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1985
The Las Cruces geothermal field–A flow model
James T. Gross1 and Thomas H. Giordano1 1Department of Earth Science, Box 3AB, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 An integrated investigation of the Las Cruces Geothermal Field is currently in progress. A preliminary flow model based
The geology, petrology, and weathering of extrusive rocks, Tetilla Peak, New Mexico
Michael E. Jackson Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Detailed geologic and petrologic studies of extrusive rocks from Tetilla Peak, New Mexico permit evaluation of the influences of geomorphic and pedogenic
A model for the origin of Jones Camp dike magnetite deposits, Socorro County, New Mexico
John E. Jenkins Geoscience Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Jones Camp dike magnetite deposits in eastern Socorro County are an example of a hydrothermal contact-metasomatic deposit. Other similar
Reconstruct; on of Pleistocene Pluvial Stages in the Owens River System by Chlorine-36 Dating of Evaporites From Searles and Panamint Valleys, CA.
Nancy Olga Jannik1, Fred M. Phillips1, George I. Smith2 and David Elmore3 1Geoscience Department. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Branch of Energy Minerals, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, 94025
Petrogenetic Evolution of Lavas of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
James A. Moore1 and Philip R. Kyle1 1Geoscience Department New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Mt. Erebus, the most active volcano in Antarctica, dominates the alkaline volcanic complex of Ross Island,
Hydrogen Isotope and Bromine Study of Antarctic Palagonitic Hyaloclastites, Tuffs, and Breccias: A Method of Determining Eruptive Environments?
Johnson W. D.1, Kyle P. R.1 and J. Bowman2 1Geoscience Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84102 Thirty-eight
Investigation of Volatiles in Rhyolitic Magma Chambers
N. W. Dunbar1 and P. R. Kyle1 1Department of Geoscience, N.M.I.M.T., Socorro, NM, 87801 Obsidian, crystals and pumice occur in many tephra layers from the Taupo and Okataina volcanic centers of the Taupo Volcanic Zone,
Sediment textural characteristics of the Point Lookout Formation, southeastern San Juan Basin–Relation to depositional processes
Robyn Wright The University of New Mexico Department of Geology, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Five major depositional environments preserved within the progradational sequence of the Point Lookout Saildstone are: Offshore Transition Zone, Shoreface/ Delta Front, Foreshore,
An isotopic investigation of ground water in the central San Juan Basin, New Mexico–Paleoclimatic implications
M. K. Tansey1, F. M. Phillips2 and L. E. Peeters2 1IT Corporation, 2340 Alamo, S.E., Albuquerque, NM, 87106 2Geoscience Department, NMIMT, Socorro, NM, 87801 Carbon-14, oxygen-18, deuterium, and noble gases were measured in 35 wells
Petrology and geochemistry of inclusions in alkali-olivine basalts, Elephant Butte area, New Mexico
John C. Kelly1, Bradley S. Singer1 and Albert M. Kudo1 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Eruption of alkali-olivine basalt has dominated Quaternary volcanism in the area east of Elephant Butte
Should the term “Santa Fe Group” be abandoned?
Spencer G. Lucas Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 In 1869 Hayden originally applied the term “Santa Fe marls” to the “recent marls and sands which seem to occupy the greater
Cf. Edmontosaurus sp. And Turonian scaphite from the Maastrichtian Naashobito Member, Kirtland Shale, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas1, C. Wayne Oakes1 and Adrian P. Hunt1 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 UNM (University of New Mexico) FKK-200 is a partial skeleton of a hadrosaurian dinosaur, cf.
Eocene sedimentation and tectonics, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Larry N. Smith Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The fluvial San Jose Formation was deposited unconformably across pre-Eocene rocks during early Eocene Laramide tectonism in the San Juan Basin and
Paleocurrent and facies analysis of the Abo Formation in the Zuni Mountains, New Mexico
John R. MacMillan Geoscience Dept., N.M. Tech,, Socorro, NM, 87801 At least two siliclastic facies occur within the exposed lower two-thirds of the Permian red bed Abo Formation where it nonconformably overlies the Precambrian crystalline
Stratigraphic framework of the Pliocene Puye Formation, Espanola Basin, north-central Rio Grande rift, New Mexico
John G. McPherson1, Damon B. Waresback1 and Jack R. Flannery1 1Department of Geology, The University of Texas, Arlington, TX, 76019 The Puye Formation is an infilling of the Velarde graben on the western side of
Thermal maturation of the Mesilla Valley Formation (late Albian) on the north and east flanks of the Cerro de Cristo Rey pluton, Dona Ana County, New Mexico
William D. Norland Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas, El Paso, NM, 79968 Intrusion of the Muleros Andesite pluton (middle Eocene) into Cretaceous rocks in southern Dona Ana Co., N.M., resulted in an
Prediction and testing of collapsing soils in New Mexico
Richard F. Reimers1 and Gary D. Johnpeer1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral, Socorro, NM, 87801 The increasing occurrence of structural failure due to foundation conditions has prompted a number of geotechnical investigations in
Explosive rhyolite rolcanism in the Jemez Mountains–Vent and caldera locations and relationships to regional structures
Stephen A. Self1, J. V. Wright1, F. Goff2, J. Gardner1 and G. Heiken2 1Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76010 2Earth and Space Science Division, Los Alamos National laboratory, Los Alamos,
Geology, geochemistry, and Sr-isotope systematics of Polvadera Group rocks, northern Jemez volcanic field, New Mexico
Bradley S. Singer Dept. of Geology, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Basaltic andesite, andesite, dacite, and rhyodacite of the Pliocene Polva-dera Group on La Grulla Plateau display smooth continuous major element trends. The
A preliminary interpretation of some compositional and textural gradients across a mafic facies of the Organ Needle quartz monzonite, New Mexico
Joan B. Beyer1, M. McCurry1 and W. R. Seager1 1Department of Earth Science, New Mexico State University, Box 3AB, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 The Organ Needle Quartz Monzonite was the earliest major intrusive phase of
Bedrock influence on semiarid drainage basin evolution in the southeastern Colorado Plateau, New Mexico–Implications for evaluation of stable landscapes
Thomas F. Bullard Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Soils-geomorphic studies and basin morphometric and morphologic analysis form the basis for evaluating the influence of differing bedrock lithology on the geomorphic
Gigantic bellerophontid gastropods from the Pennsylvanian of the Mud Springs Mountains, New Mexico
Barry S. Kues Dept. of Geology, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The Mud Springs Mountains, a few miles northwest of Truth or Consequences, contain a Pennsylvanian section more than 1700′ thick (Kottlowski, 1960).
How do you want 9,347,473 acres of national forest land in New Mexico managed? (abs.)
Tom Collins Minerals Management USDA, Forest Service (R-3), Federal Building, 6th Floor, 517 Gold Ave., S.W., Albuquerque, NM, 87102 Each of the six National Forests in New Mexico are developing precedent-setting land management plans. These
Chemical analyses of time-dependent samples of ground water collected during pumping tests in New Mexico
W. Kelly Summers1, Geraldine Schwab1 and Lynn A. Brandvold2 1W. K. Summers and Associates, Inc., Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Chemical analyses of 46 time-dependent samples