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Commercial potential of the Buckhorn, New Mexico, clinoptilolite deposit
Mark R. Bowie New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Buckhorn zeolite deposit, discovered in 1962, is a source of high-grade clinoptilolite. The deposit contains two zeolitic air-fall tuffs exposed
Late Paleozoic sea-level fluctuations, northern Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico
Arthur L. Bowsher Yates Petroleum Corp., 207 S. 4th St., Artesia, NM, 88210 Reef complexes of Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Permian age are excellently exposed in the northern part of the Sacramento Mountains. The Lake Valley
Comparison of ground-water-recharge rates based on chloride, stable-isotope, and tritium content of vadose water at the Navajo mine, northwest New Mexico
William J. Stone New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 A preliminary study of recharge at the Navajo Mine, based on a chloride mass-balance approach, indicated are charge rate of 0.51
A preliminary report of a dewatering case history–The San Acacia low flow conveyance channel headworks rehabilitation, Socorro County, New Mexico
W. K. Summers1 and Chester McCallum2 1W. K. Summers and Associates, Inc., Socorro, NM, 87801 2Gracon Corporation, Loveland, CO, 80539 To replace the headworks that divert water from the Rio Grande to the low-flow diversion
Structural and stratigraphic analysis of Precambrian rocks in the Ladron Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico
Keith R. Taylor Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 A stratigraphy characterized by a wide range of metasedimentary and metavolcanic lithologies is present in the Ladron Mountains. Although significantly deformed, a
Microfacies analysis and depositional environment comparison of two sections of Ordovician El Paso Formation, southern Franklin Mountains, west Texas, and northern Big Hatchet Mountains, southwest New Mexico
David T. Million Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Box 3AB, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 The lower Ordovician El Paso Formation contains four members, in ascending order: Hitt Canyon, Jose, McKelligon and Padre.
Formation of tension joints in sedimentary rocks in New Mexico and Virginia
Ronald M. Linden1 and Antonius J. Budding1 1Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Tension joints in flat-lying sediments are produced during uplift by thf’ release of strain energy
Stratigraphy of the Shell Isleta No. 2 well, Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico
Richard P. Lozinsky New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Petrographic studies of cuttings and core from the Shell Isleta No. 2 oil exploration well provide data on the stratigraphy and
Stratigraphy of the San Jose and upper Nacimiento Formations, central San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Larry N. Smith Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Correlation of 72 well logs along three intersecting cross sections provides a stratigraphic framework for Paleogene strata in the central portion of
Precambrian geoogy of the Jawbone Mountain area, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Stewart S. Smith Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Precambrian rocks in the Jawbone Mountain area can be grouped into three packages of supracrustal rocks, one of
Snowmelt, ground-water storage and runoff production in several northern New Mexico watersheds–Multiple controls on discharge magnitude and timing
Keith I. Kelson Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Discharge per unit area difiers in both magnitude and timing during spring snowmelt in six adjacent northern New Mexico watersheds. Gneiss and
A field study of the consumptive water use of a Dalea scoparia plant in an arid, sand dune environment, New Mexico
Barbara J. Kickham Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Quantifying water uptake by desert plant roots is highly relevant to groundwater-recharge studies in arid climates. The amount of
Transmissivity estimation and correlation structure in the Columbus Basin, New Mexico
Neil Blandford Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 This summary describes a portion of an ongoing stochastic groundwater modelling study of the Columbus Basin, New Mexico. Transmissivity estimates