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1996
Evidence of gregarious behavior in dinosaurs from a new track-site, Mesa Rica Sandstone (Lower Cretaceous), northeastern New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1 and B. R. Watts1 1Mesalands Museum, Mesa Technical College, 911 South Tenth Street, Tucumcari, NM, New Mexico, 88401 A new tracksite has been located near Mills, Harding County, New Mexico in the
Chronology and thermal history of potassium metasomatism in the Socorro, New Mexico area: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar dating and fission track analysis
Nelia W. Dunbar1 and D. Miggins1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources and Earth and Environmental Science Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, New Mexico, 87801 Argon 40/39 dating and fission track analysis
Laramide contractional deformation in the Sandia Mountains
Karl E. Karlstrom1 and Charles E. Ferguson2 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, 85701 Recent mapping of the Placitas and Sandia Park Quadrangles
Cambrian plutonism in southern New Mexico: The Florida Mountain intrusions
Sheryl D. Ervin1 and Nancy J. McMillan1 1Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, servin@nmsu.edu Late Cambrian plutonic rocks, dated at 503 ± 10 Ma U-Pb zircon date (Evans and
Taphodacies and early dinosaur evolution: An example from the Bull Canyon Formation (Upper Triassic: Norian), east-central New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1 and A. J. Newell2 1Mesalands Museum, Mesa Technical College, 911 South Tenth Street, Tucumcari, NM, New Mexico, 88401 2British Geological Survey, Exeter, England The Norian Bull Canyon Formation of east-central New Mexico
P-T histories of metasedimentary xenoliths from the Navajo volcanic field: Implications for Proterozoic crustal structure beneath the Colorada Plateau
Jane Selverstone1, K. Karlstrom1 and Aurora Pun1 1Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-1116, selver@unm.edu Preliminary examination of 85 crustal xenoliths from 6 diatremes in the Navajo Volcanic field
Secular variation of cosmogenic nuclide production as a ground-water tracer
M. A. Plummer1 and F. M. Phillips1 1Geoscience Dept., New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801, mplummer@nmt.edu Since the advent of 14C dating in the early 50’s, there has been a continuing
Thermochronologic constraints on Proterozoic deformation and metamorphism in the Manzano Mountains, central New Mexico
Joseph R. Marcoline1, M. T. Heizler2, S. Ralser1 and Laurel Goodwin1 1Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources,
Chronology of tephra deposits in Rio Grande Basin-fill sequences, central and southern New Mexico
William C. McIntosh1 and N. W. Dunbar1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 The combination of 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and microbeam geochemical analyses is aiding development of a chronologic framework for
Late Cretaceous corals from south-central New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas1 and Orin J. Anderson2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801
Stratigraphy of problematic Permian and Cretaceous rocks in the Little Hatchet Mountains, southwest New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas1, Orin J. Anderson2 and John Utting3 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N.W., Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro,
Dinosaur footprints from the Jurassic Summerville Formation, northern New Mexico.
Spencer G. Lucas1 and J. W. Estep1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N.W., Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 The only Jurassic dinosaur footprints known from New Mexico are from
Pliocene and Pleistocene displacement history of the Socorro Canyon fault, central Rio Grande rift
Richard M. Chamberlin1 and Bruce Harrison2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Dept. Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Socorro Canyon fault (SCF) is a
A new database of Phanerozoic isotopic ages in New Mexico
Maureen Wilks New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, New Mexico, 87801 The New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources is in the process of
An addition to the vertebrate ichnofauna of the Redonda Formation (Upper Triassic: Rhaetian), east-central New Mexico
W. D. Cotton1, A. P. Hunt2, J. E. Cotton3 and M. G. Lockley4 1National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA, 22903-2475 2Mesalands Museum, Mesa Technical College, 911 South Tenth Street, Tucumcari, NM, New
Hydrogeologic characterization of the floodplain on the uranium mill tailings remedial action site at Shiprock, New Mexico
Bernadette Tsosie1 and Bruce Harrison1 1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 A contaminant plume has been identified in the floodplain below the U.S. Department of
Evidence for herding behavior in ornithopod dinosaurs from the Dakota Sandstone of northeast New Mexico
J. E. Cotton1, W. D. Cotton2 and A. P. Hunt3 1Charlottesville High School, 1400 Melbourne Rd., Charlottesville, VA, 22901 2National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Rd., Charlottesville, VA, 22903-2475 3Mesalands Museum, Mesa Technical College, 911
Evidence for 1.4 Ga metamorphism and deformation in the aureole of the Sandia Pluton, Monte Largo Hills area, New Mexico
J. Michael Timmons Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 The Monte Large Hills preserve outcrops of the roof and southeast aureole of the Sandia pluton. Recorded within deformed
Late Pennsylvanian marine faunas of the Madera Formation, Jemez Springs area, north-central New Mexico
D. E. Corrao1 and B. S. Kues1 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Although Upper Pennsylvanian (Missourian-Virgilian) strata near Jemez Springs are profusely fossiliferous, these diverse faunas have
Subsurface geology of the Pajarito Plateau, Jemez volcanic field, New Mexico
Giday WoldeGabriel1, A. W. Laughlin2, D. Broxton1, M. Heizler3 and J. Bloom1 1EES-1/D462, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545 2ICF Kaiser Engineers Inc., Los Alamos, NM, 87544 3New Mexico Institute of Mining and
A lithologic study of xenoliths from the Kilbourne Hole maar, southern New Mexico
E. C., IV French1 and N. J. McMillan1 1Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, efreanch@nmsu.edu A representative collection of crustal and mantle xenoliths has been obtained from the Kilbourne
Age and geology of the mineral deposits in the Organ Mountains district, Dona Ana County, New Mexico
Virginia T. McLemore1, T. C. Pease1 and V. W. Lueth1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Organ Mountains fonn a west-tilted block exposing rocks ranging in
40Ar/39Ar dating of Miocene silicic lavas of the Socorro-Magdalena area
H. H. Newell1, P. R. Kyle1 and W. C. McIntosh1 1Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 Miocene silicic volcanic rocks in the Socorro-Magdalena area have been dated by the
A three-dimensional view of water quality in the Albuquerque Basin
Dennis A. Romero Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801, darom@nmt.edu With the ever growing need for water in the City of Albuquerque, much recent work has been conducted to