The former Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology from 1960 through 1970, Dr. Flawn recalls his early days in the field in West Texas, his dealings with the Department of Geological Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, his decade as Bureau Director, and his various consulting activities during this time.

We studied the Hickory Sandstone Member of the Riley Formation, Central Texas, to assess the diagenetic history of a cratonic sandstone, which, in spite of its great age, remains porous and permeable where it has not been buried more than 1 km.