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LANDFILL WASTE-DISPOSAL FACILITIES IN ARID AND SEMIARID REGIONS-A PRESENT AND FUTURE MINERAL RESOURCE
John W. Hawley New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 A successful extractive-minerals operation has always involved temporary storage of mine-mill by-products that can be reprocessed when economic
LEAD CONTAMINATION OF SOIL NEAR THE ABANDONED BILLING SMELTER, SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO
George S. Austin1, Lynn A. Brandvold1 and William J. Stone1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Billing smelter slag and waste piles in Park city near the southern border of
Applications of Pyrolysts-Gas Chromatography of Fossil Resin
Diane Bellis1 and Donald L. Wolberg1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Pyrolysis-gas chromatography provides a means of distinguishing fossil resin of different geological and botanical origin. The data described
RECENT STUDIES OF THE MEGAFLORA OF THE COAL-BEARING FRUITLAND FORMATION (CAMPANIAN-MASTRICHTIAN), SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO
D. L. Wolberg1, D. Bellis1, L. Howe1 and D. Hallock1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 This report documents paleofloral localities with exceptionally well preserved fossil material in the Campanian-Mastrichtian
ALLOCHTHONOUS PERMIAN ROCKS IN THE SOCORRO REGION OF THE RIO GRANDE RIFT: A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF EMPLACEMENT AND DEFORMATION
Ronald M. Linden1 and A. J. Budding1 1Geoscience Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Allochthonous Permian rocks of the Yeso, Glorieta, and San Andres Formations are present at a number
GEOLOGY OF THE RED RIVER DISTRICT, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
Thomas T. Roberts1, Virginia T. Mclemore2 and Gary A. Parkison3 1New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 3Westmont Mining Co., Denver,
Geologic map and descriptions of volcanic rock units of an area in the southern San Mateo Mountains, Socorro county, New Mexico
Michael L. Hermann1 and Eugene W. Cox2 1 5001 Northern Trail, NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87120 2 P.O. Box 3389 C. S., Socorro, NM, 87801 The map area comprises approximately 50 square miles (75.8 square km)
A Late Pennsylvanian Lingula-Solemya-Myalina community, Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mounatins, Central New Mexico
Barry S. Kues Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The Kinney quarry exposes a Virgilian sequence in the Madera Group that changes up-section from a dark gray, hard, platy, argillaceous limestone
TETRAPOD FAUNA OF THE REDONDA FORMATION (UPPER TRIASSIC), EAS’rCENTRAL NEW MEXICO
Adrian P. Hunt New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, 87194-7010 The Upper Triassic Redonda Formation is widely exposed in Quay and Guadalupe Counties in east-central New Mexico in the Tucumcari
Late Triassic fish from the Tucumcari Basin, East-Central New Mexico
Phillip Huber1, Adrian P. Hunt2 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87194 New finds
SOME TRIASSIC (CARNIAN) MICROFOSSILS FROM THE TECOVAS FORMATION, DOCKUM GROUP, NEAR KALGARY, TEXAS AND THEIR STRATIGRAPHIC IMPORTANCE
Kenneth K. Kietzke1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, 87194 Recent screenwashing of material from the Tecovas Formation (Triassic, Carnian) near Kalgary, Texas by the New
LATE CRETACEOUS SELACHIAN FAUNA FROM THE MULATTO TONGUE OF THE MANCOS SHALE, CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
Thomas E. Williamson1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87194 New Mexico
GROUND-WATER GEOHYDROLOGY OF CARRIZO WASH BASIN IN CATRON AND CIBOLA COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO
Robert G. Myers U.S. Geological Survey, Department 3167, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM, 88003-0001 Major aquifers in the Carrizo Wash basin are present in the Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone and the Mesaverde
NEW MEXICAN ADOBE RELATED TO OTHER ADOBES
George S. Austin1 and Tanya G. Brickell2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral I Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Geoscience Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 A recent study of
Gold Mineralization and Precambrian Geology of the Hopewell Lake Area, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
I. O. Boadi1, D. I. Norman1 and J. M. Robertson2 1Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 The
GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MINE, SONORA, MEXICO
Luis Changkuon1 and Andrew R. Campbell1 1Geoscience Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 The San Francisco Mine is located one mile SE of Estacion Llano, which is 70 miles S
GEOCHEMISTRY OF VEINS IN THE CAPITAN MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO
Randall S. Phillips1, Andrew R. Campbell1, Virginia T. Mclemore2 and Marc Willis3 1New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Geoscience Dept., Socorro, NM, 87801 2Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM,
SUPERIMPOSED ORE MINERALIZATION IN THE ORGAN DISTRICT, DONA ANA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
Virgil W. Lueth1, Nicholas E. Jr. Pingitore2 and Philip C. Goodell2 1Department of Physical Sciences, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX, 76402 2Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, El Paso, TX, 79968 Two distinct types
Early Paleozoic Karsting of the Franklin Mountains, West Texas and New Mexico
David V. Lemone Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, EI Paso, TX, 79968 The outstanding, primarily carbonate Franklin Mountains exposures of the Tobosa basin-related sediments (Ordovician-Devonian) reveal spectacular karsts that are analogous to synchronous
The Carbonate Hill Formation (Middle Cretaceous), central Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalogo County, New Mexico
David V. LeMone1, M. H. Sandidge1 and A. Altemeemi2 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, El Paso, TX, 79968 2Department of Geology, University of Kuwait, Kuwait, Kuwait Carbonate Hill sequences in the Peloncillo Mountains
DIAGENESIS AND POROSITY ORIGIN OF THE FENGCHENG FORMATION (MIDDLE AND LATE CARBONIFEROUS), NORTHWESTERN MARGIN, ZUNGER BASIN, WESTERN CHINA
Ming Luo1, D. V. Lemone1, Zhetna Luo2 and Xiunkang Deng2 1Geological Sciences, University of Texas, EI Paso, TX, 79968 2Petroleum Department, Chengdu College of Geology, Chengdu, China The Fengcheng Formation consists primarily of dolomitized, tuffaceous
HIgh-frequency-cycle geometry and transgressive faices in the Upper Cretaceous Point Lookout Sandstone, New Mexico and Colorado
Danny R. Katzman Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The Upper Cretaceous Point Lookout Sandstone in the Four Corners area of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado is composed
OPTIMIZATION OF THE QUICK ANALYSIS OF HUMIC AND FULVIC ACIDS IN HUMATES
Jeanne Verploegh1 and Lynn A. Brandvold1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 To have a better understanding of the amounts and types of humate present in New Mexico, a reliable
Coal-bearing Ramah Member of the Crevasse Canyon Formation–A new stratigraphic unit in the Zuni Basin, west-central New Mexico
Orin J. Anderson1 and Gary D. Stricker2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Coal Geology, P.O.Box 25046, Denver, CO, Colorado, 80225 Nonmarine deposition following a