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1995
A Sauropod from marine shales in Shiprock, New Mexico
C. H. Whittle General Delivery, Shiprock, NM, 87420 Rocks referable to the Lower Mancos Shale, Upper Cretaceous, are exposed throughout the town of Shiprock, New Mexico. These deposits typically yield marine invertebrates, most notably Inoceramus.
Recovery of garnet and sphalerite from Hanover Mill tailings, Grant County, New Mexico
Ulvi Cetin Minerals and Environmental Engineering Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Campus Station, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Hanover Mill Tailings were produced by Empire Zinc Mine at Hanover, Grant County, New Mexico.
A new late Cretaceous decapod crustacean assemblage from Carthage, New Mexico
Elizabeth K. Toolson1 and Barry S. Kues1 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-1116 Abundant and diverse crustaceans occur in upper Turonian shallow marine sandstones of the Fite Ranch
Allochthonous nature of the lower Mississippian Waulsortian mounds in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico
Katherine A. Giles Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Waulsortian mounds comprise a distinctive assemblage of carbonate facies organized into a mounded geometry and apparently confined stratigraphically to the
Additions to the vertebrate fauna from the upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian) Allison Member, Menefee Formation, southeastern San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Thomas E. Williamson1 and P. L. Sealey1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road, NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 The Upper Cretaceous (upper Santonian -middle Campanian) Menefee Fonnation has a poorly known vertebrate record
Geochemistry of Carlsbad Cavern pool waters
Jeffrey R. Forbes Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, 6020 Academy NE, #100, Albuquerque, NM, 87109 Carlsbad Cavern contains dozens of pools of standing water that lie at depths ranging from 500 feet to 1100 feet
Middle Miocene (late Barstovian/early Clarendonian) vertebrate fossils and ichnofossils from the “Middle Red Member,” Zia Formation, Ceja del Rio Puerco, Sandoval County, New Mexico
Thomas E. Williamson1 and G. S. Morgan2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 2Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131
Hydrogeochemical computer modeling of proposed artificial recharge of the Albuquerque aquifer
T. M. Whitworth New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Recently, the City of Albuquerque began investigating the feasibility of artificial recharge of the
Late Miocene and Pliocene (Hemphillian and Blancan) vertebrate fossils from the Gila Group, southwestern New Mexico
Gary S. Morgan1 and Paul L. Sealey1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Vertebrate fossils collected from the upper part ofthe Gila Group (=”Gila Conglomerate”) in
High ground-water in Tijeras Arroyo, Hells Canyon, and Abo Arroyo: Evidence for a natural geologic origin
Dennis M. McQuillan1 and Michael Space2 1New Mexico Environment Department, NM 2Dames & Moore, Albuquerque, NM Nitrate-contaminated ground water has existed in Tijeras Arroyo and Hells Canyon (TA/HC), between the mountain front and Rio Grande
40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of low-temperature shear zones, Manzano Mountains, central New Mexico
Steven Ralser1, Matthew T. Heizler2 and Karl E. Karlstrom3 1Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 3Department of Earth Sciences, University of