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MISSING ARC-VOLCANIC INPUT TO UPPER CRETACEOUS FORELAND BASIN DEPOSITS OF THE MEXCALA FORMATION, SOUTHERN MEXICO
Daniel F. Dehn1, Maya Elrick1 and Roberto Molina-Garza2 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MSC03-2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001, United States, dfdehn@unm.edu 2UNAM, Campus Juriquilla, Queretato, Mexico During the Jurassic through early
GEOMORPHIC S7ETTING OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND TIMING OF RECENT EOLIAN EVENTS ON THE PAJARITO PLATEAU, NEW MEXICO
Paul G. Drakos1 and Steven L. Reneau2 1Glorieta Geosciences, Inc., 1723 Second St., Santa Fe, NM, 87805 2Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-9, MS D462, Los Alamos, NM, 87545 Five Coalition Period to Classic Period Ancestral
WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT ALONG GALLINAS CREEK SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATER PATHWAYS, LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO
Thomas Evans1, Daryl Williams1 and Jennifer Lindline1 1Environmental Geology Program, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM, 87801, United States We report preliminary results of a pilot study that compared the chemistry of surface water
HOLOCENE MILLENNIAL-SCALE CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
Peter J. Fawcett1, Jake Armour1, Peter Castiglia1 and Grant Meyer1 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MSC03-2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001, United States, fawcett@unm.edu Several high-resolution paleoclimatic records spanning the Holocene indicate
Rediscovery of Herrick’s “coal-measure forest” in the Pennsylvanian Sandia Formation, Socorro County, New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas1, William A. Dimichele2, Dan S. Chaney2 and John Nelson3 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 2Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History,
The Bursum Formation: Integrated lithostratigraphy of the Pennsylvanian-Permian transition in New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas1 and Karl Krainer2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 2Institute for I Geology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, Innsbruck A-6020, Austria The dominant
Nonmarine invertebrates from the Late Triassic Snyder Quarry, Chinle Group, Chama Basin, New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas1, Kate E. Zeigler1, Andrew B. Heckert1 and Larry F. Rinehart1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Near Ghost Ranch in Rio Arriba County,
Sulfuric and hydrofluoric acid speleogenesis associated with fluorite-jarosite mineralization along the Rio Grande rift, New Mexico
Virgil W. Lueth1 and Robert O. Rye2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2United States Geological Survey, Denver Federal I Center, Denver, CO,
Modern sand dune migration rates of Los Medanos in southeastern New Mexico
Christopher Mahoney New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM The small dune field referred to as Los Medanos, located 25 miles southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, provides an excellent opportunity to observe the migration rates
Mineral deposits, mining, and karst
Virginia T. McLemore New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801, ginger@gis.nmt.edu Karst terrains contain many types of mineral deposits by providing ideal deposition cavities
Soil gas CO2 emissions over the Bravo Dome field in the Armistad area of New Mexico
Kristie McLin Department of Earth and Environmental Science, N.M. Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Bravo Dome Field, located in Union and Harding counties, New Mexico, is a large underground carbon dioxide reserve that is one
Mapping faults in the Lightning Dock Known Geothermal Area, Animas Valley, New Mexico, using soil CO2 flux measurements
Kristie McLin1, Philip Kyle2 and David Norman1 1Department of Earth and Environmental Science, N.M. Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Department of Earth and Environmental Science and NM Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, N.M. Tech, Socorro,
The extinct free-tailed bat Tadarida Constantinei and associated vertebrates from Pleistocene deposits in Slaughter Canyon Cave, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, southeastern New Mexico
Gary S. Morgan New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road, NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104, gmorgan@nmmnh.state.nm.us In April 2002, a field crew consisting of paleontologists, cave specialists, and volunteers from the New Mexico Museum
High-resolution digital topographic models of speleothems obtained from a 3-D laser scanning survey
Seiichi Nagihara Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409-1053, seiichi.nagihara@ttu.edu A detailed three-dimensional topographic map of the interiorof a natural cavern, if available, would be very useful in understanding its geomorphic development. However,
Evaluation of groundwater/surface water interactions along a critical reach of the middle Rio Grande, New Mexico
Brad T. Newton, Wilcox Laura J. and Robert S. Bowman The primary goal of this project is to quantify connections between the surface water and shallow groundwater systems in the Rio Grande valley between San
Partnering with biologists: Better answers through collaboration (abs.)
D. E. Northup Dept. of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Multidisciplinary studies that involve geochemists, mineralogists, microbiologists, and molecular biologists can be crucial to our quest to investigate the role that microorganisms
Collapse and resurgence of the Valles Caldera, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico: Field relationships and 40Ar/39Ar ages of megabreccia blocks and constraints on the timing of resurgence
Erin H. Phillips1, Fraser Goff2, Philip R. Kyle1, William C. McIntosh1 and Jamie N. Gardner2 1Dept. Earth & Environmental Science and I NM Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, NM Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Los
Timing of climate change in the southwestern United States around the Younger Dryas
Victor J. Polyak1, Jessica B. T. Rasmussen1 and Yemane Asmerom1 1Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, polyak@unm.edu Speleothem growth in moisture-limited regions, such as the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico is
Clays that work: Compositional analysis of traditional pueblo ceramic slips
Courtney Porreca Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences and Department of Anthropology University of New Mexico, 611 Lead Ave SW #517, Albuquerque, NM, 87102 This research explores what mineralogical differences in clays account for their
Origin of hydromagnesite cave balloons: Clues from HRTEM
Paula P. Provencio1 and Victor J. Polyak2 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 87185 2Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Hydromagnesite, a platy hydrated magnesium carbonate mineral commonly forming sticky pastes
Climate variability during the Late Holocene in the southwest United States from high-resolution speleothem data
Jessica, B. T. Rasmussen1, Victor J. Polyak1 and Yemane Asmerom1 1Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northrop Hall, MSC03-2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001, jbtoledo@unm.edu The effort to constrain past climate change depends on the
Is the depth interval of the Socorro seismogenic zone controlled by a reduction in rock strength suggested from experimentally determined elastic moduli?
Marshall A. Reiter New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Socorro seismogenic zone is an upper crustal layer containing earthquakes
New Mexico’s most complete skull of the Cretaceous dinosaur Pentaceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae)–Insights into the cranial anatomy of the genus
P. K. Reser1, A. B. Heckert1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104-1375 In 1978, the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) excavated a remarkably complete
Nonmarine bivalves (Jnionoida: Anthracosiidae) from the Lower Permian Cutler Formation of north-central New Mexico
L. F. Rinehart1, S. G. Lucas1, A. B. Heckert1, K. E. Zeigler1, D. S. Berman2 and A. Henrici2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Carnegie Museum of Natural