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1988
Vitrininte-reflectance-determined lithotemperatures of sedimentary rocks intruded by an igneous dike near Dulce, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Neely H. Bostick U.S. Geological Survey, ms-901, Denver Federal Center, Denver, NM, 80225-0046 Volcanic dikes are prominent in many western states. Petrologists have studied dike composition and texture, and have measured rock melting and crystalization
Stream-aquifer relations in the Mesilla ground-water basin, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, and El Paso County, Texas
R. G. Myers1 and E. L. Nickerson1 1U.S. Geological Survey, Dept. 3167, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM, 88003-0001 Hydrologic sections consisting of observation-well groups and a river-stage gage were established along
SHAPES, PARAMETERS, AND MOMENT ESTIMATORS OF LOG-HYPERBOLIC GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS COMPARED WITH NORMATIVE STATISTICAL TREATMENTS
D. W. Love1, Allan Gutjahr2 and Andreas Lazari2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Mathematics Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Normative treatment of geologically
Revision of the New Mexico state geologic map: Compilation method, nomenclature changes, and stratigraphic reassignments
Orin J. Anderson1 and Darrell L. Daude1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 In 1985, a decision to revise and publish an updated version of the 1965 New Mexico State
A preliminary report on the hydrogeothermics of the Socorro area, New Mexico
Margaret W. Barroll1 and Marshall Reiter1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Socorro area has been tectonically, volcanically and geothermally active since
Geology of Bravo Dome carbon dioxide gas field, northeast New Mexico
Ronald F. Broadhead New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Bravo Dome carbon-dioxide gas field is located in union and Harding Counties of northeast New Mexico. The Bravo Dome field
Jemez-derived pumice near San Antonio, New Mexico: Depositional processes and implications
Steven M. Cather New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Pumiceous sedimentary deposits containing cobble-sized clasts are exposed in bluffs located about 5 km east of San Antonio, NM. These deposits
The stratigraphy of the Cueva Tuff, part of a major intracaldera ash-flow tuff within the Late Oligocene Organ cauldron, southern New Mexico
Delane P. Fitzpatrick1, M. McCurry1 and W. R. Seager1 1Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 The Organ Cauldron is rotated to the west by late Tertiary extensional faults within
Precambrian geology of the Upper Brazos Box area, Tusas Mountains, New Mexico
Joan L. Gabelman Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Early Proterozoic supracrustal and plutonic rocks are exposed along the upper Rio Brazos in the Tusas Mountains of northern
Fold transection in the Picuris Range, northern New Mexico
Paul W. Bauer New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Picuris Range contains early Proterozoic supracrustal rocks that, have experienced progressive polyphase deformation at medium grade metamorphic conditions. The ortega
Fluid inclusions in fossil resins: Their origin, classification, and chemistry
Diane M. Bellis1 and Donald L. Wolberg1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Fossil resins (amber) are a complex mixture of extensively polymerized organic molecules of worldwide distribution and is
Use of slug and bailer tests as guides to aquifer parameters
Clay L. Kilmer1 and T. E. Kelly1 1Geohydrology Associates., Inc, 4015-A Carlisle, N.E., Albuquerque, NM, 884-0580 Testing techniques ·have been described in the literature which allow for the acquisition of hydrologic data from wells where
Geometry of high frequency shoreline cycles: Point Lookout Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Steven N. Hayden1, Robyn Wright1 and Jean-Luc Miossec1 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 High frequency (<100,000) transgressive (T-R) shoreline couplets form the building units of the Point Lookout Sandstone. Following
Triassic Moenkopi Formation of the Lucero uplift, Valencia County, New Mexico
Steven N. Hayden1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The oldest Triassic strata in west-central New Mexico have previously been assigned to various formations. Originally classified as
Hydrogeologic effects of dewatering an open-pit copper mine near Tyrone, New Mexico
Deborah L. Hathaway State Engineer Office, Bataan Memorial Building, Santa Fe, NM, 87503 A finite difference ground-water flow model has been developed for the area surrounding Tyrone, New Mexico, to determine the effects of dewatering
Taphonomy of two Meniscotherium assemblages from the Eocene San Jose Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Thomas E. Williamson1 and Steven. McCarroll2 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2Department of Geological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60680 Two localities within the lower Eocene San Jose Formation
The oldest prosauropod dinosaur in North America from the upper shale member of the Chinle Formation (late Triassic) in east-central New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Isolated teeth from the lower third of the upper shale member of the Chinle Formation in east-central New Mexico represent at least
Structural and stratigraphic controls of deposition and microstratigraphy of fluorite-barite deposits in the southern Rio Grande rift, New Mexico
Timothy P. McMahon1 and Thomas H. Giordano1 1Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Areas within the southern Rio Grande Rift in which fluorite-barite deposits occur include the Bishop Cap
Paleontology of the Petrified Forest Member of the Chinle Formation (late Triassic), central Sandoval County, north-central New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1, Paul L. Sealey1 and L. Kim Martini1 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Fossil vertebrates, invertebrates and plants are locally abundant in the Petrified Forest Member (PFM) of
Hydrogeology of the San Agustin Basin, the Alamosa Creek basin upstream from Monitcello Box and the upper Gila Basin, west-central New Mexico
Robert G. Myers U.S. Geological Survey, Dept. 3167, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM, 88003-0001 The San Agustin Basin, Alamosa Creek basin upstream from I Monticello Box, and the upper Gila Basin
Triassic stratigraphy near Lamy, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Bruce D. Allen1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The Triassic section exposed near Lamy is approximately 410 m thick and can be divided into three distinct
Interpretation of heat-flow and coal maturation data in west-central New Mexico
Jeffrie Minier1 and Marshall Reiter1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Two general hypotheses have been proposed to describe the tectonic evolution of
Travertine quarries and deposits in New Mexico
James M. Barker New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Travertine, produced at two quarries in New Mexico, is a banded limestone deposited at or near the surface by ground water.
Correlations between heat-flow and hydrologic data from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Marshall Reiter1 and F. M. Phillips2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources and Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Geoscience Department and Geophysical Research Center, New