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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.

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1992

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

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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

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Results of the map and geographic products survey

William F. Purtymun1, D. W. Love1 and Amelia Budge2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Technology Application Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 As part of an overall

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Preliminary studies of Kline Mountain kaolinization and its economic potential, Sierra County, New Mexico

Iskender Isik1 and Kenneth F. Clark1 1University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Geological Sciences, El Paso, NM, 79968 In and near the Black Range, New Mexico, Tertiary rhyolite tuffs and flows host several

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An infant dinosaur jaw from the Fossil Forest Study Area, Fruitland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Implications for dinosaur nesting near the marine shoreline

Donald L. Wolberg New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 This is the first description of infant dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous of New Mexico. In 1983, a quarry situated at

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A geologic framework for geothermal systems in the southern Basin and Range province and the southern Rio Grande rift, New Mexico

James C. Witcher Southwest Technology Development Institute, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Dept. 3SOL, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Convective geothermal systems in the Rio Grande rift and adjacent areas occur over structurally high terrane

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A multiberculate (Mammalia, Allotheria) femur from the Late Cretaceous Fruitland Formation, Fossil Forest Study Area, San Juan Basin, New Mexico

Donald L. Wolberg New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 This is the first report of mammalian postcranial material from the Cretaceous of New Mexico. Quarry of the Fossil Forest has

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Petrology of silicic and syenitic facies of the Organ Mountains batholith, Dona Ana County, southern New Mexico

Stephen M. Yanicak1, W. R. Seager1, T. H. Giordano1 and M. O. McCurry2 1New Mexico State University, Geology Department, P.O. Box 3AB, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 2Idaho State University, Geology Department, Pocatello, ID, 83209 The

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Epithermal gold-silver mineralization at the Alabama mine, Steeple Rock district, Grant County, New Mexico

Virginia T. McLemore1 and T. Quigley2 1Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso and New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Great Lakes Exploration, Inc., 4020 McCulloch

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