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Spring Meeting Abstracts

Explore research presented at the NMGS Annual Spring Meeting. Browse abstracts from 1983 onward, choose a meeting year, or open an abstract to read the full text.

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1988

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Ground-water levels and direction of ground-water flow in the central part of Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Georgianna E. Kues United States Geological Survey, 4501 Indian School Rd. N.E., Albuquerque, NM, 87110 Ground-water levels in the central part of the basin are approximately at the altitude of the Rio Grande. water levels

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Investigation of rare-earth element occurrence

M. Willis P.O. Box 2466 C/S, Socorro, NM, 87801 The prospect is located in the Capitan Mountains Several miles north-east of the town of Capitan. The veins are hosted by a igneous stock (lacolith?) of

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