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Unraveling soil spatial and temporal complexity: Examination of soil landscapes in light of geomorphic processes
Martha C. Eppes and Bruce J. B. Harrison The validity using soil chronosequences to examine soil development and to aid in dating and correlating geomorphic surfaces has recently come into question. Workers suggest that spatial
Characterization of desert loess on the Carrizozo volcanic field, south-central New Mexico: Implications for Holocene climate
Shari L. Bauman Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, New Mexico, 87801 Atmospheric dust is recognized as an ubiquitous component of soils that form semi-arid and
Influence of clay mineralogy on hydraulic characteristics of faulted poorly consolidated sediments, Santa Fe Group, central New Mexico
John M. Sigda New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801, sidga@nmt.edu Recent work on small to moderate displacement (<4 meters) faults in poorly consolidated sediments indicates that such faults can have significantly
Jurassic insect locality, Todilto Formation, north-central New Mexico
L. F. Rinehart1, S. G. Lucas1 and J. W. Estep1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road N.W., Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Fossil aquatic insects of the order Hemiptera are well known in the
Sequence stratigraphy and seismic attribute analysis of the Bone Spring Formation, Delaware Basin, New Mexico
R. Pearson1 and B. S. Hart2 1New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, New Mexico, 87801 2(New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, New Mexico, 87801 The Bone Spring Formation
Geothermal studies on the southern part of the Albuquerque Bench-Sandia National Laboratories/Kirtland Airforce Base
Marshall A. Reiter New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 High precision temperature logs, made in a number of wells located on the southern
Preliminary hydrologic data and trends in the vicinity of a ground-water-discharge playa, Estancia Basin playa complex, central New Mexico
John B. Rogers1, B. D. Allen2, R. Y. Anderson1 and T. A. Loveland2 1Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2NM Bureau of Mines, NM Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801
Geologic, hydrologic, and aeromagnetic maps of the Pueblo of Isleta, central New Mexico
Florian Maldonado1, D. W. Love2, J. L. Slate1, V. J. S. Grauch1, N. A. Shock1, W. E. Sanford3, W. C. McIntosh2, M. Heizler2 and L. Peters2 1U.S. Geological Survey, MS 913, Denver Federal Center, PO
Supposed Triassic strata in the northern San Andres Mountains, Sierra County, New Mexico, are Permian Artesia Formation
Spencer G. Lucas New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Kottlowski et al. (1956, NMBMMR Memoir 1, p. 62, fig. 11) identified the southernmost Triassic outcrops in
Stratigraphy of the Jurassic Entrada Sandstone in New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas1, A. B. Heckert2 and O. J. Anderson3 1New Mex. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Dept. Earth Planet. Sci., UNM, Albuq., NM, 87131 3NM Bureau of Mines, Socorro,
Insights into origin of carbonate-hosted Ag and Pb-Zn replacement deposits in the Black Range, Sierra and Catron Counties, New Mexico
Virginia T. McLemore New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 There are 10 mining districts in the Black Range area, central New Mexico. Carbonate-hosted Ag and Pb-Zn deposits are found in
Laramide thrust faults and tectonic breccias, southern Franklin Mountains, Texas
L. L. Corbitt EI Paso Community College, EI Paso, TX, 79915 Many of the breccias in the southern Franklin Mountains that have been interpreted to be karst in origin appear to be Laramide tectonic breccias.
Subsurface stratigraphy, structure, and hydrogeologic framework of the Santa Fe Group from borehole geophysical logs, northern Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico
Sean D. Connell1, B. D. Allen1 and J. W. Hawley1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 2808 Central Ave., SE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106 Interpretation of borehole geophysical logs obtained from wells in the
Fossil vertebrates from the Lower Permian Red Tanks Member of the Madera Formation, Lucero uplift, central New Mexico
Casey W. Cook1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Department of Earth and Planet. Sci, University of New Mexico, Albuq., NM, 87131 2NM Mus. Nat. Hist., 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Early Permian
Review of dinosaurs of the Alamo Wash local fauna, Naashoibito Member, Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Thomas E. Williamson New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road, NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104-1375 The Alamo Wash local fauna refers to the vertebrate fauna derived from the Naashoibito Member ofthe Upper
Field and petrographic discrimination of groundwater and pedogenic carbonate of the Plio-Pleistocene Palomas Basin of southern New Mexico
Leandro, Jr. Trevino Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM In the Plio-Pleistocene Palomas basin of southern New Mexico, groundwater and pedogenic carbonate are commonly found in both the footwall-derived and
Modeling steady-state membrane effects in perched aquifers
T. M. Whitworth New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Although geologic membrane effects are postulated to be important in the subsurface, their significance
The Tonuco Mountain local fauna, a Pliocene (Blancan) vertebrate fossil assemblage from the Camp Rice Formation, Dona Ana County, southern New Mexico
Gary S. Morgan1, S. G. Lucas1 and J. W. Estep1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 The Tonuco Mountain local fauna (If) is a middle Blancan
Geology and geochemical characteristics of the Hillsboro mining district, Sierra County, New Mexico: A preliminary study
Erik A. Munroe1, Robert Thompson1 and Virginia T. McLemore2 1Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM,