of traveling around Colorado.

Adventures of Colorado

Stratigraphic Column of Outcrop

Hand drawn stratigraphic column drawn to scale from data retrieved from field work of an outcrop along 1-70 near Morrison, Colorado.

Niobrara Formation (Kn): Sub-units are Fort Hays Limestone (Knf) and Smoky Hill Shale (Kns). Late Cretaceous in age. Typical thickness is 730 feet in the Denver Basin. Conformably underlies Pierre Shale and unconformably overlies Carlile Shale. Marine depositional environment. Bottom of the section lies the 40-foot-thick Fort Hays Limestone. Superjacent unit is the nearly 700-foot-thick Smoky Hill Shale Member, beginning with a 20- foot- thick, thin bedded limestone and shale, or shaly limestone unit. Throughout are several layers of shale, limestone, chalk, or thin interbeds of all of these. The Upper Chalk unit is an 8-foot- thick bed of massive chalk. The most prominent fossils found in all the beds are the Inocermous. Scaphite fossils appear in the Middle Shale unit and continue throughout.

Stratigraphic Column of the Niobrara Formation

Hand drawn stratigraphic column of the Niobrara Formation drawn to scale from data collected from Geolex.