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First report of Litaletes Disjunctus Simpson, Mammalia, Condylarthra, from the Nacimiento Formation, middle Paleocene (Torrejonian), San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Donald L. Wolberg New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 A student at New Mexico Tech recently discovered a new Middle Paleocene, Nacimiento Formation (Torrejonian) fossil locality north of Bloomfield, New
Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and provenance of sedimentary rocks of the Bell Top Formation (Oligocene), Dona Ana and Sierra Counties, New Mexico
A. L. Nightengale1 and G. H. Mack1 1Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Coarse-grained sedimentary rocks of the Bell Top Formation (Oligocene) suggest that crustal extension was contemporaneous with
Facies and stratigraphic relationships of Middle and Upper Jurassic units, southern San Juan Basin
Charles H. Maxwell1 and Orin J. Anderson1 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Middle and Upper Jurassic units along the southern and southeastern edges of the San Juan Basin, particularly
Upper Triassic stratigraphy in New Mexico
Spencer G. Lucas New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87104 Upper Triassic strata are exposed across most of New Mexico (except the southwestern portion of the state) and are
Architectural element analysis for the characteriziation of aquifer heterogeneity: Sierra Ladrones Formation, Albuquerque Basin
J. Mathew Davis1, Ruth C. Lohmann2, D. W. Love3 and F. M. Phillips4 1Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Geoscience Support Services, Claremont, CA 3New Mexico Bureau of
Stratigraphic nomenclature of the Triassic Dockum Group in west Texas and eastern New Mexico
Thomas M. Lehman Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409 Triassic strata of eastern New Mexico and west Texas have long been identified as the Dockum Group. Recently, use of the term Dockum
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) ammonites from the central Peloncillo Mountains, southwestern New Mexico
T. Goodspeed1 and S. G. Lucas2 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 Ammonites are present in
The type locality of Typothorax, Upper Triassic of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Adrian P. Hunt1 and Spencer G. Lucas1 1New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico, 87104 The first vertebrate fossils of Late Triassic age discovered in the western United
The case for a unified Dockum-Chinle fluvial depositional basin (Late Triassic)
Orin J. Anderson1 and Spencer G. Lucas2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, 87194 Suspected miscorrelations between the Dockum
Paleosols and paleoflora of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) McRae Formation, south-central New Mexico and their implications to paleoclimate
Brenda J. Buck1 and Greg H. Mack2 1Department of Earth Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 2Department of Biology, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666 A significant increase in aridity
Abrupt lateral variations in cycle characteristics within a mixed carbonate-clastic ramp system: preliminary studies of the middle pennsylvania Los Moyos limestone, southern Los Pinos mountains, central New Mexico
Lon A. Davidek1 and Gary A. Smith1 1Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Initial sedimentological studies of two correlative Pennsylvanian (lower-ta-mid Demoinesian) sections, located 4.3 kilometers apart, indicate two distinct depositional
DIAGENESIS OF THE SHATTUCK MEMBER OF THE PERMIAN QUEEN FORMATION, SULIMAR QUEEN FIELD, CHAVES COUNTY, NEW MEXICO
Martha Cather Petroleum Recovery Research Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Core obtained from the Sulimar Queen Unit #1-16 consists of cyclically interbedded halite, anhydrite, sandstone and siltstone deposited on
NEW MEXICO STATE GEOLOGIC MAP PROJECT: A SUMMARY OF WORK 1987-1990, AND A DISCUSSION OF MAP UNITS, THEIR CORRELATION AND THE MOST RECENT REGIONAL CORRELATION CONCEPTS
Orin J. Anderson1, Glen E. Jones1, John W. Hawley2 and Augustus K. Armstrong2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, NM 2U.S. Geological Survey The database for the new state geologic map consists for
Petrography and geochemistry of a camptonite sill in northwestern Lincoln County, New Mexico
Mark A. Ouimette1 and Virginia T. McLemore2 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, El Paso, TX, 79968 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Petrographic and geochemical data are presented
Results of the map and geographic products survey
William F. Purtymun1, D. W. Love1 and Amelia Budge2 1New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Technology Application Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131 As part of an overall
Preliminary studies of Kline Mountain kaolinization and its economic potential, Sierra County, New Mexico
Iskender Isik1 and Kenneth F. Clark1 1University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Geological Sciences, El Paso, NM, 79968 In and near the Black Range, New Mexico, Tertiary rhyolite tuffs and flows host several
An infant dinosaur jaw from the Fossil Forest Study Area, Fruitland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Implications for dinosaur nesting near the marine shoreline
Donald L. Wolberg New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 This is the first description of infant dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous of New Mexico. In 1983, a quarry situated at
A geologic framework for geothermal systems in the southern Basin and Range province and the southern Rio Grande rift, New Mexico
James C. Witcher Southwest Technology Development Institute, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Dept. 3SOL, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 Convective geothermal systems in the Rio Grande rift and adjacent areas occur over structurally high terrane
A multiberculate (Mammalia, Allotheria) femur from the Late Cretaceous Fruitland Formation, Fossil Forest Study Area, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Donald L. Wolberg New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 This is the first report of mammalian postcranial material from the Cretaceous of New Mexico. Quarry of the Fossil Forest has
Petrology of silicic and syenitic facies of the Organ Mountains batholith, Dona Ana County, southern New Mexico
Stephen M. Yanicak1, W. R. Seager1, T. H. Giordano1 and M. O. McCurry2 1New Mexico State University, Geology Department, P.O. Box 3AB, Las Cruces, NM, 88003 2Idaho State University, Geology Department, Pocatello, ID, 83209 The
Epithermal gold-silver mineralization at the Alabama mine, Steeple Rock district, Grant County, New Mexico
Virginia T. McLemore1 and T. Quigley2 1Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso and New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 2Great Lakes Exploration, Inc., 4020 McCulloch
Distribution of high-temperature, high-salinity fluid inclusions in igneous and miarolitic quartz of the Capitan Pluton, New Mexico
Kent Ratajeski1 and Andrew R. Campbell1 1Geoscience Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801 The Capitan Pluton is a hypabssal, peraluminous alkali granite intrusion which is located in Lincoln County, south-central New Mexico. Comprising the
Digital documentation of deformation and ground-water levels near an earth fissure in the Mimbres Basin, New Mexico
Robert L. Friesen1 and W. C. Haneberg2 1Department of Mineral and Environmental Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 2New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, 87801 Earth
Preliminary Stable-isotope analysis of the Late Mississippian Paradise Formation, Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico
David J. Sivils New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources and Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801 Whole rock isotope analysis of carbonate samples from the upper