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POST-RESURGENCE LAKES OF THE VALLES CALDERA, NEW MEXICO
Steven L. Reneau1, Paul G. Drakos2 and Danny Katzman1 1EES-9, MS D462, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545 2Glorieta Geosciences, Inc., 1723 Second St., Santa Fe, NM, 87505 Valles Caldera has contained multiple
THE SCLEROTIC RING OF THE LATE TRIASSIC THEROPOD DINOSAUR COELOPHYSIS
Larry F. Rinehart1, Andrew B. Heckert1, Spencer G. Lucas1 and Adrian P. Hunt1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 We report the first complete sclerotic ring
MICROSTRATIGRAPHY AND FAUNA OF A SINGLE BLOCK FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC WHITAKER (COELOPHYSIS) QUARRY (ROCK POINT FORMATION: CHINLE GROUP), NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
Larry F. Rinehart1, Andrew B. Heckert1, Spencer G. Lucas1 and Adrian P. Hunt1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 New Mexico Museum of Natural History’s Apachean
40AR/39AR K-FELDSPAR THERMOCHRONOLOGY OF PROTEROZOIC TO DEVONIAN METASOMATIC K-FELDSPAR IN BASEMENT ROCKS, SANGRE DE CRISTO RANGE, NEW MEXICO, USA
Robert E. Sanders1 and Matthew T. Heizler2 1Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Pl., Socorro, NM, 87801, sanders@nmt.edu 2New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources,
PLIOCENE TO PLEISTOCENE LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN JEMEZ MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO
Steven Scholle1 and Shari Kelley1 1Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Pl., Socorro, NM, 87801 Fluvial, debris flow, and colluvial wedge deposits that lie below and
TURONIAN AMMONITES FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS D-CROSS MEMBER OF THE MANCOS SHALE, PUERTECITO, SOCORRO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
Paul L. Sealey1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 The Turonian ammonite zones of Scaphites ferronensis, Scaphites whitfieldi and Prionocyclus novimexicanus are
FIRST OCCURRENCE OF THE TEIID LIZARD PENETEIUS FROM THE LATEST CRETACEOUS NAASHOIBITO MEMBER, KIRTLAND FORMATION, SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO
Thomas E. Williamson1 and Anne Weil2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, twilliamson@nmmnh.state.nm.us 2Dept. of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, 08 Biological Sciences Building, Durham,
PERMIAN STRATIGRAPHY AND CYCLES OF DEPOSITION IN THE LUCERO UPLIFT, CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
Kate E. Zeigler New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Permian strata exposed in the Lucero uplift of Valencia County, central New Mexico, are a succession of
NEW VERTEBRATE FAUNA FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC MESA MONTOSA MEMBER (PETRIFIED FOREST FORMATION: CHINLE GROUP), CHAMA BASIN, NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
Kate E. Zeigler1, Vincent Morgan1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 The vertebrate fauna of the lower Petrified Forest Formation of the
THE PALEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS OF HOLOCENE SHORELINE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE EL FRESNAL BASIN, NORTHERN CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO
Jeffrey Parker1 and Peter J. Fawcett1 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MSC03-2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001 The El Fresnal basin is one of four sub-basins constituting the formerly extensive Pluvial Lake
GRAVITY MODELS OF THE ALBUQUERQUE BASIN, JORNADA DEL MUERTO BASIN, AND TULAROSA BASIN IN THE RIO GRANDE RIFT
Chloe Peterson1 and Mousumi Roy1 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MSC03-2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-001 The Rio Grande Rift is a major Cenozoic continental rift zone that extends south from southern
STRATIGRAPHY AND ORIGIN OF THE COONEY TUFF-REVISITED: MOGOLLON-DATIL VOLCANIC FIELD, SOUTHWESTERN, NEW MEXICO
J. C. Ratté1, W. C. McIntosh2 and Scott Lynch3 1U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, 80225, jratte@usgs.gov 2New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 3
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS IN THE VADOSE ZONE AND RECENT CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ALBUQUERQUE BASIN
Marshall Reiter New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Climate changes can affect mean annual air temperature, which in turn can be reflected in ground surface temperature change. Below several meters
GRAVITY MODELING AND LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE BENEATH THE JEMEZ LINEAMENT, ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO
Jonathan MacCarthy1 and Mousumi Roy1 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MSC03-2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001 The Jemez lineament is a NE-SW alignment of late Tertiary volcanic rocks, stretching from southwest Arizona
DEFLECTION OF RIO SALADO TERRACE SURFACES DUE TO UPLIFT OF THE SOCORRO MAGMA BODY, SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO
Lisa Majkowski1, J. Bruce J. Harrison1 and David Love2 1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral
MAP OF SURFICIAL GEOLOGIC MATERIALS OF NEW MEXICO NEARS COMPLETION
David J. McCraw New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801, djmc@nmt.edu John W. Hawley, along with colleagues, has been working on
MAPPING FAULTS IN THE LIGHTNING DOCK KNOWN GEOTHERMAL AREA, ANIMAS VALLEY, NEW MEXICO USING SOIL CO2 FLUX MEASUREMENTS
Kristie McLin1, David Norman1 and Philip Kyle1 1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801, kritter@nmt.edu When geothermal fluids rise, they commonly boil giving off their dissolved
QUANTIFYING THE INFLUENCE OF CALCIUM CARBONATE ACCUMULATION ON THE HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF SEMI ARID SOILS: SEVILLETA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, NEW MEXICO
Ryan McLin Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Pl., Socorro, NM, 87801 Soil properties such as texture, bulk density and porosity have a major influence on
AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL FOR LARAMIDE MAGMATISM IN THE SW US: IMPORTANCE OF LATE JURASSIC CONTINENTAL RIFTING
Nancy J. McMillan1, Timothy F. Lawton1 and C. Cowee1 1Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 The cause of Laramide magmatism in Arizona, New Mexico, Trans-Pecos Texas, and northern Mexico
GEOLOGY OF THE SODA DAM TRAVERTINE DEPOSITS, SANDOVAL COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
William P. Moats 8409 Fairmount Dr., NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87120, gemstone@flash.net Soda Dam is an active travertine mound located in the Jemez Mountains, Sandoval County, New Mexico. Associated with it are several thermal springs and
LATE PLIOCENE (LATE BLANCAN) AND EARLY PLEISTOCENE (EARLY IRVINGTONIAN) VERTEBRATE FAUNAS FROM THE CAMP RICE FORMATION, MESILLA BASIN, SOUTHERNMOST NEW MEXICO
Gary S. Morgan New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Three stratigraphically superposed Plio-Pleistocene vertebrate faunas are known from the Camp Rice Fm in the Mesilla Basin,
LATE PENNSYLVANIAN (VIRGILIAN) MARINE INVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES IN THE HOLDER FORMATION, DRY CANYON, SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO
Barry S. Kues Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, MSCO3 2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001 The Holder Formation along Dry Canyon consists mainly of a 75 m-thick cyclic sequence of Virgilian marine
PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF CUTTINGS FROM THE YATES #2 LA MESA WELL AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN ESPANOLA BASIN
Caroline Myer1 and Gary A. Smith1 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MSC03-2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001, calliejo73@aol.com The 2350 m (7710’) Yates #2 La Mesa well, west of Santa Fe, is
FISSURES ASSOCIATED WITH THE PAJARITO FAULT SYSTEM, RIO GRANDE RIFT, NEW MEXICO
Alexis Lavine1, Jamie Gardner1 and Claudia Lewis1 1EES-9, MS D462, Los Alamos National Laboratory, alavine@lanl.gov Three types of fissures have been identified in portions of the Pajarito fault system, which locally defines the active western