New Mexico Geological Society · Socorro, NM

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Socorro Region III

2022
426 pages

Daniel J. Koning, Kevin M. Hobbs, Fred M. Phillips, W. John Nelson, Steven M. Cather, Anne C. Jakle, and Brittney Van Der Werff, [editors] 2022, 426 pages. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-72

$65.00

Research papers are free to download.
Roadlogs, mini-papers and some other sections are available in print.


SKU: FFC-72

About this guidebook

Beautifully exposed geologic features in the Socorro region exemplify important events in the geologic history of central New Mexico. The relative ease of access to these intriguing features from the town of Socorro justifies a third NMGS visit to this area. The 2022 Fall Field Conference will showcase new mapping, geochronology, and other geologic studies that have occurred in the Socorro region since the 1983 Fall Field Conference. The array of rocks seen here include Proterozoic crystalline rocks, a relatively complete Pennsylvanian-Permian section, Oligocene volcanic rocks, Santa Fe Group deposits from all phases of rifting, and a complete set of post-Santa Fe Group, Quaternary terraces. Fault-propagation and fault-bend folds associated with the Laramide orogeny, in addition to rift-related domino-block tilting and half-grabens, are also nicely exposed in the Socorro area. This volume includes detailed road logs of the Socorro area, including the Little San Pascual Mountains. Twenty-one peer-reviewed, technical papers and seven minipapers present recent research of this important region.

Contents & downloads

Note — Downloads of the papers below are free.

Road logs, mini-papers, and some other sections of recent guidebooks are only available in print.

Front Matter

(includes Dedication, President’s Message, & Conference Organizer’s Message)

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Roadlogs

(each includes listed mini-papers)

Pre-meeting Road Log: Little San Pascual Mountains

Daniel J. Koning, W. John Nelson, and Scott Elrick, pp. 2-29.

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Mini-papers

History of San Antonio

D.J. Koning, pp. 25-26.

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Mineral resources in the Little San Pascual Mountains, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro County, New Mexico

Virginia T. McLemore, pp. 27-29.

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First-day Road Log: Quebradas Region

Daniel J. Koning, W. John Nelson, Richard Chamberlin, Spencer G. Lucas, Scott Elrick, and Laila Sturgis, pp. 30-63.

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Mini-papers

A new constraint on the onset of Cenozoic crustal extension in the central Rio Grande rift near Socorro, New Mexico

R.M. Chamberlin, W.C. McIntosh, M.T. Heizler, and D.J. Koning, pp. 60-62.

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Second-day Road Log: Chupadera Mountains

Daniel J. Koning, Richard Chamberlin, and David W. Love, pp. 64-121.

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Mini-papers

Branch railroads in relation to the geology of Socorro County

K.M. Hobbs, pp. 109-111.

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Magnetic field intensity evidence for a buried basalt body in Socorro Canyon

G.A. Spinelli, A. Clark, M. Clark, S. Edel, S. Farrar, J. Fastle, C. Greigo, K. Haar, S. Kupis, Y. Li, K. Malone, J. McComas, K. Murray, N. Phillips, M. Shaffer, W. Shaw, K. Smith, F. Stopa, N. Trujillo, A. Winton, and R. Xu, pp. 112-113.

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Socorro’s 1964 UFO Incident

W.J. Nelson and D.J. Koning, pp. 114-116.

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Magdalena water-level variations and replacement supply well construction: the Trujillo replacement well, Village of Magdalena, Socorro County, New Mexico

E. A. Melis, pp. 117-121.

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Third-day Road Log: Lemitar Mountains and San Lorenzo Canyon

Richard Chamberlin, Daniel J. Koning, and Andrew Jochems, pp. 122-142.

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Papers

Pennsylvanian stratigraphy and biostratigraphy in the Cerros de Amado, Socorro County, New Mexico

Spencer G. Lucas, Karl Krainer, James E. Barrick, Bruce D. Allen, and W. John Nelson, pp. 147-164.

Vertebrate fossils in the upper Pennsylvanian (Missourian) Tinajas Member of the Atrasado Formation, Socorro County, New Mexico

Susan K. Harris and Spencer G. Lucas, pp. 165-170.

Pennsylvanian stratigraphy in the Sierra Ladrones, Socorro County, New Mexico

Spencer G. Lucas, Karl Krainer, and Bruce D. Allen, pp. 171-185.

Summary of the stratigraphy of both foot- and hanging-wall exposures of the Cliff fault, southern embayment of the Albuquerque Basin, Socorro County, New Mexico

David W. Love, Eda Celep, David J. McCraw, and Daniel J. Koning, pp. 253-263.

Early Pleistocene (late Blancan) vertebrates from Simon Canyon, Socorro County, central New Mexico.

Gary S. Morgan, Daniel J. Koning, M. Steven Shackley, David W. Love, Kevin M. Hobbs, and Andrew P. Jochems, pp. 265-279.

Fossil wood in the upper Santa Fe Group, south-central New Mexico: implications for mineralization style and paragenesis

Jochems, Andrew P. Hobbs, Kevin M. and George E. Mustoe, pp. 295-304.

Reconnaissance assessments of three contractional fault-related folds along the Quebradas Back Country Byway, Socorro County, New Mexico

Stephen C. Hook and Peter A. Brennan, pp. 305-319.

Cataclasites in a fault zone exposed in a bedrock quarry near San Marcial, New Mexico, suggest multiple modes of deformation in interlayered sedimentary and volcanic rocks

Kevin M. Hobbs, pp. 321-328.

Audio-magnetotelluric survey of a shallow aquifer east of Mesa del Contadero, central New Mexico

Shari A. Kelley and Daniel J. Koning, pp. 329-339.

Distribution of geomorphic landforms and soils along the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro in the Socorro area: implications for trafficability and trail routing

Brad D. Sion, Christopher J. Baish, and Janelle Bustarde, pp. 399-412.

Back Matter

(usually includes a stratigraphic column and/or correlation chart)

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Recommended citation

  1. Koning, Daniel J.; Hobbs, Kevin J.; Phillips, Fred M.; Nelson, W. John; Cather, Steven M.; Jakle, Anne C.; Van Der Werff, Brittney, 2022, Socorro Region III, New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook, 72nd Annual Field Conference, 426 pp. ISBN: 1-58546-115-6 https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-72