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2011
Uranium-series dating of travertines from Soda Dam, New Mexico: Constructing a history of deposition, with implications for landscape evolution, paleohydrology, and paleoclimatology
A. J. Tafoya, L. J. Crossey, K. E. Karlstrom, M. Kolomaznik, V. Polyak, Y. Asmerom, S. A. Kelley and C. Cox Uranium series dating of travertine at Soda Dam, New Mexico yield precise new incision
Canopy interception loss for a mixed coniferous forest in southern New Mexico prior to tree-thinning treatment
N. Canaris, T. Kludt and B. T. Newton The Southern Sacramento Mountains, located in southeastern New Mexico serves as a recharge area for adjacent regional aquifers. Out of concern about the region’s future groundwater and
Nitrate fluxes in the Rio Grande
D. O. Drury and D. M. Borrok The Rio Grande is the most important source of water for the irrigation of agricultural fields in the Rio Grande Valley of West Texas. Return flows from this
Mixing between an alpine river and hydrothermal spring inputs: Controls on water quality and solute loading in the Jemez River, New Mexico
A. P. Jochems, L. R. Sherson, L. J. Crossey and K. E. Karlstrom Alpine watersheds are increasingly relied upon in the western U.S., requiring a thorough understanding of annual hydrologic patterns and geologic controls on
Regional spring survey in the Cibola National Forest: A geochemical comparison of springs in differing environments from alpine wilderness to the high desert
K. P. Paffett, L. J. Crossey, L. Crowley and K. E. Karlstrom In the arid southwestern U.S., springs and their associated wetlands play an important role in sustaining diverse ecosystems. Due to increasing encroachment, multiple-use
Mineralogic study of mortar from Fort Union ruins, Mora County, New Mexico
J. Lindline, S. Geil, H. Lara and M. S. Petronis Fort Union National Monument, located in the Mora Valley in northeastern New Mexico, features the ruins of the Fort Union military post and ruts of
Petrologic study of the Cieneguilla basanites, Santa Fe County, New Mexico
J. Lindline, M. S. Petronis and R. M. Pitrucha We initiated a petrogenetic study of the 25-26 Ma Cieneguilla basanites at Cerro Seguro and another unnamed vent in the southern Española Basin, Santa Fe County,
Santonian ammonites from the Satan Tongue of the Mancos Shale, La Ventana, Sandoval County, New Mexico
P. L. Sealey and S. G. Lucas Late Cretaceous ammonites were collected from the Satan Tongue of the Mancos Shale near La Ventana where the Satan Tongue is ~170 m thick between the El Vado
Geomicrobiology of the giant Naica crystals: An example of the geological persistence of microorganisms
M. N. Spilde, P. J. Boston, D. E. Northrup and C. McMillan How long can microorganisms remain viable in sediments, fluid inclusions, rock fractures, ice, or other geological materials? This is a question for which
Geochemical parameters that influence the distribution of bacterial communities in lava tubes in New Mexico and Hawaii: A comparison
M. G. Garcia, J. J. Marshall Hathaway and D. E. Northrup Bacterial mats cover walls and ceilings of lava tubes around the world, yet little is known about what controls their species diversity. To address
Influence of pedogenic carbonate on the physical and hydrologic properties of a semiarid soil
V. Nenuji, J. B. J. Harrison2 and P. Mozley3 2New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy, Socorro, NM, New Mexico, 87801 3New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy, Socorro, NM, 87801 Calcic horizons are ubiquitous features of semi-arid-to-arid soils.
Using fallout radionuclide tracers to assess the effectiveness of soil conservation strategies, Soil Jornada Basin LTER, southern New Mexico, USA
D. M. Rachal, G. S. Okin, J. Herrick and D. Peters Historically, dominant grassland communities have been displaced by woody shrubs over the last 150 years in the Jornada Basin, southern New Mexico. As shrubs
Runoff and sediment yield in contrasting vegetated hillslopes of a first order basin in central New Mexico
C. F. Ramirez, J. B. J. Harrison, H. A. Gutierrez and C. T. Cikoski As part of a project to determine the influence of hillslope aspect and vegetation cover on the evolution of a drainage
Coniacian ammonites and inoceramids from the Mancos Shale below the Tocito Sandstone lentil, Sandoval County, New Mexico, demonstrate that Forresteria Peruana extends from the Upper Turonian into the Lower Coniacian
P. L. Sealey and S. G. Lucas The rare ammonite Forresteria peruana as well as Scaphites preventricosus, Baculites yokoyamai and Cremnoceramus deformis erectus were collected from the Mancos Shale just below the Tocito Sandstone Lentil
A re-evaluation of the Coprocoenosis from the Upper Pennsylvanian Kinney Brick quarry, central New Mexico
A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas and J. A. Spielman The Kinney Brick quarry, NMMNH locality 345, in the Manzanita Mountains of central New Mexico is a Lagerstätte that yields a diverse fossil invertebrate, vertebrate
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and vertebrate coprolite record from New Mexico
A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas and J. A. Spielman The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNH) is unique in that for a quarter of a century it has considered vertebrate coprolites
A new locality for vertebrate coprolites from the Beeman Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian), Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico
S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt and J. A. Spielman New Mexico has an important record of Late Pennsylvanian coprolites from the central portion of the state (Kinney Brick quarry, NMMNH locality 345; Tinajas locality,
A new coprolite ichnofauna from the Upper Pennsylvanian (Missourian) Tinajas locality, central New Mexico
J. A. Spielman, A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas and A. J. Lerner Pennsylvanian strata in NM are interbedded marine and nonmarine sediments deposited in basins of the ancestral Rocky Mountain orogeny that contain several
Early Paleocene (Torrejonian) ant-hill vertebrate assemblages from the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico
T. E. Williamson and U. L. Denetclaw Paleontologists have long taken advantage of the harvester ant’s habit of armoring their nest mounds (ant-hills) with small pebbles and other objects gathered from the surrounding landscape. Ants
Structural anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS), and paleomagnetic investigations of a steeply dipping, welded tuff (Amalia tuff) south of Petaca, New Mexico
L. Garcia, M. S. Petronis and D. Koning The Elk and West Elk Mountains of southwest Colorado are dotted with Mid-Cenozoic plutons that can provide important geochronological and thermochronological data about the transitional interval between
Strength characterization of the Bandelier Tuff
D. S. Byers, A. J. Sussman and E. Schultz-Fellenz Consisting of two members erupted as a series of ash rich ignimbrites during enormous, caldera-forming events at about 1.61 Ma and 1.22 Ma, the Bandelier Tuff’s
Preliminary anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) and paleomagnetic data from mafic dikes in the Chili quadrangle, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
R. Trujillo, M. S. Petronis1 and J. Lindline Migration of magma at shallow levels of the crust is a fundamental process that has bearing on the construction of volcanoes, the associated hazards in active volcanic
U-Pb zircon ages and Sr isotopic composition of Paleogene intrusions and flows from the southern Mogollon-Datil volcanic field, Burro Mountains, southwest New Mexico
T. N. Jonell, J. M. Amato and F. C. Ramos The northern Burro Mountains exposes Paleogene intrusive and extrusive rocks that are part of the extensive Mogollon-Datil volcanic field (MDVF). Zircons from a granitic pluton,
Depositional environments, sediment dispersal, and provenance of the Lower Permian Glorieta Sandstone, central and northern New Mexico
E. M. Bauer1 and G. H. Mack1 1Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 During early Permian time, the region that now encompasses the Colorado Plateau was periodically covered by