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AAPG - Canada region Iron Horse Energy Services Stoked Oats Geovariances Trican Laboratories McDaniel & Associates Consultants TABLE OF CONTENTS MAY/JUNE 2019 – VOLUME 46, ISSUE 3 MONTHLY SPONSORS ..............................................................................................4 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR ...................................................................................6 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD ...............................................................................7 TECHNICAL ARTICLE GeoConvention Session Spotlight ...........................................................................9 Core Conference .....................................................................................................11 Revisiting the Mississippian Alida Beds in the Williston Basin FRONT COVER of Southeastern Saskatchewan ..............................................................................13 Coastal cliffs near Antofagasta, Chile. Shelly, shallow marine sands and conglomerates of the Miocene-Pliocene La Correlating Clearwater Sandstones Within the MartenHills and Portada Formation rest unconformably on Nipisi Regions of North-Central Alberta ...............................................................16 Jurassic volcanics of La Negra Formation in Antofagasta in northern Chile. This Core Conference Technical Program & Schedule ................................................18 stratigraphic relationship represents a Tertiary transgression onto the remnant of a Jurassic Andean volcanic arc. Go Take a Hike ........................................................................................................20 The arc itself hosts important copper deposits across northern Chile. UPCOMING EVENTS Photo: Francois Tremblay Technical Luncheon ...............................................................................................22 Division Talks ..........................................................................................................23 GEOCOMMUNITY TALKS GeoWomen Luncheon Talk ...................................................................................28 SOCIETY NEWS 2019 Honorary Address – An Evening With Dr. Scott Tinker ..............................28 West Coast Lecture Tour Wrap-up ........................................................................33 Rock Analysis Workshop ........................................................................................34 Stanley Slipper Award Citation For 2018 ...............................................................35 R.J.W. Douglas Medal .............................................................................................38 RESERVOIR ISSUE 3 • MAY/JUNE 2019 5 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Welcome to May/June! The weekly version of the Reservoir, the e-newsletter continues the evolution Ask any golfer about season change and of communications for and with the they will speak lovingly about green geoscience community throughout the greens, fair fairways and tall tees. Or year. Keep those suggestions coming – maybe, the transition from white winter we want to keep our communications to green winter. This is Canada, after all. system tuned to your needs. Kudos Tom Sneddon For petroleum geoscientists, however, to Emma, Candace, Kristy, Kasandra Professional Geologist (Alberta), spring and summer means The Classic. and Lis for the innovations they have Professional Geoscientist (B.C.) retired The Mixed. The Wave and the Doodlebug, supported and to the volunteers who recently as Director of Geoscience and Outreach if they are of the geophysics persuasion. keep the Society show on the road. for APEGA, has been a member of the CSPG The