Show l Texas Students Arrive for Summer Graduate Program For the third su summer er Moab Moal win will be the center for a n summer training session of Texas Tech student geologists and the study of unique structures within the area aren Dr F. F Alton Wade head of the department of geology at Texas Tech arrived Saturday with four students and plans for mapping the complicated salt structures of Onion Creek and Upheaval Dome near Moab Dr Wade will be assisted I by byA byA A A. A M. M Johnson and Pat Crossland Cross Cross- land in the mapping of Onion Creek north of Moab and Upheaval Upheaval Upheaval Up Up- dome salt anticlines The new research work will wilt be combined combiner com corn biner with studies by Gulf Gull Coast salt dome specialist Dr Ur Gordon I t. Atwater and others other In a n publication by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists I Two other students Vestal and Phillip willbo will wilt willbe be bo mapping areas north and I south of Moab as part of ot their masters masters' theses Bob Dob Norman district supervisor or with Taylor Delhi Oil Corporation Cor Cor- and president of the newly formed Intermountain Research Research Research Re Re- search Foundation announced d that the Texas Tech geological department is currently assIstIng assistIng assIst assIst- Ing ng the foundation towards establishing establishing establishing es es- es- es a special summer school in Moab to be attended by y Gulf Coast geologists of major major maor ma- ma jor or companies Recently one maor ma jor or company visited here with Dr Dr r Richard Mattox of Texas Tech ch to study the salt dome domen n tur y n near ar Moab The major malor oil il lt Officials I dals' dals are interested in fit it this area because of its excellence in displaying displaying dis dis- playing the complications asso osso- dated elated with salt structures In IQ their own Gulf GuU Coast area where their future oil reserves lie tae The initiation of such a program program program pro pro- gram would require the participation participation pation of several companies with supervision through Texas Tech and the Research I Foundation |