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Explore research presented at the NMGS Annual Spring Meeting. Browse abstracts from 1983 onward, choose a meeting year, or open an abstract to read the full text.

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2019

The Pennsylvanian Section at Bishop Cap, Doña Ana County, New Mexico

Karl Krainer1, Spencer G. Lucas2 and James E. Barrick3 1Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, A-6020, Austria, karl.krainer@uibk.ac.at 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road N.W., Albuquerque, NM, 87104 3Department of Geosciences,

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Aden Lava Flows, Doña Ana County, New Mexico

René A. De Hon1 and Richard A. Earl1 1Department of Geography, 601 University Dr., Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666, US, dehon@txstate.edu Aden Crater is a small, volcanic shield in the Potrillo volcanic field

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New Records From New Mexico of the Cretaceous Ammonite Placenticeras Extend Its Biostratigraphic Range in the Western Interior

Paul L. Sealey1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road, NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, ammonoidea@comcast.net The chronostratigraphically highest Placenticeras previously reported from the Western Interior is Placenticeras costatum Hyatt,

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Abandoned Mine Lands In The North Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico

Nicholas G. Harrison1 and Virginia T. McLemore2 1New Mexico Tech, Campus Station 3342, Socorro, NM, 87801, nicholas.harrison@student.nmt.edu 2New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801 ABANDONED MINE LANDS IN

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Extremely Rare Color Pattern in an Exceptionally Well Preserved Inoceramid Bivalve From the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale of New Mexico

Paul L. Sealey1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road, NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, ammonoidea@comcast.net We report here preservation of an extremely rare inoceramid bivalve color pattern in Cataceramus?

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The Paleoecology of the Late Cretaceous Turtle Basilemys

Asher J. Lichtig1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87109, ajlichtig@gmail.com The fossil turtle Basilemys is known from the Upper Cretaceous of the

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The tortoise Caudochelys from the Miocene Tesuque Formation of the Española basin, New Mexico

Asher J. Lichtig1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, ajlichtig@gmail.com There is an extensive fossil record of Neogene tortoises in New Mexico,

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A Coprolite of the Bone-Cracking Dog borophagus From the Pliocene of Southwestern New Mexico and a Review of Plio-Pleistocene Coprolites of Large Vertebrates From the State

Adrian P. Hunt1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum, 3407 109th St. SW, Everett, WA, 98204, adrianhu@flyingheritage.org 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N.W, Albuquerque, NM,

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Soil Mapping Using Near Remote Sensing in SW United States

Theodore Miller1 and J. Bruce Harrison2 1NMT, 800 Sunset St., Socorro, NM, NM, 87801, United States, theodore.miller@student.nmt.edu 2New Mexico Tech, E&ES Dept., New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Pl, Socorro, NM, 87801 Current soil mapping methods

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