NEW MEXICO GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY · SPRING MEETING
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.
Spring Meeting → Advanced search on the original NMGS site ↗
Browse by year
All years 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983
1992
COMPRESSIBILITY, STIFFNESS, AND SOME NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS WITH LAYERED DRAPE FOLDS IN COMPRESSIBLE ELASTIC MEDIA
William C. Haneberg New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Mechanical models of single layer drape folds in compressible elastic media can be extended into the realm of multi-layered drape folds
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) ammonites from the central Peloncillo Mountains, southwestern New Mexico
T. Goodspeed1 and S. G. Lucas2 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Ammonites are present in
The type locality of Typothorax, Upper Triassic of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 The first vertebrate fossils of Late Triassic age discovered in the western United
Coal characteristics of the upper and Cleary Coal Members of the Cretaceous Menefee Formation in La Ventana-Chacra Mesa fields, southeastern San Juan Basin
Gretchen K. Hoffman New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Chacra Mesa and La Ventana fields are in the southeastern San Juan Basin, west of the Nacimiento uplift and north-northeast
The case for a unified Dockum-Chinle fluvial depositional basin (Late Triassic)
Orin J. Anderson1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, 87194 Suspected miscorrelations between the Dockum
Aetosaurs from the Bull Canyon Formation (Late Triassic: Norian) of east-central New Mexico and their biochronological significance
Adrian P. Hunt New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Aetosaurs (Archosauria: Stagonolepididae) are a family of heavily armored reptiles that are a common component of Late
Paleosols and paleoflora of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) McRae Formation, south-central New Mexico and their implications to paleoclimate
Brenda J. Buck1 and Greg H. Mack2 1Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 2Department of Biology, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666 A significant increase in aridity
Impact of transportation on industrial-mineral exploration in New Mexico
James M. Barker New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Transport is one of the most important cost factors in producing industrial minerals and rocks. When the location of supply differs
Abrupt lateral variations in cycle characteristics within a mixed carbonate-clastic ramp system: preliminary studies of the middle pennsylvania Los Moyos limestone, southern Los Pinos mountains, central New Mexico
Lon A. Davidek1 and Gary A. Smith1 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Initial sedimentological studies of two correlative Pennsylvanian (lower-ta-mid Demoinesian) sections, located 4.3 kilometers apart, indicate two distinct depositional
Iron sulfide paragenesis in the BB seam, Lee Ranch mine, McKinley County, New Mexico: Implications to depositional environment and sulfur distribution
Abraham Araya1 and Frederick J. Kuellmer1 1Geoscience Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Petrographic study of selected samples from the BB seam show that iron sulfides occur mainly as pyrite
DIAGENESIS OF THE SHATTUCK MEMBER OF THE PERMIAN QUEEN FORMATION, SULIMAR QUEEN FIELD, CHAVES COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
Martha Cather Petroleum Recovery Research Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Core obtained from the Sulimar Queen Unit #1-16 consists of cyclically interbedded halite, anhydrite, sandstone and siltstone deposited on
Geologic setting for rapid mass-wasting in the Rio Grande Gorge area, Taos County, New Mexico
Paul W. Bauer1 and William C. Haneberg1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Between the communities of Rinconada and Pilar, NM-68 is sandwiched between the Rio Grande and a 3-mile-long,
Oligocene-Miocene extension, detachment faulting, and allochthonous terrain in the Joyita Hills, central New Mexico
William C. Beck1 and Charles E. Chapin1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Numerous low-to high-angle normal faults offset Tertiary volcanics and older sedimentary sequences of the Joyita Hills (north-central
Dynamic tectonic stress analysis of listric faults in the Albuerque Basin
R. J. Bridwell GeoComp, 2705 Juan Tabo NE #245, Albuquerque, NM, 87112 Recent advances in deep-seismic profiling provide compelling evidence that listric faults occur to depths of 10-12 krn beneath the Albuquerque Basin. The paper
Stratigraphy of the Paleocene Nacimiento Formation, southern San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Thomas E. Williamson1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road N.W., Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 The Paleocene Nacimiento
First report of Litaletes Disjunctus Simpson, Mammalia, Condylarthra, from the Nacimiento Formation, middle Paleocene (Torrejonian), San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Donald L. Wolberg New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 A student at New Mexico Tech recently discovered a new Middle Paleocene, Nacimiento Formation (Torrejonian) fossil locality north of Bloomfield, New
Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and provenance of sedimentary rocks of the Bell Top Formation (Oligocene), Dona Ana and Sierra Counties, New Mexico
A. L. Nightengale1 and G. H. Mack1 1Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Coarse-grained sedimentary rocks of the Bell Top Formation (Oligocene) suggest that crustal extension was contemporaneous with
Facies and stratigraphic relationships of Middle and Upper Jurassic units, southern San Juan Basin
Charles H. Maxwell1 and Orin J. Anderson1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Middle and Upper Jurassic units along the southern and southeastern edges of the San Juan Basin, particularly
Upper Triassic stratigraphy in New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Upper Triassic strata are exposed across most of New Mexico (except the southwestern portion of the state) and are
Architectural element analysis for the characteriziation of aquifer heterogeneity: Sierra Ladrones Formation, Albuquerque Basin
J. Mathew Davis1, Ruth C. Lohmann2, D. W. Love3 and F. M. Phillips4 1Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Geoscience Support Services, Claremont, CA 3New Mexico Bureau of
Stratigraphic nomenclature of the Triassic Dockum Group in west Texas and eastern New Mexico
Thomas M. Lehman Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409 Triassic strata of eastern New Mexico and west Texas have long been identified as the Dockum Group. Recently, use of the term Dockum
Preliminary Stable-isotope analysis of the Late Mississippian Paradise Formation, Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico
David J. Sivils New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources and Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Whole rock isotope analysis of carbonate samples from the upper
Late Devonian Ichthyoliths from the Sacramento Mountains
Kenneth K. Kietzke1 and S. G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Throughout the Sacramento Mountains, the Lower Mississippian (Osagian/Kinderhookian) Caballero Formation disconformity overlies the
Petrography and geochemistry of a camptonite sill in northwestern Lincoln County, New Mexico
Mark A. Ouimette1 and Virginia T. McLemore2 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, El Paso, TX, 79968 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Petrographic and geochemical data are presented