Mountain Geologist (MG) : 11x8.5", illus. (see also Misc. section for Fische)
Very good condition, spines and edges may be slightly sunned. Some covers are lightly smudged.
The Mountain Geologist is the quarterly journal of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG).
I have listed major papers, but not short pieces like abstracts.

CO Mountain Geologist 1(1) : 1964 : 46p. (Water Rippled Corner tip) - $8.
Evidence for the pre-Niobrara unconformity in the NW part of the San Juan Basin (Pentilla)
Mesa Verde formation at Chromo anticline, Archuleta county, Colorado (Conley)
Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Mississippian formations of Moffat county, Colorado (Mayer)
Pressure injection disposal well, Rocky Mountain arsenal, Denver, Colorado (Scopel)
Barker dome oil field, Custer county, South Dakota. (Gries)

CO Mountain Geologist 3(3) : 1966 : 47p. choose your copy : Very Good - $10, Water Rippled Corner tip - $8.
Geology of Williams Fork field, Moffat county, Colorado (Lauman).
Physical stratigraphy, Middle Ordovician Harding and Lander sandstones, Wyoming (Allison)
Sheep Creek thrust at Cooper Creek, Fremont county, Wyoming. (Gudim)
Pathfinder uplift of Pennsylvanian age in southern Wyoming (Mallory)
Numerous Eolian ripple marks from Entrada formation (Tanner).
Variations in zircon crop measurements caused by weathering, Whitehorn stock, Central colorado (Harris and Wilbanks).
Bridger Lake field, Summit county, Utah. (Parker)

CO Mountain Geologist 4(2) : 1967 : 40p. $10
Middle vanguard sandstone : prolific Jurassic objective in SW Saskatchewan, Canada (Nolte).
Long-distance migration of oil in Wyoming (Sheldon).
Surface correlation of lower Fort Union formation beds in Eastern Montana (Gerhard).
Rock units and revised nomenclature - Chugwater group (Triassic), western Wyoming (High and Picard)

CO Mountain Geologist 4(3) : 1967 : 35p. $8
Geology and development history of Boxer field, Morgan county, Colorado (Tobison)
South Keg Coulee field, Musselshell county, Montana (Carlson)
1951-1966 : Advances and future problems of the geology of petroleum (Berry)
Gravel mounds at Rocky Flats, Colorado (Murray).
Gravity survey of Livermore - Tie siding area, Colorado-Wyoming. (Eggler)
Age of the Gneiss at the bottom of the Rocky Mountain arsenal well (Hedge)

CO Mountain Geologist 4(4) : 1967 : 20p. $7
Stratigraphy and structure of Tertiary rocks in central South Park, Park county, Colorado. (Lozano)
Phosphatic pebbles from the Pierre formation near Colorado springs, Colorado (Hayes)
Cherry Gulch slide, Jefferson county, Colorado (LeRoy and Grose)

CO Mountain Geologist 6(4) : 1969 : 53p. $14
Configuration of the Precambrian surface of Colorado (RMAG)
Includes separate large folded Plate "Configuration of the Crystalline basement rocks of Colorado."
Petrologic investigation of the plutonic and related rocks of Comanche Peak area, Colorado (Beck)
Recluse field, Campbell county, Wyoming (Woncik)
Cretaceous marine cycles of the Western interior (Kauffman)

CO Mountain Geologist 7(1) : 1970 : 68p. $12
Stratigraphy of basal sandstones in the Green River formation, NE Piceance basin, Rio Blanco county, Colorado (Snow).
Upper portion of the Fountain formation and Lyons formation at Morrison, Colorado (Blood).
Cambrian and Ordovician stratigraphy of the southern Mosquito range, Colorado (Anderson).
Index to volume 6.

CO Mountain Geologist 7(2) : 1970 : 33p. $10
Principal horizontal stress in the central Rocky Mountains versus California (Stone).
Sulfur isotopic fractionation accompanying maturation of Paleozoic petroleum, Wind River basin, Wyoming - a synopsis.
Petrology of Devonian shelf carbonates of west central Colorado (Campbell)
Borrego pass lentil, a new member of the Crevasse canyon formation, southern San Juan basin, New Mexico (Correa)

CO Mountain Geologist 7(4) : 1970 : 37p. $8
Use of computer prepared residual maps as an aid in determing sedimentary environments of the Muddy formation, NE Wyoming.
Rb - Sr whole rock age determinations of the Iron Hill and McClure mountain carbonatite - alkalic complexes, Colorado. (Fenton and Faure).
Rb-Sr whole-rock age determination for the Rainy creek alkalic-Ultramafic complex, Montana. (Fenton and Faure).
Triassic - Jurassic lakes in New Mexico (Tanner)

CO Mountain Geologist 10(1) : 1973 : 32p. $8
Stratigraphy and origin of the Moenkopi formation (Triassic) of SE Utah (Blakey).
Mountain groundwater supplies (Snow).
Slow-sliding slumps, Grand Mesa, Colorado (Yeend).
Index to volume 9.

CO Mountain Geologist 10(2) : 1973 : 20p. $8
Crisi in geological education in Colorado (Kent).
Bighole gas field, Moffat county, Colorado (Krummel).
Economic geology of gold - silver distribution i the Snare group sediments (Proterozoic) at Norris lake, Northwestern Territories (Broughton).

CO Mountain Geologist 14(1) : 1977 : 32p. $12
Review of some aspects of evaporate depoition (Shaw).
Fossil tower karst near Molas Lake, Colorado (Maslyn).
Sedimentology and diagenesis of the leadville formation and controls of lead - Zinc - Silver deposits, central Colorado (DeVoto and Maslyn).
Pliomastodon (Proboscidea, Palaeomastodontidae) from the late Miocene of Colorado (Madden).

CO Mountain Geologist 14(2) : 1977 : 40p. (cover has minor soil and a repaired tear) $10
Aluminofluoride minerals of the Goldie carbonatite, Fremont county, Colorado (Heinrich).
Origin of phosphatic pebbles in upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) rocks of the Colorado front range (Nwangwu).
Depositional environments of the Cutler - Cedar mesa facies transition (Permian) near Moab, Utah (Mack).
Geohydrologic setting of the environment near Cotter mill, Canon City, Colorado (Alther).

CO Mountain Geologist 18(2) : 1981 : 20p. $8
Differentiation of Delta-Front and barrier lithofacies of the Upper Cretaceous pictured Cliffs sandstone, SW San Juan Basin, New Mexico (Flores and Erpenbeck).
Depositional history and correlation problems of the Anderson - Dietz coal zone, SE Montana (Sholes and Cole)

CO Mountain Geologist 18(3) : 1981 : 33p. $10
Facies development in a lower cretaceous coral - rudist patch reef (Mural limestone, SE Arizona) (Roybal).
Steeply inclined stromatolitecolumns in upper Tertiary Furnace Creek formation, Death Valley, California (Ross and McAllister).
Bibliography of theses and dissertations on Montana, 1968-1980 (RMAG).

CO Mountain Geologist 28(2/3) : 1991 : 150p., plus 4 folded plates. $20
Special Issue : Report on the second workshop on geologic applications of remote sensing to the study of sedimentary basins. Joint publication of RMAG and NASA, Soil Earth Science Branch.
Soil – landscape relationships in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming (Nettleton)
Subsurface geology of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary coal-bearing rocks, Wind River Basin, WY (Hogle)
Paleogeographic evolution of the latest Cretaceous and Paleocene Wind River Basin (Flemings)
Tectonically influenced sedimentation in the Lance Formation, eastern Wind River Basin, WY (Gillespie)
Biostratigraphic significance of a new unit, mapped remotely with multispectral thermal infrared data, Late Cretaceous Cody Shale, southern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. (Lang)
This application of geologic remote sensing to vertebrate biostratigraphy : general results from the Wind River Basin, WY (Stucky)
Precambrian control of Laramide faulting, Sheep Ridge anticline, western Owl Creek Mountains, Wyoming. (Blundell)
Complex pre-Lewis Thrust deformation, southeastern Glacier Park, Montana (Yin)
Gravity study of the Thermopolis anticline, southern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming (Grannell)
Preliminary assessment of stratigraphy and structure, San Lucas region, Michoacan and Guerrero states, SW Mexico. (Johnson)
Preliminary investigation of the Tertiary Balsas Group, Mesa Los Caballos area, Northern Guerrero State, Mexico using Landsat Thematic Mapper data. (Jansma)

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Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists : Other RMAG publications In order alphabetically by full title.
RMAG Guidebooks, RMAG symposiums. MULTIPLE COPIES may be available, ask if you want more than one.

Basin and Range Symposium and Great Basin Field Conference. Edited by Gary W. Newman and Harry D. Goode. 1979 Symposium - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG, and Utah Geological Association. Hardback, 11x8.5”, 662p., illus. Content includes California, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Arizona, with 52 papers and 4 road logs. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Muddy mountains, Clark Mountain thrust, Hurricane fault, Oquirrh mountains, Wildcat Peak formation, ualapai limestone, Lake Mead, Indian Peak range, Pioche district, Juab county, Clayton Valley, Nye county, Eureka county, Railroad valley and more.

Cordilleran Hingeline - SEE "Symposium on geology of the Cordilleran hingeline" below.

Deep Drilling Frontiers - SEE "Symposium on Deep drilling frontiers in the Central Rocky Mountains" below.

Energy resources of the Denver Basin. Edited by John D. Pruit and Peter E. Coffin. 1978 Symposium - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG. Brown Hardback, 11x8.5”, 272p., illus., 10 folded plates in pocket. Content includes 23 papers and a road log. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Niobrara gas, Leyden lignite mine, Davis – Joyce field, “D” sand, Peoria field, Kachina field, Las Animas arch, Wattenberg field, Uranium, Watkins project, and more.

Exploration frontiers of the Central and Southern Rockies. Harry K. Veal, Ed. 1977 Symposium - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG. Red Hardback, 11x8.5”, 496p., illus., 12 plates in pocket. Content includes Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, with 38 papers and several road logs. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Colorado National Monument, North Park, Colorado Front range, Pierre Shale, Eagle Valley Evaporite, Aspen area, Marble area, Ruedi dam, Denver basin, Walsenberg, Beecher Island field, Wattenberg field, Uranium, Fossil karst, Pitkin county, Piceance Creek basin and more.

Geologic Studies of the Cordilleran Thrust Belt : 3 volume Red Hardback set in matched, cloth-covered box. 1982 Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. Edited by Richard Blake Powers. 11 x 8.5” Volumes 1 and 2 each contain about 25 technical articles, have a total of 976 pages and are copiously illustrated. Volume 3 is a plates volume with 22 folded plates. (Very Good! Books and plate volume are barely used, nearly like new. Box is lightly rubbed, lightly soiled). $76

Geology of the Paradox basin. Del L. Wiegand, ed. 1981 Symposium - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG. Orange Hardback, 11x8.5”, 285p., illus., with color Content includes Colorado and Utah, with 22. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Collapse structures, Bug field, Lisbon field, Patterson field, Squaw Canyon field, uranium, ground water, Durango uranium tailings pile and more. * * Includes two errata sheets. EXC - $20

Guidebook to the Energy Resources of the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado. Edited by D. Keith Murray. 1974 Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, 25th Field Conference. Maroon Hardback, 11x8.5”, 302p., illustrated (some in color) plus 3 illustrations in pocket. Among more topics, specific mention is made of Early Tertiary Palynology and environments, Uinta Basin, Green River formation oil shales, Parachute Creek, Federal Tracts C-a and C-b, Occidental Petroleum Corporation near Debeque, Rio Blanco project nuclear detonation, and much more. Contains 28 technical articles, some shorter pieces, 3 appendices, and two road logs. Good. $12

Guidebook to the geology of Northwest Colorado. Content also includes parts of Wyoming and Utah. 1955. Intermountain Association of Petroleum Geologists (6th annual field conference) and Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (Annual field conference). Hardback, 11x8.5”, 184p., illus, fold-outs, 10 plates in pocket. (Missing four plates : one that went with a paper (Correlation, pre-Mancos, post Weber Formations, Northwest Colorado) AND three plates issued at same time but NOT meant to go with a specific paper in this guidebook.) (Poor - Generally Good except for missing plates. Cover edges rubbed, minimal high-lighting in bibliography section only, owner's name on fly leaf). $5

High definition seismic 2-D, 2-D swath, and 3-D case histories. R. Randy Ray, Ed. 1995 Guidebook - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, RMAG. Teal Hardback, 11x8.5”, 214p., color illus. Content includes Colorado, Wyoming Alberta, Utah, Texas, New Mexico, with 16 papers. Among much other detail, there is specific mention of Sweetwater county, Divide Creek anticline, Uranium Peak area, Weld county, Badger Basin field, Silo field, Lake Newell project, Winnipegosis Pinnacle reefs, Kiva field, West Moose field, Cedar Hill field and more. EXC - $78

Oil and Gas Field Volume : Colorado – Nebraska. 1961 Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. Edited by John M. Parker. 390 pages plus 8 large folded plates in pockets at back. This publication is in a large binder like a three-ring binder, but with a sturdy metal comb-type ring binding instead, 11” x 11”. Many fold-outs. There are several general technical papers, but the bulk of the volume consists of details, data, and maps pertaining to individual fields – hundreds of them. Much of the content pertains to the Denver basin. Companion to the 2 volume 1982 set. Very Good condition. $18

Oil and gas fields of Colorado, Nebraska and adjacent areas. 1982 Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, c1983. Edited by Marshall C. Crouch III. This is a two volume set, each volume is in a padded green three-ring binder, 11 x 11”. Volume 1 contains pages 1-353, plus 3 plates in pocket (one plate was added later as an errata sheet). Volume II has pages 354-791. This publication is a compilation of papers on selected oil and gas fields (data and statistics on around 150 fields) in eastern and northwestern Colorado, western Nebraska, southeastern Wyoming and adjacent areas. See companion volume published in 1961. (Very Good, binder covers lightly soiled) $134

Boulder Creek batholith, Colorado. Part II: Isotopic age of emplacement and morphology of zircon. AND Part III: Fingerprinting discordant zircon ages in a complex intrusion. 1971. Extracted from GSA Bulletin. 41p. $3

Continuing study of new Jurassic / Cretaceous vertebrate faunas from Colorado and Utah. by James A. Jensen. 1975. Extracted from National Geographic Society Research Reports, Volume 16. 9p. Great photos! $2

Floods in the Pueblo district by Chester A. Reeds. 1921 Natural History vol 21(3). 4p. illus. Pertains to floods along the Arkansas river and it's tributaries. $3

Future energy alternatives for Colorado by Colorado Energy Research Institute. 1976. 11x8.5", spiral bound, about 250p., illus., includes CASES study appendices. (Is complete : labeled Volume I presumably from a larger series) $14

Geologic map and section of a part of Northeastern Colorado. Centered on the towns of Orchard and Goodrich. Color, folded. This is plate 14 from USGS Bulletin 796-B : Geology and oil and gas prospects of northeastern Colorado, by Mather, Gilluly and Lusk. $4

Geology of Denver and Vicinity by Geo. L. Cannon, Jr. , Colorado Scientific Society. 1894 (per web search). 9x6", 36p. (owner's name, author's compliments, cover faintly soiled with slight bend line). $19

Geology of Green and Yampa river canyons and vicinity, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah and Colorado. By G.E. Untermann and B.R. Untermann. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1949, Vol. 33(5), pages 683-694. $3

GSA Geohostel 1992 : Road Logs and supplemental materials. Presented by Gregory Holden and Kenneth Kolm. Geological Society of America, GSA 1992. 11x8.5", paged in sections (about 120p.). Includes the following day trips : Durango geology and Animas river glacial system, Mesa Verde, Durango to Silverton Railroad, La Plata river geologic and ecological transect, San Juan mountains transect. Contents are partly copies from other sources. $15

Harding and Fremont formations, Colorado by Walter C. Sweet. 1954. Extracted from Bulletin of AAPG 38(2). 9x6", 22p. illus. (pencil note on first page). $3

INQUA Guidebook for one-day field conferences : Boulder Area, Colorado. 1965 International Association for quaternary research, 7th congress. 8x5.5", 80p., maps, 13 different field trips. (small sticker marker on front cover, a few small pen tick marks) $14

Mineral and Water Resources of Colorado. 1968. Report of the USGS in collaboration with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board. Senate report : 90th Congress, 2nd Session, Document # 115. Very detailed. 9x6", 302p., illus. (title written on spine) $7

Molas and associated formations in San Juan basin – Needle mountains area, southwestern Colorado. By William Merrill and Richard Winar. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1958, Vol. 42(9), pages 2107-2132. $4

Niobrara-Pierre boundary along front range, Colorado. By L.W. LeRoy and N.C. Schieltz. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1958, vol. 42(10), pages 2444-2464. $5

On the crustal shortening of the Colorado Rockies. 1923. Amer. J Sci. 7p. (cover detached) $1

Pennsylvanian and lower Permain of northern Denver basin, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. By John H. Hoyt. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1962, Vol. 46(1), pages 46-59. $3

Petrology and weathering of the Iron Dike, Boulder and Larimer counties, Colorado. By Ernest E. Wahlstrom. 1956, Extracted from Bulletin GSA, pages 147-163, illus. $5

Pikes Peak, Plum Creek and South Platte Forest Reserves : This is a group of three folded color maps, each showing the same region of Colorado, with forest density, burned areas, and range of principal timber trees. By John G. Jack. 1898. Scale about 1" = 4 miles. Each map measures around 17” x 22" – the set would look neat framed. They were printed as part of Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1897 - 1998: Part V -- Forest Reserves, plates 8, 9, 10. These are topographic maps with color for classifications and forests, various tones of soft green, brown and soft yellow.. (Good. Crease intersections may have short tears. One map has two folded corner tips, one map has a bumped edge.) $12

PROSPECTOR 1970. This is the yearbook from the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, volume 54. Hardback, 11x9”, color photo cover and color photo end papers, 336p., heavily illustrated, some color. The student body is extremely (almost humorously) weighted toward males in this year – the few female students must have been precious commodity! Good (All VG, but cover is rubbed) $32

Ralston formation of Canyon City embayment, Colorado. By E.A. Frederickson and others. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1956, Vol. 40(9), pages 2120-2148. $7

Regional Coal Development in the West-Central Colorado Environmental Statement Area. 1990 US Dept. of the Interior. Covers from north of Craig to south of Rico, Western Colorado state border nearly to Leadville in the East. * * * This map also identifies different kinds of public land holdings. Scale : 1" = 4 miles. Map printed in color on both sides. (outside (when-folded) faintly soiled). $5

Roadside Geology of Colorado by Halka Chronic. 1980. 322p., very nicely illustrated with photographs, cross-sections and more. 1983 printing. Very good condition. $11

Sedimentary environments in Cretaceous Dakota sandstone in northwestern Colorado. By Donald W. Lane. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1963, Vol. 47(2), pages 229-256. $5

Seismic models of sandstone stratigraphic traps in Rocky Mountains Basins by Robert Ryder, Myung Lee, and Gerald Smith. 1981 AAPG. 11x8.5", spiral bound, 77p. of text with smaller illustrations plus a number of unpaged large fold-out figures. Covers 15 specific fields in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and New Mexico as well as general information. (Good : Conoco library labels on cover, library pocket inside cover. Covers lightly rubbed) $28

South Canyon creek dolomite member, a unit of phosphoria age in Maroon formation near Glenwood springs, Colorado. By. N. Wood Bass and Stuart A. Northrop. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1950, Vol. 34(7), pages 1540-1551. $3

Stratigraphy and structure of the Coalville area, Utah. Summit County. By David W. Trexler. 1966 Professional contributions of the Colorado School of mines, number 2. 9x6”, 69p., frontispiece, 22 figures, 4 plates in pocket (1 in color). $15

Stratigraphy, biostratigraphic zonation, and depositional history of the Fort Hays limestone and adjacent strata (Upper Cretaceous), southern western interior. by Norman Ralph King. PhD. thesis, 1972, Dept. of Geology, Indiana University. 11x8.5", 220p., illus. This is a fair photocopy, hole-punch bound into a simple folder. From the abstract, "Stratigraphic and paleontologic data were gathered from the Fort Hays limestone and adjacent strata at 36 exposures located throughtout Colorado, in northern New Mexico, and in western Kansas." (Fair : has some high-lighting, folder corners bumped) $16

Stratigraphy of the Pando area, Eagle county, Colorado. By Ogden Tweto. 1949. Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings Volume 15(4). Softcover, 9x6”, pages 149-235, 4 figure. (nice condition, but no outer wraps) $18

Stratigraphy of upper Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks of Raton basin, Colorado and New Mexico. By Ross B. Johnson and Gordon H. Wood, Jr. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1956, Vol. 40(4), pages 707-721. $4

Veins of Boulder and Kalgoorlie (Boulder county, Colorado). 1902. Amer Inst Min Engin. 11p. $2

Zones of Pierre formation of Colorado. By Mary O. Griffitts. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1949, Vol. 33(12), pages 2011-2028. $4