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2005
A skull of Pseudopalatus from the Late Triassic (Late Carnian) Santa Rosa Formation of central New Mexico, (poster)
Adrian P. Hunt1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Pseudopalatus is a common genus of the Late Triassic phytosaur that has biochronologic significance; it
The Microvertebrate fauna of Shark Tooth Hill, Redonda Formation (Late Triassic: Apachean) Quay County, New Mexico, (poster)
A. B. Heckert1, S. G. Lucas1 and A. P. Hunt1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104-1375, aheckert@nmmnh.state.nm.us The Upper Triassic Redonda Formation is east-central
Coprolites and cololites from the Late Triassic theropod dinasaur, Coelophysis Bauri, Whitaker Quarry, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, (poster)
L. F. Rinehart1, A. P. Hunt1, S. G. Lucas1 and A. B. Heckert1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104, rinehartl@nmmnh.state.nm.us New Mexico Museum of Natural History’s
Late Jurassic turtle from the Morrison Formation in central New Mexico (poster)
Spencer G. Lucas1, Larry F. Rinehart1, Andrew B. Heckert1, Ron Peterson1 and Rod Peterson1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 The Peterson quarry, west of Albuquerque in central
First record of Eoconodon Gaudrianus in the Late Puercan of New Mexico (poster)
T. E. Williamson New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, twilliamson@nmmnh.state.nm.us Two Puercan faunal zones have been recognized in the early Paleocene Nacimiento Formation. These are known as the
An updated electronic bibliography of New Mexico fossil vertebrates, (poster)
Caleb Lewis1, Andrew B. Heckert1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 We present here an electronic update of Kues and Lucas’ (1993)
” Rediscovery” of the Rousseau Flower Collecion at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
A. B. Heckert1, J. McDonnell1 and R. Traeger1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104-1375, aheckert@nmmnh.state.nm.us Rousseau Flower (1922-1988) is well known for his many
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A. B. Heckert New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104-1375, aheckert@nmmnh.state.nm.us Within 18 months of going live, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History &
The TO2-TO3 transition in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, (poster)
T. E. Williamson New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, twilliamson@nmmnh.state.nm.us The Torrejonian North American Land-Mammal “age” (NALMA) was subdivided into “subages” named To1-To3 based largely on the succession
First New Mexico record of Sphenothallus from the Upper Pennsylvanian (Missourian) Atrasado Formation of Socorro County, (poster)
Allan J. Lerner1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Sphenothallus Hall 1847 is a widely distributed invertebrate taxon that ranges in age from Early
Early Permian (Wolfcampain) marine macroinvertebrate assemblage from the Shalem Colony Formation (Hueco Group) Dona Ana Mountains, New Mexico
Justin A, Spielmann1, Spencer G. Lucas2 and Karl Krainer3 1Dartmouth College, Hinman Box 4571, Hanover, NH, 03755 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 3Institute of Geology & Paleontology,
The postcranial skeleton of Revueltosaurus Callenderi ( Archosauria:Crurotarsi) from the Upper Triassic Bull Canyon Formation of east-central, New Mexico, (poster)
Adrian P. Hunt1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, ahunt@nmmnh.state.nm.us In 1986, field parties from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History (NMMNH) collected
Cave response to surface climate variability: high-resolution drip rate data from bat cave passage Carlsbad Cavern, (poster)
J. B. T. Rasmussen1, V. J. Polyak1 and Y. Asmerom1 1Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, jbtoledo@unm.edu A number of paleoclimate studies depend on high-resolution stalagmite data as proxies for
Using apatitic conodonts as a proxy for paleoclimate change, (poster)
M. R. Emms1 and M. B. Elrick1 1Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 δ18O values from calcareous foraminifera and routinely used to determine ancient climatic features such as seawater temperature
Near surace geophysics for the structural analysis of a mine rock pile, northern New Mexico, (poster)
R. L. Van Dam1, L. A. Guteierrez2, V. T. Mclemore3, G. W. Wilson4, J. M. H. Hendrickx1 and B. M. Walker5 1Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM,
Clay mineralogy of alteration scars and rock piles, Questa area, New Mexico, (poster)
K. M. Donahue1, P. L. Hauff2, N. D. Dunbar1, V. W. Lueth1, V. T. Mclemore1 and L. Heizler1 1NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Spectral International, Arvada, CO
Constraints on Ancestral Rocky Mountain and Laramide dextral-oblique deformation in north-central New Mexico using regoinal aeromagnetic patterns and structural balancing considerations, (poster)
S. M. Cather1 and K. E. Karlstrom2 1NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801, steve@gis.nmt.edu 2Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131
Timing and style of deformation of the Southern Mazatzal Province, San Andres Mountains, New Mexico, (poster)
A. Serna1 and J. M. Amato1 1Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, NM The Proterozoic deformational history in the San Andres Mountains is being determined through field mapping and ongoing geochronology. The oldest
Geologic map of eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona: Documenting multi-phase Late Proterozoic deformation in the southwestern United States, (poster)
Michael J. Timmons1, Karl E. Karlstrom2, Joel Pederson3 and Matt Anders3 1NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of
Constraints on timing of magmatism and deformation in Proterozoic plutons of the Burro Mountains, southwestern New Mexico, (poster)
Andre Boullion1, Jeffrey M. Amato1, George Gehrels2, Matthew Heizer3 and Richard Esser3 1Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 2Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 3NM Bureau of Geology
Geology of Cerro del Grant Quadrangle, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, (poster)
J. R. Lawrence1, S. Kelley2 and M. Rampey3 1 2321 Elizabeth St. NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87112 2New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 3Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 425 EPS
Opportunity for direct dating of ~1.65 GA quartzite-rhyolite sucession: were there two quartzite-rhyolite ” events” during crustal assembly of the Southwestern United States? (poster)
Amy Luther1 and Karl Karlstrom1 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Paleoproterozoic quartzite-rhyolite assemblages remain an enigmatic and poorly dated tectonic feature of the 1.70-1.65 Ga crustal assembly
Vadose zone characterization and monitoring beneath waste disposal pits using horizontal boreholes. ( poster)
S. G. McLin1, B. D. Newman2 and D. E. Broxton3 1Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, MS-K497, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, sgm@lanl.gov 2Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, MS-J495, Los Alamos, NM, 87545
Stratigraphic associations of Uncompahgre Group and Vallecito Conglomerate? Insight into Paleoproterozoic intracratonic basin formation, (poster)
Austin Zinsser1 and Karl E. Karlstrom1 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Thick successions of Proterozoic and lower Paleozoic quartz arenite are broadly distributed along the juvenile accretionary