Geologic Mapping Advisory Committee priorities for Arizona

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):

(1) Phoenix-Tucson corridor
(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