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2003
Is the depth interval of the Socorro seismogenic zone controlled by a reduction in rock strength suggested from experimentally determined elastic moduli?
Marshall A. Reiter New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Socorro seismogenic zone is an upper crustal layer containing earthquakes
Nonmarine invertebrates from the Late Triassic Snyder Quarry, Chinle Group, Chama Basin, New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas1, Kate E. Zeigler1, Andrew B. Heckert1 and Larry F. Rinehart1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Near Ghost Ranch in Rio Arriba County,
New Mexico’s most complete skull of the Cretaceous dinosaur Pentaceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae)–Insights into the cranial anatomy of the genus
P. K. Reser1, A. B. Heckert1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104-1375 In 1978, the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) excavated a remarkably complete
Sulfuric and hydrofluoric acid speleogenesis associated with fluorite-jarosite mineralization along the Rio Grande rift, New Mexico
Virgil W. Lueth1 and Robert O. Rye2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2United States Geological Survey, Denver Federal I Center, Denver, CO,
Nonmarine bivalves (Jnionoida: Anthracosiidae) from the Lower Permian Cutler Formation of north-central New Mexico
L. F. Rinehart1, S. G. Lucas1, A. B. Heckert1, K. E. Zeigler1, D. S. Berman2 and A. Henrici2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Carnegie Museum of Natural
Modern sand dune migration rates of Los Medanos in southeastern New Mexico
Christopher Mahoney New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM The small dune field referred to as Los Medanos, located 25 miles southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, provides an excellent opportunity to observe the migration rates
Mineral deposits, mining, and karst
Virginia T. McLemore New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801, ginger@gis.nmt.edu Karst terrains contain many types of mineral deposits by providing ideal deposition cavities
Soil gas CO2 emissions over the Bravo Dome field in the Armistad area of New Mexico
Kristie McLin Department of Earth and Environmental Science, N.M. Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Bravo Dome Field, located in Union and Harding counties, New Mexico, is a large underground carbon dioxide reserve that is one
Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous Anapra Sandstone at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Dona Ana County, New Mexico
Eric Kappus1, Spencer G. Lucas2, Andrew B. Heckert2 and Adrian P. Hunt2 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 79968 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road
Stratigraphy of units QBT1G-QBT3 of the Tshirege Member of the Bandelier Tuff in the north-central to northeastern portion of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico
Danielle K. Katcher1, Alexis Lavine1, Claudia J. Lewis1, Jamie N. Gardner1 and Jennifer E. Wilson1 1Environmental Geology and Risk Analysis Group, EES-9, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, dkatcher@lanl.gov We conducted detailed stratigraphic studies
Problems with the existing stratigraphic nomenclature of the Santa Fe Group in the Espanola Basin and suggested revisions
Daniel J. Koning Rt. 1, Box 28A, Santa Cruz, NM, 87567,, danchikoning@yahoo.com Recent mapping of the Santa Fe Group near Espanola, N.M., elucidates the stratigraphy of the Espanola Basin and underscores some long-standing problems regarding
The Bursum Formation and a Late Pennsylvanian unconformity in the southern Cooke’s Range, Luna County, New Mexico
Karl Krainer1, Spencer G. Lucas2 and Garner L. Wilde3 1Institute for Geology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, Innsbruck A-6020, Austria 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 3 5
Role of evaporite karst in regional ground water circulation in the lower Pecos Valley
Lewis A. Land New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Carlsbad, NM Natural ground water discharge occurs from a series of cenotes, or sinkhole lakes, along the east side of the Pecos River floodplain
How big was a Phytosaur? Mass estimates of an extinct clade of Late Triassic archosaurs based on New Mexican fossils and modern crocodiles
A. B. Heckert1, G. Hurlburt2, J. O. Farlow3 and K. E. Zeigler1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Biology Department, California State University, Bakersfield, 9001 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield,
Structural geology of the north-central to northeastern portion of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico (abs.)
Alexis Lavine1, Claudia J. Lewis1, Danielle Katcher1, Jamie N. Gardner1 and Jennifer Wilson1 1Environmental Geology and Risk Analysis Group, EES-9, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, alavine@lanl.gov Geologic mapping in the north-central to northeastern
Revised faunal list and significance of the Upper Triassic (Revueltian:Early-Mid Norian) Snyder Quarry, north-central New Mexico
A. B. Heckert1, K. E. Zeigler1, S. G. Lucas1, A. P. Hunt1 and L. F. Rinehart1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104-1375 The Snyder quarry, in the Painted
Amphisauropus from the Lower Permian Abo Formation, Cerros de Amado, Socorro County, central New Mexico
Allan J. Lerner1, Spencer G. Lucas1 and Sebastian Voigt2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Geiseltal museum, Martin-Luther University, Domstrasse 5, Halle D-06108, GERMANY Amphisauropus, a tetrapod footprint
Sulfur redox reactions: Hydrocarbons, native sulfur, Mississippi Valley-type deposits, and sulfuric acid karst, Delaware Basin, New Mexico and Texas
Carol A. Hill Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 17 El Arco Drive, Albuquerque, NM, 87123 Sulfuric acid karst should be considered as an integral part of the evolution of petroleum-evaporite basins. In
A new Late Paleocene tillodont mammal from the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and the origin of tillodonts
Shirley A. Libed1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, albinque@earthlink.net 2New I Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque,
Cave and karst studies at the beginning of the 21st century: The New Mexico connection
Louise D. Hose National Cave and Karst Research Institute, 1400 University Drive, Carlsbad, NM, New Mexico, 88220, LHose@cemrc.org Once mostly dismissed as the homes of unpleasant guano deposits, curious but economically worthless mineral displays, and
First year’s data from tiltmeters installed around the margins of historic uplift, centered above the Socorro magma body, Rio Grande rift, New Mexico
David W. Love1, Bruce Allen1, Richard Chamberlin1 and William Haneberg2 1New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Haneberg Geoscience, 4434 SE
America’s National Cave and Karst Research Institute 2003: The gearing up phase
Louise D. Hose1, Zelda Chapman Bailey1, Lewis Land2 and Penny Boston3 1National Cave and Karst Research Institute, 1400 University Drive, Carlsbad, NM, 88220, LHose@cemrc.org 2New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, CEMRC, 1400 University
Simulation of pre-development ground-water flow in the basin-fill aquifer of the Tularosa Basin, south-central New Mexico
G. F. Huff U.S. Geological Survey, New Mexico State University, Dept. 3ARP, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, gfhuff@usgs.gov The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the City of Alamogordo, New Mexico and Holloman Air Force Base
A new locality for Middle Jurassic fish from the Todilto Formation, north-central New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1 and Alex Downs2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology, Ghost Ranch Conference Center, HC 77, Box 1, Abiquiu, NM, 87510-9601