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NEW MEXICO GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY · SPRING MEETING

Spring Meeting Abstracts

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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2023

Exceptional Trace Fossils and Fossil Plants From a New Locality in the upper part of the Abo Formation (lower Permian), Socorro County, New Mexico

Susan K. Harris1, Spencer G. Lucas1, William A. DiMichele2 and Paul T. May1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road N.W., Albuquerque, NM, 87104, emailskharris@gmail.com 2National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,

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Ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous Twowells Member of the Dakota Sandstone, Ojito Wilderness Area, Sandoval County, New Mexico

Paul T. May1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1 5807 Tioga Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87120, United States, massagepaul@gmail.com 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science The BLM Ojito Wilderness Area in southern Sandoval County,

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The First Record of the Echinoid Genus Mecaster From the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of New Mexico

Michael P. Foley1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road N.W., Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Echinoid fossils are extremely rare in the Upper Cretaceous strata of the Western Interior, where

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A Summary of Late Cretaceous Ammonites and Molluscan Zones, Eastern San Juan Basin, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Paul L. Sealey1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road, NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, United States, ammonoidea@comcast.net Upper Cretaceous strata exposed on the eastern side of the San Juan

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Groundwater signatures and mixing patterns around El Paso del Norte area of the Rio Grande aquifer system using environmental tracers

Astrid Y. Lozano Acosta El Paso, TX, 79903, aylozano@hotmail.com Regional map showing structural features of the basins and the distribution of deuterium values for groundwater and surface samples around El Paso del Norte area. Initials

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Fluvial Propagation of Wildfire Disturbances From the Largest Wildfire Recorded in New Mexico

Justin Rae Nichols1, Asmita Kaphle1, Paige Tunby1, Dave Van Horne2 and Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon1 1Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, University of New Mexico, NM, United States, justin67@unm.edu 2Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

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