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Depositional environment of a limestone and chert unit in the Miocene Popotosa formation, Cañoncito de las Cabras area, Socorro County, New Mexico (abs.)
Becky J. McGill New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Dept Earth and Environmental Sci, Socorro, NM, 87801, bmcgill@nmt.edu Several thin carbonate and chert units of unknown origin occur within fifteen to twenty meters of
Natural arsenic distribution in ground water in the Socorro, New Mexico, area of the middle Rio Grande Rift (abs.)
Lynn A. Brandvold1 and Patricia L. Frisch1 1New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Arsenic occurs naturally in groundwaters in the Socorro ana. San Antonio area of the Middle Rio Grande
Fracture characterization of the Bandelier Tuff in Cañon de Valle, Los Alamos, New Mexico, for seismic hazards and flow and trasnport analysis (abs.)
R. A. Channell1, C. Lewis1, A. Lavine1, C. W. Criswell2 and K. V. Bostick 1Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 2Roy F. Weston Inc., Albuquerque, NM A seismic hazards investigation and the need to
Use of flexibile liners in unstable angled boreholes at LANL (abs.)
William J. Stone Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, u113583@pobox1663.lanl.gov A low-head weir was installed in lower Los Alamos Canyon to eliminate off-site transport of contaminant-bearing sediment by fire-enhanced runoff. Perched water occurs in
A combined GIS-HEC floodplain mapping technique fro mountainous watersheds (abs.)
Mark E. Van Eechkout1, Marcia A. Jones1 and Stephen G. McLin1 1Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, sgm@lanl.gov A combined GIS-HEC modeling application for floodplain analysis of pre-and postburned watersheds is described. The
Detrital zircon U/Pb ages from Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks in the Burro Mountains, Mazatzal province, southwest New Mexico
Jeffrey M. Amato1, Amos Sanders1 and George Gehrels2 1Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 2Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ The Burro Mountains in SW New Mexico expose
Petrographic analysis of reduction zones in the red beds of the Abo Formation, New Mexico
Joel P. Bensing1 and Peter S. Mozley1 1Department of Earth and I Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech, Socorro,, NM, 87801 Reduction features are commonly observed in redbeds, including the Abo Formation, yet are still not
Groundwater geology of Taos Valley
Tony Benson1 and Elsbeth Atencio1 1University of New Mexico -Taos, Taos, NM, AnthonyBenson@msn.com Water well drillers’ logs (after accurately locating the wells with GPS equipment) were used to map the groundwater table and subsurface structure.
Geologic map of the Albuquerque-Rio Rancho metropolitan area and vicinity: structural and stratigraphic framework of the Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico
Sean D. Connell New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources-Albuquerque Office, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 2808 Central Ave., SE, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87106, connell@gis.nmt.edu Fourteen geologic maps by the NM
Influence of infiltration and evaporation on the hydrologic budget at the Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
Thomas Evans1 and Jennifer Lindline1 1Environmental Geology Program, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM, 87701 An integrated hydrogeological study was conducted to characterize the soil types and to assess the influence of infiltration and
Identification and mapping of evaporite mineral endmembers in Lake Lucero and Alkali Flat, White Sands using landsat 7 ETM+
H. A. Ghrefat1 and P. C. Goodell2 1 haghrefat@utep.edu 2 The University of Texas at EI Paso, 500 West University Avenue, EI Paso, Texas 79968 Evaporite minerals are the main source of several industrial and
Water partitioning at the soil-bedrock interface of hillslopes
Huade Guan1 and John L. Wilson1 1Department of Earth & Environmental Science New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Variably saturated, steady state numerical simulations were conducted on 100-meter long conceptual hillslopes
Luminescence and radioisotope chronology of the Late Quaternary Mescalero Sands, southeastern New Mexico
Stephen A. Hall1, Ronald J. Goble2 and Hewitt W. Jeter3 1Red Rock Geological Enterprises, 17 Esquina Rd., Santa Fe, NM, 87508 2Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. of Nebraska- Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 68588 3Mass Spec Services, P.O.
A comparison of temper material in Santa Fe black-on-white and corrugated pottery sherds with local geology formations at Tecolote Pueblo (LA 296)
Therese Hardesty1, Robert Mishler1 and Jennifer Lindline2 1Southwest Studies Program, New Mexico Highlands University, P.O. Box 9000, Las Vegas, NM, 87701 2Environmental Geology Program, New Mexico Highlands University, P.O. Box 9000, Las Vegas, NM, 87701
Edopoid postcrania from the Red Tanks Member of the Bursum Formation, Lucero uplift, central New Mexico
Susan K. Harris1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Partially articulated material that represents the anterior dorsal vertebral column and most I of the
Sphenacodontine Pelycosaurs from the Upper Pennsylvanian (Upper Virgilian) Red Tanks Member of the Bursum Formation
Susan K. Harris1, Spencer G. Lucas1, Michael J. Orchard2 and Karl Krainer3 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 2Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, Canada 3Institute for Geology and
Electron microprobe ages of detrital (?), metamorphic, and igneous monazite from the Burro Mountains, southwest New Mexico (abs.)
Amos S. Sanders1 and Jeffrey M. Amato1 1Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM The Burro Mountains of southwestern New Mexico consist of Precambrian metasedimentary rocks intruded by Proterozoic diabase and
Genetic evolution of the magmatic hydrothermal breccia and stockwork veinlets of the Goat Hill orebody, Questa porphyry molybdenum system, New Mexico (abs.)
A. Rowe1, V. T. McLemore2, B. M. Walker3 and David Norman1 1Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, NMIMT, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM, New Mexico, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, NMIMT,
New Mexico’s oldest dinosaur track: a Theropod footprint from the upper Triassic (Adamanian: Latest Carnian) of west-central New Mexico (abs.)
Andrwe B. Heckert1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Tetrapod footprints are known from the Upper Triassic Chinle Group in
Tetrapod ichnofauna from the lower Permian Abo Formation, Fra Cristobal Mountains, Sierra County, New Mexico (abs.)
Spencer G. Lucas1, Allan J. Lerner1 and K. Krainer2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 2Institute for Geology & Paleontology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, Innsbruck
Provenance of the holotype of Belodon buceros cope, 1881, a phytosaur from the upper Triassic of north-central New Mexico (abs.)
Spencer G. Lucas1, Andrew B. Heckert1 and Kate E. Zeigler2 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 2Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico,
The ray Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi from the Coniacian and Santonian of central New Mexico (abs.)
Sally C. Johnson1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 The small, brackish water and marine ray Pseudohypolophtls mcnultyi Thurmond is a common
Invertebrate faunas of the lower Atrasado formation (Pennsylvanian, Missourian), Cerros de Amado, Socorro County, New Mexico (abs.)
Barry S. Kues1, Spencer G. Lucas2, Allan J. Lerner2 and Garner L. Wilde3 1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road
Mammal footprints from Pleistocene Lake Otero, Tularosa Basin, White Sands Missile Range, Doña Ana County, New Mexico (abs.)
Gary S. Morgan1, Spencer G. Lucas1, John W. Hawley2, David W. Love3 and Robert G. Myers4 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road, NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104, gmorgan@nmmnh.state.nm.us 2Hawley Geomatters, P.