Rock Elm Old Settler’s Club – Annual Meeting
November 7 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Join us at noon for the traditional meal of chicken pot pie, followed by a short business meeting, and then a presentation by Dr. William S. Cordua on the Rock Elm Meteor.
Title: The Rock Elm Meteor Impact Structure: Discovery and Geology
The Rock Elm area is the site of 450 million year old impact crater that later filled with sediment and has now been partly exposed by erosion. This talk goes through, in layman’s terms, how the feature was recognized and verified, producing the unique features of the area’s landscape.
Dr. Bill Cordua is a retired professor from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls where he taught geology for 40 years. He has written over 100 articles for the general public on geology. Dr. Cordua is in the education division of the Rockhound and Lapidary Hall of Fame and has received the Katherine Greacen Nelson Award honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to the earth sciences in Wisconsin.