The AZGS Geologic Mapping Advisory Committee met in Phoenix recently to set priorities for our geologic mapping program a year from now.Areas recommended for new mapping were decided by vote as follows: Artillery – Date Creek Mountains area (13 points), Prescott area (8 points), and Safford area (8 points). The Kingman area was ranked fourth (6 points).
All of the top-ranked areas are in the long-term priority areas as determined at the 2009 meeting of the GMAC. It was decided in 2009 that long-range priority for new mapping should be for the following regions (listed order does not imply priority):
(2) Upper Verde
(3) Kingman-Harquahala
(4) San Pedro
(5) Lower Colorado River trough
(6) Upper Gila River
GMAC members include:
- Barbara Murphy, Clear Creek Associates
- Robert Linsell, Granite Construction
- Eric Mears, Brown & Caldwell
- Frank Corkhill, Az Dept. of Water Resources
- Jeff Garrett, BLM
- Joe Dixon, AZ State Land Dept.
- Nick Priznar, AZ Dept. of Transportation
- Ralph Weeks, AMEC
- Steve Reynolds, School of Earth & Space Exploration, ASU
- Wayne Hood, AZ Dept. of Environmental Quality
- William Greenslade, Southwest Ground-water Consultants
- William Wilkinson, Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold