• May 2013

    Dear members, associate members, and student members; Thank you for allowing me to serve as your CCGS President for 2012-2013, your CCGS President –Elect 2011- 2012, your CCGS Vice President –Program Chairman for 2010-2011, and your CCGS Technical Chairman for 2 years 2009-2010 and 2008-2009. It has been an honor and a privilege to work […]

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  • April 2013

    Spring is essentially here in South Texas. Gas prices are in the $3.75/MCF range and Oil is fairly steady between $90-$100/BBL. CCGS has two formal noon luncheons left for our operational year with a local excellent presentation lined up for April and the May finale speaker is being worked on. Our speaker for March, Jeffery […]

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  • March 2013

    Spring is rapidly approaching our part of the World. Winter in the United States has been skewed toward the North Eastern 1/3 of our Country this year due to the predominant position of the steering jet stream. The South Western United States has literally been on the warm side of that steering jet stream and […]

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  • January 2013

    Season’s greetings from CCGS. Happy New Year and I trust you had a wonderful Christmas with your family. 2013 is here and into the future we go. Life and Geology are wondrous continuums of change. Change is the ultimate denominator of the entire Universe so embrace it! On Monday, December 3th Volunteers from CCGS met […]

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  • December 2012

    Our November meeting was a very important meeting in that nine students from our surrounding universities received Scholarship awards to help with the expense of their Geoscience Education. Congratulations to all the students who received Scholarships supporting their hard work and efforts. This month we have two milestone announcements: The first being that after several […]

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  • November 2012

    The Boulders In Schools Program is really starting to “roll”. CCGS has placed Boulders in five Schools and at the Corpus Christi Botanical Gardens, the last one being Kaffee Middle School, with several more lined up to happen between now and the end of the year. This CCGS Program is suddenly becoming increasingly popular with […]

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  • October 2012

    CCGS is definitely “out of the bronc gate” for the start of our “Embrace Geology” year! What-A-BBQ that was! Thank you Members, and Guests, and Students for the tremendous turnout at the Kickoff BBQ served up South Texas Style in the BBQ Man Patio Cantina. Mike Lucente that was an amazing display of fossilized bones […]

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  • September 2012

    The CCGS is already rolling with a full head of steam this year and has been through most of the Summer of 2012. One of our most important functions of the summer was the annual CCGS Saltwater Fishing Tournament which was held on Saturday, July 28th. We had a great turnout and this year we […]

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  • Dennis A. Taylor

      “A Wild Goose Chase on the Texas Gulf Coast” The Seabreeze Field had been there a long time and had been thoroughly drilled; so everyone thought! The location of Seabreeze Field is in Southeast Texas in Chambers County (Figure 1.) Finally following a letter request to management, we had acquired a 3D data set […]

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  • Dennis Taylor

    Life is surrounded by a complex set of beautiful natural patterns both simple and complex. I have been surrounded by them since the day I was born and have constantly been in awe of the wonders of these natural patterns on our fantastic planet. That is the number one reason that I got into Geology […]

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